I'd like to make everyone on here aware of the recent massive increase in bikes being stolen in the UK.
Please ensure that you take the adequate precautions when securing your bike..Even if you just pop into a shop etc for two minutes.
The problem is based mainly in London and North Bristol, but bikes are being stolen all from over the country.
In London, gangs of chav scum riding stolen peds are even hijacking bikes using various methods..Spraying the rider with acid/ammonia and in recent cases using powder fire extinguishers to blind the rider while they hit him off and ride away on the bike.
There are several "Stolen Motorcycle" pages on Facebook that you can join should you be unlucky enough to have your pride and joy stolen. Recovery of the bike though is highly unlikely and only a very small percentage are recovered.
The North Bristol gang usually joyride and then either smash them up, or burn them out!
The above gang have Instagram accounts which we have access too..They post daily photo's and videos of the bikes that they have stolen and destroyed. The Police are fully aware of the situation, but do absolutely nothing whatsoever to address the situation. They just advise motorcycle owners to make sure their bikes are securely locked up!! Not much help when these scrotes are armed with battery disc cutters, which will go through a high quality 19mm chain in a few seconds!
Sorry if this sounds alarmist, but over the last 4 months I've seen literally hundreds of bikes stolen and it's getting worse as the days go by.
Facebook groups...
The UK Motorcyle Theft Protest https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukmtp/
Stolen Motorbikes UK https://www.facebook.com/groups/409576932432607/
The above to groups are "Closed Groups" for obvious reasons, but you can ask to become a member.
This poor lad was mown down on the pavement by a stolen moped just earlier today. He's not the first and at this rate he certainly wont be the last.
Police do nothing about anything anymore :furious:
Quote from: Notty on Friday, 21 April 2017, 04:53 AM
Police do nothing about anything anymore :furious:
If it involves paperwork they're not interested.
If it involves sitting in a car by the side of the road booking motorists for riding/driving a couple of MPH over the limit, or for having a small number plate or loud exhaust then they have plenty of available resources..Minimum effort and lots of easy money.Makes their crime figures look so good :furious:
The law is no deterrent if it can't be enforced ..... Even major crimes carry little or no penalty now. Prison capacity is reached almost daily so the chances of a custodial sentence are minimal ..... So bike stealing scum roam free and we pick up the tab in increased premiums and increased risk and then take it up the chuff for doing 37 in a 30 ..... Chill pill ordered :rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2:
sadly they wont fight this crime as its not in the best interest to chase or even follow up bike crime .... we are just to low in the food chain to care about :frustrated: but steal one of there bike that's looked up and I bet there out in force to find it :frustrated:
The police are focussed on hitting targets, if there is not target to clear up bike theft why bother, its a lot of work for no gain.
Things have moved along quite a bit since I last posted on this thread.
We held a Q&A meeting last evening in Bristol with Police, local councillors BBC and HTV in attendance. I think we've finally hit home to the authorities that we bikers aren't happy about the current bike theft situation locally.
The little scrotes are still regularly stealing bikes and posting photo's and videos in social media sites like Instagram. I personally monitor some of the known Instagram accounts and forward intel..Makes me sick some of the images posted on there :furious:
We'll see how things progress as a result of this very positive and well attended meeting.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/over-hundred-bristol-bikers-crime-1142444
Saw it last night on the news, had no idea there was a meeting, I'm not on face fart or twatter.
Quote from: mjgt on Thursday, 01 February 2018, 09:10 PM
Saw it last night on the news, had no idea there was a meeting, I'm not on face fart or twatter.
Neither am I mjgt
Love you abrieviated names for them..
Things no different here. Latest is the cons want air conditioning because its too hot in their container cell. Poor boys its against their human rights to be so hot.
I bet they are better cared for than some people in the old folks homes.
How come they havnt figured out. Dont commit crime, then you dont go to jail ??
The scrotes here have no fear of jail. Its like a badge of honour to many.
Mate i'd cut a deai with Thailand and send them to jail there. Thats only if the crime they commited did'nt deserve the death penalty.
Same with the coppers here. Under funded, under staffed, not respected by many and with targets to meet.
Sorry im starting to froth at the mouth. It makes me so angry.
They don't fear jail over here either
@Kiwifruit They purposely re offend just to go back inside for an easy cushy life with three meals a day, gym, internet, phones..It's a f*cking joke :furious: :furious: :furious:
These are a couple of quotes from a bike thief who is at present doing time in HMP. He was jailed for throwing rocks off a motorway bridge at passing cars..He got 2 years but he'll be out in 12 months...I can see his Facebook account which he's still posting on while "inside" :rolleyes:
Quotes..
"Prison got me doing a painting and decorating course"
"If your in jail and you haven't got a skin fade are you even in jail?😂"
"The size of the cockroach's when I was in Cardiff had me feeling like I was on a bush tucker trial😂"
"Gym gym gym and more gym that's my routine"
So as you can see..They really couldn't give a toss that they're inside..Makes my piss boil :furious:
Here they don't even go to jail!
Even those who have committed atrocities while being member of a terrorist organisation are not being prosecuted by our federal prosecutor. Exactly 564 cases were dropped and these vile criminals are now roaming our streets while being pampered with tax payer money. The reason given is that these atrocities were done in foreign countries and it is not in the national interest to prosecute them. Now we have them roaming around here waiting for an opportunity to do their thing when they feel the time is right. Of cause they can't be deported as they may not be safe in their home countries as their governments might arrest them and put them to death for their crimes against humanity.
I can't eat enough to vomit as much as I need to!
Prison is no deterrent here plus some of the sentences make no sense, A bloke was caught speeding on his bike got 2 years as did a bloke who killed his own baby, both be out in a year, bloody ridicules. :furious:
Quote from: Speedy1959 on Thursday, 01 February 2018, 10:29 PM
Quote from: mjgt on Thursday, 01 February 2018, 09:10 PM
Saw it last night on the news, had no idea there was a meeting, I'm not on face fart or twatter.
Neither am I mjgt
Love you abrieviated names for them..
That's the polite version :whistling:
This isn't actually a bike theft, but it's what these little chav scrotes use the stolen bikes for :furious: :furious:
I had a far better one, but can't find it on Youtube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbJ-0Iqa-3g
I'm sat here shaking with anger :furious: :furious:
During the night 7-8 Feb the Bristolbiketaker scrotes broke int a garage in the centre of Bristol. They wheeled out an old Ariel another old Brit bike and a 1951 Triumph Thunderbird. They couldn't start the first two and dumped them in the road. They did however manage to get the Thunderbird going and rode off on it. Ever since they have been taunting the owner with photo's of his bike on their Instagram account..I picked up the very first photo posted by them and contacted the owner..Damon.
They had been spotted on numerous occasions riding around on it without helmets, but no one was able to catch them.
Yesterday they threatened to burn the bike out if the owner didn't cough up £1000 to save it. The bike was plastered all over Facebook by people hoping to get the word spread and the bike back to Damon. It was all going quite well until today, when, despite being asked nicely NOT TO..The Bristol Post published an article about the bike and the fact that the thieve's had demanded a ransome to get it back...The thieves, within about 30 mins of the article being published decided that the bike was too "Hot" to keep in their possession and they torched it on wasteland.
To say that Damon is in pieces is an understatement..He's distraught.
An associate of mine has just gone with the owner to retrieve what is left of it..Not much I guess as they removed the fuel cap and turned the bike upside down before igniting it...I'm F*CKING RAGING here :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious:
Bristol Post article...
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-bike-thief-issues-pay-1206609
:furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: F***ng set fire to them !!!! :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious:
Hanging is to good for em !!! a bit of torture .... i mean slow torture over a few weeks and post them up on insta for there mates to see :furious:
I'd rather feed them feet first into a log chipper and then feed the slurry to the pigs.....
:furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious:
These are not thieves, they are evil, they steal to taunt the owners :furious:
They really do need to experience some pain.
Just seen it on Facebook. Absolutely sickening. I don't have words.
Quote from: froudy on Wednesday, 14 February 2018, 03:38 AM
I'd rather feed them feet first into a log chipper and then feed the slurry to the pigs.....
I like that one Froudy!
My 'favourite torture' is to feed the fingers (followed by the rest of them) slowly through an old hand wound mincer, nice & slow! Yes, I'd turn the handle too.
No words for these sickening scum, hope they all die a slow painful death :furious:
Surely, these days, they could be tracked down by their IP address etc, if they are constantly posting ?
Well that's if the cops really wanted to do something of course. :furious:
That is really sad. What bastards.......
Payback...........from a patched gang member I once worked with.
Detain culprit, insert plastic pipe into back passage, stuff barbed wire into plastic pipe........remove plastic pipe.
There is a lot to be said for vigilante justice.
I can see how the idea of cutting off a hand if you're caught stealing came about, but we live in modern times & have progressed from that sort of thing. So if we've progressed, how about cutting off a head instead? That's progression!
Little shits, even if they are caught all they will get is a stern telling off, a 6 month ban and an hour or two community service :furious: :furious: :furious:
Quote from: mjgt on Wednesday, 14 February 2018, 04:05 PM
Little shits, even if they are caught all they will get is a stern telling off, a 6 month ban and an hour or two community service :furious: :furious: :furious:
I'm not optimistic, but I would hope that the old bill will now take this more seriously now that a) there's a load more publicity making them look useless and b) the crime is a bit more serious. Demanding money with menaces is a level up from bike theft so in theory there should be a bit more action.
But like I said, I'm not optimistic.
Karma has a funny way of catching up with human shite like these.
One day some of these individuals will get their own place. How ironic it would be if every time they left their accommodation (usually to sign on) the place got trashed. All their personal possessions got wrecked. Perhaps they might like to contemplate their sad non entity life. :furious: :furious: :furious:
Fair point. It makes you wonder how sad and miserable their lives are. That to seek pleasure they have to cause distress to others. Not quite how a fulfilling and happy life should be.
Seven arrests made this week...Don't know full details yet as the Police keep it quiet until it's been to court.
I think we're finally getting somewhere though!
If it was the ones who torched the Triumph, then I think they should think themselves lucky the police got to them first.
Good news though assuming they are the scum who have been doing this
@gsxbarmy Some if not all of them were involved in the torching of the Triumph. And YES it was very lucky the Police got to them first!!
I can't go into full details, but will just say that they received plenty of death threats from some VERY ANGRY bikers from all over the country.
Quote from: froudy on Sunday, 18 February 2018, 03:05 AM
@gsxbarmy
Some if not all of them were involved in the torching of the Triumph. And YES it was very lucky the Police got to them first!!
I can't go into full details, but will just say that they received plenty of death threats from some VERY ANGRY bikers from all over the country.
Thanks Steve. Lets hope the courts take them off the streets for a very long time
I hope so too Dave :onya:
Visor Down carried this report
The arrests have been made under Operation Buell, which reached a critical point on Tuesday when a group, going by the name of 'biketakerrr' on Instagram, shared a video of the stolen classic being set on fire.
The three arrests made since Wednesday concern two 14-year-olds and one 17-year-old.
Inspector Rob Cheeseman, leading the operation, commented: 'These arrests and subsequent charges follow months of both overt and covert police work.
'We know the motorbike community of Bristol have been hit by recent thefts and I hope these results send a strong message that we will relentlessly target anyone involved in such criminality.'
:furious: :furious: :furious:
http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news-general-news/pair-charged-bristol-motorcycle-theft-investigation
FOUR more arrests have been made as part of Operation Buell, Avon and Somerset Police's investigation into motorcycle theft in Bristol today :)
Still lots of bikes being stolen though..Three at least yesterday and a couple of attempted thefts as well.
I'm pissed off with it now!!
Good to see something happening, but they will probably get a slap on the wrist & be back out doing it smarter than last time.
Lock the little bastards up or cut of their hands.😡
@Sweaty Feet first into a log chipper :devil:
What's wrong with me, I was being to nice.
That better Froudy, but pause it for a while at the knees for maximum pain.
Do it slowly with a crank handle, make it last a bit.
I feel the yoof is misunderstood.
They need art lessons and an increase in benefits to be able to express emotions in a more fullfilling way.
All this talk of medieval punishments could break their spirit and make them feel under valued and unloved !
Before anyone offers to come round one dark night with a chain saw.....
I was JOKING !
I was in social worker mode.
Tie their thieving hands to the grab rail of a 1400 and tell them if they can keep up they can go free.
reading today that bike thefts are rampant here at moment. disc lock installed, huge chain thru bike to ground anchor installed. ill keep it that way until theyre caught.
One scrote got arrested for throwing rocks etc at cars from a bridge on the M5 near Bristol.
He was in court last September and received a two year sentence along with his accomplice.It was noticed that he was still posting status's on his Facebook page even though he was in HMP Parc, Bridgend..
Somehow the Bristol Post got to hear about it :lol:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-teen-jailed-hurling-rocks-1237902
Seems like a member of the public got pissed off with bike thieving scrotes and took the law into his own hands...
He'll probably end up in deep sh*t if he's caught..Personally I think he deserves a medal :onya:
http://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/three-teenage-boys-in-hospital-after-being-rammed-off-the-bikes-in-serious-swindon-crash/
So, the family confirmed that at least (!) one of the mopeds was stolen. How do they know? Why did they not intervene themselves?
Certainly the van driver's action did more in reducing crime than many thousands of of police hours.
@Andre In a lot of cases the parents know exactly what their "little angels" are getting up to and don't give a sh*t...They are as bad as the lowlife pond scum that they have bred....
Let's all go out and buy vans :clapping:
Looking for a reliable used van now 👍
Quote from: Sweaty on Saturday, 31 March 2018, 03:23 PM
Looking for a reliable used van now 👍
With Roo bars! We'd say with Bull Bars on this side.
Quote from: KiwiCol on Saturday, 31 March 2018, 03:35 PM
Quote from: Sweaty on Saturday, 31 March 2018, 03:23 PM
Looking for a reliable used van now 👍
With Roo bars! We'd say with Bull Bars on this side.
OK we could call them scrote bars :whistling:
Much as I agree these scumbags deserve a lesson, and I know that some of the comments here are banter, I can't agree that this sort of action is right. We are all responsible law abiding (sometimes :stir:) people... would you feel it right if one of these scrotes died as a consequence of something you did? I think that would rest heavy on your conscience.....
My view... if they are under 17.... hold the parents responsible! I'm sure they'd knock 7 bells of shite out of them if that were the case.... over 17 and persistent offenders should be banged up in big boy prison... and they'd get 7 bells of shite knocked out them in a very different way :whistling:
Quote from: ARH on Saturday, 31 March 2018, 11:42 PM
My view... if they are under 17.... hold the parents responsible! I'm sure they'd knock 7 bells of shite out of them if that were the case....
The parents knew that at least one of the mopeds was stolen and being ridden by their "Little angel" :furious:
Having dealt with bike theft and scrotes for nearly 18 months now, I've got NO sympathy whatsoever...Harsh but true.
Im sure running the scrotes over would haunt you as you sat in the can for a few years. Lets assume you have no other convictions. Yet the scrotes have a record as long as your arm. They have driven you to have a mental snap and now you sit regretting your actions. The system has failed both you and them.
Judges here recently sentenced someone to 9 months home detention, i believe for child abuse. That night he was arrested for breaching his Home D conditions..... he was at the pub celebrating not going to jail !!
Something is very wrong with the courts, the way repeat offenders are allowed to continue commiting crimes and in turn affecting the lives of law abiding people. I can understand what made the bloke run them over. But the price he will pay for his actions cannot have been worth it.
The scrotes need to be made to fear the punishment of being sent to jail. Many here believe our jails and the sentences handed out are just way to cushy to be the deterrent they need to be.
Fully understand the sentiment Froudy, but the current way of managing this is clearly not working. I'm old enough to remember get a cuff round the lug from the local beat bobby if you knicked apples from the local orchard.... no one can do that anymore. The current punishments handed down to these little shites are worn like a badge of honour ... make the parents pay for it and maybe they'll pay a bit more attention to what their little Johnny gets up to. Only downside... too often the parents think the same way! :whatever:
I kinda agree with let the law do what the law is supposed to do, but ask yourself this you catch one in your garage/shed wheeling your 14 out ?
The little shits are still at it..The net IS tightening though.
We've got a local group of volunteers going out, looking for and recovering stolen bikes, 23 recovered now and returned to their owners in the last few months!
This is one of the latest bikes to be stolen. Unfortunately the Bristol Post are running articles like this one..The bike is now almost 100% guaranteed to be burned out before we can find and recover it :furious:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-bike-taker-gang-back-1437592
:furious: :furious: :furious: :furious:
30 bikes now recovered by the lads. They're doing a great job, with full Police support!
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-bike-taker-gang-recovery-1450903
The warning I got is no longer there, I managed to play the video (the next morning) without it coming back up.
WARNING: AVG says this video link has a virus. Beamray or something like that. Won't load & is doing a full scan of the laptop.
Quote from: KiwiCol on Thursday, 19 April 2018, 07:06 PM
WARNING: AVG says this video link has a virus. Beamray or something like that. Won't load & is doing a full scan of the laptop.
What? The video in the Bristol Post report? Strange...
yep, I was opening it last night & it came up with that message. Said it was infected with "???" virus & it won't open the link / play the video. Just sayin what happened.
Quote from: KiwiCol on Friday, 20 April 2018, 02:25 AM
yep, I was opening it last night & it came up with that message. Said it was infected with "???" virus & it won't open the link / play the video. Just sayin what happened.
OK Col, thanks for letting me know. It works ok this end with no virus messages, so something funny going on somewhere.
Just tried it again & was ready to do a screen grab of the message, it didn't come up & played ok.
God knows...At least you've seen it now anyway :onya:
Big Theft awareness ride in Bristol this Sunday if anyone local is about.
Nearly 700 riders last year and this year should be even bigger.
As long as it's dry I will be there.
So where do all the stolen bikes go? England is only so big 🤔
Quote from: Tug on Sunday, 01 April 2018, 01:04 PM
I kinda agree with let the law do what the law is supposed to do, but ask yourself this you catch one in your garage/shed wheeling your 14 out ?
With a bit of luck it will fall on the little shit and break his fxxxing legs. To the point of being unrepairable
Quote from: mjgt on Wednesday, 12 September 2018, 07:43 PM
As long as it's dry I will be there.
My idea as well - however bbc site shows rain sadly :bugga:
Quote from: Notty on Thursday, 13 September 2018, 11:37 PM
Quote from: mjgt on Wednesday, 12 September 2018, 07:43 PM
As long as it's dry I will be there.
My idea as well - however bbc site shows rain sadly :bugga:
Seen that Notty, but it is important so I still might go, have to wait for the day and make up my mind. It was supposed to rain last year and didn't.
Weather looking ok for Sunday...
Quote from: Notty on Thursday, 13 September 2018, 11:37 PM
Quote from: mjgt on Wednesday, 12 September 2018, 07:43 PM
As long as it's dry I will be there.
My idea as well - however bbc site shows rain sadly :bugga:
Try it, I dare ya. They (normally) work in the wet.
Quote from: Bielie45 on Wednesday, 12 September 2018, 10:13 PM
So where do all the stolen bikes go? England is only so big 🤔
The peds etc stolen by young scrotes are used in crime and then mostly burned out. Some get stripped for parts and sold on Ebay, Gumtree etc.
Large expensive high powered machines I think are stolen to order. These are then crated up and go out of the country in shipping containers.. Reports say that they mostly end up in Eastern Europe :furious:
As far as I can tell most of the peds end up burnt out in my local wood.
"The UK has done well this year in dealing with several domestic gangs, but the black market trade in spare parts via the web remains huge, with some newly created 'shops' offering spares that even the factories can't supply. But while many of our stolen machines, stripped or otherwise, leave our shores, a similar quantity of parts and 'salvage' machines stolen from Europe are imported, usually in shipping containers.
"Police in France, Spain and Italy confirm that land routes from the UK east to the Baltic and Ukraine are still popular, as are routes south to Ceuta and Morocco, Turkey, Cyprus, Malta and on to the Middle East. Dubai is still one of the biggest conduits for handling stolen vehicles.
"Germany and the Netherlands have seen a huge spike in traffic through to Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Romania, and down to the Baltic States. Once past the Polish, Czech and Austrian borders, vehicles are often displayed for sale on websites with their identity numbers intact."
extract from https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/reviews/products/security/motorcycle-crime-the-facts
One of the reasons why I avoid buying second hand bike parts from ebay.... you just never really know if you are buying something that was stolen. No slight intended to those 'honest' folks on ebay!
This is how crazy it is getting in the UK :furious:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6164763/Moped-gang-knives-acid-use-Road-Closed.html
And just watch this :furious: :furious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrYtBf0io2U&t=1094s
These fuckers should have their bollocks nailed to a railway sleeper (while still attached) and just left to rot.
Well the rain stayed away and the day was a success, nice to meet up with Froudy. That's the second year the forecast was for rain and it didn't happen and the second year I wore my waterproofs only to overheat in the traffic, bugger, there's always next year.
wow, that stealing/mugging is just mind blowing to me.australia is bad but that just amazing. we always follow a few years later.
Good to meet up with you too
@mjgt :onya:
I was totally soaked in sweat by the time we got to the final destination on the ride...My lid and gloves are still drying out now :furious:
It was a good turn out, but I was disappointed that only 350-400 rode. Last year we had 700+ riders.
There was a bit of trouble en route where a few scrotes tried to infiltrate and ride with us..Soon sorted. They were out and about filming us too and no doubt relaying info to their other thieving chav friends :furious:
We had very good TV coverage with BBC, HTV etc in attendance. It was on HTV West news last night, but I can't get to see it living in Wales!
Next year hopefully it'll be even bigger and better.
I've not seen any coverage on TV at all, sat through all the local news programs but nothing. Not even a post on youtube.
Catch em & kill em :furious: