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A couple of weeks ago, I spent all day Sunday doing up my old Specialised geared bike for my missus. The following night she went out, locked it to a dustbin outside a mate's house on Goldhawk Rd at 9pm and when she returned 30 mins later the bike, lock and bin had been nicked. Gutted. (Best forum suggestion at the time: 'have your missus arrested').
Anyhoo got a call on Thursday from The Man, saying that they'd done a raid on a house just 200m further down Goldhawk Rd and seized numerous bikes including mine. Bloke was apparently doing a roaring trade in stolen bikes on Gumtree and the Old Bill had got him bang to rights in a sting operation (I'm really trying to make this sound like something out of The Sweeney).
They knew it was mine because I'd registered the frame number on immobilise.com - it only takes five mins to do...