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@Oliver Schick
As I've said before, there is a crime spree such as this that targets cyclists in London every few years. This is just another variant of the 'use a more highly-powered vehicle to steal something from the cyclist' method.
The other common method is what we saw pre-pandemic on the Lea towpath around Tottenham Hale, i.e. surround the cyclist with greater numbers (usually at an ambush point/a pinch point/a hard-to-escape point) and mug them.
It's like identifying a 'gap in the market', working out a more-or-less novel way of doing it in a location that hasn't previously been on the radar, and then keeping doing it until the police have worked out a way of stopping it, which in some of these series of incidents has taken years.
I guess that with a high-profile location like Richmond Park, it's not going to take years. Fingers crossed. Hope the victims get over it and get their bikes back (fat chance, I know).