Stolen Bike

KMC1993

Had my bike stolen this morning by some scumbag, I've reported it to the police but they really dont seem too interested. Has anyone had their bike stolen and got it back? if so what advice would you give?

napoleond

You've done what you can, reported it. Keep looking in local ads/eBay though.

turnerjohn

put some photos and details on this site...more people who keep a look out the better !

KMC1993

turnerjohn wrote:

put some photos and details on this site...more people who keep a look out the better !

Have just spotted the stolen bikes section of the forum so put some details in there.

sungod

which area? in/around london the scumbags' favourite website is gumtree, it's as if it were designed for thieves

but even if you spot it there, my experience is that the police will do nothing

you can arrange to 'buy' it and have some mates available at a discrete distance when you inform the scum that the price is zero and they better start walking, but you'll need to avoid raising suspicion

also keep an eye on this, it trawls for bike ads...

http://www.bikeshd.co.uk/

gubber12345

if your on facebook have a search on there as theres a link to a page "my bike has been stolen"

try and get on it and pass the link around to all others that you know.post some pics and all the info you can about the bike....you never know someone might see it and get in touch.

facebook is a pretty big place and lets try and catch these vermin.

StillGoing

The trouble is there isn't a lot the police can do. If it was stolen from inside the house, then SOCO may dust for prints, but if it was from outside, then there is nothing for them to dust. If the bike was distinctive then definitely get some images circulated especially around the 2nd hand shops. If there's a bike register get the details on there and especially on here http://www.immobilise.com as should the bike be recovered by police, they will search this database against the serial number to try and trace the rightful owner. many times property has been recovered that is clearly stolen, but has had to be given back to the thief because no owner can be traced to help show it as stolen.

unixnerd

Saw this yesterday, worth a look - http://stolen-bikes.co.uk/

Cleat Eastwood

philthy3 wrote:

The trouble is there isn't a lot the police can do. If it was stolen from inside the house, then SOCO may dust for prints, but if it was from outside, then there is nothing for them to dust. If the bike was distinctive then definitely get some images circulated especially around the 2nd hand shops. If there's a bike register get the details on there and especially on here http://www.immobilise.com as should the bike be recovered by police, they will search this database against the serial number to try and trace the rightful owner. many times property has been recovered that is clearly stolen, but has had to be given back to the thief because no owner can be traced to help show it as stolen.

Oddly enough I followed a link from somewhere to a police website with a few recommendations and they mentioned immobilise even though they say they questioned the morally dubious use of the data.

Anyway from that police site was a link to this

https://www.bikeregister.com/

which some may find useful - theres a vid of how it works from one of the links on there.