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Bicycle Thieves in N4
careful out there Stroud Green cyclists... my FLAME RED 21" Specialized Hardrock Sport Disc (with distinctive DMR V8 RED pedals) mountain bike was nicked out of back garden last night (VICTORIA ROAD) - reckon they were skilled fellas as they didnt make a sound - if any one gets this bike offered to them (pub/street cnr etc) pls let me know! Its got 'alpha dot' security marking so pretty hard to shift on the shop market - have been told they wont touch bikes with alpha dot. tom
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All my neighbours suffered from thefts several nights running that week too, so my guess is you'll find they'll be back. Not smart but if they find easy pickings......
One solution : lock the thing up.
If so then that is the same location as the last spate of thefts. Rear security is terrible in this block because so many people just can't - or won't - be bothered to secure side access gates. It's just walk in, nick, and walk out.
If so, I'll warn the neighbours. And I'm bringing the bikes in.
two decent bikes lifted out of the back garden in florence road sometime yesterday. grrrr
lovely PC from Kentish Town has just brought one of the bikes home...he was off to nick the lad he caught riding it. Quite a nice turn up for the books.
I am bringing my bikes back in again for the summer now.
lad was cycling through kentish town no doubt looking less than innocent and when stopped said the bike was "borrowed from a mate". PC took the bike off him and did a couple of things that surprised me as i thought they didn't have time/didn't bother anymore. first he called Trek (the bike brand) who record where all frame numbers are sold, they directed him to Two Wheels Good and they gave him our number. He then brought the bike round and took a statement of loss so he could nick the scruff he found on the bike. He'll be charged with the theft and handling stolen goods i believe. The PC told us a few extra handy facts - now that Westminster and now Camden have got cops on bikes, they're managing to do more about the massive bike theft economy. Ideally we need more on bikes near us. Bike theft is a rung on a particular theft ladder - steal bikes then use bikes whilst stealing laptops etc from cars. Good bikes are well travelled - they stopped a white van heading up the A1 recently and it was full of stolen bikes...plus he managed to stop another that was heading to the ukraine.
He recommends good locks fixed to something solid. Our bikes are back outside and very well locked now.
Stroud Green Safer Neighbourhoods Team will be at the Trinity Fair on Granville Rd N4 on Sat 11th June from 11am -3pm and will be able to register property there and then. Please come along to register or find out more details.
Bob Stevenson
Sgt Stroud Green SNT
0208 721 2837