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Bike thiefBristol woman searches every bike rack in town to retrieve her stolen bike
A Bristol woman whose bike was stolen when she looked away for 40 seconds has pinched it back from the thieves, with help from police.
Liz, who did not want to reveal her surname, was leaving her house on Cheltenham Road when she realised her water bottle was still inside.
She left her bike outside for a few seconds, by which time she returned to find it was missing.
She told the Bristol Post: ”I was not expecting someone to be able to see the bike, let alone come in through the front gate, up the steps and into the garden area in the space of forty second.
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“I ran inside and when I came out the bike was gone.”
She informed the police and began searching the local area, with no joy.
But cycling friends joined the hunt and one got in touch to say they had spotted two men buying a lock for a similar looking bike nearby.
Resourceful Liz began a hunt of all the city centre bike stands, finally happening upon her bike outside a Tesco Metro in Broadmead.
She added her own lock, and called the police.
She said: “I called the police and they assisted in removing the thieves’ bike lock once I had proved that it was my bike.”
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset police said: “A Giant LIV mountain bike, predominantly blue with orange stripes, was taken from outside the informant’s flat in Cheltenham Road on 8 October between 11-11.16am
“It was recovered by police on same day at about 9.30pm that night and returned to the owner.
“Our enquiries are continuing.”
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- ktache 3 sec ago
Or lezyne tubeless pro plugs. I've got a set, but had no chance to try them out. I want to use those mushrooms.
- chrisonabike 41 min 40 sec ago
That's a bit forward! But yes; pop up any time you like. Except when the buses have been at the bridges.
- chrisonabike 2 hours 12 min ago
If we can only build enough 2nd homes / buy-to-lets maybe that will ease the rental market, assure future housing for the children of the...
- TheUntypicals 2 hours 45 min ago
If businesses are suffering on Linthorpe Road it is entirely their own fault, most of the destination type shops moved out long before the cycle...
- giff77 3 hours 2 min ago
So where is the entitlement of wanting to get from A to B in relative safety? The city centre is dire regarding cycling infrastructure and while...
- whosatthewheel 3 hours 7 min ago
I live in a mostly flat town and can maintain 22-25mph. Makes no difference to drivers who still overtake frantically even only to slow down to my...
- Pot00000000 5 hours 41 min ago
👍🏼 IMHO, one of the main things to look out for is butted tubes, double or even tripple butted. ride safe and have a great Christmas
- wtjs 7 hours 9 min ago
And we can be sure that Police Scotland would be similarly disinterested...
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@Sarah Barth - nice job on the cut and paste from the link. You've even included the "read more" link for another article.
Surely the better plan would have been to wait with the police until the thieves returned and then nicked them, but, no doubt, plod would have been too busy to hang around.
Of course, they'll claim they bought it from some bloke in a pub, but that's a pretty short timescale to have done so.
I do wonder whether fitting it with a tracker and using it to follow the thieves home might have revealed a big collection of stolen bikes and other things?
Yeah - stolen trackers...
Does anyone know of a decent tracker for bikes? The only ones that I've seen for sale have been poorly made ones that don't work very well.
Yuppidy...
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I love the quote from the police after Liz had done all the work:
“It was recovered by police on same day at about 9.30pm that night and returned to the owner."
Reading the side stories on that link, Bristol looks like a shit place to live!
It's awful and no one should move here. Please tell all of London.
Don't worry, we hear you. Even as far back as 1923 it was described as "rather baffling", and lengthy instructions were given to the touring cyclist wishing to avoid the place.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-modern-cyclist-1923-9781908402622/
The baffling is on purpose. It's like a cloaking device.
Hey you're the 33rd London borough and Pret have decided to expand beyond their one or two original London shops...
Yes do. Clifton is a crime-riddled dive full of mouthy youths and old people with stale-smelling cardigans.
Still better than Yorkshire...
Good perseverance, but entirely basic error. Always look in the last place first.
Or, do what I do which is to continue searching after you've found it.
Well done! Great to read that she got her bike back, and I'm sure she's learned the lesson that you never leave your bike unlocked, even for forty seconds.
The cycling culture in Bristol is really active now, and there have been several instances of cyclists helping people who have had bikes nicked by using social media. Not sure I'd have the patience to check every bike rack in Bristol though, there must be thousands.