Stolen bikes

I got some good news fellas:

My wife's condor has been recovered yesterday from a local bike shop where someone brought it in for ''some work''. It looks a bit different now but i am over the moon it is back home with us again.

You wouldn't believe the situation. Since the four bikes got stolen I am very intensively searching all around reading, Sunday car boot sales, local secondary schools, bike shops, know hang about places for dodgy people, river paths and so on and so on.

Just a couple of days after the theft i took the small gitane over from a dickhead who rode it in my neighborhood but himself unfortunately managed to escape. i wasn't running fast enough (i had to carry gitane around as it was far to small for me to ride it) to catch him. then everything went silent for a couple of weeks. Suddenly a dedicated local cop took my case over as he thought he saw someone riding on my specialized a few days before but wasn't sure about it at that time. really nice guy, enthusiast cyclist himself we spoke and he gave me a tip to visit a local ,,buy everything - sell everything - repair anything shop''

Yesterday back in action i walked into that shop for a routine check and voila my wifes condor on a repair stand being fitted with new bars, levers... I asked the shop staff who's bike that was? they said someone brought it in that morning without a stem and with drop bars hanging on cables and asked them to put risers and new levers that he brought in with the bike. I told them the bike was mine and immediately called the police to come down and recover my bike. I have to say huge thanks to this dedicated neighborhood police officer who came in no time, seized the stolen property and officially returned it back to me.

So two bikes are still missing out of four. Specialized singlecross and giant ocr2. The officer will help putting an article in a local press with big pictures of my missing bikes as he experienced good results in this way earlier.

I now need to find a photoshop expert to change the front rim and tyre color on the specialized and tyres color on the giant. If one of you has such skill could you please come forward?

Many thanks guys and gals for all your help and moral support in this thread.

Hi Guys and Gulls,

My back garden has been attacked by most likely organized group of thieves on the night between the 26sep and 27sep between 11pm and 7am.

They broke into a neighbours garden (end terrace) jumped over into my one (next house to end terrace) and took 4 bikes all locked one to another with 1 krypto new york 18mm lock, 1 krypto new york 16mm lock and with a magnum 14mm chain to a shed.

Bikes were not at all visible from the street as the neighbours fence is around 7ft tall brick wall.

I suspect this was tipped of by someone in the neighbourhood or so. Noone heard anything including myself

4 Very nice bikes have been taken:

1) Specialized singleecross 58cm. rear wheel is a dp 18 bblack rim on ON-ONE hub while the front wheel was a white deep v type rim on quando hub with red tyre on.

2) Condor 49cm orange fixie with lime green deep profile rims on silver formulas with blue tyres. sugino chainset, selle LDY saddle, yellow tape. real eye catcher. since picctured the tyres were changed to blue ones.

3) Small 50cm gitane fixie. powder coated in pink with orange bullhorns. white deep v type wheels with red tyres

4) Giant OCR2 roady . 61cm. red tyres sora triple chainset ( new type sora), 105 9 speed cassette and mech, Tiagra STIs ultegra front mech. orange bar tape. don't have a pic of this one but the pic shown bellow is exactly the same giant as this one was exceept the orange bar tape and red tyres.

I expect some of these bike to be offered for sale in London or eventually Oxford in the next couple of weeks. Some of you may also spot them being ridden around.

If you spot them PM me please :-)

Any kind of information will be gratefully appreciated