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Well it finally happened. Bike stolen*
*Well, <£30 disc lock defeated, steering lock and really hard to get nearly new ignition barrel demolished, £150 abus chain + 'insurance' lock mangled but thankfully still forming a chain with the <£30 amazon ground anchor hanging off it. Bike found just 100m away in a back lane.
Came home from holiday early hours of the morning to find it lurking in the back lane in a sorry state. Blood boiling, and seeing it abandoned but at the same time ready to be picked up by a van, decided to pounce on the next van that came up there at 2am this morning with a 4' breaker bar. 0.5 seconds before the bar went through the windscreen noticed it was the milk man, would have been embarrassed but why was a milkman driving up a rough back lane at 2am?
Police turned out this morning and via a few mates heard that 3x high value bikes stolen from very well secured situations about half a mile away the night before, likely linked.
Attacked ground anchor in tarmac with large sledge then once in lane must have been at that lock for over 5 minutes. Lock and chain taken dozens of very large hits, the damage to the tarmac in the lane is substantial (very much expecting police to alert council to send me a bill for it!).
Glad it wasn't totally gone, but also mind made up now, the bike is cursed, it must be sold.