Stolen - Thorn Club Tour, Edinburgh - Now Recovered

[simonh]

Great News
Found by Police, notified by member of public who looked it up on Stolen-Bike Uk website.


Thanks to everyone who looked and kept an eye out and to all the bike shops that took a poster.
A few scratches and a funny headset but all repairable.

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Just in case you see my Thorn Club Tour for sale.

Stolen between 0000hrs and 0100 hrs outside the Windsor Bar on Leith Walk, Edinburgh.

Green with front low rider panniers and blackburn rear pannier.

Any information would be welcome.

Thanks for looking

[jags]

sorry to read this hope you get it back,hunt the area night and day .

jags.

[simonh]

Thanks, I guess its out of town by now....but I will look all over for it..

[jags]

i'm in ireland simon so no help buddy i just hope you get it back


jags.

[alfie1952]

Simon,

I live in the Fairmilehead area, if I see it around I will contact you by pm . Best of luck in retrieving your bike.

Regards Alfie

[Slammin Sammy]

Thieves! Scoundrels!

I hate these stories. Why can't people keep their cotton-picking hands off other people's stuff? Bikes are especially personal - I've lost a few over the years, and then there was my custom Harley Davidson which broke my heart. The frame was eventually found at the bottom of a lake in Texas.

It's probably been taken for a quick few quid, and it's the dicks (sorry... unsophisticated buyers  ) that make it possible. Knaves!

I hope you get it back quickly Simon, and in unmarked condition.

Sam

[jags]

say sam did you get your harley back on the road.

anto

[Slammin Sammy]

say sam did you get your harley back on the road.

anto

Nope. It was re birthed.  It was a gorgeous Fat Bob Superglide which I'd owned from new (1982) and customized. I rode it from Salt Lake City to Dallas while I was working down there, and it was pinched one night from the garage. I was devastated. It was a unique machine, and I felt like some bastard had stolen my girlfriend! 

Got a payout that was too low for a new bike, so I bought a second hand Low Rider and customized again. Eventually brought that bike to Australia and sold it eight years later. I'll try to find a photo to post (it was pre-digital).

Harleys are hard to keep. They're thief magnets cuz the patch clubs love them. Useless scum!

[jags]

oh man what a disaster i could get over the theft of my car but not a harley or my bike .
sam there's a big road race not far from me 15 miles or so on the coast road Skerries north co dublin  thousants of bikers attend to see  the race ,anyway last year i think it was a  clever guy  appears in a hugh truck with a sigh on the side saying secure parking in my truck 5 euro for the day, when he got it full he disappeared there were some very expensive motor bikes in that truck never to be seen again.

[Slammin Sammy]

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...when he got it full he disappeared there were some very expensive motor bikes in that truck never to be seen again.

I've seen something like that here, too. The Ulysses Club (older bikers, lots of expensive machines) have an AGM in a different town in Oz each year. A few years ago, they got about 4,500 to come to Coffs Harbour north of here. A gang moved into town the week before with a semi, and went about methodically pinching expensive bikes. They lit out after a couple of days, but were caught up in Queensland.

Your story makes me wonder, tho... How could you possibly get away with something like that in such a tiny country? I suppose that they were on a ferry to Europe before anyone realized?

Grubs!

[jags]

Yes that was the talk among the bikers there was a ship waiting to transport them.these guys have thieving down to a fine art complete scum . :'(o.

[davefife]

will keep an eye open if I hear anything via the trade. do you have the serial nos - frame, so even it comes into  my workshop down the line I can id it?  you can pm me if you dont want to public post that info
Dave