Birds reclaim stolen bike shocker. Pls Advise

Don't stop Richie, I was with you up to that point.

Of course buying a stolen bike is bad, I don't think anyone is saying otherwise. But it seems pretty clear that she's just naive and she turned down an offer to buy the bike back off her - so she obviously feels guilty and upset, lesson learnt. Helping her build up a beater at a cheap price seems like a nice thing to do, and I'm all about doing nice things these days - wasted too much of my life on anger and conflict.

what about just giving the girl some free advice on how to avoid the sitch again? the same way that (leading on from my little sook ^^^) everyone on the forum should be doing with friends. we have all been asked advice by someone about buying a bike. we should be making it clear that it is not fucking on to buy from brick lane, and that gumtree is dodge county.

(if you are winding me up, fuck it, you win :P)