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Don't know if we've done this already? Interesting interview with a prolific bike thief. Not much seemed to put him off bar CCTV, expensive locks used properly, alarms and crap bikes.
https://cambscops.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/insight-into-the-mind-of-a-bike-thief
Perhaps if buyers asked for the original purchase invoice fewer stolen bikes would be sold.
But there will always be idiots and always be people happy buying a bike without asking questions.
<Goes out to buy 2 plastic magpies>
Well, reading between the lines, his business is nothing without customers. That's not one dishonest person, it's hundreds.
Perhaps if buyers asked for the original purchase invoice fewer stolen bikes would be sold.
I haven't got a bloody clue where any of the invoices or receipts are for anything I've ever bought. Actually... I do. They're filed under B. Or under a huge pile of other paper related stuff. I reckon I'm no different from an awful lot of people in that respect.
So if that was the case, the 2nd hand bike market would consist entirely of perculiarly organised anal retentives selling stuff to each other 😉
I have a bit of a strategy which ties in with this:
1) he said he goes scouting in the day. Don't give him any inmfo that points to you I make a point of not making it obvious I am cyclist or that there are bikes in the house.
If I'm driving home with the bikes on the back and there is an unfamiliar face in the street - then i drive on and come back a few mins later.
Never wash the bikes on the front drive.
I prep the car and load bikes up at the last minute.
Never leave cycle kit visible in the car or house.
No stickers..
2) Ground anchors and effen great almax chains.
3) We have cctv front and back.
All my bikes have tiny GPS transmitters in the BB grease.
I would just track the thieving scrote down in a [url= 
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haven't got a bloody clue where any of the invoices or receipts are
total opposite for me. I have full invoice/receipts for all my bikes, even down to the Visa slip for the one I bought in 1996.
newer ones would be a bit more faff, since it's going to be several email invoices for Cotic, Bike24, bikeXperts, CRC, Wiggle, etc...
photo of the serial number on the bottom bracket, and a handful of other photos of the bikes are online, in a non-public album. just in case.
to get to my bikes, a burglar will have to break thru 2 doors and pass a good handful of other bike before getting to my door.
crazy that I used to keep 2 bikes in a simple wooden shed, in Bristol, with an alley down the back direct to my shed. small padlock. and even had a window in the shed to show off the warez.