The original poster on the other site has just confirmed that this was indeed false alarm, and that his bike is at E1 motorcycles. Case of someone getting their wires rather crossed ! Phew! I have Edited the Threads title for you;) PJ
Just seen this posted on another site
My partner used to use Bandit Bikes for servicing/MOTs on his CB500S. Hadn’t
used the bike in 18 months and has had SORN rather than MOT/tax in that
time. Wanted to get it on the road again last week, of course it wouldn’t
start, so he called the number he had for Bandit Bikes - somebody on that
number, without telling him BB had ceased, arranged to collect the bike to
get it running and do an MOT so he could arrange tax/insurance. They turned
up same day with a van and picked it up. Dennis said he wasn’t in a rush so
if it could be ready for Tuesday (i.e. today) he’d go round and pick it up
then. Nothing seemed unusual at this point, he’d been dealing with BB for
seven or eight years and had good service from them.
Today he’s gone round to Nelson Street to find the bike shop gone. The dry
cleaner now at that address appears to have inherited their phone number
(which is very odd, BT wouldn’t normally do that unless the new company has
some connection to the old). The guy working there appears to know nothing.
So - has he simply been the victim of a scam, or is there perhaps a rational
explanation? Obviously he’s reporting the facts of the matter to the police
now… though I suspect they’ll probably do very little (if anything).
In the mean time, if anybody hears of a red CB500S, in very good condition,
year 2000 model, with less than 10,000 on the clock, up for sale, I’d be
interested to know about it!
Oh dear…poor fella, hope there’s a rational explanation and its not as it seems
just to let you know you can buy telephone numbers without having any connection to the previous owner.
The Number for Bandit Bikes is now E1 bikes, not a dry cleaners. Though it may be a dry cleaners at the shop that was previously Bandit Bikes.
E1 bikes is elsewhere, at the end of the limehouse link.
Perhaps you should post to that forum that he should call them up and find out where they are It sounds like E1 has his bike.
Kaos (04/05/2010)
The Number for Bandit Bikes is now E1 bikes, not a dry cleaners. Though it may be a dry cleaners at the shop that was previously Bandit Bikes.
E1 bikes is elsewhere, at the end of the limehouse link.
Perhaps you should post to that forum thathe should call them up and find out where they are It sounds like E1 has his bike.
Cheers for that, have posted it up…
Denis is a mate of mine, like previoiusly mentioned, they have moved around the corner nothing to worry about literally next to Rotherhithe tunnel.
Kaos (04/05/2010)
The Number for Bandit Bikes is now E1 bikes, not a dry cleaners. Though it may be a dry cleaners at the shop that was previously Bandit Bikes.
E1 bikes is elsewhere, at the end of the limehouse link.
Perhaps you should post to that forum thathe should call them up and find out where they are It sounds like E1 has his bike.
or at least give em a call and say some1 has nicked your bike under their old name etc, if they are innocent in the matter they may well be able and willing to help.
Luckily this was a false alarm ! Original post updated.
Denis took over Bandit bikes, and moved it to Cable street over 2 years ago, so I guess the bloke weren’t that much of a regular.
Are people laughing at him on the other forum, I think people should be laughing…
lucky… if that was me i would **** myself lol
Not that I’ve seen, it’s one if the IAM message boards so doesn’t tend to be too much banter on there !!!
i bet they stay on topic as well :rolleyes:
ha ha ha that made me smile…aah fond memories on the day i went on a IAM rideout…:w00t::w00t::w00t: