Stolen bikes

Stolen: Slaytanic1's bike from his flat in Shoreditch! He's had to walk to work so I thought I should get this up asap for him. It was taken from his landing after 5am this morning. Somebody managed to get through the locked door and sneak up the stairs. Sounds like chancers as nothing else went missing. Needless to say he is absolutely devastated. Not insured either...

**NEWSFLASH**

Bike Returned To Owner!

From Spotted thread:

Spotted last night at around 7pm. Hoxton Square. Gentleman riding Slaytanic1's stolen bike!!!

Was there by chance with Slaytanic and 2 other riders.
We stopped him around from blue bar and got into a very emotional dispute.
He was riding it fixed with no clips. Knew absolutely nothing about bikes but knew it 'looked' good.
He bought it from Brick Lane for £130 and expected that back for it!!!
Hard to control the anger but remained as understanding as possible.
Told him that he knew full well the bike would've been a stolen one and he deserved to lose his money on the grounds of buying stolen property.
He said slaytanic would 'get a right result' if he bought it back for £130!
He came very close to having it taken away from him.

Left it to Dave (slaytanic) who was emotional! Couldn't believe it was exactly as he'd left it minus spokecards and clips. We agreed on £50.

The guy even said to me whilst the others had gone to the bank, that he expected someone to stop him on it one day and ask for it back! That was after telling me he didn't think it was nicked!!!

Anyway...it's back. A nice start to an evenings ride. And an extra bike with which we recruited an extra rider ;-)

So the thief couldn't be arsed to even swap parts and paint it.
If you've had your bike stolen, there is hope.
This guy had been riding the bike everyday, less than 400m from where it was originally stolen and nobody spotted it! We were lucky to have seen it too but would've at some point. Brick Lane remains the key place. Keep your eyes out folks. There's hope of getting your bikes back.