Stolen Bike Registry - do this when your bike gets stolen

"With all the stolen bike posts lately (and no one thinking "I wonder if there's something under Useful Links for this."), I think it's well past time to make a sticky about the Stolen Bike Registry"

 - Tank-Ridin' Ryan

 

Well said Ryan.

 

 

http://chicago.stolenbike.org/

 

Done and done.

 

And sticky too.

 

 

Cheers - Lee Diamond

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Permalink Reply by Joe Willis on October 13, 2012 at 8:21am
Who is missing a Gunnar??

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/bik/3336355047.html

Picked this up at the flea market to flip, but someone ground off the serial numbers (I didn't look!)
So if your interested it's 50 cm about a medium size
Great condition!
Nice parts:
rolf vector wheels
shimano 105 flight deck components.
bontrager mix.
Or prove it's your bike and you can buy it back for what I paid $400
See pics...Need it gone...
First $400
as is where is
Text preferred 708-253-5914
Permalink Reply by Joe Willis on October 13, 2012 at 1:52pm

This guy just seems shady, I put his phone number in CL and came up with this.

http://chicago.craigslist.org/search/?areaID=11&subAreaID=&...

Permalink Reply by Jason W on October 15, 2012 at 11:12am

Anyone have any info pertaining to this place?

http://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/11irr6/was_your_bike_stole...

Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on October 15, 2012 at 1:07pm

Well that is the shop that kicked me out for trying to check the serial numbers on their bikes vs. the stolen bike registry one day...

h' said:

While I don't see any reason to doubt the veracity of the Reddit posting, I'll note that occasionally I've suggested that mid/far north side theft victims lake a look there, and have not had any find their bikes there, and more than one has noted that the people there were "nice" and "helpful." Apologies to those who can't stand to hear anything about this place that's not negative.

Cameron Puetz said:

That shop has come up before and has been described as incompetent at best, and probably a fencing operation.

http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/andersonville-bikes-fitnes...

 



Jason said:

Anyone have any info pertaining to this place?

http://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/11irr6/was_your_bike_stole...

Permalink Reply by Zoetrope on October 15, 2012 at 1:23pm

"Hey, uh... I'm some guy or something and uh..  can I poke around your store for serial numbers on your bikes for a while after I accuse you of nefarious activity?  No?!  What the heck, dude.  So not cool, bro."


notoriousDUG said:

Well that is the shop that kicked me out for trying to check the serial numbers on their bikes vs. the stolen bike registry one day...


Permalink Reply by Lanterne Rouge on October 15, 2012 at 2:25pm

Yeah, that place sucks. And for whatever reason, seeing their ads on craigslist always makes me mad.

Like I've said before - with so many great shops in the city, how does a place like this manage to stay afloat?

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on October 15, 2012 at 2:40pm

The guys who run the shop at 5600 N Western, Shining Bikes and Things, are the most annoying and maddening ads on C-list within the bicycles category.

They always put a billion "key-words" into EVERY SINGLE AD that have nothing to do with the item/bike they are selling.  This drives me crazy when I'm searching for something particular on C-list and their crap keeps getting hits and are always half or more of the total results I get in a search which then have to pick through.  To make things worse they never go by their own name or use the same "location" tag twice so they are hard to spot as fake/spam ads.   They have made me totally give up on craigslist alerts on google.

Every once in a while I flag every single ad they have on C-list (searching by phone number) just for spite and maybe hopefully cleaning up their act.

/rant

Jim S said:

Yeah, that place sucks. And for whatever reason, seeing their ads on craigslist always makes me mad.

Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on October 15, 2012 at 3:47pm

he just gets upset about haters flagging him because they are jealous of his legitimate business.  There was a thread here about it a couple years back that degraded into something even I considered to be a mess.  The owner is straight up crazy.


James BlackHeron said:

The guys who run the shop at 5600 N Western, Shining Bikes and Things, are the most annoying and maddening ads on C-list within the bicycles category.

They always put a billion "key-words" into EVERY SINGLE AD that have nothing to do with the item/bike they are selling.  This drives me crazy when I'm searching for something particular on C-list and their crap keeps getting hits and are always half or more of the total results I get in a search which then have to pick through.  To make things worse they never go by their own name or use the same "location" tag twice so they are hard to spot as fake/spam ads.   They have made me totally give up on craigslist alerts on google.

Every once in a while I flag every single ad they have on C-list (searching by phone number) just for spite and maybe hopefully cleaning up their act.

/rant

Jim S said:

Yeah, that place sucks. And for whatever reason, seeing their ads on craigslist always makes me mad.

Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on October 15, 2012 at 3:50pm


Actually I went in, introduced myself and explained to the owner that they were known for buying bikes and asked if they checked them against the stolen bike registry.  When he said no I asked him if he would mind if I did and he asked me why I wanted to do that.  When I told him I wanted to help the bikes get returned to the rightful owners if they were stolen he explained to me that they would have to pay what he had for the bikes to get them back and things went downhill from there.

Zoetrope said:

"Hey, uh... I'm some guy or something and uh..  can I poke around your store for serial numbers on your bikes for a while after I accuse you of nefarious activity?  No?!  What the heck, dude.  So not cool, bro."


notoriousDUG said:

Well that is the shop that kicked me out for trying to check the serial numbers on their bikes vs. the stolen bike registry one day...


Permalink Reply by TehDoak on October 17, 2012 at 9:15am

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/bid/3315477059.html

http://chicago.stolenbike.org/node/193391

I've already contacted the owner.  Seriously though, this place really seems like 100% stolen bikes.  

Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on October 17, 2012 at 11:02am

There is a very good chance that bike is not the same one; that is pretty much how they came.

TehDoak said:

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/bid/3315477059.html

http://chicago.stolenbike.org/node/193391

I've already contacted the owner.  Seriously though, this place really seems like 100% stolen bikes.  

Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on October 17, 2012 at 11:36am

The stolen bike is reported as a 57 and though the picture is a bit smooshed, that looks to be about right. The Shining Bike looks to be 60+.

And TD, no question Shining Bikes and Things is a sketchy business. But given the reports of other CL members regarding the condition of their bikes, they would have to be relying on thieves who exclusively steal bikes which are in disrepair. Seems like it would be almost a statistical impossibility.  

notoriousDUG said:

There is a very good chance that bike is not the same one; that is pretty much how they came.

TehDoak said:

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/bid/3315477059.html

http://chicago.stolenbike.org/node/193391

I've already contacted the owner.  Seriously though, this place really seems like 100% stolen bikes.  

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