Stolen bikes

Anyone lost a Condor? Saw this on ebay, seller has sold other random bikes with bad descriptions. Reads like the classic thief listing...

That's awful, cernan, good luck with finding them!

I hope Leeds Police have heard of the methods used by the Cycle Task Force and that they will use them.

Hi, my and my husband's bikes were stolen from our back yard on saturday night, I have reported it to the police and they said to check on Ebay to see if they turned up. I wondered if anybody had any advice where else to look?

We live in south acton (west london) and it is the second time it has happened :(

The first time they left my cheap bike behind so we are guessing they have taken them on their re-sale value.

The bikes are:

Ladies White Specialized Vita Sport, with pannier rack and frayed rubber handel bars (due to an accident a few moths ago)

Men's Felt QX75 matt grey.

Any advice appreciated!

posting photos helps

Post them into the stolen bikes thread here;

http://www.lfgss.com/thread123-114.html

Hope you get them back...

Thanks

also check bikeshd

Thanks, I keep trying the bikeshd link but it doesn't seem to be working today, so I am trawling through ebay and gumtree!

Thanks Oliver,
fingers crossed but nothing yet.
leeds police were interested at first but my details seem to have been passed onto a PC who keeps getting in touch telling me to look at ebay and gumtree. Blinding insight, but at least he's staying in touch.

Just had my bike stolen. EALING (west london) next the tvu university.
Its a White (no name or logo) black drop bars , black seat, black deep v rim (rear) white chain. Front dirt harry brake with red cable.
plz look out for it around west london or on ebay/gumtree.
Thanks.
(sooo pissed off)

@Ed more out of curiosity than anything how did they get it? what was it locked up with?

hope you get it back.

I'll keep an eye out Ed, I live out that way.

i had a kryptonite lock and chain and lock. But i think they had lifted the whole thing over the top of the pole at the sign at the top of it was laying ontop of the building.
And had just got it resprayed and stuff.spent alot of time on that bike :(
thanks.

sorry to hear that Ed, i am just down the rd from there and go up and down it daily, so will keep an eye out

bastards. fingers crossed it finds it's way back to you dude.

Hi all,

it's a beautiful day outside and I just managed to get a prototype bike I m working on stolen from my shop! Yes, I feel a proper idiot at the moment but you have no idea how fast those kids were running!

Here is a pic of it (with the only difference of a black very worn out Brooks B17 instead of the saddle in the pic) and if anyone finds it I ll be more than happy to give a £100 voucher reward.

FUCK! will deffo keep an eye out - at least there are no others out there so should be quite easy to trace

@Danifoffa

That's grim news. I roll past your place daily, I'll keep my eyes peeled.
As Clara says, going to be easy to spot this one.

I'm having an idea - what if everyone that posts a stolen advert sticks to a standard 'stolen bike' template. I'm not having some weird sense of humour, simply that not everyone knows what every different brand/model looks like. E.g.

Stolen.
Date & Place.
Bike model & spec
Photo of actual bike or decent stock photo of approx, with details written on the photo (MS paint style of 'I have white wheels instead of black, 'purple oury grips' etc).

I think it would just help out those keeping an eye out as well as possibly increasing the chances of sightings/ return to the rightful owner, rather than each of us having to familiriase ourselves with what exactly we're looking out for, also, not sure about anyone else but I'm a very visual person, I remember almost photographically what I have seen, I see something once, I rarely forget it or can recall 90%. But if its a list of 'this frame, this colour, this spec, this order, this place' I wouldn't remember even until tomorrow if I'm honest.

Sound like a good idea?

Where that's stolen Pomp?
Don't suppose it's this?

http://www.gumtree.com/london/63/76341663.html

Looks like it. I thought he got it back though. There was a thread, but it was removed.

Where that's stolen Pomp?
Don't suppose it's this?

http://www.gumtree.com/london/63/76341663.html

I believe that is ChrisMGS's bike. It has since been recovered :)

Is it time to start uploading iamges of frame numbers to our personal profiles??

I believe that is ChrisMGS's bike. It has since been recovered :)

Got it back today, but the thieves switched the wheels. Will try to get them back too, but overall a great result. Really appreciate the help from other forum members.

Is it time to start uploading iamges of frame numbers to our personal profiles??

http://www.immobilise.com/

This is the best place for that. I PoPo once told me that there are so many unregistered bikes recovered, there is no other way of finding the owner.
Also when they stop someone suspicious on a bike, they always check here as well.
It's free and totally worth it.