Stolen bikes

my best guess is that they removed the sign (there were two brackets on the pavement) and lifted the bike clear over the top of the post.
Sorry, guess I missed this point. Cable locks still suck though.

Sorry, guess I missed this point. Cable locks still suck though.

Maybe you didn't miss the point,

Maybe to save them selves the hassle ...they brought some 4ft bolt croppers and a van, snipped it and thrown it in the back....or...
Please peeps, don't be so so naive? this is a serious business? they approach this with the utmost cunning and bloody mindedness. In bethnal green (wadeson street) my friend had the bike I lent him stolen, they took the whole set of 'keylock' railings and the 6 bikes locked to them, a threw the whole lot into a long wheelbase transit and away.
If they really want to nick it...why worry about the frame? you can cut through a steal frame with a hacksaw in under 2 minutes? you have then a whole bikes worth of spares?

Whatever would make you think they approached this with anything less than total diligence? they are after all 'professional' bike thieves.?

Ahh...so you are saying all locks are rubbish. Fair enough

I don't like being mean to strangers on the internet, so i will put this - you clearly didn't read anything we wrote for you

anyway, ffs, this made me forget why i was on this thread

this leader has popped up again, if its the bike i remember reading about the other day, rpetty sure it is

http://www.gumtree.com/london/05/64408605.html

Any ideas? Just don't know what to charge him. I was thinking his first born son.

This is one of the most lovely bikes I've set eyes on, and I'm sure everyone on here understands why you're so gutted.... as I suspect your mate also is.

The real problem is that for all the sentimental reason, as well as the practical.... it's priceless.

You might, IMHO, be better of agreeing a value with your mate, based on replacement value of a bike you'd like to ride the way you road this one. Rather than trying to price the memories and the unrepeatable.

Just a thought......

I think that is a great point. Thanks for the advice.

Pound of flesh/ testicle.........

I feel for you fella, people have asked to borrow my bikes before and the answer has always been no, unless they are actually coming somewhere with me. I don't leave my Hetchins anywhere, it's been into restaurants & hotels with me and everything. it's the fact that old bikes are irreplaceable which makes it so difficult. Hope you manage to sort something out for a replacement,or that the skuzz that stole it see your ad and come forward for the reward. At least then you'd have the bike back huh. Good luck!

Would appreciate some quick advice here. I recently won an ebay auction for a silver ridgeback genesis day 05 and have some suspicions that the bike might have been stolen at some point.

The bike itself has a broken gear cable and front and back tyres are different colours.

The seller has about 50 ratings and his history shows he has sold a number of bikes in the past year. This by itself doesn't indicate much, but I recently found a recently cached google page of a gumtree ad listed for the same model of bike. This advertisement doesn't give many clues that it is the bike I have bought, but looks like it could have been written by some illiterate crackhead. So I am thinking this ebay sellar might have recently bought a stolen bike, and has now sold it on to me.

Does this look like something I should try to get out of asap? Or should I be asking the ebay seller some very specific questions? (I am due to pick up the bike at his house tomorrow). Thanks

well burd, nice of you to think this way...
a) will it help get the bike back to it's owner if it is nicked..? hmmn
b) would said toe-rag/wanker who is selling nicked bike, sell it to someone else.. (probably)

Keep a copy of the e-bay listing. So you can prove you bought it in good faith.

Probably a bit late now to worry about it... enjoy your new bike.

is it him?

http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=zulgaipopal&&sspagename=VIP:feedback&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller

if so, that's a lot of folding bikes he's sold and thieves love folders as they fetch good dollah.

Edit

count the fucking Bromptons.

Get the seller to give you the frame number, call up the police and find out if it's ever been registered.

Considering that's the only way they can return a recovered stolen bike to its rightful owner, if the coppers have no record of the serial number, then there's no way to know it's been stolen.

@Camden stranger - vep that is him. So you think this guy might be involved in some racket?

@ Col, I realise if the bike is stolen the owner is pretty unlikely to get it back, but I would prefer not to become part of any shitty activity.

Will try and get the frame number at anyrate.

At best he is a dealer in which case he should register with ebay as business seller and show address in his advert.

The bike you won is top of the range, equivalent model is Flight 05 cost £1,200. Why he sell that bike for £130?
http://www.cyclesurgery.com/pws/UniqueProductKey.ice?ProductID=CRBK0071SS

From the limited information I have been able to find on the bike it retailed for £550 in 2006. Where did you read it was equivalent to the flight? I won it via auction with six other bidders. Cheers

From the limited information I have been able to find on the bike it retailed for £550 in 2006. Where did you read it was equivalent to the flight? I won it via auction with six other bidders. Cheers

http://road.cc/content/news/590-genesis-day-becomes-ridgeback-flight-09

I have a day 02

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Thanks for the info. Perhaps I am wrong, but there might be a sizeable difference between the flight 05 and the day 05. My understanding was that the 05 was a black sheep of sorts with drop handlebars in a hybrid family. The £550 figure came from a forum post which referred to a cycling weekly review of the bike and another post which put it at 700 euro.

"ridgeback genesis day 05" - Google Search

I only ever saw a flat bar version with cf forks, but you may be right.

Anyone lost whatever this pillock is trying to fence ?
http://www.gumtree.com/london/41/64877141.html

Wow. So I had my first trip to Sclater Street on Sunday. What a dark and depressing place. No luck finding my bike. I'd gone down there full of bravado armed with a camcorder in case I saw anything dodgy but I lost my nerve straight away :-| it's like a butcher's shop. All those poor bikes that didn't expect to end up there. I'm not sure if it was for sale but there was even one of the Barclays bikes in the 'line up'. I can't believe the swarms of people all eager to snap them up either though. Some small satisfaction from seeing one of the guys selling them out the back of a luton van look like he was getting busted by the police.

the scoundrel on the infamous orange klein, today heading south on kingsland road, 11:10

Bought this blue Bottecchia on the forum last week, collected over the weekend, left it locked up outside on Monday night. Gone. Very annoying.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread47328.html

Will get up to Brick Lane this Sunday, but if anyone sees it in the mean time, let me know.

ah, that's no fun...

which locks, dumps?