In the early hours of the morning on the 3rd of Feburary our store was broken into and half a dozen bikes were stolen. In a bid to do all that we can to retrieve these bikes and/or find out who the thieves are the iRIDE team would kindly ask that you keep your eyes peeled for the stolen bikes. The thieves left in a white van towards the Hutt Valley after the break in.

All of the bikes were brand new, many of which are quite distinct.
The bikes stolen were:
11' Specialized Enduro Pro
11' Specialized Stumpjumper FSR EVO Expert
11' Specialized Amira Expert
11' Specialized CRux Carbon
12' Specialized Stumpjumper Comp 26"
11' Pinarello FP3 Ultegra.

please see the attached document for pictures, sizes and serial numbers.

If you have any information at all please email info@iride.net.nz
or phone (04) 471 1299

Sincerely,

The iRIDE team

Will keep an eye out, dunno if someone would be dumb enough to bring one to another shop, but I'll stave in their cranium with a pedal wrench if they are dumb enough to.

Same same! The swines...

Having looked at the attached doco. I know one thing for sure ... at least they have great taste in bikes !

However, I have to agree with Oli, for SHAME

Kunce.

That is stink. It's hard enough running a bike shop without crap like this happening. I don't know about the mtb's, but there shouldn't be too many Pinarello's or Pinarello buyers around in NZ. Unless they're shipping them off to convict-ridden Aus, awareness efforts like this may bring results - I hope so.

Hey EoinC, I'm from "convict-ridden Aus" (Tasmania in fact) and I'm landing in Wellington this Wednesday, I hope to find you are polite, bro

Rattus wrote:Hey EoinC, I'm from "convict-ridden Aus" (Tasmania in fact) and I'm landing in Wellington this Wednesday, I hope to find you are polite, bro

You may have trouble finding me in Wellie. I left there for convict-ridden Aus in 1983, and now live in Singapore. The deliquent-per-capita stats of NZ went down, and Aus went up, during that flight across the Tasman. Coincidence? Mebbe...

EoinC wrote:That is stink. It's hard enough running a bike shop without crap like this happening. I don't know about the mtb's, but there shouldn't be too many Pinarello's or Pinarello buyers around in NZ. Unless they're shipping them off to convict-ridden Aus, awareness efforts like this may bring results - I hope so.

Hmmm. You obviously haven't ridden around Wellington recently.

thelivo wrote:

EoinC wrote:That is stink. It's hard enough running a bike shop without crap like this happening. I don't know about the mtb's, but there shouldn't be too many Pinarello's or Pinarello buyers around in NZ. Unless they're shipping them off to convict-ridden Aus, awareness efforts like this may bring results - I hope so.

Hmmm. You obviously haven't ridden around Wellington recently.

You are correct in your observations.