Mongoose

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• Wanted: Box for a wheelset for shipping abroad

  in Wanted Adverts • 11 years, 2 months

  

  I have a box I received a wheel rim in from Planet X. Size is 33"x26"x7". Would fit two wheels. In SE London.

• Stolen bikes

  in General • 15 years, 5 months

  

  Could be done automatically with applescript. Obviously you'd need to be running a mac though.

  I think I've found a solution by creating a Twibe - twib.es/GW8 . Followers of the Twibe (hate these nerdy names) can post directly through the Twibe homepage and alerts are sent to all followers of the Twibe immediately.

  The Twibe group page will also, after a period of time, pick up all Twitter posts with the tags #stolenbike and/or #stolenbikeuk.

  So if I've got this right, the job is done. Use the Twibe page to post alerts that will be picked up immediately. @stolenbike with the relevant #tags for a less immediate response. Or, if you don't want to follow either but still want to post an alert to the stolenbikeuk twibe page just use the #tags.

  Obviously for any of this to stand a chance of being of any use it requires people interested enough to follow either the Twibe or Twitter feed for stolenbikeuk. At the moment you've got me and three others ...

• Stolen bikes

  in General • 15 years, 5 months

  

  I'm trying to set up a twitter account to Tweet alerts for stolen bikes. The theory being that people who follow http://twitter.com/stolenbikeuk can receive alerts about stolen bikes and perhaps be on the look out for them.

  There is a similar project which has just been set up in the US in Boston (http://www.stolenbikesboston.com/index.html) however this relies on a separate web page for aggregating information. Whilst I think this is a great idea and would be achievable with the right kind of backing, I wanted to try and get something going right away.

  The best idea I have come up with so far is for people to Tweet their loss to @stolenbikeuk with the tags #stolenbike and #makeandmodelofbike * and then to add any further info or links to where further info can be found. It would then be up to me to copy and paste the info and re-post it on http://twitter.com/stolenbikeuk which would then send out the alert to people following @stolenbikeuk.

  The drawback to this is that it relies on me being at my computer all day or having a handheld device to repost the tweet - neither of which is the case at the moment.

  Useful idea? Crap idea?

  If it doesn't seem like a bad idea does anyone have input to make improvements?

  • I added the #stolenbike #makeandmodelofbike to allow easy searching for suspect bikes.
    
• Stolen bikes

  in General • 15 years, 5 months

  

  Jesus! £150! I'll go find it! What colour and where's a good place to start?!

  Brushed titanium finish. Mud carbon fork. Yellow Litespeed decals. Shimano 105 triple. Very unique bike unlikely to be one other like it in London.

  Good place to look between Baker Street to the West, Tottenham Court Road to the East, Marylebone Road to the North and Oxford Street to the South.

• Stolen bikes

  in General • 15 years, 5 months

  

  Perhaps not stolen but misplaced!

  I won't go into details but I left my bike somewhere in the West End on Monday night but can't remember where. It is a Litespeed Appalchian 49cm frame size. Very unusual and distinctive bike fitted with son hub front wheel, FSA carbon seat post, rear pannier rack. Old style yellow Litespeed decals.

  Have you seen it? Do you know where it is?

  £150 reward for the person who locates it.

  Thanks for any help you are able to provide.