Stolen bikes

im afraid it is master shredder himself. its virtually the only avatar not taken!(i wonder why)
shredder rolls deep, hes just misunderstood!

Ahem ...

http://www.lfgss.com/member5927.html

:)

Is this anyone's Tap? It certainly ain't his, a google of his mobile has him up to his ass in bad.
http://www.gumtree.com/london/39/66717239.html

Looks like the hotlines show got busted into last night - lots of high end kit gone:

"Hotlines Show in Brick Lane, East London, was busted into last night. Stolen:- Nukeproof Scalp DH bike, yellow with green proto Marzocchi 888 forks, and a whole heap of Lapierre's"

http://shedfire.posterous.com/hotline-show-break-in

http://post.ly/12gKa

4 Lapierre bikes, 1 Ghost a Lynskey Ti frame and the new Nukeproof Scalp DH Bike. All unique to UK gone apparently - the nukeproof dh bike is one of 2 in the world apparently...

from @shedfire on twitter

They left all the NS's !

Ahem ...

http://www.lfgss.com/member5927.html

:)

Coming from the man with the most distasteful avatar on the forum.

Coming from the man with the most distasteful avatar on the forum.

At last someone noticed. :)

New to this today after a guy told me about the site and said you guys are good at stopping scumbags who steal bikes.

I had my Black Selle seat and Campag Carbon chorus nicked this morning from My De Rosa. I was locked up just by Clapham common tube station in the bike racks.
The arshole must have had a bike tool/ allen key as it was no quick release.

The main question would be is why are you locking a De Rosa outside a tube station on a bicycle rack?

Not having a dig at you, just that De Rosa (or any high end bicycle) isn't something I can locked up outside a tube station.

If you still insist on locking your De Rosa, have a butcher at Pitlock (can be purchase via Hubjub), they're secured skewer that required special keys to open it, which the theft won't have;

(red is area you can pitlock).

just knew about this forum today.
hate the idea of being scared to lock a good bike in a public place without it getting nicked!
the city should do something, no?!
why dont they enforce some sort of online registration system where when you buy a bike from a store, you must register it and then get a licence that has the bike frame number and your name. a police officer can stop and ask bikers about this licence any time. its like car registration, but with much less hassle because you dont need a MOT test or payment. when you sell the bike you can transfer the registration number online as well. this should give more power to the police and the community especially those who want to buy a bike and demand the seller to see the registration licence. this will control the whole thing instead of the power being with them stealing scumbags!
do you think?

just knew about this forum today.
hate the idea of being scared to lock a good bike in a public place without it getting nicked!
the city should do something, no?!
why dont they enforce some sort of online registration system where when you buy a bike from a store, you must register it and then get a licence that has the bike frame number and your name. a police officer can stop and ask bikers about this licence any time. its like car registration, but with much less hassle because you dont need a MOT test or payment. when you sell the bike you can transfer the registration number online as well. this should give more power to the police and the community especially those who want to buy a bike and demand the seller to see the registration licence. this will control the whole thing instead of the power being with them stealing scumbags!
do you think?

I would say the downfall here being that the OB simply do not the manpower to stop everyone riding a bike to check their licence. It's easily done on vehicles as the ANPR system can automatically check the registration mark and alert the cops if need be, but unless you forced each bike to display a licence plate (impossible to enforce with the sheer number of old bikes that would be exempt from new legislation) it would not be possible.

Also, could you deal with the hassle of being stopped every time you ride a bike to check it's legit. It would piss me off, and even more so for those many legitimate bike riders that may not be- how can we say this in a PC way?- from the Met's favoured racial group.

Well I'm sure there's a reason in 98 pages of comments!

They have give them more power, AKA the Police Cycle Task Force whom is responsible for cracking down heavily on bike theft.

I only went to grab a coffee with a mate, probb only 200M away from the bike the whole time. Chatted to one of the Police Cycle task guys at the bike show about those seat locks. But think I may just do what I used to do, NEVER leave my bike! London has to be the worst city for this.

I would say the downfall here being that the OB simply do not the manpower to stop everyone riding a bike to check their licence. It's easily done on vehicles as the ANPR system can automatically check the registration mark and alert the cops if need be, but unless you forced each bike to display a licence plate (impossible to enforce with the sheer number of old bikes that would be exempt from new legislation) it would not be possible.

Also, could you deal with the hassle of being stopped every time you ride a bike to check it's legit. It would piss me off, and even more so for those many legitimate bike riders that may not be- how can we say this in a PC way?- from the Met's favoured racial group.

all this can be solved, i dont work for the city but they are the once who can come up with solutions.

no need to have a plate on each bike, but

if you say POs are expensive and/or cant ask everyone for a licence then the city can have small trucks or maybe marshals who go around every morning for example and check any parked bikes, if the bike doesnt have a licence that shows up on their system, they impound or maybe lock in a way that the owner can only release after paying a visit to the police station

these are only suggestions but seem to me that the city can come up with solutions if it wants to.

also if people stop buying from thieves who have no licence then the market for stolen bikes will be cut down

we are already paying enough tax, no! hell you can add a registration fee, like £10 or more to assist with the cost of manpower to do this. wont make much of a difference when you're buying a £600 bike

I shall be at the Lane of Sorrow this morrow.

Last few weeks lots of plains clothes police nicking the more naive theevs.More stolen stuff being sold from stalls in the compound south of Scatler Street (the bigger of the two) than I have ever seen before.

I only went to grab a coffee with a mate, probb only 200M away from the bike the whole time. Chatted to one of the Police Cycle task guys at the bike show about those seat locks. But think I may just do what I used to do, NEVER leave my bike! London has to be the worst city for this.

Another genuine question, do you not have another bike for going around London? I have two bikes, one is my decent road bike that I spend quite some time puting together that I ride out in the countryside, and the other is a cheap OTP fixed wheel bicycles that I used for everything else (training, commuting, hopefully cyclocross etc.).

pitlocking and decent locking method should able to deterred thieves, but not completely with a De Rosa equipped with campag I'm afraid.

all this can be solved, i dont work for the city but they are the once who can come up with solutions.

no need to have a plate on each bike, but

if you say POs are expensive and/or cant ask everyone for a licence then the city can have small trucks or maybe marshals who go around every morning for example and check any parked bikes, if the bike doesnt have a licence that shows up on their system, they impound or maybe lock in a way that the owner can only release after paying a visit to the police station

these are only suggestions but seem to me that the city can come up with solutions if it wants to.

also if people stop buying from thieves who have no licence then the market for stolen bikes will be cut down

we are already paying enough tax, no! hell you can add a registration fee, like £10 or more to assist with the cost of manpower to do this. wont make much of a difference when you're buying a £600 bike

playing Devils Advocate here, but if they were to employ a team of people to do this task, it would still mean every bike needing to be registered. It's hard to enact legislation for something that exists.
What if someone's got an old bike they hardly use? They're not going to pay to register it.
Where do you draw the line? Bike crime exists out of London. Where do the marshals check? Zone 1 only? Out to Zone 6? That's a huge geographical entity to cover. What if someone from outside this zone brings their bike into London for the day- it will get locked if it isn't registered.
Also, we all know bike locks can be removed by force- the theives will just start snipping the Polices locks. They might not wheel the bikes around anymore, but chuck them into the back of a van. You can't stop every van.
I know that wouldn't fancy a £10 increase on my council tax to pay for this, and I'm a pretty keen cyclist. Imagine all those who don't cycle and have no interest in it having to pay another £10 on their council tax to cover this- they'd be livid- and that's without saying there's many better things my council tax could go towards.

Not having a dig at you, just that De Rosa (or any high end bicycle) isn't something I can locked up outside a tube station.
Sad / true

FSA (I think) were showing off a system at the bike show that secures all those points plus the chain rings and even the brake/shift levers.

Another genuine question, do you not have another bike for going around London? I have two bikes, one is my decent road bike that I spend quite some time puting together that I ride out in the countryside, and the other is a cheap OTP fixed wheel bicycles that I used for everything else (training, commuting, hopefully cyclocross etc.).

pitlocking and decent locking method should able to deterred thieves, but not completely with a De Rosa equipped with campag I'm afraid.

I had an old single speed but gave it to a mate that needed some wheels. Your right a De Rosa should not be left but I still cant believe how fast the saddle and post where nicked in the day time. Im in the middle of building a Ti Serotta, That WILL NOT be going out of site.

just back from brick lane . there were even more stolen bikes than the last time i was down ! thought the police were clamping down ? one guy had a stall with two custom made fixies def not normal stock ! one frame grey / silver no brand 531 frame with new brooks and lil finger type brake on chrome drops / white grips looked like a 58 or a 60cm .......

I still cant believe how fast the saddle and post where nicked in the day time.

It takes seconds! You just need an allen key! Superglue ball bearings in the holes. Melts down with nail polish remover if you ever need to undo it.

On Gumtree at the moment!!
http://www.gumtree.com/london/19/66015319.html

just seen this outside the cat and mutton now.

owner is a tall girl with a ginger afro

Phil, PM Scrapper

(although he didn't seem too fussed about it)

just seen this outside the cat and mutton now.

owner is a tall girl with a ginger afro

Punch her

just back from brick lane . there were even more stolen bikes than the last time i was down ! thought the police were clamping down ? one guy had a stall with two custom made fixies def not normal stock ! one frame grey / silver no brand 531 frame with new brooks and lil finger type brake on chrome drops / white grips looked like a 58 or a 60cm .......

I spotted the same bike this morning and the guy definitely didn't look like the genuine owner, and that very same f*cker asked me if I wanted sell campag triomphe pedals off my bike for tenner and I said 'oh piss off...' with a smiley face. I hope all these thieves get trapped in the hell someday.

well at least he had taste in the pedals !

playing Devils Advocate here, but if they were to employ a team of people to do this task, it would still mean every bike needing to be registered. It's hard to enact legislation for something that exists.
What if someone's got an old bike they hardly use? They're not going to pay to register it.
Where do you draw the line? Bike crime exists out of London. Where do the marshals check? Zone 1 only? Out to Zone 6? That's a huge geographical entity to cover. What if someone from outside this zone brings their bike into London for the day- it will get locked if it isn't registered.
Also, we all know bike locks can be removed by force- the theives will just start snipping the Polices locks. They might not wheel the bikes around anymore, but chuck them into the back of a van. You can't stop every van.
I know that wouldn't fancy a £10 increase on my council tax to pay for this, and I'm a pretty keen cyclist. Imagine all those who don't cycle and have no interest in it having to pay another £10 on their council tax to cover this- they'd be livid- and that's without saying there's many better things my council tax could go towards.

very valid points, especially that changes like this need time to be approved and enforced. and there are a million more detail to think about - i was only making suggestions but the city on the government nationwide needs to think of workable solutions that address those details. and this takes time..

okay, another suggestion from my side. why dont they make proper public (or private) bike parks or cages that has a guard and you need to pay for it. i've seen them in Beijing (it was less than 1p to park for an hour if i remember correctly) and they have them in Amsterdam as well. the one in London Bridge is £1.5 an hour or a day, cant remember, and anyone can get inside and take someone else's bike, there is no guard, so why is the £1.5 exactly?!! Liverpool st. station, no guard.

the office i used to work in had a shed with the key kept with the building security guards that they only give to those with building IDs, it was free for us but too small to accommodate all the bikes.. the cage was strong enough, no one can break in.. why dont they make it mandatory for all buildings to do that? some hotels have bike racks in the car park which can only be accessed through security, pedestrians are not allowed. all buildings should have this and enough to hold the bikes that Boris wants us to use..