Team Sky ride Tour du Haut Var despite overnight theft of 16 bikes

Clearly it's all to obvious to work out where these guys are staying and it's all too obvious to work out which van has the gear in it.
These guys need to park a van at the hotel with a load of Gumtree death bikes sat inside and send the other one somewhere completely different. For Haut Var the 100km drive to a secure home base isn't too excessive.

Blaming the victims for having their bikes stolen.... ohh the irony.

With the costs of these bikes, it seems folley to not have better security, I hope they have a hell of an insurance policy.

Hopefully the bikes will have Sky's postcode written on them in UV marker pen

Or the low tech solution of a big ass lock like the rest of us use, these teams really need to get real about security.

yep what these lot are saying

dont just bung the bikes in a shitty transit

high tech security/dogs/security guard/etc

Surely by now the teams have worked out that they're being targeted by what seems to be professional organised gangs?

And they just park their vans up in some back street hotel car park, no security other than the locks on the doors?! Frankly that's fucking insane and an insult to the sponsors who then have to run round sorting out tens of thousands of pounds of extra kit at a moments notice. Ultimately, the consumer ends up footing the bill in increased prices on the shop floor.

Surely it's not too much trouble to fit deadlocks, shackles and so on, lock each bike into the wall of the truck - after all they're fully customised already. Either that or actually employ a security guard. With each bike being worth £10k + it's only 2 or 3 bikes worth to pay a guard for a year! Which is more inconvenient, 10 mins extra to lock and unlock all the bikes each day or hours of scrabbling round sourcing kit when yours all gets nicked?!

In addition to the other reasonable security ideas mentioned, they might as well install some sort of camera-based security system monitoring in and around the vehicles that can send mobile alerts or store info locally if cell jammers are used.

That kind of technology is realitively cheap. Speaking of which, I wonder if Belkin has some sort of advanced mobile security for their vehicles since that's along the lines of the products that their main sponsor actually sells.

Get a dog!

Failing that, leave the posh vinyl wrapped logos off the van with the bikes in it and go stealthy.

they'll have to start fitting secure racks and locking the bikes inside the vans instead of just relying on the van locks. Some ultrasonic alarms inside to detect movement would also be a "good thing"

Surely someone is going to start learning lessons from this - that must be the best part of £1m of bikes and kit stolen in 12 months now?