Stolen bikes

I'm posting on behalf of a friend who had their mint green condor pista nicked last night from Kingsland road. Will pop to the market tomorrow of course but if anyone sees it please get in touch, any info that results in the safe return of the bicycle will be rewarded. I'll try to post up some more details and a pic of the bike.
Cheers

kingsland road? mint green Condor Pista? I'm sorry but I have to says that's fairly expected!

tell your friend to report it to the police as well asap.

is it stolen?

I'm off to Brick Lane in an hour. I'll keep my eyes peeled for some dodgyness and report back.

Got my Brooks b17 Narrow and silver seat post stolen just off Oxford street midday on Saturday.

Managed to find my seat post in Brick Lane today and forced the seller to give it back to me.

Unfortunately the saddle was nowhere to be seen :-(

What do you think the best way to prevent this happening, I have heard about a BB glued into bolt, how would you get that out?

Oxford Street is popular for saddle theft for some reason, Teddy got his stolen not long ago in the same street.

no one think twice about it, as for all they know, the theft look like a cyclist who removing a saddle to prevent it from getting stolen, ding, irony.

i saw a couple of people today actually being busted by policemen, which was a change.
still no sign of the GH or the unique wheels.
sigh.

i was out walking just off oxford street and saw two undercover police take out two bike theives as they were trying to flee the scene.one got taken down and arrested , the other came towards me and smacked into my knee.which brought him to a stop!
was pretty good work i thought

Glad to hear about a couple of thieves getting caught on Oxford Street. My colleague's bike was stolen last week from the corner of Oxford Street and Dean Street. They chopped through a d-lock, admittedly a cheap low-end one though. When I heard I went to check mine as it was locked up in the same place, found it still there but with a d-lock through my brake cable. Had to go and grab a spanner from Evans to remove the brakes and thus free the bike. During the time it took to remove a few bolts, another girl returned to her bike to find the same problem...

someone put a d-lock on your bike? if so, then it was targeted for theft. they figure they can force you to leave it there which gives them more opportunity.

An image of my friend's bike that was stolen this weekend (during his birthday party).
I think he's given up hope of seeing it again in an attempt to numb the pain.

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when will people actually tell us how they lock it and what lock they use?

let me have it as a Polo bike. i am better to you than Em is.. you know it!
Ha. You suck.

em, would appreciate it more.
Tru'dat. I'd have to gear it up into a collectors item though. XT thumbies all the way. Old School. Then I'd have to ride it. Alot. Especially in Yorkshire.

when will people actually tell us how they lock it and what lock they use?

+1

Hey all. My girlfriends geared bike got stolen from outside the Royal College of Art yesterday. If you see it anywhere can you let us know. She was really gutted. Pictures attached. It was locked with Kryptonite Evolution mini with crank locked within and cable running through the wheels. Cut through apparently. Annoying...

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Hey all. My girlfriends geared bike got stolen from outside the Royal College of Art yesterday. If you see it anywhere can you let us know. She was really gutted. Pictures attached. It was locked with Kryptonite Evolution mini with crank locked within and cable running through the wheels. Cut through apparently. Annoying...

Yes, crap. Did she lock it up there regularly? It's probably not very helpful to say, but nice bikes outside learning establishments are often targeted. She should obviously be free to live in the expectation to leave it there safely, and it sounds as if she'd locked it well. It's doubly upsetting to think they may have been lying in wait. A pretty distinctive bike that I will certainly notice if I see it. Let's hope it turns up!

Thanks Oliver. Security kind of look out onto the place where they lock bikes so it's a shame. Seems like an in and out job with a grinder. Took hers and another bike. Not much you can do there really but say 'it's only a bike'.

Hey all. My girlfriends geared bike got stolen from outside the Royal College of Art yesterday. If you see it anywhere can you let us know. She was really gutted. Pictures attached. It was locked with Kryptonite Evolution mini with crank locked within and cable running through the wheels. Cut through apparently. Annoying...

Oh crap - the Coppi... I can remember when you mailed me some pictures of that - I ended up searching eBay for the next six months trying to find one like it.

Good thing is that frame's firmly etched into my memory - if I spot it I'll let them know you said hi.*

*'hi' in this case involving a bit of slapping, biting and scratching...

Ha. Thanks Mooks. Very kind. It's a nice little bike...

My beloved 06 Dawes Galaxy got pinched from my garden last night. Covered up and secured through frame and wheels with an Abus chain and additional cable. Fuckers. If anyone hears tell of one of these going I'd be over the moon to get it back but not holding out much hope. British racing green, 57cm, black fizik saddle and black bar tape. Bar end shifters. Rigida nova rims on parallax hubs with 28mm brand new conti cross country tyres. Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers all. James.

I saw two toe rags trying to steal a bike outside bethnal green spa the other day, its was a brompton and locked onto a sign pole, they had an adjustable and were halfway through taking the sign off so they could lift the bike up and over the pole when a police car came barreling round the corner. I think thats a bit of a hotspot for bike thefts, as much of london is, but yeah.. eyes peeled for this kind of twos up on a moped outfit...

I was wondering do people reckon bikes nicked West make it to East London - Brick Lane etc... Or do you think they stay West side and go on Gumtree or flogged locally?

Two cheery stories (for a change) from LCC mailing lists today.

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I had a happy bike theft ending last weekend too. I was at a party in a flat on De Beauvoir estate, and had locked my bike carefully with two D-locks to a signpost in the square. I could see my bike from the balcony of the second floor flat.

After a couple of hours I heard over the din of the party someone asking if anyone had a red condor bike and I sprinted to the door to see my bike being carried in by a friend of mine, locks still intact.

He had been walking to the entrance when he saw a hooded youth running carrying a bicycle and another one running carrying a step-ladder. He thought it looked pretty suspicious and called out - 'That's not your bike -stop - police' and ran after them. They couldn't run far carrying a bike and dropped it. They had used the step ladder to remove the sign, and to lift the bike over the post. The guy and his girlfriend got a description of the youth, who were almost certainly from the estate as they were running into it, but the police were not interested.

As a bonus, the host at the party decided to carry out some emergency repairs on my bike as he noticed a lot wrong with it!

So another lesson according to my friends - never cycle when you can walk.

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i thought i'd share my happy tale...
the other day i got back to finsbury park after work to find my bicycle gone. i reported it to the police, distressed and depressed. later that evening 2 policemen knocked at my door to tell me they had caught the culprit red-handed and had my bike in the police station. they had traced me because i had had my post code etched on the bottom of the bike at Finsbury park cycles.

A few days later I went to collect the bike from Islington police station, they took me to a warehouse at the back filled with hundreds of bikes. they told me that these bikes were picked up just in the last month but they had no way of tracing the owners. they would all be sold at auction. they led me to mine. being reunited with my bike was the most wonderful feeling. i felt like i was cycling on air!

So the moral of the story is...stolen bikes don't just vanish in the ether, it might be sitting abandoned in a drafty police station warehouse, -- Get your bike postcoded-- it works!

you might have a happy ending too one day!

My beloved 06 Dawes Galaxy got pinched from my garden last night. Covered up and secured through frame and wheels with an Abus chain and additional cable. Fuckers. If anyone hears tell of one of these going I'd be over the moon to get it back but not holding out much hope. British racing green, 57cm, black fizik saddle and black bar tape. Bar end shifters. Rigida nova rims on parallax hubs with 28mm brand new conti cross country tyres. Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers all. James.

oh man! after all the searching u did for it !
sucks.

Yeah dude. Gutted. Spoke to the police - I'm keeping everything crossed and off for a snoop on Gumtree and ebay now. Then down the Lane on Sunday. Bloody London!