Motorbike gang rob West End jewellers Mappin & Webb in broad daylight - Forensics on scene

Is it just me or is labelling these people a 'motorbike gang' not doing us any favours? What evidence is there that this is a 'motorbike gang'? These are a group of robbers who happen to be using bikes as getaway vehicles. If they chose a transit would they be a 'van gang'?

Joe public already see us as anti-social speeding polluters- last thing we need is to be associated with crime as well!

Posted: 10/03/2010 at 12:08

Damn bikers!!!

They'll be stealing our children next!!!

Joking aside - if you wanted to make a quick getaway in London a bike is perfect. The gang knew this and used it to their full advantage. They were miles away before the Police even turned up.

CCTV will have tracked them but still didn't get them caught!!!

Posted: 10/03/2010 at 12:45

I have a KTM Duke.  Not the Super Duke, just the 690 version.  As I sit in traffic it's tempting to wonder why I can't simply jump the curb and ride down the sidewalk, loft the front wheel in either first or second without dipping into the clutch, scare people, and then lift the back wheel off the deck when I brake for the sharp right turn at the end of the block. . . funny, I thought it was just a daydream.

Posted: 10/03/2010 at 15:59

There's a gang of them...and they're on bikes.  Hard to describe them any other way really. 

If they were in a van they'd add to the assertion that white van men are up to no good.

Posted: 10/03/2010 at 18:19