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It is fairly easy to spot stolen bikes on gumtree. The description is usually very poor, the seller has no clue of what he's selling to the degree that he doesn't know the frame size or how to properly measure it. absolutely no idea about the technical specification. Will never give you a proper home address or so. He will usually insist on seeing you at some dodgy area and try to compete the deal as quick as possible for just about any money. Most of the times he will be telling you that he flies tomorrow to Maldives for holiday and desperately needs some pocket money.
So when you see or hear stuff like that steer clear.
Just my two cents :-)