[image] Specialized HQ targeted in major bike theft - CyclingTips Specialized is counting the cost of a break-in at the company’s Morgan Hill headquarters on Saturday afternoon. At least 16 high-value bikes were stolen in the robbery, with the thieves forcing entry to the company HQ duri…

So that must be 5 bikes? Lol 2 dentist are very mad :joy: [image] Thieves nab $160,000 in bikes from Specialized headquarters Personal, prototypes, and custom bikes were taken from the company's headquarters during a daytime break-in and robbery.

[image] Alen: 2 dentist are very mad :joy: It doesn’t seem so funny that they lost a bit of history.

DItto. Any bike theft sucks the big one. These are at least special to S fans due to the actual history on and represented by these bikes. Some are real pieces of history on a world level, as mentioned.

Checking Craigslist now for a good deal on the S-Works Aethos :crossed_fingers:

I don’t understand a caper like this…it isn’t like they would ever be able to offload those bikes somewhere. “Pssst…hey man, I got Sagan’s Roubaix winning bike. You want it?”

It’s akin to stealing well known (and expensive) artwork. They would have to be sold within some very special, dark circles who even have any idea why these might be worth a big chunk of change to begin with. That said, I don’t think there’s much black market for “famous” bikes like there is in th…

Exactly…I was going to make that comparison to stolen works of art, but i really don’t think people are sending guys out to knock off the Specialized HQ because they have a “interested buyer” :rofl:

Oh haven’t you heard? There’s apparently a price bubble and bikes are craaaaazy expensive.

Probably some users that are waiting over 6 months for their spec bikes and after the information they have to wait more they snapped.

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Alen December 17, 2020, 8:02pm 2

So that must be 5 bikes? Lol
2 dentist are very mad

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