my stolen san an seems to have turned up......what to do?

[zetecmk2]

a couple of years ago when i was targeted....ie every month, my garage/shed/house was broken into, i did buy a cheap alloy saracen full sus frame and built it up with broken expensive parts. looked like a £2k dh rig. seriously thought about running 240v through it. the tyres and grips would insulate it where it was leaning against the house :evil:
but i knew in this great country of ours....i would get nicked and have to pay the scum compensation!!!
the next idea was a tracker in the frame as i knew it would end up with my other bikes. then i thought the thieving scum were making me think differently.....and i wasn't having that!!!
so i bought another zaskar frame........and i still have it!!!
(now kept at work) :twisted:

 

[zetecmk2]

I'd be wanting to know where he got it from

ebay!!!

 

[N/B]

well, the police have just been and i have sent him a pm......he seems too open with pics and stuff to be a thief, the police think i may be better trying to sort it myself

The Police are not interested in stolen bicycles, 99% of the time.
It was the same 13 years ago when I bought an old steel GT something-or-other from a shop in Camden, commuted on it for 6 months until one day somebody puts an extra lock on it and a note saying, 'This is a stolen bike. This is my bike. I'm coming back for it.'
I waited for the supposed owner to return. He did, and told me he'd left it locked up overnight in Soho (!) eight months earlier. I told him I'd bought it legitimately, and had a receipt for it.
We went to Kentish Town Police Station together, who told us to get on our merry way and go see the seller in Camden to try and get me my money back so I could give him his bike back.
The Police did not care that I could name the shop, and prove I'd bought it there. Not interested at all.
The owner never bothered to meet me at the shop in Camden so I kept riding the GT.
A month later the driveside chainstay snapped...

I hope you can sort this out yourself.

 

[zetecmk2]

one of my bikes was stolen from outside a shop.......in the snow. we followed the tracks about a mile right up to a front door!! knocked.....threw a few f's in the air loudly and left with my bike
teenage bikethieves are generally thick!!

 

[jaypee]

Hmm, not sure what the bike was worth but you seemed pretty pissed off when it was nicked and its certainly no run of the mill steed. I'm pretty sure the legal position is that the bike is still yours. Seems likely the current owner (traceable through ebay?) commits an offence as soon as you give them evidence it was (is) yours and they don't hand it over.

http://www.inbrief.co.uk/offences/handl ... -goods.htm

I think the fact they paid for it is between them and the guy who sold it to them.

Obviously in the real world its not that simple (maybe) but I'm not sure is let it go that easily. If it changed hands on ebay each time it should be traceable all the way back.

 

[incorrigible]

There's a fortune to be made in marketing a compact self-destruct antitheft system a-la the Lotus Esprit in that Bond film...

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[ishaw]

The owner never bothered to meet me at the shop in Camden so I kept riding the GT.
A month later the driveside chainstay snapped...

Sounds like sabotage to me

 

[ishaw]

I did have the police interested in a stolen bike once. The same night my bike was stolen I heard some ruckus at the local shop where I used to work. Having been pounding the streets looking for my bike until minutes earlier, I thought I'd check it out. Got to the shop in time to see a couple of scumbags making a getaway on my bike after a smash and grab on the shop. A brief chase later they were gone so I trudged home, past the shop that had been raided. The police arrived and promptly tried to arrest me for the break in, it was fortunate my mum had decided to see where I'd got to and could corroborate my story.

Still didn't see the bike again :cry:

 

[reconminicon]

Ya did notice on the news lately that doing serious damage to people braking into your property was ok. With your luck I would be sending the VOLTS through a dodgy build.

 

[Rampage]

Ya did notice on the news lately that doing serious damage to people braking into your property was ok. With your luck I would be sending the VOLTS through a dodgy build.

I'm not sure the term 'serious damage' was used, more likely 'reasonable force'!
Connecting something to the mains which goes up to 325 volts (230v RMS) with the intention of injuring someone would never be acceptable.