proper glued to this! awesome news!
Good news. I didn't know Eddy's bike was missing, but heavily modded Jekyll - he was first I thought of!
Great stuff 😀
Further update regarding Crashtestmonkey he's been a right superhero this week .. he saved a bird trapped in our bird feeder by using wire cutters to let the wee baby escape!
Hereo's don't just wear capes 😉
Seriously though great news regarding Eddie getting his bike back. Happy riding all x
Awesome news!
Our front counter stays open 'til 10pm, and I'm back in tomorrow from 8am so they should be re-united in good time.
At the risk of finger-wagging-teacher-mode, it's easier to identify recovered bikes if you report them as stolen (I think Eddie had decided not to "waste our time" with what he thought would be a futile exercise) and get them on bikeregister.com (which will help if your bike turns up in another force area). His comprehensive Flickr page should help with confirming ownership. Although I now have the best excuse for having a STW tab open when I'm doing admin 😉
I've actually taken Sunday off to go riding, so if I puncture, crash or ride through dog poo then there's no bloody karma...
Hooray.
While you're in nagging mode, give him a lecture about using a lock before you let him have it back.
😉
not to mention riding it home pissed.... 😉
4 1/2 finger shuffle?
More than sufficient.
A good news thread for a Friday!
jonnyboi, I think the thief did that...
At least it's got lights on it- Sod's Law would be him riding away from the nick with a smile on his face and getting caught and fined in the annual clock-change bike-lights crackdown 100 yards away 😆
What excellent news!
[you've bought another bike already though haven't you...]
Was the bike not locked then?
jonnyboi, I think the thief did that...
ahh, but surely Eddie's intention was to do just that m'lud.
(I jest of course)
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P.s. let's hope the scrote who nicked it gets sh1t on by many many flocks of geese or other flying poo-spreaders!
Brilliant stuff!
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Good news!
Collected from the station just after CTM had left but it is back between my legs. Super stuff.
Thanks to crashtestmonkey for some brilliant deductive work.
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Great stuff.
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If there was a power kite with it, it's mine btw.
Sorry I missed you, I gave myself a flyer as a reward 😀 glad it all panned out and hope you get out on it soon.
Brilliant thread. Well done!
Still with the powerkites ? sheesh ; rolls eyes Will it ever end?
Hants plod run a recovery scheme where you register the frame number to help them re - unite high end bikes with their rightful owners following theft.
Well done for getting it back CTM .- you win the internet for today.
Great news...well done to ctm. If ever some had earned themselves a few beers as a thankyou.... 😉
I’m having a right bobbins week so this thread is full of win. Good work ctm.
Awsomelabob 🙂
Awe, that’s just the sum of awe right there.
Top work Mr Plod! Go ride it eddyb !!!
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Happy days! Top stuff, CTM 8)
I just spotted this thread having seen Eddies other one. Thought 'hang about a minute' then saw how many replies which kinda gave it away.
As someone who has suffered from mental health problems, albeit minor ones, it's swings and roundabouts.. Lots of ups and downs..
This is one of those ups.. And I'm well chuffed for you.
When you look past the constant bickering on here, this place is sometimes awesome..
Great news! I was going to say on the original thread not to give up hope, but I did not expect this.
I would not take my eye off it next time, I’d be so paranoid of losing it again.
Brilliant
Good job, brilliant stuff 🙂
Great news.
I think that's the second bike recovered in the last 6 months or so after posted here.
And a good excuse for blinging your bike to make it identifiable
This is great. Well done!
It was far too nice a bike for a scrote anyway, she's a real beauty..
Hants plod run a recovery scheme where you register the frame number to help them re - unite high end bikes with their rightful owners following theft.
I've had mine registered with GMP and marked with a UV paint serial number.
most if not all forces have access to immobilise.com and bikeregister.com and should be checking these whenever a bike is recovered - I believe our front counter staff (who manage 'found' property) did in this case. The advantage is it's national - if your bike registered in your home force turns up somewhere covered by a different force (which could be just a few miles away) then it won't be on their systems. We have 43 forces and historically struggled to share information that would have prevented murders let alone identify stolen bikes (the Bichard Enquiry after Soham led to national intel sharing systems, we are nowhere near a national force or national crime property register, that gap is filled by immobilise and bikeregister).
Well the bike is pretty muddy now 🙂 and I'm so happy (apart from the sodding creaky BB that I'd forgotten about 👿 ).
So to try to avoid this happening again there are some things I need to do:
1 Don't assume that my quiet village is theif proof even at 6:30om.
2 If I've been out for a couple of hours riding I won't have my Hiplok with me so don't rely on a little cable 'shop lock' for security, just cycle the 300yds past the pub, put the bike away at home and walk back for a beer.
3 Use BikeRegister. And on that point has anyone applied the UV Covert kit? Is it easy enough?
Right, time to clean the bike and then get it a bit less clean before locking it away at work. Thanks to all who offered congratulations and all those who helped get me in touch with CTM. I hope he has a good day riding.
Good end to the story 😀
Great news!
I started to register my bikes with one of the websites but stopped when I realised if it was ever hacked it would provide a dream shopping list for any would be thief, complete with number and type of your bikes, your address and contact details!
Can remember which site* it was exactly but I stopped at the point it asked for my home address...
However, if a bike was ever stolen I have the details and pics ready to go. Otherwise I'm keeping that information off the web as best I can
Edit: *might have been the bike register
Great end to the story. Great work crashtestmonkey, and thanks for all the useful info! Just checked to make sure my bike is on bikeregister.com 🙂
#tag coolest thread ever#
It's a Sunday and I'm just starting a ten-hour shift but this thread has cheered me right up. 😀
Gorblessyaguvnor.
Glad you were reunited with your bike, eddiebaby.
Update time.
Just spent a couple of hours drinking in my local with the guy who found my bike and handed it in. He lives about 400yd from me but we've never spoken. Turns out he's a biker and his other half's dad has access to a lot of prime forest that he rides.
Winner. Chrismas sorted etc.
Just picked up this thread. Great news and happy riding !
Ps why doesn’t my Jekyll look as good as yours ? White looks mega!
