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RideLondon bike theft 2Bike stolen at RideLondon spotted being ridden by suspect in offical event photos
Police are appealing for information about the rider of a bike stolen during the RideLondon FreeCycle event on Saturday, August 3 that subsequently turned up in official event photos.
The green Trek Madone 4.9 was stolen from Green Park near Constitution Hill, SW1 at 1pm while the FreeCycle ride was underway.
Its owner, a 42-year-old man, was about to take part in the ride and had locked his bike, but the thief or thieves cut the lock. When he found his bike missing, he told officers from the Met’s Cycle Task Force who were attending the event.
Browsing through official photos from the ride, he put in his ride number, and up popped an image of the bike being ridden along the Mall, with said number still attached.
Police investigating the theft would like to trace the male in the photograph.
The suspect is described as a white man wearing a blue cycle helmet, sunglasses, a blue and white striped t-shirt, beige/grey shorts and blue and white shoes.
Police would like to speak to this man, photographed riding the missing bike.
PC Charlotte Brierley, of the Cycle Task Force, said: "The victim was about to take part in the FreeCycle event when his bicycle was stolen. The theft took place in the middle of a very busy event and we are urging people who were there who may have seen anything to come forward.
"As a result he could not take part in the event which he was looking forward to participating in."
Anyone with information is urged to contact PC Brierley who is leading the investigation for the Cycle Task Force on 07768 928456 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
An earlier pic of the missing bike.
John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.
He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.
Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.
John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.
He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.
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Hopefully pushing this picture out in to the social media will result in someone getting their collar felt; recent police-related bicycle stories don't inspire confidence in professional detection.
*nit-pick*
They may be SPD shoes - I have a pair of DZR shoes that are similar.
Honestly I just jump on my bike wearing trainers a lot of the time on Look Keo clipless pedals. Cleats are fine for commuting and training but do you really change pedals whenever you go to the shops? I must look like a thieving Hobbit a lot of the time then.
Hope the pictures help find the bike, it is fine.
But this was a sportive?
£2,500 bike and no cycling shoes....
Would I ride a £2,500 bike down to the shops?
And if I did and a Police officer or someone else politely asked a few questions (as reported recently on this site), would I appreciate their interest/concern?
I am not suggesting someone attacks him with a baseball bat! If he said he had forgotten his kit (or other reasonable explanation) and decided to ride anyway then good for him...
Nope, not the London 100. The Freecycle is the 'bimble' around the streets of London, kids and baggys and all.
I would if I had one. Anyone seen any Trek Madones going cheap on ebay lately?
I ride my trike to the shop all the time, Its worth alot more than that Trek, it has SPD pedals with platforms around them, so I often just wear trainers when only going a little distance
.....I just jump on my bike wearing trainers a lot of the time on Look Keo clipless pedals. Cleats are fine for commuting and training but do you really change pedals whenever you go to the shops? I must look like a thieving Hobbit a lot of the time then.
[[[[ Nope, I change bikes when I go to the shops. Mind you, I hear there is a bar-steward around who'll filch anything with two wheels and flog it quick for a score..
P.R.
Some of us don't have two bikes.
Eeeks! That's a misquote....I NEVER cycle in trainers.
P.R.
I take offence at the thieving hobbits remark. How many hobbits do you know that go around thieving. Your tarring too many of aforementioned hobbits with the same brush me thinks.
Wizards thieve more them hobbits, namely grey/white one, and the occasional brown one.
I've got SPD-SLs, I often jump on my bike to go down the shops/round town with "normal" footwear. Works pretty well.
I hope they catch him and chop his theifing hands of! Or should that be his theifing feet off!
Brilliant! He should have been arrested during the ride for wearing baggy shorts on a bike like that anyway.
If that's an official photo, why has nobody stumped up the few quid necessary to use the hi-res version?
I suspect this is a crop from a different photo, which was actually of someone else...which would at least explain the reduced resolution....
A thief that brings their own helmet, then rides the event in full view of photographers on the route? There's something seriously odd about this.
Not really odd,
If you are going out planning to steal a bike from an event like the Freecycle, you need to fit into the crowd and not look out of place...
To quote Banksy, the best way to become invisible is to put on a fluorescent jacket. The thief did everything necessary to avoid being spotted. Or so he thought.
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