Came across a rather nice looking Niner for sale on Gumtree for sale in the Midlands
The price is far too low for the spec – unless the seller missed out a ‘0’.
If you have had one pinched then take a look.
Otherwise grab yourself a bargain.

thats on fire at that price surely !

Link…?

http://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/niner-mountain-bike-thompson-elite/1120488490

That’s gotta be scortchin’…!

FFS 🙄

Hope the real owner of that bike spots it and gets it back.

But you get free helmet!

usually I’d give those sort of adds the benefit of the doubt

in this case

well dodgy

Love the welds on the carbon frame.

hotter than a bedouins teapot

Can someone explain why gumtree/ebay don’t get held to account when people use their services to sell stolen goods especially as they profit from the transaction?

Found the details of it being stolen on google cache along with a crime number. Will contact police with the details..

I always feel its worth reporting these – does anybody else ?

I’m not sure if – “I think this looks dodgy” really is a reason to report – but maybe its enough for Gumtree to do some investigations?!

Good work andyl.

The address of the seller is in a decent area. Zoopla gives the house price as £368k so wouldnt point directly to him selling a stolen bike.
But it is little odd

andyl – Member

Found the details of it being stolen on google cache along with a crime number. Will contact police with the details..

Thats awesome – isn’t it great when a community comes together 🙂

Wow. The cable lock alone is enough for me to think it’s dodgy.

hope it’s the one on stolen-bikes!
Seat post is different though

The photos of the one on stolen bikes finally came up when I finished on the phone to West Midland police. A couple of differences but it does look very similar and things like the blue rear QR stand out.

The guy does say in is advert the wheels were different when stolen so the saddle and post might be different too.

I was using the written description from google cache but now the site is working have emailed the owner and told them the Police have been contacted so hopefully he/she will chase it up with them as I don’t want to be dealing with it (done my bit!)

Just taking screen shots for the Police as requested. The seller gives his address!

edit: just noticed the comments about the address. I’m 100 odd miles away so have no idea about Birmingham. Probably just a fake address then but you never know.

And with a name like Fidullah (Fiddler) he even alludes to being a crim!
Hope he gets what he deserves!m

I think that is actually his name,

and after some more digging I think I am going to leave it there…..hmm

every is part is very good and strong

Think I’m going to take that and save it for next time I sell a bike. Shame its not in caps.

Interesting….

There’s a facebook page for selling bike bits that has a couple of people blatantly selling stolen stuff. Grim. Tried to contact an admin to see what could be done but no response.

Well gumtree advert is gone and I didn’t hear from the Police who said they would call me after 2pm when the shift that would look into it started.

Number works, he/she texted me to say the bike isn’t for sale any more.

Bugger, bet he’s sold it.

just noticed I had an email off the Police just before 5, presumably following my emailing of the Stolen-bikes website not from my phone call to them asking for the screenshots I took.

Going to be annoying if he has sold it and got away with it because of delays.

Phew! Good news.

Just had an email from the owner thanking me as his bike it on it’s way back to him after it was sold and ended up down south – incredible that it was only stolen last night!

Also had a voicemail from WM Police confirming going into a bit more detail.

Have let the owner know it was thanks to Singletrack so hopefully he will be along and let us know the full story.

8)

WHERE’S THE EFFING “LIKE” BUTTON, STW?

What an excellent outcome!

Above and beyond the call of duty Sir, I statute you 🙂

Goes to show how important it is to get details of a theft up on the stolen bikes websites as soon as possible. I have to admit it was hard to find that one and as the site was not loading it was google cache that saved the day and got me the crime reference number to link it.

I was worried it was too late but West Midlands Police came through in the end.

Well done sir.

Splendid work, I have a mate round the corner and was prepping him to pose as a “buyer” 👿

Hi Andy what ninner was is it I had one nicked 5 weeks ago from the dudley area in the west mids mine was the ninner rip in green 2012-2013 version with crossmax wheels and a red charge spoon saddle
Which I reported to the police

And well done to the OP for posting it!!

And well done to the OP for posting it!!

^ This. I was hoping the OP would pop back in the thread and see the result of his highlighting it.

Badger – was an EMD with a carbon combined stem and handlebars (distinctive), grey with carbon forks, black saddle, Thomson layback post, SLX brakes and SLX cranks IIRC.

Not my old nicked Emd then 🙁

Excellent work, I would be extremely upset if my EMD were to go walkies so its good to see this type of community action.

Excellent! 😀

Goes to show how important it is to get details of a theft up on the stolen bikes websites as soon as possible. I have to admit it was hard to find that one and as the site was not loading it was google cache that saved the day and got me the crime reference number to link it.

I was worried it was too late but West Midlands Police came through in the end.

Yep, I put my bike up on stolen-bikes a few days after it had been nicked, then looked at the ‘Find That Bike!’ feature. Lo and behold, there it was on sale 90 miles up north – the advert had gone up 49 minutes previously. South Yorkshire Police seized my bike and are now investigating, just waiting for them to release my bike (as Aviva put my claim on hold, despite having taken my excess, heh). I’d been checking Gumtree, but only 30 miles around where I live.

As for the comments suggesting that the address was too nice for stolen goods, you’d be surprised. The guy who was selling my bike (knowing that it was stolen and having sold loads of other bikes on Gumtree) is a 23 year old graduate with a degree in Quantity Surveying and professionally taken photos of him on his business website wearing a suit and tie…