Stolen Bikes - Broadway market

yesteday i witnessed how they steal bike in Broadway market. i was eating some chips next to my "office" and a shifty guy about 6ft well built with his hood up walked up to 2 bikes he started messing around with the locks, then i see the d lock fall to the floor and the cable lock cut in half. he wasn't very sly about it at all, i saw him then proceed to put his pocket sized bolties back in his pocket along with a broken lock and ride into the estate across the street. i shouted "oi" but he was long gone, and i know better than to chase someone into any of the surrounding estates on broadway market.

the bike i witnessed being stolen was a specialized, and he left the other bike there unlocked. when i saw the people return to the bikes i told them what happened and told them where they should ask for CCTV footage.

if you dont want your bike stolen from Broadway market dont use a wirelock and dont lock it on a back street only on the actual market (if you can find a spot)

What sort of D lock was this, and how long did the whole thing take?

about 45 seconds the D lock was combined with a wirelock which was the one which was cut, and the d lock was carried off intact and still locked. so the victim kind of failed also

Im pretty sure bikes get stolen from broadway market almost every saturday. A lot of the bikes that are locked up along the park fence, can get cut from the other side pretty easily - as the bushes obscure the thieves.

fucking dick head police need to patrol that shit

fucking dick head police need to patrol that shit

1+ from the description of the theft being very calm as if nothing will happen to him, it's simply the lack of police patrolling the area that allowed him to nick the bike without shitting the brick.

1+ from the description of the theft being very calm as if nothing will happen to him, it's simply the lack of police patrolling the area that allowed him to nick the bike without shitting the brick.

Or, the hipsters who frequent the area are too fucking soft to do anything when they see someone steal a bike.

This is Britain mate, if we see something illegal, we write to a newspaper about it.

Or, the hipsters who frequent the area are too fucking soft to do anything when they see someone steal a bike.

dude, unfair. he weighed up pros and cons and made the call to value his safety over some random's specialized.

2 d locks and you'll be safe. cable locks are well shit.

Or, the hipsters who frequent the area are too fucking soft to do anything when they see someone steal a bike.

Pointless comment... What difference does it make if they are a so called "hipsters"??? .... plus people's dress sense does not make them soft or hard...

Utterly disappointed that any one can watch some one steal a bike, weigh up their own safety and not even have it cross their mind that they can JUST CALL THE POLICE.

It doesn't matter what the bike was, to that person it very well may be their own mode of transport and at the end of the day to absolve your conscience like that is absurd. I've spent the whole Sunday staring in the face of people who are obviously hawking stolen bikes. Even if they had been stood there holding my own bike, a bike that needless to say holds sentimental value, I would know better than to even approach these people. But one phone call to the police, what does that cost you? A bit of money, a bit of your time and a piece of knowledge that one day if this unfortunate set of circumstances were to occur to you that perhaps a fellow cyclist might also try and prevent this and not just enjoy the voyeurism, warm and fuzzy in the knowledge that they could then go home and post it on a thread about people having their bikes nicked and become some kind of self appointed expert in crime.

This has been completly devastating and I hope by people being more pro-active in future the thieves that operate in this area will no longer contiune.

i don't think that the police are too bothered either to TBH. I complained to a policeman once about the bike and parts theft in hackney and they said why didn't I buy a cheaper bike :(

Unless you can see your bike the whole time... Don't wanna sound unsympathetic but we've been through this so many times... Sorry about your bikes, sucks really bad...

Thanks for the moral support people, hindsight's a bitch. . it's not about the locks, if people want some thing and they're too damn lazy to work for it they'll find a way...

Death to all bike thieves!

kill them all! hell yeah!

Thanks for the moral support people, hindsight's a bitch. . it's not about the locks, if people want some thing and they're too damn lazy to work for it they'll find a way...

Death to all bike thieves!

You're wrong, it is about locks. Very few thieves go around with angle-grinders. You need to use decent d-locks.

my point is not really to do with locks, I just think that people need to really consider what their position would be if they saw a bike thief in action. Even if you feel apathetic towards calling the police doing this it's more proactive than waiting to report it to the victims....

yo. seriously, lets get the slatanic wehrmacht together now...JOIN

Ha - Good luck with that Slaytanic!

I was talking with friends today and I'm more in favour for providing safe, affordable bike parking for cyclists in popular, but crime-ridden areas of London.

Laura from the Bicycle Film Festival reckoned on doing a scheme similar to that during the BFF, where cyclists turn up to an event (or say Broadway Market on a Saturday.) , pay a quid or whatever and lock their bike up in a special area that could be patrolled by a couple of volunteers, feeling safe that some prick won't come along and hack their pride and joy off a fence in broad daylight in a busy area...

In fact - I'm going to go one step further and both of us are looking now into setting up said scheme with Hackney Council, perhaps some of you guys would be interested in participating further?

I'm in 100%, let's crack on - less talkin, more porkin FFS. I suggest a Friday night on Broadway Mrkt, Columbia Rd, Bethnal Grn Rd etc....

Sounds really good, but isn't the problem that stolen bikes are getting sold at markets rather than being stolen from markets?
Maybe I'm wrong... How many people here have had their bikes stolen from Broadway Mrkt on a Saturday, or Brick Lane on a Sunday?

Sounds really good, but isn't the problem that stolen bikes are getting sold at markets rather than being stolen from markets?
Maybe I'm wrong... How many people here have had their bikes stolen from Broadway Mrkt on a Saturday, or Brick Lane on a Sunday?

The markets aren't 24hrs though silly, once they go at about 4pm the place(s) are heaving with trendys frequenting the bars and pubs - many turning up on stealable bikes - honeypots, both of them
The other factor is that they're both surrounded by moody estates where all the thievs and smack'eads live

I think I am going to build a "saddle spike".
A device that you can set when you leave your bike.
It will be a 20cm surgical steel spike on a strong spring mounted inside the seatpost.
Unless disarmed the device will operate upon body weight being applied to the saddle.
The spike will be propelled op the seatpost and will exit via a prealigned hole in the saddle.
So when a scumbag nicks your steed he gets a nasty, and very painful, suprise.

Of course you will have to remember to disarm it before you try and ride your steed.

toodle pip

How many people here have had their bikes stolen from Broadway Mrkt on a Saturday?

....anyway, you not read the OP then? There's 2 for a kick off