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Does no-one read this thread until their bike is nicked?

DO NOT USE A CABLE LOCK / ARMOURED CABLE LOCK.

they are useless.

To be clear, these type or anything that looks like it are useless:

http://www.leisurelakesbikes.com/content/images/thumbs/0020628_masterlock_1000_x_18mm_armoured_cable_lock_colour_smoke.jpeg

the suspected stolen dolan i mentioned earlier is now on ebay on a one day auction

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DOLAN-56cm-fixed-gear-bike-/110863900160?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item19d000de00

anybody recognise it?
all listings since Christmas time (approx 40-50 bike items he's sold) are 'private'. In my experience of ebay (around 10 years) the only sellers that have 'private' listings regularly are dodgy.

I'm about to post a pic in the how not to lock your bike thread, cos it's back in my flat right now! (minus front wheel)
Cool!

(awaits post from someone saying their bike's been nicked from aldgate....:;) )

Who owns / runs the market? Is it the council? If so perhaps a delegation could be got together to have a serious (professional) meeting with whichever department / councillor is in charge of the market to put forward the concerns and evidence / experience of riders here.

That would put pressure on them to act perhaps by sending round their council inspectors / not hiring out pitches to certain people etc

Why don't (a couple of) you go down bricklane market and openly film with a video camera various people that are selling bikes / in the market? It would surely put the wind up these scumbags and like police interceptors programme if / when they complain tell them to p*ss off becuase you're in a public place and entitled to film - you don't require permission to film (as long as you're not filming children in a park etc).

That place is a joke judging by the amount of stolen bikes that end up there.

was it locked?

Well, I've never heard of full city or London courier, but FYI I had already googled 'full city stolen bicycle' (I also tried 'fullcity' since I don't know the shop and didn't know if it was one word or two) to see if it was a place known on forums as handling stolen bikes. I did that as soon as I read the post.

fullcity - Google Search

No the PNC is accessible by all coppers in all jurisdictions. As is immobilise.com. However, the difference is that if a person hasn't already registered their frame number, when it gets nicked most people don't know their frame number and therefore cannot report it to the police, and therefore it will never get put on the PNC. Therefore if by some miracle the bike gets found in a robbers lair, and the local copper runs a PNC check, it will come back blank, and the owner will never recover their property. That is why immobilise is useful in my opinion. Because you've gone to the effort of recording the number before the horse has bolted! so to speak. It is a good habit to get into. Also for the rest of the items in your home.

Wow this site is obviously populated by dicks. FYI I actually came across this thread a few days ago when I was looking for something else. I came back to register because there is not one mention of the site I linked to in this thread. For a 129 page thread on stolen bicycles that struck me as an omission that should be rectified.

But as I say, carry on. Soon be up to 130 pages and counting. If the people stealing the bikes don't get prosecuted, (and for that like it or not you need evidence), it will carry on.

Good luck. BTW I'm not a troll which will doubtless be thrown my way in a mo.

err... because I did a search before I posted, and it was only mentioned a couple of times? but go right ahead with your 129 page list of stolen bikes and feel good about yourself.

oops didn't see that. i did do a search for 'immobilise' vefore I posted. That post didn't show up for some reason. Anyway it's still good to plug it! The more people that use it, the more the police will use it too. And hopefully the more scrotes will get caught.

Register the frame serial number on www.immobilise.com before your bike gets stolen, so if found by police it can be returned.

I have no connection to the site (other than as a user of it myself), but it's one of the few databases that the police bother to check. You can record any serial numbers on there eg xbox etc so if a thief gets caught with some stuff the police can actually prove it and get a conviction. Most items and bikes are sitting in police pounds or returned to thieves because no-one ever knows their serial numbers!

I only joined to ask why the hell don't you guys register the frame serial number on www.immobilise.com ? ???

I have no connection to the site (other than as a user of it myself), but it's one of the few databases that the police bother to check. You can record any serial numbers on there eg xbox etc so if a thief gets caught with some stuff the police can actually prove it and get a conviction. most items and bikes are sitting in police pounds or returned to thieves because no-one ever knows their serial numbers!