It's a scenario every team fears and one that came tr🔯ue on the eve of Milan-San Remo: Thieves strike as staff and riders are asleep and run off with all of the bikes, leaving riders st𒊎randed on the morning of one of the biggest races of the season.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bahrain Victorious were the victims of a⭕n attempted break-in overnight on Saturday.

2022 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Milan-San Remo winner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Matej Mohorič's Merida's Reacto aero frame - he told Cyclingnews he would not be using a dropper post because the frame was no🍷t compatible - was among them.

To the rescue came Paris-Roubaix winner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sonny Colbrelli, who helped to drive the thieves away.

"Our Milan-San Remo started last night but it ended the Thieves 0 - Bahrain Victorious 1," Colbrelli said to Tuttobici.

"Last night we were in the hall of the hotel and we heard someone shout: the bikes! The bౠikes!' It was our bus driver in his boxers and he'd seen people trying to steal the bikes.

"We went outside and there were about ten young people. At 🅠one point a car almost hit me but I just avoid🅷ed it.

Then we started running after them anꦺd I followed them into the woods. ꩲThey got away by car but I got in a car too and chased them at speed but we didn't catch them.

"In the end, the staff slept with three or four bikes in their rꦍooms."

Pro cycling teams are frequent targets of gangs, and Cyclingnews' archives are full of dozens of stories of teams getting ripped off. The most expen🍒▨sive bike to be stolen belonged to Italy's team pursuit squad.

In 2021, the Italian track team's 22 bikes were stoꦐlen from the UCI Track World Championships in Roubaix, including the four gold bikes used b﷽y Filippo Ganna and his teammates in their gold-medal-winning race - a total of €600,000 of equipment.

Those bikes were one of the few to be recovered. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Romanian police recovered all of the equip♑ment during a drug bust.

Thieves took off with bikes belonging to Euskaltel-Euskadi and the Baloise Trek team during the Tour of Slove🍌nia last year, leaving those riders unable to finish the race.

SD ♓Worx were the tarꦅget in 2022 losing a raft of Specialized bikes.

Last fall, the Pinarello showroom in Treviso was bur🌼glarised t﷽wice❀, just 20 hours apart, with €250,000 worth of bikes stolen.

That fate fortunately did not meet Bahrain Victorious, thanks to the br❀ave and selfless actions of Colbrelli and his compatriots.