Breaking News - Pedallys Return!!!

Excellent!!!

I seem to remember misplacing a Pinarello Dogma not so long ago! Hope
the cops have been considerate enough to straighten the forks

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"cfsmtb" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Not breaking news. This was reported in this group not long after it was in
the news.

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Alan Erskine
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not the fifteen GWB proposes.
Give NASA a real challenge
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In article <[email hidden]>,

Alan Erskine said:

Not breaking news.

Actually, the bit about the police display _is_ breaking news.

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Shane Stanley

Shane Stanley said:

In article <[email hidden]>, "Alan

Erskine said:

Not breaking news.

Actually, the bit about the police display _is_ breaking news.
Shane Stanley

Ah, Alan has a short memory, Post send to CF/aus.bike on 19/3,
<http://tinyurl.com/2ggvz>

or longer version, From Geelong Advertiser - Death leads to 1000-bike
haul <http://www.cyclingforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=102236>

Can think of dozens of bike folk who will heading down to the Police HQ
this week, good luck! 😄 😄

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Quoted message said:

Originally posted by cfsmtb Photos of the stolen bikes will be
displayed in the Victorian >Police Centre foyer, 637 Flinders, on
Thursday and Friday (June 3 & 4), 10am to 6pm, and Saturday and Sunday,
9am to 5pm.

Bags anything titanium! or nice steel! or carbon! or alu! 😉

Quoted message said:

Proof of ownership will be required to claim bicycles.

Ahh [censored]!

"and it was over... before it began" - K.B. Wilson

hippy

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More from the Geelong Advertiser, found the paperwork/photos tonight in
(hopeful) anticipation, but prepared to be philosophical.....

Bike push for owners Wednesday, June 2,JENNY SHAND

A PHOTO display of more than 400 bikes found crammed in a Geelong West
home will go on public view in Melbourne from tomorrow in a police push
to find their owners. Geelong police are organising the four-day display
in the foyer of Melbourne City Police Station in Flinders Street.

The viewing, which ends Sunday, comes less that a month after a similar
event in Geelong that helped police double the number of confirmed
owners for the stolen bicycles.

Police found 435 bikes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in the
home of deceased man Ken James in March. Police know Mr James bought 34
of the bikes. They also know others were stolen.

Constable Chris White said police had found owners of 30 bikes from the
haul so far. They had another 40 people who were ``80 per cent''
confirmed as owners.

``A lot of that is down to the Geelong viewing,'' Const White said
yesterday.

Police believe the majority of the bikes were stolen in Melbourne, with
the remainder sourced from Geelong.

``I'm hopeful we'll get another 100 confirmed owners (from the Melbourne
viewing),'' Const White said.

``And if people missed the viewing in Geelong, most definitely go up
there and have a look and see if it's yours. But if you already viewed
the bikes in Geelong, there's no use travelling up there.''

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Another story in today's Age

Me thinks me is wandering down there at lunchtime

wonder if that bike i 'lost' at prahran central back in 1990 will
be there...

or that Pinarello Dogma, or Cannondale Six13, or that ...

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flyingdutch said:

Me thinks me is wandering down there at lunchtime

Been there and done that. A big queue of people. the guy in front of me
listed 5 bikes he had lost (obviously subscribed to the theory of Karma,
not Kryptonite!)

2 big folders full of colour pics. 2 officers manning the desk, not
really having a clue what they were dealing with... "I have lost a
Shogun" "Yeah, but want brand? mtb, racer or hybrid?" Guess they'll have
a crash course in bikeology

courier looking thru seemed to be setting up some kinda scam with his
mates on the 2-way as to what was available.

Apparently the bikes wil lget passed onto a kids charity (yeah) or an
auction house in Dandenong (adv in Age, he said)

Most of the stuff was your everyday treddly you see locked up to posts
around town. Lots of shoguns, Giants, Apollos. Didnt spot any exotica
but there was a Klein listed and some Giant roadbikes

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"courier looking thru seemed to be setting up some kinda scam with his
mates on the 2-way as to what was available."

Not that i am about to paint all couriers with the wrong brush here but
i sincerely hope that the above mentioned scam doesnt come to fruition.
I would be very disappointed to hear a fellow cyclist profiteering from
the loss of one's bike. Hmm

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flyingdutch said:

Been there and done that. A big queue of people. the guy in front of me
listed 5 bikes he had lost (obviously subscribed to the theory of Karma,
not Kryptonite!)
2 big folders full of colour pics. 2 officers manning the desk, not
really having a clue what they were dealing with... "I have lost a
Shogun" "Yeah, but want brand? mtb, racer or hybrid?" Guess they'll have
a crash course in bikeology
courier looking thru seemed to be setting up some kinda scam with his
mates on the 2-way as to what was available.
Apparently the bikes wil lget passed onto a kids charity (yeah) or an
auction house in Dandenong (adv in Age, he said)
Most of the stuff was your everyday treddly you see locked up to posts
around town. Lots of shoguns, Giants, Apollos. Didnt spot any exotica
but there was a Klein listed and some Giant roadbikes

You were probably in the queue ahead of me! I didn't find my bike &
neither did a mate who accompanied me. Gotta say the thief had no taste
in bikes or wasn't fussy what he stole.

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coowoowoo said:

Not that i am about to paint all couriers with the wrong brush here but
i sincerely hope that the above mentioned scam doesnt come to fruition.
I would be very disappointed to hear a fellow cyclist profiteering from
the loss of one's bike. Hmm

At least the bike would be going to a good home and put to good use! The
other dude who had lost 5 bikes is either very unfortunate or deserves
to have his bike ridden into the ground by the 'hardest working people'
in showbiz!

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flyingdutch said:

At least the bike would be going to a good home and put to good use! The
other dude who had lost 5 bikes is either very unfortunate or deserves
to have his bike ridden into the ground by the 'hardest working people'
in showbiz!

Well if he had lost five bikes i would be saying to him.. buy a lock buy
a good lock lock through the frame not the front quick release wheel or
lastly .. get some good insurance.

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hippy said:

Quoted message said:

Originally posted by cfsmtb Photos of the stolen bikes will be
displayed in the Victorian >Police Centre foyer, 637 Flinders, on
Thursday and Friday (June 3 & 4), 10am to 6pm, and Saturday and Sunday,
9am to 5pm.

Bags anything titanium! or nice steel! or carbon! or alu! 😉

Quoted message said:

Proof of ownership will be required to claim bicycles.

Ahh [censored]!

But the cops will auction off anything that's not claimed right?
You'll have to keep your eye out for when it's on.

IIRC up here there's one a year.

-kt