Tens of thousands of pounds worth of bikes stolen from Saint Piran team

Team boss Richard Pascoe said small teams “cannot afford to sustain these losses”.

Theodor Obholzer of Saint Piran at the British National Road Series in 2022
(Image credit: Alex Whitehead/SW Pix)

Cornwall-based cycling team Saint Piran suffered a financial hit last weekend after three prototype racing bikes were stolen from a team vehicle in the Netherlands. 

The bikes are understood to total around £30,000 in value.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.