Man on round-the-world trip has bike stolen in UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy08ee77klzo?app-referrer=deep-link

by topotaul

11 comments

  1. Pretty cuntish thing to do Nottingham. !! They just use the other bikes to push the stolen ones along once the steering lock is broke. Hope he gets his little home back.

  2. Motorcycle crime is everywhere these days, gangs of youths mainly and probably stolen to order likely. Hopefully it’s found, else if I hope he has insurance.

    I guess for now, it’s “round the work on motorcycle and foot” for now.

  4. > “I called the police and it seemed so strange that they just sent me a crime number,” Mr Alekari said.

    > “I was told they would call me back, and I waited in the park, but they never did.”

    Well he’s officially obtained British citizenship after that, not that he probably wants it, now.

  5. This happened to another adventure rider too, ItchyBoots had her bike stolen in Wales and she’s been all over the globe.

  6. Bike theft has always been dreadful in this country and they never seem to do anything to combat it, I’d say this was a recent development but I had a bike nicked 20 years ago and at the time the response was basically “here’s your crime number, you’ll need it for the insurance because by now it will be in bits on eBay”. This was 5 hours after the theft.

  7. – you can leave a e.g £30k bike outside a cafe or shop etc. in most european countries. it will be there when you return, no problem

    – in the UK? lol, gone in 5 minutes

    and the afterwards?

    *’here is your crime number citizen, do not notice anything’*

  8. Honestly, as a motorcycle owner in Nottingham, 100% not surprising. They ride 3 up all in balaclavas scouting in the middle of the day, absolutely no fear of being caught because they never will.

    Aggressive kids, because they’re usually sub 18 years old, going to grow up into fine contributors to society if they don’t become meat crayons during their thieving youth..

  9. Outside the poor bloke getting an authentic UK crime experience, what’s mad to me is his bike got stolen at Wollaton Park, a public country park, not somewhere sketchy, about as middle class as you can get. Really sad to see.

  10. Sounds about right. My husband got mugged and had his watch stolen a few weeks ago. He got a crime number, the police took over a week to call him about it but nothing came of it obviously as there was no CCTV (which I think is a total BS excuse as it was next to a main road).

  11. So I have a (possibly dumb?) question about this kind of thing.

    Where I’m originally from in Canada, regular bicycle theft is so rampant that it’s almost guaranteed you’ll have yours stolen eventually, regardless of locks or alarms, unless you have a garage to put it in.

    It sounds like motorbike theft is similar here.

    So if it’s that common to have these things stolen, then who are they being sold off to by thieves? How are these things still popular to own if they are that prone to being taken?

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