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Spike thanks so much sharing the news on this; I live in Bethnal Green and like you keep our bikes locked up (pretty damn well) outside. This does make me extremely nervous about leaving them there. Thieves will nick anything that's not nailed down: our neighbour had his baby bunny rabbits nicked from the hutch outside his back door.
Regarding Broadway Market, I don't know where the Old Guy who does the puncture repairs gets his bikes from but I would presume they are not legit. More worryingly, around the past couple of weeks there have been pikeys selling bikes around the same place (the little tramp hang out between London Fields and Broadway Mkt, where the bike crossing is: last Saturday there was a beautiful looking English bike with Scwalbe tyres and a Brooks saddle and the bloke (not the Old Guy, some pikey) wanted £50 for it. The Police were there too and didn't seem to be paying much attention tbh, but then someone had just been shot.... sigh I love living in the East End sometimes!