Stolen bikes

Anyone lost a Red Carlton?

http://www.lfgss.com/thread49426.html

A very dear friend of mine has just had his bike stolen from the Greenshoots community garden in New Cross. Sadly he has no pictures as the frame was given to him recently. If anyone down south could keep their eyes peeled for a lavender purple bike with grey stripes on the seat tube "feel free to knock them off" he said. Specs as follows:
Raleigh competition frame, lavender with grey stripes on seat tube. Seat tube is a 51 so its a small frame, which would have originally taken 27 inch wheels.
Wheels are black goldtecs to black open pros.
Cranks are just some fluted BSA road cranks with both rings.
White charge spoon saddle.
White charge risers, no grips.
No brakes.
He says he went to the shops and left his bike there, where there would have been quite a few people, came back and his bike was gone. So an opportunist maybe?
Hopefully this description is good enough, and the bike is distinct enough to be spotted. If you do see it PM me. Cheers guys.

7.40pm saw the guy on the orange Klein at old street / pitfield street. Unfortunately I'm on foot in ridiculous heels so couldn't give chase.
Will keep my eyes peeled though as he obviously shares a bit of my commute.

bump, for luck.

The yellow track with Coppi fork is still locked up in Clapton. It's now missing its saddle and seatpost as well as rear wheel, and it's been there nearly two weeks, so I guess it's been abandoned, either by a thief or by its owner after the wheel was taken (???).

Mr. Matt,

Would you be able to send me a picture of the bike next time you come past it? It's not a Cube, is it?

Thanks!

My and my flatmete's bikes were stolen from our balcony. if u will see them, please let us know.

Rear wheel is pretty distinctive anyway!

Was it nicked mid-sentence?

hey, so mine got stolen recently (the f*ckers cut through the iron bars of a fence since they couldn't get through my lock). found it on gumtree and all, reported it to the police. they tried to get it but the guy had already sold it...all very frustrating. thing is just that I'm pretty sure it was sold in my area (shoreditch/hackney/bethnal green) and hope that someone if not I myself will see it one day. It's very distinct and really tiny, so please keep a look out...

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Hi all,

not sure if this is the right place but am on my break at work and don't have time to check but just seen a light blue Raleigh, flip flop hub, chromed forks, white front tyre, black rear, white cables and saddle -- Raleigh can be seen faintly on down tube, looked about 54/56cm frame; my reasons for this post - it was in New Cross parked outside a fried chicked shop, I stopped to look and some panicked kids (11/12 yrs old) came out to see what I wanted, tried to take a pic but they cycled off..............if the wrong place can someone repost please.........thanks.

My colleague from work had her bike stolen lastnight (19th August) outside Holburn station - it was locked to the bike park thingy by the t-junction where Procter St. meets High Holburn.

The bike was fairly distinctive, very small frame (~49cm) ladies Giant road bike in baby blue and silver, circa 2007. She's writing a proper description which i'll update with when she sends it through.

Here is a picture of the bike from the Giant website;

http://www2.giant-bicycles.com/en-GB/bikes/women/187/15041/?collections_id=2

EDIT, here is her description;

Giant tcr w.
Ladies road bike,
Baby blue and silver
Black bar tape
Shimano 105 brakes
Black shimano saddle
Mavic Ksyrium Equipe rear wheel, standard giant front wheel.
Stolen from Holborn 19th August.

Keep an eye out people, thanks.

This is horrible. Hope you and your mate can sort something out.

@SimonC PM'd you.

hey, so mine got stolen recently (the f*ckers cut through the iron bars of a fence since they couldn't get through my lock). found it on gumtree and all, reported it to the police. they tried to get it but the guy had already sold it...all very frustrating. thing is just that I'm pretty sure it was sold in my area (shoreditch/hackney/bethnal green) and hope that someone if not I myself will see it one day. It's very distinct and really tiny, so please keep a look out...

Where was it nicked from...? Was coming out of the Royal Inn (Vikki Pk) last night at about 10:30 and saw a white dude with addidas jacket / jeans / addidas trainers / Shaved head / gold earring / fat cunt pushing a grey steel condor. It was fixed with drops.... Was going to go and ask him if it was his as he certainly didn't look like the fixed gear type (if there is such a type). Unfortunately for you he was with 5 other blokes and I was rat arsed so my GF persuaded me not to go over and start a rukkus...... FUCK FUCK FUCK I KNEW IT

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Ok just seen this.... wasn't that one.. Sorry dude

you've got to admire the ingenuity if not the raw skill of bike theif's methods sometimes.

spotted outside cally road pool last night.

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you've got to admire the ingenuity if not the raw skill of bike theif's methods sometimes.

spotted outside cally road pool last night.

I have been looking for someone who can do a finish like that.

I have been looking for someone who can do a finish like that.

the key is in the detail. the matching paintwork on the pieplate, reflector and tyre set the "melting nazi" drip-finished frame and painted headset/stem combination off a treat.

stunning stuff.

Mr. Matt,

Would you be able to send me a picture of the bike next time you come past it? It's not a Cube, is it?

Thanks!

I've got pics on my phone, I'll upload when I get home from work. I don't think it's a Cube though, as it's got track dropouts (I didn't think they do a track...) and it's been resprayed or had decals removed.

you've got to admire the ingenuity if not the raw skill of bike theif's methods sometimes.

spotted outside cally road pool last night.

Sorry what am I looking at?

The paint job.

My friend got his bike back! Saw the kid riding it around in New Cross, stopped him and went rage face and he gave it back. My mate was on his shopper bike at the time and the kid had the cheek to ask him to give him that!

I haven't been able to afford (or bring myself to contemplate getting) a new bike since having my brand new (uninsured - yes, I hear you) Sirrus Elite stolen (only 9 days old) in June, and against my better judgement, this week ended up experiencing first hand the full extent of the East End Gumtree bike racket....I left feeling sick to my stomach and appalled at the thought of anyone knowingly buying a stolen bike.
Ad claiming to have original receipt,(just how naive am I?), nice pic (not just downloaded from a stock photo), not a great explanation of the reason behind the sale, but get there (not given the actual address of course, just the postcode), bike isn't there and group of minions ride up out of nowhere on whatever bikes they have left in the 'stockroom', seem pissed off when I point out it's not the bike I came to see, and told me to make an offer on this one....all the while, head honcho stays up in the safety of his estate tower making calls and giving orders from his blocked number. Apparently the bike is gone, but the ad is still up on Gumtree....presumably to lure potential buyers and then present them with whatever's going at the time. And so the hideous cycle continues; mind the crappy pun.

it's a huge market for stolen bike, especially when people are prepared to pay £25 for a £400 bike because they think good bike should cost less than £100.

It's not huge, in the relative term of huge such as the other crimes like drug importation which span every inch of the UK.
In Wales, bike theft is virtually non-existent in the villages and i would guess it's the same across most of UK.
In London only it's a real problem, because there are so many bikes, and so many opportunities to take them and so many easy sell-offs to be made.
One of the problems is public perception of bikes, as disposable transport. And so it doesn't really matter, no one really cares, except for the person who's had their bike stolen.

Of course, us bike nerds care, but we are a minority and as things go, we therefore don't matter either. There is no money to be made from affording us a bike theft free city.