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This is where i STAND....... if you buy from a thief it's your fault already, he has robbed to sell you. Dlock everywhere!

Isn't this the case in law anyway (apart from the D-lock bit), "receiving stolen goods" even if you bought it?

Well done mate :0)

Ed - out of interest what would be your solution to the situation (other than coshing the guy that bought the stolen bike with a d-lock and taking the bike back). Not buy the bike back?

You're after a 19t cog, what gear ratio do you ride?

Umm, whats that got to do with anything?

"in the market for"

fuck's sake it's a two-bob part, not a house.

Obviously but the next time I want to buy something pricey I wont be going to BLB. Shop 14 were much more friendly

what did you want? a blowjob?

Would have been nice but i didn't expect to be so rudely snubbed

I dont often get out east, so i thought i'd take the opportunity to go into BLB and shop 14 for the first time today as i would be in bethnal green.

I will be in the market for a 19t cog for a freewheel in a couple of weeks time so thought i'd pop in to see prices/if they stock em. I asked the shop assistant guy in BLB if they had any and when it was clear what i was after and that they didn't have any he quickly lost interest in the conversation and turned his back on me in what i consider a rude manner.

Surely in the current financial climate they cant have that many trusafarians/hipsters throwing money at them to be so rude to walk in customers? Surfice to say i wont be going in there again

Dont be so sure

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread23641.html

The sad thing is that i reckon a lot of the bikes that are stolen are ridden around for a couple of days then dumped in a canal/river or similar - younger thieves in particular only steal them for the buzz, might flog em to another youth on the manor, but generally just nick em, ride em till their bored of it then dump it

Yea i read about that. Owning a recumbent ("bent") i followed the thread with particular interest. I deffo agree, the majority of bike thefts are thefts of opportunity.

The problem with many recumbent is that they have a "stick frame" and don't have any "triangles" to be able to securely lock them up with. I think this may have been the case with the ratcatcher. So I specifically chose a model that has a triangle to put locks through so i could leave it locked up to streat furniture. I usually use a fug mini u and a granite x plus. I think this level of locks would deter the casual opportunist type thief and I think what i was trying to say is the fact it's a bent would (im hoping) deter the professional type thief as there is virtually no resale market appart from some of the parts, which aren't particually expensive any way.

I locked my bike to a busy bike stand on a quiet street in North London the other day and sat across the road outside a cafe having a cup of tea. There were lots of new ridgebacks etc locked there too, some with extremely shit locks, and a few old geared Raleighs. Plus one Langster. As I was reading my book, I saw a couple of kids on mountain bikes turn up to the stand. They examined all the bikes, took phone pictures of my bike (a rusty old track frame) and the shiny Langster, and then sent some text messages. they then sat there, waiting patiently. I guess the 'scout' system means that the people they're texting can then turn up with the right toolage for that particular lock. If they want your bike, they want it.

I finished my tea and went and got my bike. They called me a 'mug' and pulled an imaginary trigger at me :(

I think the best way to defeat this kind of stealing to order is to ride a really obscure kind of bike , like my SS recumbent and lock it up with heavy duty locks. Not sure there's that many people in the market for something so unusual

After just having my ride stolen whilst locked to a tree....which i was leaning against at the time????!!!! (work that one out!) my new policy is to just not own a lock!!!
That way, i can't leave it anywhere = no theft....hmmmm we'll see!
Of course that won't work for all :(

WTF!!! I cant even begin to imagine how that was accomplished

I generally practice zen and the art of cycling.

I'm pretty mellow anyway and riding my bike seems to mellow me out even more. So when i get cut up or something i just tend to tut under my breath and carry on enjoying my ride.

Ha! Ha!

SEE MY CROTCH!!!

• Mr T 'fro hawk fail
  

Your LSF logo looks a little like a nazi SS logo. I'm hoping your going to blitzkrieg hoxton and be annexing east london whilst your down here

YouTube - Murata Boy, the Robot that can Ride Bicycles

But can he do a skid?

£30 for an old tyre and a buckle.. hmm..

Put me down for a belt for ever pair of trousers i own! (cough, that'll be two then, cough)

Are you stretching before and after your rides? Takes less than 5 min and can make a big difference. You just need to do three strethches; quad's, calves and hamstrings. Also have you tried a neoprene knee support/tubegrip? One of those can help loads too.

I agree, doctors are crap. I have long term back injury, when i first did it doctor told me to take some pain killers and it would go in a few days - still have the problem 2 yrs later

why should you have to secure your bike with ridiculous amounts of hardware? Why should it be your fault that your bike gets stolen? The person who steals it is just the antisocial moron who is always at fault, who has the problem and sadly shouldnt have the thought "oo that would be an easy steal, I will have that".

Those cheap locks are fine (i would imagine) in places where you are just trying to secure your bike to stop some drunk wandering off with it, not trying to make it impregnable to an aerial bombardment like in london.

I completely agree with you. You SHOULDN'T have to lug massive amounts of steel around with you and it DEFINITELY isn't the owners fault if there bike get's stolen but were dealing with the reality of hundred's if not thousands of toerags with there eye out for the easy mark. It's fine taking the moral high ground of saying i shouldnt have to lock my bike up with 5lbs of steel but the reality is your bike wont' last too long if you don't.

As far as cheap locks go, again i agree there fine for just popping into a shop or stopping someone wandering off with it. I have a mini evo for this purpose if i know i am not going to be leaving my bike anywhere for more than 10 mins.
I live in Peckham and i once saw a beater locked with two cheapo coil locks on the main high street for a whole week 24/7 before it was stolen. As metioned most bike theives are lazy opportunists - just dont give em the opportunity

Been reading this thread and gettin pretty angry, i dont know how you guys put up with this level of bike theft. I live in belfast where bike theft is really low. From my experiance if it is locked up at all it will be ok. I do worry about my bike being damaged by some retard with nothing better to do tho. Usless post i know :)

I agree with ed.

Yes the level of bike theft in London is high but if you look at some of the jokingly called "locks" that you see some bikes locked up with in Central London, you can only think it's a matter of time before that bike gets nicked.

People simply dont want to carry very heavy locks and chains about with them (which is understandable), so if you lock up with two beefy locks (i use a fug mini and an abus granite x plus when locking up in central London) my personal opinion is your a huge amount less likely to get your ride stolen, simply because there is an almost limitless supply of much easier targets. The way i see it is you've paid several hundreds of pounds for your bike, you wouldn't leave a cash box with the equivelent amount of money in it locked to a railing with a flimsy lock would you.

The majority of bike theft's are crime's of opporunity. AFC67's didn't say exactly how his hardrock was stolen (I'm only mentioning you AFC67 because your bike was the last one posted here apart from the bike from preston park which are a slightly different situation) but i'm guessing the kid who nicked it didn't use a power tools or a set off 4ft bolt cutters and found an easy mark. I dont think there are a huge amount of proffessional bike theft gangs in London.

i've always been shocked how cheap bikes can be as i would have thought that mining the ore and making metal is quite expensive in itself.

Guess it might have a lot to do with bulk to help keep down costs, I sure you know that many companies will offer an increasingly larger percentage discount the more you order. As I understand it a huge amount if bikes are made in taiwan lots of competing factories to help keep costs down, so ASDA would just go to to one of the many taiwanese bike factories there and ask em produce a super low cost bike if they order shit loads for all there stores

Cheap shit will break.... personally irritates me to shit that they are so short sighted that they can't see that spending maybe 3 times as much means they will save 6 times as much later.

Like ASDA/Walmart Corp give a shit. There a corporation whose ONLY interest is the bottom line. The bike prolly costs em a tenner to make in a far away South East Aisan country and ASDA can then flog em for £70. They dont care if it falls apart two minutes after the warranty has run out

So by the looks of this gumtree ad, my bike was stolen by some prick who lives in the block of flats across the road from me:

http://www.gumtree.com/london/96/42165196.html

I tried to set up a meeting with him on Sunday to get the bike back but he was a no show. A friend called him today and apparently the bike has now been sold.

The police have been unhelpful and are not pursuing it and I don't know which flat this prick lives in. Any ideas for how I can take my revenge on the world?

P.S. if anyone knows of someone who bought a Charge Plug Racer off Gumtree in the last few days, tell them they are riding stolen property and that karma will come and get them one day.

PM'ed

This is probably gonna smart in the morning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUFiowOcnIw

Edit: Having watched it a couple more times, don't thing the cyclist is a messenger, just some psycho numpty

Article starts at the bottom of the left column on the first page
http://bikeqld.org.au/attachments/20...%20CYCLING.pdf

"Do not ride without a brake," [ which should be attached to
the back wheel if possible.]

Zoiks!

Squirrel avoidance fail

My fav. is the hippo vs dwarf one :0)