Birds reclaim stolen bike shocker. Pls Advise

I'm curious too.. She said she bought it for £150. The seller must have powdercoated it, with the forks, so that's more than £60 gone out of his potential profit of £150. He must have had all the tools needed to strip it + reassemble it at his disposal, too. Something doesn't add up here..

Plumbing pliers are surprisingly effective at removing old headsets and BB's and looking at the picture they didn't completely remove the headset anyway. We have no idea how sound the build quality is at the minute so don't be fooled by the difficulty of stripping an old frame down and then re-building with incorrect tools.

Maybe the thiefs arrange a group discount to maximise their profit with whoever does their powdercoating/re-spraying. Doesn't matter really as we're never going to devote the time and effort into investigating this and neither, it would seem, will the police.

Lock your bikes well people and keep looking for all the stolen bikes we know of. This is probably the best we can do.