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I've heard bike thieves scoping out targets and deciding which brand name they know best. Cannondale, Specialized etc will always be more of a target than smaller brands. Spotting a Rolex on the street must be hard, I think you'd have to wait outside a private members club or something to guarantee finding one.
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this is why i buy trek or canyon
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Colleague of mine had a 5k? Rado pulled off his arm by a guy leaving the Tube.
I didn't even know Rado was a nice brand - sounds like shampoo.
That's exactly what I'm suggesting - sit outside a club or a nice bar after hours and grab fuckers in the dark there, or even just walk around and snatch iphones off tables or whatever.
If you're going the full mug - they're dressed up, carrying cash and cards and whatever else. You could rob a bunch of people on the same night. Way easier money than knocking off a bike. -
Concur. I got into a hairy situation once when riding a friend's ti road bike (can't actually remember the builder now). Surrounded by a group of four of five boys who started asking me if my bike was a specialized or a cannondale. The fact it was a nich to framebuilder that they hadn't heard of put them off the fact it was worth 5x the value of the bike they were hoping for.
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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