Clerictgm mk2 Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 What retards stealing tools? Can you get jailed for stealing tools in UK? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamilyBiker Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 retards stealing tools is way more common than tools stealing retards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 may have been some guy who was look for tools (because the bike was stolen from a van) and must have got a surprise when he saw a trials bike, so took it anyway. i believe its quite common for tools to be stolen as i always see vans with "no tools or goods left in this van over night" Or For @mike and @tartyadam 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 For @mike and @tartyadam I could almost understand that if you'd used their TF names and were testing whether some sort of tagging worked here... You know we used to use names before @Twitter and #instagram, right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 Hush @jasondonovan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewEH1 Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 I'm guessing his bike was inside his branded van? I wouldn't be surprised if someone followed him home after a ride with the intent to steal it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 I'm guessing his bike was inside his branded van? I wouldn't be surprised if someone followed him home after a ride with the intent to steal it... His vans not branded, no. Looks a bit like a workies van but instead of Daily Sports and empty gingie bottles, its Red Bull cans and Mens Fitness mags pressed between the dash and windscreen. :wink2: I agree with your second point there. Shout out to people using Strava. Please set your exclusion zone about a km/mile, from your start stop position. Its been known for thieves to checks these sorts of apps for places to steal road bikes etc.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max F Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 Hmm, so if I buy a pair of cheap used m810 saint brakes in the next few weeks I might get Danny's... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 Depends you'd have to open them up and see if it's bled with his semen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max F Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 Depends you'd have to open them up and see if it's bled with his semen Could breed my own mini-dannys then, huh? Didn't mean that in a fanboy-wants-to-have-danny's-stuff-way though.. more in a that-could-happen-to-one-of-us-way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali C Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 I wouldn't be surprised if someone followed him home after a ride with the intent to steal it... He'd had his bike in the flat, then at a later stage de-built it and put it into the bike bag which then went into his van. There was a load of smashed glass from a car window next to where Danny's van was parked (but no car next to it any more when Danny found his bike was stolen) too so it could just have been some dicks going out to try and steal shit rather than it necessarily being a targeted thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gage-mann Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 I would usually feel 100% bad for anybody that has a bike nicked but surely he can just laugh it off and be sent a new one pretty soon? It's shit if he's got to use another bike for demos or cancell them. I wouldn't be that bothered if I was him 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aener Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 I would usually feel 100% bad for anybody that has a bike nicked but surely he can just laugh it off and be sent a new one pretty soon? It's shit if he's got to use another bike for demos or cancell them. I wouldn't be that bothered if I was him You're not incorrect - but the ease of replacement isn't really the issue. If I went and stole £1,000,000 from Richard Branson, should he just shrug it off as irrelavant because he'll earn that back in about eight seconds? Granted, it's less abhorrent than stealing a paycheck from someone on the breadline, but people shouldn't have to live in the knowledge that their stuff can be taken from them by people too lazy to go to work. I understand some people HAVE to steal to stay alive, but I'm 99% confident this isn't one of those instances. put it into the bike bag which then went into his van. Was said bike bag obviously a posh bike bag, or a relatively inconspicuous one? I'm intending a few trips where I will be using bike bags and would like to be reunited with my bike each time if possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali C Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 It wasn't a standard Skye framekit, so just getting a replacement isn't that easy. That was a completely fresh build he'd put together just before last weekend, and the only other framekit like that was the old one he'd had before then. It was in his red Evoc bikebag, but I don't think the flashy-ness of the bikebag was really what caused it to get stolen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 That was a completely fresh build he'd put together just before last weekend, Oooohh thats a sare yin. Unless it sits unbuilt in a neds house forever, its bound to show up. Its going to be someone local who has it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartMini Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 i dont see how they're going to sell it on/make any money out of it. Trials is such a small world, its going to be found quick enough! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waybe2014 Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 It will get sold as a stunt bike or bmx to someone who has no idea who Danny is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 Looks like its going to have to be another job for these guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewEH1 Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 He'd had his bike in the flat, then at a later stage de-built it and put it into the bike bag which then went into his van. There was a load of smashed glass from a car window next to where Danny's van was parked (but no car next to it any more when Danny found his bike was stolen) too so it could just have been some dicks going out to try and steal shit rather than it necessarily being a targeted thing. Glad it doesn't seem to be targeted, it's not a great feeling when you know someone is out looking to hurt/steal from you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 (edited) Strange how this just 'appeared' on a bike buy and sell site on Facebook this morning. And the seller is Scottish. Reading through his profile he doesn't seem the sharpest tool in the boxhttps://m.facebook.com/groups/225868587455653?view=permalink&id=785708074805032 Edited September 25, 2014 by bing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltine Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 Strange how this just 'appeared' on a bike buy and sell site on Facebook this morning. And the seller is Scottish. Reading through his profile he doesn't seem the sharpest tool in the boxhttps://m.facebook.com/groups/225868587455653?view=permalink&id=785708074805032 the fella's got a proper dh kit and setup going for him... I doubt foul play Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC12345678910 Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 (edited) There was a load of smashed glass from a car window next to where Danny's van was parked (but no car next to it any more when Danny found his bike was stolen) too so it could just have been some dicks going out to try and steal shit rather than it necessarily being a targeted thing. As you say given the evidence of poss. another break in says this is most probably a random act where they'd have stolen absolutely anything, smash-grab-run kinda deal, although busting the doors (my assumtion based as to that's how it's usually done) should have taken longer than that. I would say I'm surprised neighbours etc. didn't hear anything, but no one ever bloody does, or will own up to it if they had. people shouldn't have to live in the knowledge that their stuff can be taken from them by people too lazy to go to work. I understand some people HAVE to steal to stay alive, but I'm 99% confident this isn't one of those instances. I completely concur. Guessing the arrangements security wise will thought about more, now that this has happened??? Leaving valuables in a vehicle on the street overnight will always carry risk, high crime area or not and although it's a odds thing i've always took the attitude that things can be done to swing those odds back in your favour. Eg. I've seen inside a pro speedway racer's van and who was so precious about his gear staying his (I don't mean that in a pisstakey way - it's his stuff, his investment, his has rights to protect it and after all, it's his livelihood at stake. It's effectively his tools like a hammer or power drill or saw is to a builder, and just in the way Danny's bike is his tools of the trade) that he'd made two 5mm thick steel 'L' brackets and welded them to the back doors so he could barricade them shut medieval style with a cut to length 8x4in piece of solid timber that had a former life in a barn roof. He'd then load the 3 bikes n gear and sling two ratchet straps (breaking strength of around 2tonne each he assured me) round said timber, rigging it round the base of the passenger seat though a holes in the bulkhead, then hooking it to the side door and ratcheting the whole lot down tight. Add in the fact that his bull terrier liked to sleep in there and get high off the methanol fumes and I declared it to be ned/chav/stripey jumper wearing cnt proof. Even if the van got driven off somewhere and immobilisers/good alarms mean this is less likely these days, (I'm sure most people will know the easy steal is the stuff int back) the thieving twats still can't get in the back Haahhaha. That is most deffo the route I'm going to take if I do ever get me van. Edited September 25, 2014 by CC12345678910 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aener Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 That was a completely fresh build he'd put together just before last weekend My heart just broke Even ignoring the whole not-being-able-to-get-another-framekit issue - which takes this to a whole new level of shittiness - that's a fate I'd wish upon no-one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifes-a-trial Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 First world country, kek. Don't you guys afraid to walk down the street late there? Don't want to laugh at Danny but this is funnily stupid. Who needs his bike? What an idiot? No. Because in Scotland their brave. Don't laugh at Danny then. The only thing that is UNFUNNILY stupid is the d**k that stole it, and as regards to who needs his bike? iii doooo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clerictgm mk2 Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 How good police at finding stolen bikes in Glasgow? Anyway without help of riders chances to find it are pretty bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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