Stolen bikes

^The Norwich/Norfolk connection was briankwans bike nicked from UCL; it was stripped and all the parts came up on ebay from Ipswich. Have you got the seller ID?

what was his ebay ID? we can do some snooping on his real ID...

there's a couple of us on the forum, but other than that and the guys from OCW prob not.
There are apparently 50-60 riders up here, but I have no confirmation of that.

East Oxford seems to be crawling with ss/fixed bikes at the moment, I probably see atleast 2 or 3 go past my house each day (on a quiet, non-main road in Cowley), and a few have started appearing locked up at work sometimes too. Will be keeping an eye out for a red frame now though.

saw a young lad today pushing a all white FG with drop handlebars
across Angel,looked a bit like above but with spoke cards, looked very suspect..

While I was looking for mine I stumbled across this?

http://www.gumtree.com/london/36/24847136.html

hehehe calerper...
looks a bit offish :S

nearly got my bike jacked last night - two "urban" cyclists coming towards me as i was setting off - the moment they passed me they did the tightest turn ever (one of them fell off) and came after me - by this time id got my momentum up and left them to bite my dust :-D

stuff to keep you on your toes!

Haven't posted here before but been looking around the forums a while now.

Just thought I better post a suspected stolen bike I may have seen last night:

Was walking home down the Kingsland end of Engelfield Road, East London, around 11-15 - 11.45pm when I saw a pikey with a cap on a clapped out piece of shit riding along the pavement pushing a lovey fixie by his side with his free hand. Pretty sure he'd just nicked as it looked out of place.

The fixie in question looked like a 53-58 ( ? difficult to tell its size) frame and was black - no decals from what i could tell, and had bull bars with no tape, and was definitely fixed... look pretty sweet.

Does this correspond to any bike that might have been stolen last night by users of this forum who might have been in the area?
Sorry there's not a lot I could have done was pretty drunk and didnt fancy my chances...

FrankMG - sounds scary - what bike you got?

that's shit if it was nicked- what's going on with the festival of bike theivery in da hood! Mine was nicked maybe 300meters from there about 4 hours later......

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread6915.html

Although dubious looking pikey walking a bike could be alot people on this forum ;)

Who knows....

FrankMG - sounds scary - what bike you got?

i was on my cheap racer - not too many worries if that gets jacked :-P

are there loads of bike hijackers down in london....that will mug you for your ride?

dunno if its because its bike week or sumit, but it just happened to me again on the way home tonight - these punks were bikeless though...
they shouted out "pap" as i rode by, stimulating my adrenal glands for fear of them having a real "papper" - no gains on either side in the end...

haven't had a problem with it in the past, but the past was when i didn't cycle round at 1 in the morn...
this is upper clapton/stoke newington area; and its proper shit.

Hi, new on here. But I had my mercian nicked on "The Cut" on Friday night. Still in shock. Was all locked up, and I was checking on every 10 mins while eating in a restruant across the street. I was due to do the London to Brighton on it yesterday. I believe its "king of Merica" type, colour is white and red, just had it all reconditioned with the idea of getting the frame conditioned after the charity ride. If you see someone on it, throw something at them. Any advice welcome

Sorry to hear that! What was it locked up with and how?

Had it locked to a bicycle steet stand with an extended cable locks wraped around and through the frame and wheels. There was loads of other bikes there at the time, loads of good steet lighting and I was across the street from it. My bike which has been stolen!! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!@@AMEPARAM@@http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2584162660_4565d4f576.jpg?v=0@@AMEPARAM@@2584162660@@AMEPARAM@@4565d4f576

cable lock, only good off main chain through wheels ;)

Please tell me it wasn't locked up like this...
Quick Release front wheel with no protection and as for the lock...

I hope you get it back. Try Brick Lane at the weekend...

this is my 1st post WOOO HOOOO stop being a lurker now lol

jus wondering what locks do you guys have ? ? ? to get your bikes jacked off the rails ? ? ?
dont u guys have like pinheads on your wheels ? ? ?

jus asking becuase im goin to go all out on a fixie soon once i get my payment . . .

and as for the lock...

Its not the lock,its how you use it...

are there loads of bike hijackers down in london....that will mug you for your ride?

im not sure if it is a commen thing, but i have 2 friends who have been, litteraly hit off their bikes in parks
so i spose there are some pretty gnarly and desperate people out there...

well u cant be riding in london field at nite can ya . . .

im not sure if it is a commen thing, but i have 2 friends who have been, litteraly hit off their bikes in parks
so i spose there are some pretty gnarly and desperate people out there...

+1 - my friend's dad had that happen to him - he ended up in hospital!

this is my 1st post WOOO HOOOO stop being a lurker now lol

jus wondering what locks do you guys have ? ? ? to get your bikes jacked off the rails ? ? ?
dont u guys have like pinheads on your wheels ? ? ?

jus asking becuase im goin to go all out on a fixie soon once i get my payment . . .

remember it's not just a question of what lock you should get, but also a question of where and how you lock your bike.

do a search for locks, supreme. there's a few threads with tons of info on good locks and good locking strategy.

That was it locked up in a small village outside Canterbury, far from the eager theives of London. I tried Brick Lane on the Saturday, but with the train line works there was not a bike market to be seen.