Attacks and bike thefts on cyclists in richmond park! please share on other pages

The machete ensures a lot of police attention. It makes it much more likely that they'll be caught. The crims are a bunch of stupid kids from some estate. Someone will inform on them.

Lots of police patrolling the park now apparently. Which is likely why it's now happening on surrounding roads instead

Imagine being mugged for your bike, it gives me the heebeejeebees just thinking about the adrenaline that you'd get.

It seems pretty dumb. If you're going to go to the trouble of getting tooled up to rob people, why not get a fucking jewellery store or a betting shop or a posh bar or something decent. No one wants some crashed arsed old bike

someone famous

Who?

jewellery store

I witnessed a pawn brokers get done over in Brixton with a firearm not that many years ago. Pulled off with very effective Snatch style disguises.

5 mins down the road about 7 plain clothes cops came at them from every angle. csb

Let me guess, they were very loud about their plans in the pub the night before?

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I wonder what 'tactical contact' is a euph for

'kicked the shit out of'

'felled from his ride, dragged along the ground for 50 feet, much skin lost'

etc

A little nudge with the front bumper I'd imagine

Surprised?

Google is your friend.

Answer is knocking off a motorbike/scooter person then police person has to go through 'hoops' to prove he was in the right.

Not really.

Jewellers well protected.

CCTV / alarms / safe / panic button etc.

Vehicles generally have anti theft devices / trackers etc.

A 5 / 10 K crabon biek can be serial scrubbed and made untraceable in an ebay auction near you.

They hit a guy with a brand new crabon dale. They know what they are doing. Selective.

Bike theft is as old as the hills. The price inflation has just made them moving targets.

Easy money.

Take a Rolex off someone's arm outside a posh nightclub. Still worth more than some moody road bike and doing it in broad daylight with a machete? Like I said, if you're gonna go to the extreme these guys have, do something worth some real money. Rob a drug dealer or ram raid a booze store or something ffs. Waving a machete around only to then wait for an ebay auction for your "rode biek" to finish is ridic.

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.

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.

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.

Not when it's on someone's arm.

They don’t take the arm as well. That’s not what the machete is for.

When I take someone's Rolex, I keep the arm. What's the point, otherwise?

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.

You can sell the arm too.

I wouldn’t be too sure, frankly. Not trying to add to people’s fear, but a kitchen knife or box opener will intimidate most people into giving up their bike, I expect, so why take a machete? It’s more difficult to conceal, transport (under your shirt while riding behind your buddy on a scooter) and get rid of, although it might intimidate victims more and cause them to focus on the weapon instead of on the mugger’s identifying features.

Maybe it was the first thing they had lying around, maybe they wanted a big blade, or maybe this asshole was ready and willing to use a machete if the cyclist wouldn’t let go of the bike. In the end it doesn’t even really matter: best to just get insurance and not worry about confronting some jerkoff who wants my bike and is willing to try to maim me for it.