A tip to help recover stolen bikes... but you must do this before it gets stolen.

Next time you overhaul/service your bike make lots of small bits of paper and write on them:

This bike belongs to YOUR NAME, if anyone else has brought it into your shop it is stolen. Please call YOUR MOBILE NUMBER in that event.

Use clear sellotape on the slips of paper to waterproof the messages.

Then put the paper:

• Rolled up inside the stem.
  
• Rolled up inside the handlebars, both sides before you put the plugs on.
  
• Underneath the bar tape.
  
• Underneath the rim tape (write on the rim tape with marker pen so that it's obvious the message is underneath).
  
• Anywhere else it could fit on your bike and not be reach unless it was being service, and in that event be obvious.
  
  

A hell of a lot of bikes end up passing through the hands of an Evans mechanics, and doing this is one little thing that will increase the chance of you getting your bike back.