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2nd time you were lucky too!

Amazing. Nice one.

Enjoy the sun and cava.

yeah I is well happy today - definitely gonna get it insured now anyone got theirs insured with LCC partners?

absolutely brilliant!, another classic london's famous brick lane story. + 1 for cava but forget the build, you should head down to HH and enjoy the sunshine.

Great news man....somebody up there likes you....twice stolen twice recovered.
Now go get a good lock and carry it everywhere your bike goes!

and wot Scott said

I think we should bring back the stock for these scumbags, why waste rotten fruit and veg, I'm going to petition for a maypole in london fields, where they would be tied up with cable locks and a sign around their necks 'I'm a bike thief', that would deter them a little.

Well done man!!!

Peace

mobidog, the start of this thread filled me with the rage, that's a lot of well loved bike to loose and on such a lovely weekend ...v happy to read of it's (relatively) painless recovery in one piece and good nick. I'm guessing you reported it to the police, but it still would be worth contacting Roxy's guy's if not done already, so they can build up a picture of areas these guys work in.

I raise my cap in whichever direction Scott is standing vigil over our beloved city, good work mate.

good work!

I'm not from London but it's extremely confusing that these thick cunts keep going to Brick Lane to sell stolen bikes when everyone knows about it... Do they just not get it?

you lucky bastard ! :D oh nice one, it's all gravy now innit

Nice work.

If the 'Grey Tracksuits' realise they are gonna get a beating they might think twice.

good stuff

amazing.

especially since

It's been nicked before, and I got it back off gumtree

lucky (or unlucky?) man!

the bad part of me wishes you'd beat them all to a pulp..

cos If I had a hammer...

I'd bang it in the morning..

I love a happy ending. Glad you've got your beloved back mobidog. Please buy a decent lock.

That's not luck, luck is when you're travelling to Paris from Glasgow and spotted your beloved bike that got stolen a couple days ago outside the hotel not locked up, luck would be spotting the theft riding your bike outside your house hours after it got stolen and managed to get it back by sneering at him.

No, he simply use his brain instead, and got his bike back, I mean, he found his stolen bike via gumtree and got it back, simply by learning that gumtree is the first place you should look if your bike got stolen.

the 2nd time around, he simply not only having learnt the gumtree method but also the location of where the bicycle tend to end up - the east end especially Brick Lanes, and what do you know - he got his bike back.

Nothing to do with luck, more to do with actually using your brain, saying that it's luck is an insult which would assumed he didn't do much to get it back.

Well it's been a good morning so far - got up early (for a sunday) and got myself down brick lane tooled up with a claw hammer and a bike tool which, when semi folded fits quite nicely in my fist. Halfway down cheshire st, down the alleyway, I spot 3 skinny runts wearing grey pyjamas riding bikes, one of which is unmistakeably my beloved blue Cannondale. Dear reader, I saw crimson, scarlet, magenta, and several other shades of red, and ran straight at him shouting get off my bike you cunt, or words to that effect.
Seeing the fury in my eyes, (and possibly the hammer in my hand), he shat his pants, jumped off and ran up the road with his equally intelligent looking bretheren.
He turned back when about 30 yards away and shouted 'Oi, what if I paid for it?' - I just retorted, 'don't care -it's my fucking bike'
Beautiful weather, gonna build a back wheel for my Dave Russell track bike now after a nice bottle of cava! (is it too early?)
Brussels trip is back on next weekend as well - YAY!

hero of the day

That's not luck, luck is when you're travelling to Paris from Glasgow and spotted your beloved bike that got stolen a couple days ago outside the hotel not locked up, luck would be spotting the theft riding your bike outside your house hours after it got stolen and managed to get it back by sneering at him.

No, he simply use his brain instead, and got his bike back, I mean, he found his stolen bike via gumtree and got it back, simply by learning that gumtree is the first place you should look if your bike got stolen.

the 2nd time around, he simply not only having learnt the gumtree method but also the location of where the bicycle tend to end up - the east end especially Brick Lanes, and what do you know - he got his bike back.

Nothing to do with luck, more to do with actually using your brain, saying that it's luck is an insult which would assumed he didn't do much to get it back.

What a load of bullshit.

That still requires a fair chunk of luck to find the bike. There are loads of threads on here where people have had bikes stole and they've tried these obviouse methods and failed. The dice had to role his way both times. He could have walked by 10 min earlier / later and kids may have moved on for example.

got myself down brick lane tooled up with a claw hammer and a bike tool which, when semi folded fits quite nicely in my fist.

Now that's how you recover a bike! Well done.
Cave any skulls anyway - just for fun like?
Next time, don't lose the fucking thing though! :P

Agree to a certain extent with both sides on the luck question - was I unlucky to have had the bike stolen in the first place or stupid for locking it up with a crappy cable in an area notorious for thieving scum? While I was lucky enough to be walking down the street at exactly the right time and place as the thieves, I hardly slept the previous night going over all possible recovery scenarios and tactics. Probability working as it does, you could say I made my own luck by intending to be in the correct vicinity, hammer in hand - Gumtree would have been my second port of call, and I'd like to think I would have got it back from there or spotted someone riding it soon, and got it back any way.

My luck would almost certainly have run out had they broken it down into parts, or other methods of disposal which I shall not mention here in case the idiots are reading this forum, which I'm sure some of them do.

Imagine the the of his balls!

or stupid for locking it up with a crappy cable in an area notorious for thieving scum?
unfortunately i think was the case

hey everyone just had my 48cm Gold Dave Russell track bike stolen from outside the Royal exchange in the city specs to follow, its gold with a gold front wheel, campagnolo pista cranks, and so much unique, and irreplaceable stuff on it Im absolutely gutted. Tange levin NJS headset, Campy pista BB, Brooks B17 Copper saddle, Mavic CXP 30 silver laced Crows foot to Brampton hub with 18t frewheel, Conti gatorskin tyres, Malliard front hub both 36H, Im fucking so angry as it was a labour of love to put together, and if I ever see anyone riding a gold bike I will hammer them and ask questions afterwards.

How was it locked up?? There seem to be so many bikes getting nicked at the moment.