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I must admit when I saw your vivalo outside the shop on Kingsland rd the other night I was tempted... how you doing mate?

I think we should put together a Bike retrieval posse, composed of a few of the bigger lads and angrier girls who are willing to form the back up crew in these situations. I could quite happily lead a shoreditch chapter, think hells angels but on bikes I wouldn't want to nick a harley from them - we could even get matching messenger bags with patches for how many bikes we manage to get back.

Once a stolen bike surfaces on gumtree and the owner has identified it and has some proof of ownership, the posse would accompany him/her to get the bike back with the additonal strength in numbers being an obvious benefit. I think payment in pints for the service would be an excellent recompense.

I think once the scum who nick our bikes know that selling stolen bikes on gumtree will result in a visit from the bike angels and the loss of drug money for them it should close down their sales channel. Anyone know where we can buy stab vests?

let us know when you're back -maybe we can get together and do a brooks chop workshop evening somewhere...I've got 2 that I'd like to butcher

mate do you still have this for sale?

cHEERS

Please can I have the hub?

Cheers

I had my cannondale road bike stolen 2 months ago (I lent it to my flatmate who had it nicked for me from his work!) looked on gumtree on Monday and sure e-nuf there it was, no pic, and the kind of sketchy description you would expect 'after using this bike for over a year as a courier' - yeah right what courier would be seen dead on an R500? apparently the bike is of no use to him anymore LOL so I arranged to meet him in the arse end of north shoreditch, and sure enough when I turned up it was the very bike - The pond life selling it looked a bit sheepish when I turned up with 3 of my mates and produced a printout with a pic and detailed description down to a scratch on the chainstay and a rip in the bar tape! I told him give it back or there will be trouble either painful or legal, and he gave it straight back - result!

A man goes for a prostrate examination, and the doctor, fingers deep, feels a bit deeper, pauses, and tells the man. 'I'm afraid you'll have to stop masturbating sir'

The man turns his head, worried, and says, 'Oh my God! whats wrong?'

The doctor Says 'we'll I'm trying to examine you, and it's really quite disturbing'

there is a way to use Cell ID to track the location of the mobile they are using - but you have to get to open a spoofed SMS first - kind of illegal but can find them to a radius of about 10 metres - why doesn' everyone just spam him with hate text using a free Web SMS service...

If Sanchez doesn't take it for some reason... Can I have some more info on it (hub, spokes, size, etc) and 2nd dibs if suitable?

Your presumption is correct.

Yeah, I know, close speech marks and no full stop - AARRRGGH!

Assume is 'to take for granted as the basis of argument or action'; presume is 'to take for granted, to presuppose, to count upon - I assume that as you have prior knowlege of english grammar, you meant 'presume'

2nd dibs on the drops

YES! got the last one...

If you get yourself a decent lock, thick cable, hardened chain or other wise, you should be fine - as long as you don't leave it out of sight for too long. common sense is more valuable than any chain. A decent bike thief will get through any lock, 5 star rated or otherwise in less than 5-10 minutes anyway. If it feels dodgy don't leave it. I would use a hardened steel chain and hardened steel doughnut shaped padlock for maximum hang time before the fuckers get through your defences (which are, incidentally rated according to the manufacturers specifications), and his crack pipe smokin mate turns up in his white van, carts off your little two wheeled baby and ships it on brick lane or ebay to some wannabe hipster for fiddy dorra.

I think I got one at home - will let you know tomorrow

something about those bars is just not right, no ergonomics, I think it's a style over substance step too far - haven't ridden them though so they could be really comfortable, but to me they look like a recipe for carpal tunnel probs.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=330253860968#ebayphotohosting

nice

guy at my work has one - ugly thing (nice forks though) quite heavy, twin brakes, freewheel (it's a fucking 'fixie') and shedloads of spacers under the stem = not a propa fixie IMHO - more like good Teutonic marketing

Funny I found a beat up old kuwahara road frame - made a lush SS conversion White and some green and gold blingy bits must be one of the only 1's in london! anyone else got a kuwahara?

I had my cannondale road bike stolen last thursday (I lent it to my flatmate who had it nicked for me from his work!) looked on gumtree on Monday and sure e-nuf there it was, no pic, and the kind of sketchy description you would expect 'after using this bike for over a year as a courier' - yeah right what courier would be seen dead on an R500? apparently the bike is of no use to him anymore LOL so I arranged to meet him in the arse end of north shoreditch, and sure enough when I turned up it was the very bike - The pond life selling it looked a bit sheepish when I turned up with 3 of my mates and produced a printout with a pic and detailed description down to a scratch on the chainstay and a rip in the bar tape! I told him give it back or there will be trouble either painful or legal, and he gave it straight back - result!

Never offer money to get your bike back - the scum are still getting 100% profit from their crimes, they'll just have to nick more often to get their fix/weed/cheap jewellery/grey trakkie bottoms...

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hopefully my bike will be (self) built in time for the next one...

Whats the score with releasing an abandoned bike chained to a fence? is there a legal way of doing it? Very nice old Japanese frame near my house that I want to liberate and give a new lease of life as an SS Ninja. any advice would be welcome