You are reading a single comment by @sharky and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@sharky
Take extra care when locking your bike in Mornington Crescent. Saw some kids trying to nick locked bikes via leverage attacks on some of the estates around there. Warned the victims but keep your eyes peeled.
Might as well describe them.. All about 11 to 16 in a gang of four. Oldest one was white, a smoker with brown / blond hair - basically a stocky chav on a scruffy MTB. The next one looked like a young Richard Ashcroft, wearing a black hoody and bottoms on a nice black mtb/trials bike. The last two looked really Sesame Street. A little Asian/East-European kid in over-sized black garb, black beanie hat with a little mousey face on an MTB clearly to big for him. Finally a little black kid, with a green and black stripey t-shirt with denim shorts sporting a short afro - no MTB.
They were pretty content in going up four flights of stairs to target bikes, in early daylight, in full view of everyone.
P.S No racial slurs intended at all