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I had my cannondale road bike stolen last thursday (I lent it to my flatmate who had it nicked for me from his work!) looked on gumtree on Monday and sure e-nuf there it was, no pic, and the kind of sketchy description you would expect 'after using this bike for over a year as a courier' - yeah right what courier would be seen dead on an R500? apparently the bike is of no use to him anymore LOL so I arranged to meet him in the arse end of north shoreditch, and sure enough when I turned up it was the very bike - The pond life selling it looked a bit sheepish when I turned up with 3 of my mates and produced a printout with a pic and detailed description down to a scratch on the chainstay and a rip in the bar tape! I told him give it back or there will be trouble either painful or legal, and he gave it straight back - result!
Never offer money to get your bike back - the scum are still getting 100% profit from their crimes, they'll just have to nick more often to get their fix/weed/cheap jewellery/grey trakkie bottoms...