Bike Description
The bicycle is a GT Avalanche 3.0 mountain bike in colours black, white and green. It had many accessories on it at the time of the theft, these included two CREE LED lights evenly spaced on the front handlebars along with a silver bell just next the left hand grip The grips are black with green tips. The underneath of the handlebars in the centre there was also patch of velcro zip tied on. next to the bell there is an air horn mounted on the handlebars which is connected to an air bottle/tank via a tube. The air tank is located on the centre of the frame secured in a Topek adjustable bottle holder which is snapped/damaged. The saddle of the bike is also black, white and green and has a saddle bag below it. The seat post has a rear light on it too. The bike has a 'Topek DeFender 29er' rear mudguard on it as well as a 'Lizard Skins' Chainstay protector. The two wheels have matching Maxxis Mobster tyres however the rear tyre is significantly more worn than the front. The front wheel has no reflectors in the spokes however the rear wheel has two reflectors. The bike also had metal pedals. When I got the bike out in the morning it had a flat rear tyre, I would suspect a slow puncture. The bicycle is also significantly muddy after a days riding.Theft Description
My bike and my friends bike were both stolen in this incident, they were both in the front garden of my friends grandmas house just under the bay window. My friend and I were in the front room from around 4:45pm to around 5:20pm where we could clearly see outside into the front garden. when we came back outside after around half an hour - 45 minutes, both bikes were gone. After speaking to neighbours one man said that he saw three people with hoods up walking down the street one way, he than saw them run the other way followed by one of them on a green bike.