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Sorry to hear about your losses.
I always thought of this bike storage room as being quite safe
Unfortunately, a lot of communal bike storage, especially in new developments, isn't. For the most part, that's because it tends to be badly managed, e.g. there's no proper oversight of keys or other access methods, and once thieves are in there overnight, they're generally quite safe getting all the bikes off whatever they're secured to. There have been many, many incidents like this. The most important requirement is for such storage to have a person or person(s) who properly looks after it, changes locks/keys every once in a while, who knows who has keys, etc. A secondary aspect (less of a factor, but still significant sometimes) is that much of it is badly designed, e.g. easily broken into from the street or perhaps in a courtyard that's visible through gates, etc.
Doesn't help now, of course, but it's worth everyone's while to look into this carefully before leaving bikes in such a facility that typically quite a lot of people can access.
Hope you find a lead or get them back somehow--slim chances, but there have been some remarkable recovery stories.
Oliver Schick-
Yeah for sure, and new developments are clearly shiny targets. In this case they climbed over the front gate and just kicked the bike room door hard until it opened as it was only secured magnetically. On a similar topic, the actual bike racks in the room were total garbage and I'm surprised the thieves cut the locks instead of the super thin metal racks.
In the past I've always tried to keep my bike indoors (also for maintenance reasons) but it's hard to convince one's significant other to keep many bikes in a small London flat!
I counted the broken locks on the ground and it seems they made off with 12 bikes last night!!!
jonnylamb
Three days after stealing my Cannondale thieves returned to my building at 2:25am, forced their way into the bike room and stole 5-10 bikes (it's hard to be sure) over a period of 2 hours!
This time they got my wife's hybrid bike -- if you see a coral Specialized Sirrus 2.0 like the one attached for sale please let me know.
(A reminder to get insurance if you can't afford to lose your bike -- I always thought of this bike storage room as being quite safe and thick kryptonite locks as taking too long to cut for the average thief, but I was wrong!)