Bike Recoveries

Me and 2 friends followed the bikes GPS signal and located the bike in an abandoned site with a caravan located in East Ham with 2 males.

SHORT > Found a listing on Gumtree with significant similarities, informed Police Scotland, posed as a buyer and verified it was in fact my bike in person. Called Police Scotland who came to verify the frame number to the crime number and handed the bike to me once it checked out. LONG > After keeping daily tabs online for a month, I eventually came across a listing on Gumtree not far from my city. Upon further inspection of the images, I was able to identify that it was in fact my bike based on unique characteristics that were identical, some parts of the bike had been changed. I called Police Scotland with information about the ad the following afternoon and contacted the seller and posed as a buyer from elsewhere. As the week was progressing, I was getting anxious as I was not getting any information from Police as to whether they were investigating the ad or not, so I called back and was informed that the officer on my case was off at the time. I then decided to confirm arrangements to view the bike at the weekend with the seller. This conversation got me the address which was in fact not in the area that was on the listing but was quite close to my home address. Once we arrived at the seller's address, I immediately started to look over the bike, looking for characteristics that I was familiar with before flipping it over to read the frame number. During which we were making casual conversation such as how long he had the bike, he lied. I knew the bike was mine before doing so but Police were only interested in the number regarding coming to the address. A few phone calls later we were greeted by a few officers who verified with the crime number details that the bike was a match and handed the bike to me. Due to a lack of evidence, the seller basically got a slap on the wrist. But I’m grateful that I got the bike back in one piece and hope my experience is able to help someone else.

I was contacted by police to say bike had been found as part of a raid for another crime, and my bike was returned to me a while later.

My bike was found at the local college about a month after I reported it stolen from railway station. It was delivered to my address by the lovely Thames Valley Police team!

Local person found the bike and kept hold of it until they found the correct owner, hats off to them what a saviour! Police were of no use.

Kindly recovered by a couple who discovered the bike, inexplicably, on the roof of their garage! It's a large frame, so I assume the bike was too large for the thieves, and they managed to launch it into the air with the force of the sheer anger. NASA should hire them.

I was connected by my brother who had seen the bike.

Found pushed into a hedge. Thieves had evidently been unable to work out how to deactivate the brake! Neighour who found it most kindly stood guard over it until I could get there.

Was advertised for sale on Facebook and I bought it back as police were hopeless in assisting me and were not interested in pursuing the theif.

Person contacted me through Bike Registered, said bike bought from unknown, vut when checked found out it was stolen. I was able to collect from private address. Bike in good condition, Bike Register sticker scraped off leaving obvious mark of the sticker on the frame. Thank you for quick communication on this, I was very lucky to get the bike back 3 days after being stolen.

I was contacted by Cambridgeshire police who say they've recovered the bike

Found by owner. Recovery assisted by Twickenham police station.

Spotted locked up in street. Checked frame number and advised police. Friend arrived with bolt cutters.

Bike was found by a member of the public near catford bridge station whose friend had seen one of the reward posters that we posted nearby . Unfortunately, there is some damage to the frame that prevents the folding/ splitting mechanism to work correctly. However, very glad to have it back.