What to do if your bike is stolen

Gosh, that's lucky. My bike was written off in an accident a couple of weeks ago, this was my process. You shouldn't need a receipt; take it to a reputable lbs and they'll do a road traffic incident inspection and give you a replacement quote, either parts cost+labour or equivalent OTP. Then you give that to the insurance company or their claims handler and they should send you a cheque. If the driver has reported the incident and admitted liability, it shouldn't be much trouble.

Thanks Tomvan! Appreciate it! I'll try doing that and hopefully it will be a favourable result, will post the outcome.

My condor potenza was stolen in chalk farm and disappeared off the face of the planet. Where do these bikes go?

I actually saw this happen in central london a few months back. A lorry ran over a bike chained to a bike stand and kept driving. I took the number plate and left a message for the bike owner to call me. But they never did. At least I tried...

Is there anything on here for posting stolen bike deets, pics ect? Had someone come into my work building bold as brass and steal my cherished bike from under our noses! so bold!

Noticed a suspicious looking chap fiddling with tasty looking Spesh just outside Earl's Court st.
On my question "da faq is his business here?" was told that he "was just looking for a tag where the thing was made". Very quickly all this escalated into gestures and fingers. I went to look around for some MP but non was found even at the tiny police station in Kenway rd. Probably too busy protecting peace and order around Chelski stadium. Anyways when I was back in two minutes dude was gone, Spesh was intact, I went home. Will give some pictures to MPs tomorrow morning.
End of story (hopefully)
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Is there anything on here for posting stolen bike deets, pics ect? Had someone come into my work building bold as brass and steal my cherished bike from under our noses! so bold!

Sorry to hear that. You can post info in the 'Stolen Bikes' thread:

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

this is great, thanks.

https://bikeindex.org/blogs/providing-the-largest-and-most-effective-bicycle-registry---ever

https://bikeindex.org/blogs/providing-the-largest-and-most-effective-bicycle-registry---ever

interesting link, hippy.

What to do when your bike is stolen:

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What to do when your bike is stolen:

ah, sweet

Any recommendations in terms of bike insurance? Is it worth the paper it's written on?

What to do when your bike is stolen:
Hahaha~

If my bike was stolen I dunno what I'd do. Probably just a lot of crying.

That's exactly what my missus did last week - condor bike well locked they just took her bars, stem, ergo's and chorus brakes, record carbon stem and spech romin saddle - she was pretty angry - her pride and joy of twenty years

Great advice, ta.

Good people should club together and put money in a 'honey trap bikes' account; we together then buy a bike a week, lock it up somewhere, and every donor gets an email re. where and when etc.

Then we cull whoever shows up to take it.

This could be big.

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"Then we cull whoever shows up to take it."

I wouldn't dare to tackle the thief, who knows may he has a knife.

I just wish police provided this for free:

https://www.bikeregister.com/shop/bikeregister/permanent-marking

and made more effort in getting people's stolen bikes back.

Find stolen bike is Pretty hard.
Even though we know any information about our bike.
I reckon we should build pub bike to prevent from robbery

Which company?

Which company?

which company?

We were burgled last Thursday. Bastards took 3 Macs, camera, expensive watch, tablet and mobile and rode off on my road bike.

So now Digs and I are in the process of taking photos of us with our bikes and the bikes alone, writing all the details about the frame, components, serial number, special details, etc. in an email and attaching the photos, then sending to ourselves with bike model as subject for easy searching later. Should the worst happen again we can just forward all the info on. Also registering the serial numbers online, keeping all bikes locked even when in the flat and putting voodoo curses that involve painful shriveling and loss of balls and hideous puss-filled sores all over body before long, slow painful death to all bike thieves. Die, shithead scum, die! At least I'm not angry anymore...

Also looking into contents insurance. Seems like Hiscox is the current favorite, but M&S, ETA, LV and Cycleguard have also been mentioned. Lots of calls to insurance companies in the next week, but hopefully we will be in a better position after all this.

Also sending estimate of replacement value in the email for coppers and insurance.