{"id":350000,"date":"2025-12-15T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350000\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:42:08","slug":"an-absolute-sense-of-loss-winning-bike-stolen-from-world-champion-duathlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350000\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAn absolute sense of loss\u201d: Winning bike stolen from world champion duathlete"},"content":{"rendered":"

A world champion sprint duathlete has discovered that two of her high-end racing bikes were stolen overnight, leaving her feeling unsafe in her own home. \u200b<\/p>\n

The bikes, which included a measured to fit Giant Propel worth around \u00a37,000, were stolen from her locked garage sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning, the Bournemouth Echo reports.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zoe Tucker said, \u201cWe saw it\u00a0last night from the garage, which is locked. The two bikes were stolen.<\/p>\n

\u201cBikes are really difficult to replace, particularly if you\u2019re racing on them and competing on them. They\u2019re all made specifically to measure, and they\u2019re adapted so that you can participate in the races you want to participate in.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

She is due to compete at the European Championships in July\u00a0and the World Championships in Abu Dhabi in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"ZoeZoe Tucker (credit: Zoe Tucker \/ Facebook)<\/p>\n

Zoe came first in her category and fastest British woman overall at the last world championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I’m at a bit of a loss of where to go from here… that is my racing bike and that’s what I use it for,\u201d she told the BBC<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It’s measured up, it’s specifically designed for racing, it’s got aero bars which are for the time trial distances.<\/p>\n

“That’s what I won the world championships on, that would be my racing bike that I compete on, so without that it’s a game-changer.”<\/p>\n

> “Like they were tipped off that our address has expensive bikes”: Olympic cyclist’s home raided by burglars, with doorbell recording suggesting they “had very specific information”<\/a><\/p>\n

She added: “It’s an absolute sense of loss… It’s the loss of knowing that your training is going to have to change direction overnight, and not knowing how long it will take to go through the whole hoops and processes of replacing that bike.”<\/p>\n

She had only just moved into the property\u00a0and had recently replaced the garage door to provide added security.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She added that “it feels, I mean, it feels quite invasive. It feels really sort of security in the house is compromised and don’t feel that safe anymore<\/p>\n

“And we’ve only been in this house for about four weeks and a really quiet residential road. So, it’s just such a shock.”<\/p>\n

>\u00a0Cyclists warn of burglaries targeting “high-end” bikes after four houses on same street hit in one night, with \u00a37,000 custom bike among five stolen<\/a><\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Dorset Police said: “We received a report at 10 am on Friday, 12 December 2025, that two bikes had been stolen from a garage in Gainsborough Drive in Sherborne.<\/p>\n

“It was reported that the incident occurred between 10 pm on Thursday, 11 December and 6 am on Friday, 12 December 2025.<\/p>\n

“We are carrying out enquiries into the matter; no arrests have been made at this time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A world champion sprint duathlete has discovered that two of her high-end racing bikes were stolen overnight, leaving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-350000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}