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Rolex is very traceable.
Not when it's on someone's arm.
And again, if you think posh bikes are actually worth stealing and you're willing to throw a machete around in broad daylight for them, then go a fucking empty one of those boutique bike shops! Walk into Sigma Sport with a balaclava on and wave a machete around and walk out with a van load of bikes.
Like I said, there's a tonne of other, better options than crashing into the thing you're stealing, in broad daylight.
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I’ve always thought how easy it would be to jump out of a van, threaten people at a sportive feed station and take off with 20+ Pinarellos.
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Not when it's on someone's arm.
They don’t take the arm as well. That’s not what the machete is for.
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And again, if you think posh bikes are actually worth stealing and you're willing to throw a machete around in broad daylight for them, then go a fucking empty one of those boutique bike shops! Walk into Sigma Sport with a balaclava on and wave a machete around and walk out with a van load of bikes.
There have been a lot of people (more than 10) tell me how cheap their (high end second) bikes were. Yet every one of them took umbrage at telling them that there was something dodgy/stolen the bikes were the current owners didn't care.
There needs to be a shift in opinion of the people. As if there wasn't a market for the nicked stuff the nicked stuff value would be nil and have no resale value.
@hippy I know I'm not arguing with you, I hope you get the point that I am making.
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Surely it’s situational to some extent - if you live on an estate in Roehampton or Putney you might not be rubbing shoulders with Rolex wearing city boys on a daily basis - however every Saturday and Sunday you watch a stream of them ride past on 4K + bikes so it seems like an easy mark, local so they know the area / escape routes, have a lock up / flat they can chuck the bikes in etc. Threat of stabbing is going to be enough for most lone males to not put up a fight.
Also pretty easy visually even from a distance to pick out high value bikes - deep carbon wheels, disc brakes, branded frame
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if you think posh bikes are actually worth stealing and you're willing to throw a machete around in broad daylight for them, then go a fucking empty one of those boutique bike shops!
I don't think you're being entirely serious but bike shops have CCTV, alarm systems, staff who could raise the alarm while you were intimidating other staff, customers who might walk in mid-robbery complicating things, passers by who might call the police, mechanics who fancy their chances (I've got quite a few friends who are mechanics and I'm not saying they'd take on someone waving a machete around but they would definitely be much less of a pushover than your average desk jockey MAMIL on their own, outside, in lycra)...
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Rolex is very traceable.
The general fuck you cuny cyclist get a car to be worth something opinion is strong of the populus Up there with motorbikes too.
A bike, on the other mansplaing hand, is easy and no one cares as it is only a bike. The stolen buyer can brag on how cheap they got a bike.