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Ian Bibby's Madison Genesis bikeMadison Genesis issues appeal after Ian Bibby's bike stolen in Lancaster yesterday
Madison Genesis have appealed for help in trying to track down Ian Bibby’s bike, which was stolen in Lancaster yesterday.
The Genesis Volare bike, worth £7,000 and pictured above, is one of only ten in the world and is finished in the team’s distinctive black, orange and light blue colours.
Made from Reynoldsd 953 tubing, it is equipped with a Shimano Dura Ace 9000 11 speed groupset, Dura Ace 35 wheels, and Pro finishing kit.
The bike was taken from outside the Music Room Café on Sun Square at around 3:30 to 3:45pm.
Anyone with information cam contact the team through its Facebook page or if you’d prefer info [at] road.cc (to get in touch with us) we can pass any message on.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Looks like Lancashire's finest has managed to track his bike down - he is on twitter celebrating its return.
https://twitter.com/IanBibby86/status/306076392662122496
It's unlikely he'd have been riding it just for a social pootle to his cafe, more likely he was out training and stopped off so very unlikely to have been carrying a lock. If it was in a town centre though then yeah not too smart but hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Expect to see some smack head in a few months time riding this around with a fat seat, rusty chain, buckled wheels, no front brake and gaffer tape around the decals.
" I dont suppose Madison are that bothered though, they can afford it."
So that makes it OK to steal off "big" companies then? Doesn't say much for your morality does it?
Well that should be easy to spot on ebay. Sadly, the most likely result is that they will sell on the groupo and the wheels and other parts and leave the frame. If however they are stupid enough to advertise it, it should be easy to find and the toss pots will be caught. I dont suppose Madison are that bothered though, they can afford it.
Have to agree with the above sadly - leaving any bike unlocked in a town centre is asking for it to walk.
The tea-leafs will google it, work out it's very rare, get the components off it and it'll be melted down.
Can you imagine the telephone conversation back to HQ about this!
Why appeal? It's only going to increase the chances that the tea-leaf will find out they have a bike they can't sell and you never see it again. Better to keep quiet and watch eBay/pinkbike/gumtree etc and pick up when it comes to market.
I think Bibby was probably still thinking he was in Majorca.
Not condoning the thieving little scrotes but to leave any bike unattended in a town centre is asking for it.
Should have locked it! You don't leave your car unlocked outside the shops so leaving a shiny £8k bike unlocked is inviting an opportunist tea leaf to take it!
What makes you think it wasn't locked? The report doesn't say it was unlocked. You'd have to be mad bad or sad to leave a bike like that, or any bike in fact, unlocked in a town centre. Or daft, deluded or drunk. I do hope they cath the scumbag toe rag though, and make it suffer horribly. City centre stocks would be good, locked in for a day. With the bike lock which was on the bike for a bit of poetic justice.