Stolen Bicycle

[men5j2s]

I'd just like to inform everybody that my bicycle was stolen from outside persopolis (the persian shop in Peckham) on Peckham high street on Thursday.

It was broad daylight (4:00 pm) and very busy, yet nobody saw a thing. The bike was locked up to the bike parking poles outside of Peckham job centre - where incidentally there were no less than 5 G4S security guards stood behind a pane of floor to ceiling glass not 4 meters from the bike.

There are open and busy shops and hairdressers surrounding the bike rack, so i never would have thought that it was unsafe to lock my bike there. I was using a kryptonite? cable lock, which was cut through in public within the three minutes that I had left the bike for.

Please be on the lookout for anyone trying to sell my bike, a picture is attached.

Thanks

[aspidistra]

Cable 'locks' are pointless. Anyone who wants to take the bike will be through that within half a second.

Cable 'locks' merely attach your bike to something. These things should really not be sold as 'locks'.

[Evabeaver]

Bad luck, don't know if this will help but my bike was stolen in Peckham last year by a dodgy scrap metal van "city scrap metal" I've seen them cruising around Deptford since and when I tried to talk to them they were aggressive and drove away. I reckon they are responsible for a fair bit of the bike thefts around this way.

aspidistra - That's a helpful comment, hopefully someone's selling a time machine in the for sale section here and he can travel back and not use a pesky cable "lock"

[Twoddle]

They're not as bad those combination chain locks you can buy from the pound shop.

[peckhambog]

I realise this is too late for the OP but for other readers please see that cable locks "don't cut it" for any sort of bike security.

Slightly longer video below gives practical advice.

 

[campbellchris]

Sorry to hear that. There's a lot of it going around. My bike was stolen on Thursday from inside the stairs on the flat (locked to the railings with, yes, a cable lock), as was my neighbour's downstairs.

[men5j2s]

Thanks for the advice and comments guys.

I have since found out that the cable locks (no matter how good) can be cut through in no time with no noise at all. I will be using U locks on my new bike, and I will try to never let it out of my sight.

There has to be a way of fitting alarms to them.

[nunhead_man]

Much better video from the late great Barry Mason .............

peckhambog Wrote:

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[philma]

Thank you for posting these links and sorry to hear of your bike loss.

I recently ditched my cable lock (from pound shop. How did I get away with it??) for a

lock like the ones on the second video clip.

Luck of the draw, I guess.