Bike retailers endure another rough week of break ins
Its been another rough week for bike retailers across the country with CI.N aware of at least three late night smash and grabs since Sunday 14th, March.
Uttoxeter Cycles
The spate of forced entries began with Uttoxeter Cycles, just south east of Stoke-on-Trent in the early hours of Monday morning. In this instance the store has lost all of its Orange mountain bike stock, along with a Giant Reign 2 29er. The details of the stolen bikes’ frame numbers, fork chassis numbers and swing arm numbers are found to the right, should any shop or private buyer wish to cross reference the bike they are seeing against the stolen list.
“These are not your everyday bikes and are hand built to order. Most are custom finished and with custom paint colours,” wrote the store to its Facebook page, where further detail can be found.
Rockin Bikes
Yelverton-based Rockin Bikes was the most recently hit with thieves striking during the night of March 17th at just past midnight.
The lead picture on this article shows the state that thieves left the shop after forcing entry, with bikes strewn all over the shop floor after the six bike theft.
The missing inventory is made up of:
JE James’ Rotherham branch was likewise hit on Sunday night and in this instance “significant damage” was caused to the store in the process of lifting two Specialized electric bikes.
