Guerilla Gravity is a manufacturer of high-end bikes in Denver, Colorado. When the employees enter their showroom on the morning of November 9, it has been broken into. It is missing six specially built models from the brand's current range.

Almost two weeks later, Transition reported that its headquarters in Bellingham, Washington had been hit by burglars. Among other things, two historic bikes are missing. One of them is one of the first that the iconic brand produced - the moral damage is even greater than the material damage.

Both companies immediately posted information about the thefts on their Scoial media channels and provided precise descriptions of the stolen bikes, which should make them difficult to sell. However, there was no quick success in the manhunt.

According to a newspaper report, Hutch's Bidycles in Eugene, Oregon, was also relieved of 21 bicycles with a total value of 100,000 dollars in November.

Caught: Thieves of bikes worth almost 1 million dollars

What could have happened to the bikes is shown by a case that will also be heard in a Denver court in November: A gang managed to steal almost a million dollars worth of bikes in a series of burglaries in 2020, "at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic", according to a release from the Colorado Attorney General.

29 bike stores were hit by the burglars, some even several times. The method was not sophisticated, but obviously efficient: the thieves used stolen vans to ram their way through and then emptied the store, concentrating on high-value bikes. In one case, the burglars carried away 90,000 dollars' worth of bikes within five minutes, according to surveillance footage.

An accomplice then took the stolen goods out of the country, "possibly to Mexico", according to the statement. Thanks to the cooperation of various organizations, including the FBI, the eight suspects in this case were caught. However, with a few exceptions, there is no trace of the bikes.