Stolen bikes

Think I just saw a red Pearson unlocked, propped up against a tree at the junction of old street / shoreditch high street. Unless someone was just being brave!

Three bikes were taken from our back garden in Blackheath last night.. I came down this morning to find the fourth one lying on its side on the path next to where I store the bikes. It must have been moved out of the way to get at two of the others. I guess there were only three of the thieving bastards and the last one was too big.

Stolen Bikes.
A light grey Aluminium Langster, a stripped Corvino alu racer and a women's Marin Larkspur hybrid.. Pictures below.

Both the Langster and the Corvino have forum history - I got them from Jallaphanti and Eyebrows - and they were my first single speed and geared builds - again mainly from forum bits - so I am pretty pissed-off they've gone.

The Langster is 58cm, was resprayed at Armoutex, has the original carbon fork and a newer carbon seatpost than in the picture. It also currently has a silver chainring.

The Corvino had been handed on to Mrs HMS, who put on the orange tyres so it should be fairly easy to spot if someone is riding around town on it.

The Marin is as per the stock photo except it has weird-shaped cork bar grips and a steel bracket on the sloping top-tube for a child seat.

Please PM me if you spot any of them around or on eBay etc.
Thanks
Howard

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this raleigh "persuit" seems a bit dodgy right?

would totally buy it if it's legit as it's my size and my budget :-S
http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/raleigh-persuit-racing-bike/112139502

There's a massively chubby rudebwoy with big hair that i've seen riding around Tulse hill with his Fam on an single speed E14 Bike Co for the last couple of days...

He's either riding stolen goods or really really positive and ambitious about losing all the excess fat he's carrying...

I hope (but doubt) its the latter

P.s. Apologies if its you, but man, that's some proper monster-truck spare tyres you're carrying...

Another tale of bicycle crime from the hotspot which is where the Well Street meets Mare Street

• photographer walking along the road with a bicycle minus its front wheel, having parked his bicycle nearby
  
• a man is spotted (scavenger-type with baseball cap, quite short, with Asian appearance) carrying a lone quick-release bicycle wheel
  
• man challenged by the photographer
  
• scavenger-man boards the 106 bus heading north up Mare Street to make his get-away
  
• both of us caught in indecision decline to pursue
  
  

bicyclists 0 scavenger-of-stolen-bicycle-parts 1

musing: could have challenged the scavenger-man better by grabbing the wheel, making more of a public scene on the bus, and threatening a Citizen's Arrest (!!).. next time..

Evidence (as if needed) of frequent bike (or whatever parts are easiest) theft outside Shoreditch High Street station, documented by Brother Cycles:
http://blog.brothercycles.com/2012/10/bicycle-graveyard-shoreditch-high.html

My managers saw the police arrest a supposed 'serial' bike theif today after a set up around old street station

I've been wanting to take that raleigh frame, it's been there for at least 3 months!

Evidence (as if needed) of frequent bike (or whatever parts are easiest) theft outside Shoreditch High Street station, documented by Brother Cycles:
http://blog.brothercycles.com/2012/10/bicycle-graveyard-shoreditch-high.html

Haha! Well it's more of an obstruction/street litter now, surely?

^ Not encouraging you to break the lock and take it :)

The council should work with Hackney Bike Workshop, salvaging stripped bikes to enable HBW to build bikes with young offenders. Or something.

Three bikes were taken from our back garden in Blackheath last night.. I came down this morning to find the fourth one lying on its side on the path next to where I store the bikes. It must have been moved out of the way to get at two of the others. I guess there were only three of the thieving bastards and the last one was too big.

Stolen Bikes.
A light grey Aluminium Langster, a stripped Corvino alu racer and a women's Marin Larkspur hybrid.. Pictures below.

Both the Langster and the Corvino have forum history - I got them from Jallaphanti and Eyebrows - and they were my first single speed and geared builds - again mainly from forum bits - so I am pretty pissed-off they've gone.

The Langster is 58cm, was resprayed at Armoutex, has the original carbon fork and a newer carbon seatpost than in the picture. It also currently has a silver chainring.

The Corvino had been handed on to Mrs HMS, who put on the orange tyres so it should be fairly easy to spot if someone is riding around town on it.

The Marin is as per the stock photo except it has weird-shaped cork bar grips and a steel bracket on the sloping top-tube for a child seat.

Please PM me if you spot any of them around or on eBay etc.
Thanks
Howard

Really sorry to hear this Howard.

As you know, one of those frames has family history.

As a local, I will keep my eyes peeled.

The council should work with Hackney Bike Workshop, salvaging stripped bikes to enable HBW to build bikes with young offenders. Or something.

Perhaps they do already? Have you discussed this with Zebra Cyclist or the council?

My brothers black fuji feather has just been burgled from our house in Hackney N16 it was fairly new, so no customisations, there is however a scatch on the stem where the paint has been scratched off.

It is the only fuji feather i have seen around here so if you see it PLEASE d lock it for me.

this is what it looks like... http://superbbicycle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/fuji-feather-2012-black-superb-1.jpg

p.s. it was taken on friday 12 oct at roughly 3 am from our house in stoke newington

friends bike stolen outside prospect of whitby pub in Wapping last night

Kinesis Maxlight 18" frame (black)
Fox F80X Terralogic 2008 forks
XT/XTR componentry
Mavic rims

please pm if anyone sees it

Really sorry to hear this Howard.

As you know, one of those frames has family history.

As a local, I will keep my eyes peeled.

thanks man.

I know it was only a Langster but I really liked that bike. It got me back into cycling (rather than merely riding a bike)

Someone's nicked the stem and bars off a Fuji Track I had chained up in the supposedly secure bike store outside my flat on Tarling Street, E1. I was in the process of sorting it out and had taken the brakes and cranks off. Is that an invitation to others to start stripping it of parts?

Depressing.

wow. leave a note saying "FFS this bike is not abandoned, bring my parts back!"

Someone's nicked the stem and bars off a Fuji Track I had chained up in the supposedly secure bike store outside my flat on Tarling Street, E1. I was in the process of sorting it out and had taken the brakes and cranks off. Is that an invitation to others to start stripping it of parts?

Depressing.

Have any scousers moved into the area recently?

^ nope, they wouldn't have taken them till next year...

Ha!

Had a cheap carbon post and my rad snakeskin slr scoused last night in stokey.

Its a pretty rare saddle and am a bit gutted about it.

Looks like this.

https://www.lfgss.com/attachments/58264d1347358375-img_0722.jpg

Saw a blue Dolan with risers in London Fields yesterday. Rider didn't fit owner profile.

Had a cheap carbon post and my rad snakeskin slr scoused last night in stokey.

Its a pretty rare saddle and am a bit gutted about it.

Looks like this.

http:// http://static.lfgss.com/attachments/58264d1347358375-img_0722.jpg

Nooooooooooooo.

I'll keep my eyes peeled...

Don't worry, already on the hunt for something equally tasteful.