Sainsburys Car Park - Stolen Bike

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PoliceMadAd

Active Member
Sorry to read of your theft, always gutting to have a bike stolen. Has happened just once to me, the git sold it for less than £100, worth bout £450. I know my local ASDA has no bike racks, everyone puts theirs by the entrance, near the trolleys. Baffles me why there are no racks, i'd say they get around 10-20 bikes a day. Is that enough to warrant racks? My local Tesco Express has 3 racks, it's in a little shopping area though, they are the only racks around. Hope you find your bike :smile:
 

buddha

Veteran
I went to a large tesco yesterday. It has recently been refurbished - the correctly installed sheffield stands have gone and have been replaced with stands that are bolted to the ground.
Anyway, I went to lock my bike up, but the stand came away in my hand. :eek:
Went to sainsbury's.
 

bigjim

Legendary Member
Location
Manchester. UK
Is it not worth releasing the front wheel and shoving it in the cart with you? Also worth checking salford flea market on Thursday.
 

AuraTodd

Über Member
Our Sainsburys in town has pants locks, the kind where you can only lock the front wheel. No good if you have quick release! I have an Albus chain lock and I am quite prepared to lock my bike up like the bank of England if I have to.
 

marinyork

Resting in suspended Animation
Location
Logopolis
I went to a large tesco yesterday. It has recently been refurbished - the correctly installed sheffield stands have gone and have been replaced with stands that are bolted to the ground.
Anyway, I went to lock my bike up, but the stand came away in my hand. :eek:
Went to sainsbury's.

Generally speaking, if you assess dozens and dozens of stores, Tescos favour the trapezium Sheffield racks and their favourite way of fixing them is traditionally either bolting very loosely, not fixing at all or tethering with a chain, piece of string, you name it. They've become less keen on this of late and do try and fix them properly.
 
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Robroy

Regular
Location
Salford Quays
Thanks for the replies


Yes I know all about " at owners risk " but I guess I just wanted to make the point that Sainsbuerys and I am sure othe big stores my provide facilities for bikes but the are not always covered by CCTV.

I guess I felt it might be some what safer at a big store/busy are but I was wrong and I felt it was right to share this information

Also I am not sure what the story is with CCTV as I suspect in some cases the security/managment can npot be bothered to check the=rough them

Sime interesting comments thanks.:thumbsup:
 

Zoiders

New Member
Sainsbury's bike parking is a bugger for bike theft.

The demographic of the customers fit's quite closely with demographic of cycling socialy, sainsbury get far more bikes locked up outside than other supermarkets, the scrotes know this, they also know there will be a higher number of good quality bikes and not just BSOs.

The Sainsbury's bike parking in Stafford is like the Bermuda triangle for bikes.
 

Davidc

Guru
Location
Somerset UK
As I've posted on here before, I fit alarms to bikes as well as using D locks.

These have saved my and other peoples' bikes a number of times. They're not expensive and well worth using in addition to a good lock.

Not totally effective though. I did have to repair a wheel last month after the lowlifes kicked it before running away, and one of my D locks was bent in December where the little sh1te$ had used some sort of tool on it before the alarm sounded, and I think I'm going to have to replace it.
 

Banjo

Fuelled with Jelly Babies
Location
South Wales
I go to Tescos rather than the other supermarkets in our town purely because I can see the bike through the stores windows instead of hidden around the corner in other supermarkets.

Sad situation but there we go. CCTV likely to just show a bunch of grey hoodies so not much help usually anyway.
 

Tasker

New Member
Location
stoke on trent
Sainsbury's bike parking is a bugger for bike theft.

Sainsbury's bike parking in Stafford is like the Bermuda triangle for bikes.



Eh? Thanks very much! I often cycle down from stoke for a wander round the shops and always leave the bike at Sainsburys reasoning that as it's a supermarket it will be full of nice normal people like me(!) rather than underclass scrotes and thus, safe.

Now where am I going to park?!!
 

DTD

Veteran
Location
Manchester
Sorry to hear about your bike.
Might be worth asking for cctv footage

Wrote a book about CCTV – it's s****te*


*CCTV that is – not the book
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