Stolen Bikes Thread - Mod Note please read post #1 before posting

Anyone missing a Felt bike in the Drogheda area? Lets just say the guy I spotted on it wouldn't have the means for Halfords cheapest offering let alone this one.

Dazzy

Anyone missing what I think is a Kellys Cleaso - spotted in a hedge in Rathfarnham this morning.

LollipopJimmy

There's a white and blue bike in the canal at Blackhorse if anybody is missing one

Roadtoad

MTB Phaze (Halfords) in red/black, white forks. This has disc brakes. Small adult size.

Stolen from Newbridge RR station on Thur 11 Oct., by cutting 8 mm steel chain.

Undercover

3 bikes pinched from our garage overnight in Walkinstown, left my daily beater behind. Red Felt Airo T28, Giant liv ladies racer and a Trek mountain bike. Will update with pictures later

magicbastarder

posts about judge zaidan moved to la flamme rouge

jos28

Got myself sorted with a new bike, insured it here for €64
https://www.lifestyleinsurances.ie/
and registered it for free
http://bikeregister.ie

Eth87

Had my Colnago ACE stolen today at around 1510 from the secure lockup at my workplace (Crumlin Hospital)

Always good to know the lovely folk around the hospital are willing to thank us workers

jos28

Eth87 wrote: »

Had my Colnago ACE stolen today at around 1510 from the secure lockup at my workplace (Crumlin Hospital)

Always good to know the lovely folk around the hospital are willing to thank us workers

:mad::mad::mad:

Thargor

No CCTV? How secure was it?

Eth87

Thargor wrote: »

No CCTV? How secure was it?

Pretty secure, you need swipe card access to get into the lockup and it's in a part of the hospital grounds where a non employee would be noticed. Yeap there is CCTV but the guy knew what he was doing. 
Just need to hope the Garda spot it

check_six

Eth87 wrote: »

Pretty secure, you need swipe card access to get into the lockup and it's in a part of the hospital grounds where a non employee would be noticed. Yeap there is CCTV but the guy knew what he was doing. 
Just need to hope the Garda spot it

What kind of locks were on it? And what kind of rack was in the cage? (I hate those little wheel bender things!)

italodisco

Eth87 wrote: »

Pretty secure, you need swipe card access to get into the lockup and it's in a part of the hospital grounds where a non employee would be noticed. Yeap there is CCTV but the guy knew what he was doing. 
Just need to hope the Garda spot it

The amount of clowns that don't lock the bike cage in my place is ridiculous, in saying that, Crumlin is a hell hole for bike theft

wheelo01

Eth87 wrote: »

Had my Colnago ACE stolen today at around 1510 from the secure lockup at my workplace (Crumlin Hospital)

Always good to know the lovely folk around the hospital are willing to thank us workers

Always sad to see anyones bike stolen, especially when (possibly) it could be down to a careless colleague not closing up the cage.

But it's good to also see that stereotyping is still alive and well. Most folk in the Drimnagh/Crumlin area are actually lovely people, and workers to boot!

Rechuchote

italodisco wrote: »

The amount of clowns that don't lock the bike cage in my place is ridiculous, in saying that, Crumlin is a hell hole for bike theft

More to the point, it's a hellhole for receiving of stolen goods. When the Gardaí start prosecuting the nice respectable people who buy bikes that are clearly stolen, the bottom will drop out of that market.

Pinch Flat

So randomly browsing adverts I saw my stolen bike for sale. Stolen 5 1/2 years ago June 2013. For sale right beside where I live. Absolutely 100% sure it’s mine - same saddle, groupset (triple derailleur on a compact), wheels and tyres. Ad was withdrawn only 2 weeks ago. Have followed seller. Will see how this pans out. Of course, the seller may have innocently bought the bike from someone else.

italodisco

Pinch Flat wrote: »

So randomly browsing adverts I saw my stolen bike for sale. Stolen 5 1/2 years ago June 2013. For sale right beside where I live. Absolutely 100% sure it’s mine - same saddle, groupset (triple derailleur on a compact), wheels and tyres. Ad was withdrawn only 2 weeks ago. Have followed seller. Will see how this pans out. Of course, the seller may have innocently bought the bike from someone else.

Offer to buy another of his items and deal with it then, if that's your bike then I'm baffled as to what you're doing waiting to see how this 'pans out'

Pinch Flat

italodisco wrote: »

Offer to buy another of his items and deal with it then, if that's your bike then I'm baffled as to what you're doing waiting to see how this 'pans out'

Ad withdrawn. Seller has nothing else for sale. Have followed seller in case it reappears for sale.

Gardai contacted. That’s all I can do.

AndrewJRenko

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Ad withdrawn. Seller has nothing else for sale. Have followed seller in case it reappears for sale.

Gardai contacted. That’s all I can do.

Does the seller history suggest that he is selling bikes regularly?

magicbastarder

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Gardai contacted. That’s all I can do.

have you contacted adverts also? they have procedures which may assist - and a policy about how and when they will release relevant info to the gardai.

iwillhtfu

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Ad withdrawn. Seller has nothing else for sale. Have followed seller in case it reappears for sale.

Gardai contacted. That’s all I can do.

Look at the comments and see if there was a particular person interested and then look at their profile. If they have something to sell make contact on that item and well there are numerous ways you can enquire about the bike. If they bought it etc. Ad withdrawn is usually a tactic to avoid paying adverts fees on sales. Has the seller got feedback.

LollipopJimmy

iwillhtfu wrote: »

Look at the comments and see if there was a particular person interested and then look at their profile. If they have something to sell make contact on that item and well there are numerous ways you can enquire about the bike. If they bought it etc. Ad withdrawn is usually a tactic to avoid paying adverts fees on sales. Has the seller got feedback.

Adverts have stopped their 'success' fee afaik

lissard

My bike which I listed on this thread back in May popped up when I did a search on Adverts 2 weeks ago. I bookmarked the page, headed down to the Garda station and showed them the seller profile. To put it mildly it was suspicious - nearly 100 bikes in the the withdrawn state and 6 current ads. Anyhow, to cut a long story short the Gardai came through for me. They set up a sting - made an offer on the bike and arrested the guy for possession of stolen property when he turned up with my bike. Having the serial number and a service history of every component on the bike left them in no doubt that it was mine. BTW they didn't think that this guy was the one that carried out the original theft.

My takeaways from all this:
1. If it looks too good to be true on Donedeal/Adverts - it's probably stolen. There are a large number of sellers that fall into this category.
2. Keep your serial number handy.
3. Having good service records makes it so much easier for the Gardai to act.
4. In the months after the bike is nicked do a periodic scan of the websites. In my case the bike was stolen in May and posted for sale in September.
5. Once you give the Gardai the tools to trap the thieves they're more than happy to do so.

mloc123

magicbastarder wrote: »

have you contacted adverts also? they have procedures which may assist - and a policy about how and when they will release relevant info to the gardai.

They don't... they have zero interest in the stolen goods listed on site and will just tell you to contact the Gardai

magicbastarder

when i mentioned (on this thread) a friend's bike which was stolen and then listed on adverts, the adverts admins were proactive in contacting me and asking how we wanted to deal with the ad, and gave me the exact info the gardai would need to request from adverts if the ad became 'evidence'.

anyway, my friend got his bike back.

mloc123

magicbastarder wrote: »

when i mentioned (on this thread) a friend's bike which was stolen and then listed on adverts, the adverts admins were proactive in contacting me and asking how we wanted to deal with the ad, and gave me the exact info the gardai would need to request from adverts if the ad became 'evidence'.

anyway, my friend got his bike back.

YMMV... I contacted them previously and got a copy/paste reply about contacting Gardai

ED E

lissard wrote: »

2. Keep your serial number handy.

If you're currently not sure where you'd find your frame number today if you needed it, do this tonight.

1. Pick your online storage provider of choice (Dropbox, GDrive, OneDrive, iCloud etc)
2. Take pictures of the frame numbers (bottom brackets) of each bike + a proper shot of the whole bike
3. Store those pictures in a folder on one of the services in Part 1

If you want to you can add invoices to that folder too.

Hurrache

I have photos of each of mine in Google photos. I had even forgot I had taken them until I came across them when using the the pretty impressive Google photo search function when searching for something bike related from when I was in Italy and it came back with them.

iwillhtfu

ED E wrote: »

If you're currently not sure where you'd find your frame number today if you needed it, do this tonight.

1. Pick your online storage provider of choice (Dropbox, GDrive, OneDrive, iCloud etc)
2. Take pictures of the frame numbers (bottom brackets) of each bike + a proper shot of the whole bike
3. Store those pictures in a folder on one of the services in Part 1

If you want to you can add invoices to that folder too.

Just take a picture and email it to yourself.

Thargor

Or just tell Google photos to auto upload every pic you take and never have to worry about backing up pics again.