Stolen bikes

Samanthah, report the theft to police. Go armed with as many details as you can remember (hope you have the frame number--crucial!) The police have a very good registration system for bike theft, in which they can enter a lot of detail.

Ask the police if it's still possible to register your bike on immobilise.com after the theft--I'm not actually sure it is, but if you have pictures of it and you can convince them that it's yours it might just work. But again, frame number is essential so that the police can track it if recovered.

There is a chance that the police have heard of the way in which this gang operates--it sounds as if people are delivered by car and then ride off, with the driver perhaps ferrying the tools to and fro. Quite often, you find that thieves are known offenders.

Post up pictures on here. It sounds from what Tim's saying as if you have some distinctive parts on there, which may make it trackable for the technoheads on here who can analyse a bike's parts in three milliseconds when it's being ridden past them.

This sounds like the sort of theft where the bikes might still be on Brick Lane today? How long does the market operate? Or would it appear somewhere else, or at BL next week?

Oliver Schick - The Thief Taker