Video: Gone in 60 Seconds

 My bike is my baby...you touch it, you die.

 The justice system in London/England is just shocking! Five months suspended sentance for stealing over 100 bikes!? That's effectively saying, "yeah it's fine, go and nick as many bikes as you like, you'll only get a slap on the wrist IF you get caught" and when you take matters into your own hands, the law is on their side not your's!

 problem fixed

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnEtHDPAfGw

 I am a registered gun owner for a reason.. Touch my bike i will find you or stop you

 Best bike lock I ever saw was outside the YMCA. Some guy's pretty sweet MTB was on the bike rack - unlocked. Next to it was a 120 lb German Shepherd whose leash was tied to the bike. "Ya feeling lucky punk??"

 That dope who wanted his 50 quid back needs a smack in the head.

 Thank you pinkbike for posting this bike stealing awareness. Hopefully someone or a company will make a CHEAP mini gps you can put inside your seat tube or something and alerts the owner through the phone if its moving. It would make the owner feel that much better that their ride or die never gona be lost because if you look in the video, anyone could be a thief.

 I never would have thought you could cut through those thick chain locks so quickly. Looks like there is some real money to be made if you can make a bomb proof cable lock.

 One lock twisted around the frame and whatever you're locking it to as many times as possible. One for each wheel doing the same thing and one for the bars. Finally, as most bike thieves will try and ride off on it, flick both the shifters to the lowest chainrings without actually moving the chain down, and undo your rear wheel qr (doesn't really work with through axles). Now the thieving scum's face will be buried in the pavement when they try and make their escape.

 Had my DJ bike nicked from outside my flat a few months ago in London. Luckily the kid who stole it was stupid enough to ride it around the local area 2 days after stealing it. The kid was only 13 years old so the police let him off with just a caution?!!! Got 2 avid juicys when I got it back though.

 apparently the famous bike theif in Vancouver area has been caught. of 50 mtb's and 10,000 $ worth of accessories. another happy day for the pb community !!

 It brings me great pleasure to see these thieves tossed to the ground and arrested.

 I uploaded this video to make people aware of bike theft, not just in the U.K, but worldwide. Always lock your bike up indoors....not the shed (unless it's secure like fort knox!) the garage or outside when at your property. Make sure you secure the bike to something strong and secure, or use a ground anchor (preferably one cemented into the ground) or banisters for example.

When in public places, use a strong lock. I couldn't recommend any other lock other than the Almax Series III or IV with Squire locks. But don't just use one chain, use a d-lock or two for your wheels too., this will make it harder for thieves to get through the locks and stall their time. Use alarmed padlocks too, these help as they cause attention and sometimes scare off thieves.

Avoid cable locks, unless you have a heavy duty chain and (two) d-lock(s) and make sure the cable lock is tight and well made.

If using D-Locks, make sure there is no space for a bottle jack device to squeeze in between any gaps as thieves do this to pop them open.

Be aware of being followed to your property. This has been a case or plenty, where people are followed from trails by thieves.

Always ask for permission from shops or work to leave your bike at work indoors, if they refuse, use a 'beater bike.' A beater bike is a cheap supermarket/old bike of worthless value and thieves won't bother most of the time with them. Keep your good bike at home.

Hope none of your bikes are stolen, and for all your info, visit my website: http://bicycle-security.webs.com

Alex.

 I saw a shirt recently.. "if you run your fingers over my bike, I'll run your fingers over with my bike."
I seriously dont let my bike out of my sight. My bulldog and .45 watch over it in my house after bedtime.

 How about this,
"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my BIKE go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."
That will be all.

 my mate had has orange nicked not long ago, he let everyone know on Facebook and another pal found it on an ebay type website, in the picture you could make out the thief's number plate through a window, he zoomed in and got the reg no and told the police, they kicked his door in and got it back, my mates only regret is he didnt get to kick his head in haha

 That inbred moron who stole over hundred bikes, all he got was a suspended sentence! No prison, No massive fine, just a slap on the wrist! Send the arsehole to the Middle East & cut the f*ckers hands off!!

 its the same with motorbikes, bought a mag before and they were testing locks, alarms ect. they then went on to see if there was any point in an alarm as will people take notice, basicly they set a bike up. pulled up in a trasit set the alarm off cut the lock off and pushed it into the transit, in a busy town centre outside a starbucks and i think only one person said are you stealing that, they said nahh mate i lost my keys so getting it recovered and the guy said fair enough and walked on lol simple really dont leave your bike locked up out of sight or it will go bye byes , still wrong though

 Definitely wasnt expecting to see a vid like this, but it is very relevant and well-made. Im glad it was featured. Thanks PB, keep up the good content. Its nice to see something out of the ordinary.

 What the video didn't say is that never put a heavy duty lock on the floor because the only way those guys cut through those chains so quick is because they had to put all their body weight into it. In my experience the police do very little, too nothing to get it back. In december 2010 i brought one of the first 5, demo 8 in the country, 2 in birmingham 1 in specialised UK HQ the other Brend Dog's. and it was never found hard to believe that a bike so uncommon couldn't be found. For those that don't live in the city, watch out for crowded vans our cars following you home, this is one of the biggest forms of bike theft in Cheltenham. All ways lock your bike up out of site and buy one of the locks that when cut put out a 190 decibel alarm along with other locks (find them on chain reaction). As well as all of this is useful its not unheard of the thief cutting through the frame to get to the parts, as they are much harder to trace. Fake cctv works as a deterrent to a small web cam or something under a porch light. it may all sound expensive but i now that i wasnt happy about spending another 5k on a new bike. Hope this helps some of you.

 ive seen those kryptonite new york locks in person they're heavy as hell and huge it makes me lose hope completely when i see them cut through near instantly, when I have my bike it comes with me inside at all times i dont care what some shop owner thinks and when im at home it stays inside id never put it in the garage

 this is like a horror movie to me :o

 Bike theft is getting pretty common in my area. It's never the kinds of bikes shown in this video, they are all high end Norcos, Konas, Specialized, Devinci's, things like that. I'm glad I don't live "in town" my commute is pretty far. But I've had quite a few tweaked out looking drug addicts comment on my bike when I'm stopped on it. It's obvious they want to steal it, but I'm too street smart for that.

A few weeks ago I had my bike locked up along with my friends, and another high-dollar bike behind the local bike shop. In the half hour we were there, I popped my head out to check on the bikes 4 times. Call it paranoia, I call it being careful.

 Just proves if someone wants your bike they'll have it. A lock will only slow them down. Doesn't really encourage people to ride to work does it. Places of work should provide secure places to lock your bike.

 I realised long ago that the only way to know your bike is safe is to be watching it, or have a mate watching it while you go to the loo or into a shop. I once had a bike locked up with a D lock right in the town centre, in a pedestrian area, van drove in regardless, two guys jumped out, used big bolt cutters, emptied the bike racks into the back of the van and drove off, never recovered

 my bike comes into work with me and the previous owner lived in brixton and kept it in his house or in work like me not just london but nowhere is safe to leave a bike locked up look at cambridge thousands of bike and hundreds just at the train station loads go missing every day. so sad

 There's one thing everyone I think is forgetting. This is life. It has no guarantees. Cars get stolen, bikes get lost, houses get broken into, you get held up on the corner and relatives get cancer. It sucks, its harsh, its life.

I remember this homeless guy that stole a bike from the LBS, the LBS ran him down and beat the snot out of him. Then, plastered it all over FaceBook as a 'trophy' and had a Pabsts after for their 'good work'. Its nice to know that the LBS gets its kicks by beating a man and bragging about it. A man that had 1/100th of what their spoiled dickhead selves had. "needless to say, I dont support them now' and Im not supporting bike thiefs, I had 3 bikes stolen while in college. I was heart broken, but it does make you wonder, what makes people go to the end to do something such as this?

In a way, I feel sorry for them.

 had a bike stolen before..i learnt from that..

my bikes are kept in a room upstairs in my house, I have two staffordshire bull terriers who DO not like anybody they don't know in the house...chance of death very high!

when I ride to work i have a security camera on the bikes at all times with a live feed to my desk and several other peoples...anyone gets caught down there they have no escape..any thieving scumbag who wants to steal what I work hard for WILL be punished by me...not our pansy laws...note to thieves...you WILL lose digits, teeth, possibly your eyesight and your balls..id make sure you remember it for the rest of your worthless life

..peace to all

 I have a cable lock that my uncle gave me last year. Its from 08', and he got it for $70. You can see the marks all over it where it has tried to be cut, but they never even got the main wires! You get what you (your uncle gives you) pay for.

 Had a few pedal bikes stolen but worst was when tried to take my motorbike and my mates
They Was locked up and alarmed next to shops with CCTV mine had two locks and disc locks we had been gone for half an hour and on our approach to where we left te bikes had us scratching our heads, both gone but just a walk up the road there was mine alarm still going off and no1 around I was glad to see it again (it was just in a cul de sac ) I sat with my mate and waited then a huge van turned up pulled up along side my bike they popped open the back doors and there was my mates bike I was calm my mate kind of lost it with the two people long story short we had our bikes back and the two lads kind of worse for wear there excuses where they had been ask to pick them up

 Nothing really that surprising. Tools are available everywhere that cut all locks like cheese, and people buy cheap locks. Even the £100 locks were defeated in seconds. People are prepared to buy for cash what is obviously a stolen bike from shady looking people then the demand is clearly there so the loop will self-proliferate.

The sting bikes that were stolen were targeted by thieves who knew what they were looking for, bikes they could sell on which were locked up with pathetic locks. All the bikes witnessed being stolen on the video were with flimsy wire locks cut with even small gauge wire cutters, the two being watched by the Police were obviously spotted and scoped out by experienced bike thieves who knew an easy target. Presumably they had already stolen all the other easy to steal bikes off those two stands previously. I guess the moral is, if you have to ride in London (or many other major cities, even small towns) then a) make the bike more shed like so it is less attractive to steal, and b) lock it up with a sturdier lock than the one next to it. Best of all keep it out of sight, I guess most city offices don't have space to store everyone's bikes though.

I can understand people not wanting to wade in, I mean come on if you were minding your own business on your own walking through town and you saw someone with a portable angle grinder cutting a bike lock in the middle of London, would you intervene? No chance whatsoever. It's not the fact that as Boris (I think it was him) said in the video no-one takes responsibility for the community anymore, I think what is far more likely is no-one wants to get potentially seriously injured playing the good Samaritan and saving someone else's bike from being stolen. Pretty depressing really, things like this could make you despair in humanity.

 You have no idea, what I could do with these bastard thieves .....I HATE people like this, thanks PINKBIKE, now I`ll take care more about my bike :-)

BTW here in Norway yesterday started to snow, and already there`s 0.6 meter No cycling this year any more

 It's a big problem. There's warnings at my local trails about people following you home so that they can see who to burgle. Touch wood, I've not had too many problems personally. Had one bike stolen when I was like 13 and doing a paper round. Also had some drunk try to take my bike off me when I was street riding one night. "Try" being the operative word here. ;-)

 It's a sad truth that no matter what you do to protect it, if the theifs want it they will take it. And whether through choice or lack of resource the police cannot and will not do anything about it. While living in London for 5 years I had two bikes stollen and as fellow bikers you will be aware of the considerable cost. The last one was locked inside my gym, in front of CCTV cameras. And when stollen the gym staff could identify they guy, kindly telling me " oh yeah he steals bikes from here every week " thinking this would be enough for the police, they told me they would not be taking any action and I should be glad my bike was insured. Needless to say that was the last of my biking in London. Thousands of pounds worth of bikes sold on for pennies.

 fukers while most people go to work and ern a liveing these low lifes make more selling your pride n joy . 130 pound that just 1 bike think about it sell 2 or 3 bikes aday over 5 days your makeing more than the person who locked up there bike and went to do a honest days work . Bloody shocking

 i think ill need a better lock after watching this.... if i caught something trying to take my bike. i would would make them feel pain for a long long time...i will make them remember dont mess with a Passionate mountainbikers bike.....

 I'm definitely glad that this movie is out, bike theft is the worst crime in our little community. But if the police were really involved in the "decoy bike" scene, isn't that pretty obvious entrapment? I'm glad they got the guys, but in America I don't think you'd be allowed to sit there and set traps for thieves all day.

 Also, a search engine for stolen bikes: racklove.com/stolen-bike-finder

This website helped recover a stolen bike locally. Also, the thief was busted for another stolen item they tried to sell on craigslist.

 Thieves are such scum and such a pleasure to watch as they get caught in the act. I don't know what I would do if someone were to steal any of my bikes and I caught up to them.

 Such bullshit. There should be a hard labor camp for thieves, somewhere cold and wet. Work is probably the only thing theyre actually afraid of. Had my baby stole after two weeks. Gonna take the best part of a year to rebuy.

 Never lock your bike outside. If you don't have a place to stash it at work don't ride it. My bike comes to class and comes into work with me. The professors get it. My boss understands. The thieves never get a chance.

 Scum bags ! ...no other word... We all wish we could catch them but unfortunatly not many get caught ...so make it count when you do catch one ...there not gonna go to the police for getting a good kicking ;0)

 The music on this is straight AWESOME; Massive Attack and DJ Shadow

 What really bugs me is that there are people looking around on pinkbike and other website and forums, targeting our bikes as we post our videos and our photos, the trail heads where we park our cars, our license plates. Basically gathering information.

 "Let's fight the thieves by getting better security for bikes, and being more wiser to their tricks."

Personally, I'm more a fan of fighting the thieves by beating the holy f*ck out of them...

 London, what a sh1t hole, glad I live as far away from it as you can get in England.

 I can't believe how many people are just passing by when someone is stealing bikes.

 Let Hal grade your bike locking skills:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTA3JsZWiec

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8UpUj_8tWI

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCbU83_G6nA

 if i ever get my bike stolen i hope he has that half a second to think he has time to grab the bike get it off the rack and get on and ride away so i have the joy of tackling that scumbag to the ground.

 somebody once tried to steal my bike directly from me, I asked "have you got a gun"? ... "no"... "you're going to need one to even have a chance of taking my bike from me" .... "i'm much bigger than you".... "i guess you are" I got off the bike and Spun 180' knocking many of his teeth out with a right cross, and then kicked him while down until I was satisfied he was badly injured.

Bigger than me, yes. But I had more passion..... also, did I mention I was still in full armour from a ride and still wearing my kevlar knuckled gloves which saved me from cutting my knuckles on his now broken teeth.

 that awful feeling when your cringing at huge locks being cut and then they cut yours in 8 seconds.....think i need another lock.

 My marin gets locked up with Chucky ass chain and a mentionsensor lock thats got 110db alarm and is sensitive to metal not bomb proof but works very well

 i think a lojack for a bike would be great. install it way down near the b.b. in the frame. track that motherfucker down even if it got away.

 now Im parnoid. Tonight Im welding by bike to my truck.

 my bikes our all in my house nice an cozy beside by shotgun. Because you never know right?

 I think someone should snatch up one of these thieves and cut there hand off and post that video for all to see. I know I would if caught someone trying to steal one of my mine.

 I love people getting caught who steal bikes.

 I gotta get me one of those GPS tracker seats! Payback is a biatch. insert evil laughter here >

 Use their own shitty tools to cut off their own shitty hands. they'll struggle to do it again.

 Police should do more 'gps decoy' actions and punishment should be social works, like bicycle paths building for free.

 The prison sentences we give over here are complete rubbish, these bastards should be locked away for years!

 I think that if you're in normal clothes everyone thinks that you lost your bike lock's keys and want to cut them down...

 Boris johnson for the win!!!!

 Shoot then in the legs and give then an wheel chair, as they like 2 wheel to ride on!

 Shoot this f***** on the knee cap so their can ride on the wheel chair.
I HATE THIS PEOPLE !

 Steal a bike from a shop,your nicked,but buy the same bike, and park it outside the shop no police man will care.

 loved the part when they cut through the £100 Abus lock in 8 seconds that i own and trust.........trusted!!!

 this is why i hate england you cant have anything nice because people try so hard to steal what they cant afford

 3, bikes stolen. 1 of which I was held up at knife point for.

 also what you susposed to lock a bike up with then, if the locks over£100 only take a gobshite 8 seconds to snap off.

 Bike thieves should have their fingers cut off pond life

 I laughed pretty hard when that lady said stay calm.. its the police..

 my bike is never left outside....locked or not!

 immobilise.com seems to be a useful webpage. It is sad that it is only used in the UK.

 So glad I live where I do when I watch this kind of video. I feel so sorry for anyone who has their bikes stolen.

 Just make sure your lock is approved by your insurer, otherwise they won't cover you if your bike gets nicked.

 I would beat the shit out of anyone if i caught them touching my bike, stealing, thats death

 i time i got my dirtbike stolen... for 3 hours....

 Never going to be more than 10 feet from my bike after seening this.

 that was a really great video

 Moral of the story? Buy better quality locks

 Well, time to buy a new lock for my commuter bike...

 16:20 Motherf*ckers! Thats a GIANT!!!

 You know that you can explode lock with nuclear weapon?

 Ive never gotten a bike stolen.

 5-6 months is a bit gentle.... they should make it 5-6yrs

 were can you get a tracker in the uk

 Good choice of background music: Massive Attack - Teardrop.