Stolen bikes

listen i know this seems a bit weird but i saw 3 hooligans, riding around oxford circus, one was on a geared silver dawes about say, small size... my information doesn't help much but it occurred immediately that the bike he was riding could have been stolen.

i remember the frame size wasnt the biggest one (51 or something?), but it wasnt a small/kids neither. the saddle was very high to fit my size, and by that i think it could mean that the frame was small size. do you have any idea about what time it was? did the guy look comfortably riding it? were all them riding or 'sharing'?

i suppose if they were going from piccadilly to oxford circus, they were heading north, so i reckon there are more chances that it ends up in camden or NW london more than brick lane... i'll walk around anyway.

thanks very much!!

i remember the frame size wasnt the biggest one (51 or something?), but it wasnt a small/kids neither. the saddle was very high to fit my size, and by that i think it could mean that the frame was small size. do you have any idea about what time it was? did the guy look comfortably riding it? were all them riding or 'sharing'?

i suppose if they were going from piccadilly to oxford circus, they were heading north, so i reckon there are more chances that it ends up in camden or NW london more than brick lane... i'll walk around anyway.

thanks very much!!

it was dark and i was filtering traffic so my attention wasn't all that sharp.

it was about 7.30pm and the guy riding it was riding it as if he was accustoming himself with it, if you know what i mean, weaving around not giving a fuck with his mates hollering stuff at him, pushing through pedestrian crossings with impunity.
i cannot give you any useful data so im sry about that. it may not have been yours even, but i remember it being a dawes, silver with some red/white styling, small frame, 51 or thereabouts like you say, but the seat was quite low if i remember correctly, he may have adjusted it. anyway hope you get it back, but with an off the shelf bike like that its gonna be tough. good luck.

Hi there,

Sod's fucking law, my bike was stolen this evening (or morning) and I would be ever so grateful if you could keep an eye out. There's £50 in it for anyone that recovers it, so if you see it on Brick Lane (I'll be looking this Sunday) by all means pay that for it (I'm filing with the police first thing in the morning) and I'll give you that in return. Thank you!

I rode it on the Brooks run, the last two London-Brightons, the Tweed ride, and a couple of others so should be fairly easily recognisable. It's entirely handbuilt, so is also v hard to confuse. If you could all please spend one minute familarising yourself with it, karma will love you. As will I. And my impoverished waller as best it can! x

It was stolen from a lamppost on the corner of Brewer Street and Lexington Street in Soho at approx 1:30am on Friday morning/Saturday night.

The bike was chained with a Kryptonite mini d-lock to a lampost so they must have lifted it over. How nobody can notice a couple of guys lifting a large bright red bike over a lamppost on a busy Friday night in the heart of Soho is beyond me. But that's how London goes. Fuckers.

THIS IS HOW IT LOOKS, WITH DIFFERENT WHEELS AND AN OLDER BROOKS SADDLE:

Specs as follows:

Red Ribble track frame, approx 57cm top tube c-c and 59cm seat tube c-c
The frame has several chips along the frame, has a strip of black inner tube wrapped around the front 1/3 of top tube with white insulating tape over it.
Decals are a bit scuffed, reading only "BBL" on the front of the head tube.

Forks are white Colnago straight road forks. Drilles. Decals in black and 1". Had them hand cut to take a threaded headset.

Stem is a no-name in 70cm with 40cm track drops wrapped in white grip tape. The tape on the top of the right hand drop is pulled slightly away.

The seatpost is probably from the '80s-'90s, being black from the front and back, with chrome on the cut-away on the sides. Don't remember the brand righ tnow.

Saddle is a black Swift from the Brooks run, with a single semi-circular indentation on the top of the seat.

Wheels are un-machined all-black Arayas, box-section. Front hub is a silver 32h Miche, rear is a black 32h Gran Compe. Both are hand-built by me: front is 2-cross, rear is 3-cross both with silver spokes. Sapim, if I remember rightly.

Frame is un-drllled at the rear, front fork is drilled running a black cross-top lever to a Campag Chorus caliper with black brake cabling.

Cranks are Sugino Super Mighty with the right bolt removed after I stripped the threading accidentally. Chainring is black, probably Stronglight, I'm not sure.

Pedals are MKS Sylvan track with black double Toshi straps and I believe MKS toe clips.

Obviously I'm absolutely shattered. Not to mention totally fucked without my bike. I've built that bike myself by hand. All of it. Even the wheels. So if you could please, please, please put this up then I would be so grateful.

Many many thanks,
Addie

PS. There is a £50 reward for anyone who gets my bike back. And/or some v. expensive booze I have from my last job. Please contact me on mail@addiechinn.co.uk

Thank you all!

Hi all, my bike was stolen today from Canary Wharf. It's a Lemond, silver, with white "Lemond" stickers on the frame, size 49. Will be at brick lane this sunday to see if i spot it. I'm kinda petite woman, so if anybody wants to team up, please give me a ring: 07-nine-four-two-377214

Thanks!

Hi,

I will be around Brick Lane this Sunday, so yes, I wouldn't mind helping you out. Will give you a call tomorrow.

Hi,

I will be around Brick Lane this Sunday, so yes, I wouldn't mind helping you out. Will give you a call tomorrow.

I'll be about looking for mine, so a few of us might not be such a bad idea… Drop me a text when you're on your way and I'll meet you somewhere. 07-eight-one 806-one-9-eight-four.

What time do the thieving bastards usually start turning up?

My friend Somebody told me to go as early as possible, like 8a. It'll take a few hours tho... apparently they take bikes out of a truck every few hours throughout the day. I'll be there at 8a. Will text you as soon as I get there.

How about someone steals their truck? :)

how about someone stealing the people that knowingly buying stolen bicycle?

OK sweet, a few of us sounds like a good idea. My number is:

07 950 -six-one-one 670

Wonder if the judge is a cyclist!

Cycle thief is sent to prison

*"The court heard he was stealing bikes since at least 2003 and was repeatedly arrested, resulting in conditional discharges and community orders."*

basically, the last sentence was the staw that broke the camel's back.

id appreciate it if you could keep an eye out for my bike at brick lane also, the white ribble a few pages up.
if i could go to bl i would, but needs must, i have to work.
like i said i'd really appreciate it.
my number is in the phone thread.

id appreciate it if you could keep an eye out for my bike at brick lane also, the white ribble a few pages up.
if i could go to bl i would, but needs must, i have to work.
like i said i'd really appreciate it.
my number is in the phone thread.

i might pass through tomorr so will hav a look for ya.. your avatar had me well baffled thought i had computer bug!

id appreciate it if you could keep an eye out for my bike at brick lane also, the white ribble a few pages up.
if i could go to bl i would, but needs must, i have to work.
like i said i'd really appreciate it.
my number is in the phone thread.

i will have a look around there, who knows what i might find. if i spot anything i surely will let someone know.

here's a pic of mine if anyone's seen it. http://bit.ly/15qtDH

i might pass through tomorr so will hav a look for ya.. your avatar had me well baffled thought i had computer bug!

I keep trying to shoo it off my screen. ffs.

Shit news Dylan. Hope you get it back.

just back from brick lane, didnt see a deng thing.. just the usual cheap scammers with rusty old MTBs. sorry.

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The bike was chained with a Kryptonite mini d-lock to a lampost so they must have lifted it over. How nobody can notice a couple of guys lifting a large bright red bike over a lamppost on a busy Friday night in the heart of Soho is beyond me. But that's how London goes. Fuckers.

Sorry to hear about your bike. I work in soho till 4am and some of the crazy shit i see is unbelievable, I'm not surprised in least that noone would notice someone lifting a bike over a lampost. Hope you get it back

i don't think it's about no one seeing it, i guess it's about people not reacting at all. but i don't blame them though. plus, is an average joe going to challenge some random stranger on the street just for the fun of it? i think not.

but i do like to think i would beat the shit out of the fucker who took my bike last friday.

I keep trying to shoo it off my screen. ffs.

Shit news Dylan. Hope you get it back.

thanks, i was thinking of using McVities Caramels as the reward to whoever recovers my bike, but i thought, nah, too generous. so i offered the £100 instead.

I know it's a long shot but my plug freestyler was stolen from Northampton train station at some point this weekend. Non-standard stuff: brooks saddle, oury grips, gatorskins and mks pedals/clips. Ever so sad, y'all.

I know it's a long shot but my plug freestyler was stolen from Northampton train station at some point this weekend. Non-standard stuff: brooks saddle, oury grips, gatorskins and mks pedals/clips. Ever so sad, y'all.

sry to hear about that matey, it is sad, but don't despair, you can always buy another Plug or even put your heart into building another one. it's very therapeutic.
as for recovering it, i dunno , really, plugs are everywhere now days, so i would imagine it's gonna be very tough.

although i would vouch for their efficacy, baitbikes seem to be a bit legally blurred as entrapment, no?

Entrapment is the act of a law enforcement agent inducing a person to commit an offense which would be illegal and the person would otherwise have been unlikely to commit.

i guess its alright because the person is as likely to steal a baitbike rather than any other?

is it a criminal offence to put a bait bike just to catch the thief and beat him up for good? :)

My bike was stolen on Friday. Went to the police to file a report. They told me: "oh, we tell people to go look for their bikes at the Brick Lane market". I told them: "You should go to that market and close it down, because I spent the whole Sunday looking for my bike there and it's quite clear how they trade stolen bikes".

What's wrong with the police????!!!! They know where the stolen bikes end up and they have no will to track these people down and jail them? Or even recover the solen bikes? THEY tell US to go over there to look for our bikes? In 20 minutes in Brick Lane I knew exactly who the guys involved were and how they operated... can't the police do the same????!!! Isn't that their job??? What's the game here? It's insulting. And to think we pay their salary...

Because they don't have a legs to stand, they're pretty much powerless to act because there's no way to prove that the bike the theft are selling is stolen most of the time, how can they when people rarely report their bike to the police let alone register it?

while they appear to not care about bike theft (which is true), they're also powerless sometime, they need a warrant and evidence before they act.

secondly, they do arrest bike theft, but because of the natural of their crime they're usually fined, held for a couple night and/or do community service etc. before they're release and start stealing bike, after all it is just a bike.

try not to be too daily mail.