Stolen bikes

but if they can cut through 1 lock, they can cut through 10?

Less likely to bother though. I’d definitely get another lock on it

Yeah as many locks as possible and take all the parts you can off it - not like you can be nicked for doing that. Go back first thing with an angle grinder and retrieve the frame

Good idea. If you are 100% sure it’s your bike, grab some tools and start removing every part you can.

Ofcourse, but it will slow them down and draw more attention to them.

How sure are you that's your bike? If you have the serial number and or other proof of ownership then lodge another report and then ask for CCTV footage from the pub and hopefully spot the 'owner'. Also get your mates around with an angle grinder, then give the police a courtesy call saying you are reclaiming the bike.

Shit news, Dan. Sorry to hear that. Hope he's OK and not too traumatised.

I'm not currently doing any work with the council(s), I'm afraid. People could write to the lead member for Community Safety in Haringey or the local ward councillors to bump it up the agenda. Since we heard that Hackney did enforcement action on the problem further south at Springfield, it appears to have moved north, and now it's Haringey's turn. Police action on these things usually happens with a delay after a certain number of cases piles up.

Cllr Mark Blake is in charge of Community Safety:

https://www.haringey.gov.uk/local-democracy/how-decisions-are-made/cabinet/cabinet-members#communities-equalities

The muggings are taking place in Seven Sisters and Tottenham Hale wards:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ll=51.583025638097716%2C-0.06405176114844835&spn=0.051194%2C0.109863&hl=en&t=m&oe=UTF8&num=200&start=0&msa=0&z=15&source=embed&ie=UTF8&mid=17xgHHFHM8_ZLgvjsvCgch_rnn9o

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ll=51.59457678360954%2C-0.0568883081034528&spn=0.051194%2C0.109863&hl=en&t=m&oe=UTF8&num=200&start=0&msa=0&z=15&source=embed&ie=UTF8&mid=17xgHHFHM8_ZLgvjsvCgch_rnn9o

You can see the councillors and their contact details here (scroll down):

https://www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=WARD&VW=LIST&PIC=0

Seven Sisters is Cllrs Dhiren Basu, Barbara Blake, and Erdal Dogan.

Tottenham Hale is Cllrs Vincent Carroll, Ruth Gordon, and Reg Rice.

I wouldnt faff around. Iirc this is that lovely Ritchey Breakaway disc gravel bike? Cant be many of them about. I'd recognise one of mine in the street as well. I'd be all over retreiving it by what ever means and follow up with the paperwork afterwards. If needs Id sit there with a hack saw and spare blades for half an hour. What are the police going to say even if they do bother to stop if they see it? I have sat in Cambridge town centre cutting a bike free years ago when I lost the key. No one batted an eyelid and just walked past me.

Unlikely the current "owner" is the person who nicked it anyway.

Let's say you sit there with a hacksaw having a go and the 'owner' rocks up with his mates, who's gonna back you up?

Be sensible, hope for the best, prepare for the worst...

@r_mash did you manage to get your bike back?

Yes! hired an angle grinder first thing (those places open early! 7:30am) and did it ... told the police before I did. One woman called the police while I was doing it but bike retrieved!

Well done on giving the police heads up, if they're bothered enough they would have rocked up, clearly they don't. Write to your local MP?

Kudos for the women calling the police too, must have been a weird conversation, ' The suspect you're reporting rang us earlier detailing what he was gonna do, so we think he's just one of those heroes who don't wear a cape!'

Ace. Well done. Bike ok? Was this the Ritchey?

Edit: as Coventry eagle says, good idea to notify the police as well!

Nice work Ms Mash

Glad to hear that!

Gah, Ruth-Anna (@bikesandbabies on Twitter) has had her lovely BabboeCity filched from her front garden in E5.

Can folks keep an eye out for it? Ta.

Fuck^
People on her thread are suggesting it was nicked to order. Who would buy this?!?

Pic of said bike

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Make me wonder as these are so costly that if this wouldn’t end up in Holland or elsewhere on the continent. Much like stolen motorbikes.
It’s very recognisable here and very in demand and one of many there.

Really hope I’m wrong and this gets back to where it belongs.

I've been waiting to see evidence of bikes being stolen to order for years, but haven't yet seen any. As cars get stolen to order, it's certainly possible, but the most likely scenario is that thieves target bikes kept in a predictable place overnight--that's always been one of the main reasons why sheds etc. are targeted. Many people now have metal sheds in their front gardens that are noisy to open, and I've heard of very few successful thefts from those, but cargo bikes obviously don't fit into them.

There's also the possibility that thieves just look at anti-social media where people talk about their bikes, a bit like that thing a few years ago where people apparently laid a trail via Strava for thieves to find where x number of expensive bikes were kept.

they sometimes get stolen just for the battery then dumped, happened to a rise and muller recently. Wheel lock on, so manhandled to a quiet street, then stripped of the battery

If it's locked outside in the same place daily they could have taken pictures and sold it to someone who wouldn't know or even think and then gone to steal it after.

Good news @r_mash :)