Stolen bikes

Hi guys and gals,

No idea where to post this, but thought it would be worth a (very long) shot on here. Built a bike up for my brother and less than a month letter some little crap has nicked it. its pretty distinctive I guess, nothing too special but be hard to miss it, so if anyone sees it around or anything similar then please give us a bell on here. I'm in leeds but the bike/brother are somewhere in london. Cheers in advance for any help..tim

(just a quick description, falcon 531 frame, around 60cm, 5 speed, high flanged hubs, chopped bull horn bars now with brown tape, charge seat, bright red ha)

Think that this was at the bottom of leytonstone road top of hackney.

pale blue , fuji feather spotted in south east london. anyones?

spotted something mad suspect last night...

riding back from peckham pulse, coming up on rye lane, and i see a very shady looking dude (not to stereotype, but pretty thug) riding a yellow bianchi (looked a bit like a d2?) with a white aerospoke front, and what looked like a white velocity on the rear.

sound familiar to anyone on here? that guy DID NOT look like he owned those wheels in the slightest...

Saw this bike an hour ago on Rye Lane being pushed past the HSBC by a young light skinned black guy about 5ft 8in, average build, with a very short full beard (think heavy stubble), big silver chain, light grey sweats top and bottom, white trainers.

It’s not as difficult as you might think. My local shops allow me to wheel in my bike, even though the signs on the door supposedly forbid it. Worth pushing your luck sometimes – I just started taking them in without asking and received no objection, so now it’s accepted. Obviously won’t work everywhere though.

I was barred from local Tesco.

I was barred from my local Ann Summers.

I was barred from local Tesco.

Was that for wheeling your bike in or masturbating by the cheese counter?

(that's what did it for me and Tesco)

Just in case it pops up here, a teal green racer. Can't identify the make:

http://www.gumtree.com/london/68/74116068.html

I was barred from my local Ann Summers.

That has nothing to do with the bike, it was was that you went in to the changing cubicles had a dump and then shouted where was the toilet paper.

Saw a bike last night on my street (Nr Vikki Park E9) being handled by a couple of local toe rags and a bloke i'd never seen before.
White track frame, bullhorns, brakeless with Look clipless pedals. The bloke I'd never seen before was just hopping on it to ride off down the street to show it to a potential buyer. Whilst he was gone one of the little shits offered it to me for £80.
Bet it was the same little cunts that nicked mine.
Anyway if anyone has lost one matching this description let me know and i'll talk to the aforementioned turds tonight.

i snapped this earlier today. the junction of bellenden road and consort road.

sorry if i missed something.

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Saw this bike an hour ago on Rye Lane being pushed past the HSBC by a young light skinned black guy about 5ft 8in, average build, with a very short full beard (think heavy stubble), big silver chain, light grey sweats top and bottom, white trainers.

that is exactly the guy, and exactly where I last saw him... shady right?
cmon - that's not that guys bike. it's gotta be someone's on here.
SPEAK UP

i snapped this earlier today. the junction of bellenden road and consort road.

sorry if i missed something.

I rode past this guy/bike earlier today he was heading towards Bethnal Green on Cambridge Heath road I went past him at cambrige heath station at 11am

How do you know it isn't his bike?

I hadn't read the rest of the details before I posted, when I saw him he had a lock attached to the frame, I was just saying I'd seen him because I thought it had been suggested it was definitely stolen but from reading the other posts it's not the case.

Yeah, sorry my post wasn't really directed at you, more so to the people above. If they know it's stolen, it hasn't been made clear here I don't think.

just had my bike stolen
black IRO with mavic rims, sugino cranks stolen in west london picture up later
had to walk home afterward 6 miles back to camberwell.
when i get home

^Faaaaarrrrrrk!

shit news josh!!!!

is it still the same as it was in the for sale thread? i can link a pic if you needs?

and where in west were you??

i snapped this earlier today. the junction of bellenden road and consort road.

sorry if i missed something.

Bingo! Same guy same bike.

i snapped this earlier today. the junction of bellenden road and consort road.

sorry if i missed something.

i've seen him riding down kingsland a few times, quite a while ago too

that is exactly the guy, and exactly where I last saw him... shady right?
cmon - that's not that guys bike. it's gotta be someone's on here.
SPEAK UP

To be honest I don't know. It could be legit or it could be dodge. The thing is it's a very distinctive bike and you would have thought that the owner would know about LFGSS if they were even remotely on the scene. So if it was stolen we should have heard? And equally if it wasn't stolen we'd get the irate owner on here saying 'chill the fuck out' and probably branding us all racists.

This next bit is going to sound really dumb, but I looked him in the eyes as I walked past him and he didn't look like a thief. But then what the hell does a thief look like?

It's a tough one to call.

Officers return 12 stolen bikes to their owners and gather valuable intelligence on bike thieves.

Operation Helium was a joint operation between the MPS Safer Transport Command (STC) funded by TfL, Tower Hamlets local police and Tower Hamlets Market Services, and was set up to tackle cycle theft and the sale of stolen bikes in Brick Lane Market. It began in late September 2010, and involved officers conducting intelligence-lead patrols after Brick Lane was identified as a hotspot for cycle-related offences.

Londoners have said that fear of theft can stop them from cycling all together. As part of the Mayor's Cycling Revolution, which is taking place across the capital, the Mayor and TfL have worked closely with the police to drive down theft and make cycling safer and more secure. The Mayor also launched the MPS Cycle Task Force in June this year with 30 officers who specialise in cycle-related crime.

Every Sunday for the past four months officers gathered intelligence on suspected cycle theft-related cases, conducted high-visibility patrols and advised cyclists on issues such as security, safety and how to protectively mark their bikes.
Officers returned 12 bikes to their owners as they had been reported stolen to the police, with a total of 12 arrests made as a direct result of the operation. The Cycle Task Force worked with officers from the Whitechapel Town Centre team, who have also been working with Tower Hamlets Market Inspectors to tackle illegal street trading.
The Cycle Task Force officers were supported by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets CCTV Control Centre throughout the operation that enabled them to track suspects through the busy market area and lead officers to any suspected thefts of cycles.
During one of the Sunday operations, officers arrested 41-year -old Leroy Spencer, who stole the wheels from a bike parked and locked to a rack on Bethnal Green Road. The owner returned to the bike to find them missing and approached officers, who were patrolling in Sclater Street as part of Operation Helium. Details of the incident were circulated via the police radio and an officer who was working in the Tower Hamlets CCTV Control Centre spotted Spencer holding bicycle wheels in Brick Lane market. Officers located Spencer and the victim’s wheels nearby and arrested him. He appeared at court charged with theft and was jailed for two weeks after pleading guilty.
Since its launch in June this year, the MPS Cycle Task Force has already cycle security marked over 10,000 bikes and made over 100 arrests.

good work mister plod, lets hope they keep it up and doesn't get filed under 'successful PR exercise for the Mayor's Cycling Revolution' (pukes on cock). predictable CPS fail tho. two fucking weeks?

/cheers tibs. where'd you get this info?

Good news, hope they keep going.
Thanks Shinigami.

Internal news bulletin at my work.