A brazen, daylight theft of a race bike used by the British club team Jakroo Handsling Racing was caught on camera on a quiet street in southwest London on Friday.
One of the race bikes was ripped from the roof rack of a team manager’s car and a second bike was destroyed and left dangling from the vehicle.
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“Today at 2:55pm, two thieves in balaclavas on a moped stole our team bikes directly off a locked roof rack in a residential street in Putney. One of them jumped onto the team manager’s car and physically ripped the bikes off the locked rack, while the other waited on the moped (with a license plate PK24 EXD),” the Instagram post read.
“Police have been informed. This wasn’t overnight theft. This was broad daylight, in a residential street, in front of witnesses.
Thefts aren’t limited to amat last year’s Tour de France, 11 bikes were taken from the Cofidis team truck before stage 2. A month later at the Vuelta a España, as many as 18 bikes were stolen from Visma-Lease a Bike team vehicles prior to stage 3. Both of those incidents occurred overnight.
