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Graham wrote:Speculation is pointless.

Yup, you're right.

So what was going on here does anyone think? I messaged him via stolen bikes, here, and on RideWithGPS, and replied to this thread. No reply from any of that. The bike listed by Rob L Dear on eBay really did look like the one apparently stolen. It matched in most/all details. Was being advertised in the same geographical location, and was listed a few days after the robbery was said to have taken place. It might not have been the bike, but it would be a lot of coincidences adding up. All seems a bit odd to me. Why would you list your stolen bike in several place then completely ignore likely finding of it?

Graham wrote:Thanks Ben.

I expect you have tried to Private Message Gavsdad.

I have just sent an email to his registration email address.
That is all we can do really, apart from replying to the police email in the original post.

Yes I PM'd him.

I'll send the email I sent to the police previously to that address in his post now. Be better if he knew though. As I mentioned, I'd already previously emailed the police, not the same address as in his above message. I'm guessing to get the police into action would take more prompting, and the original owner is the best to do that. Anyway, I'll send again to the police.

Does anyone know how to contact Gavsdad ? He doesn't seem to be aware of any of the above.

Oh, and I've just noticed you say above, "Conti 4-seasons tyres". That's what it has! That wasn't mentioned in the stolen-bike listing. It must be your bike?

I messaged you about this. I'm pretty sure I found the bike listed on eBay. I messaged you twice via stolen-bike.co.uk. I then, as I happened to already be in conversation with the seller about the bike, because before I thought it was probably stolen I was thinking of buying it, and because I got no response from the stolen-bike messages, thought what the hell, and asked the seller what the frame number is because I wanted to check it's not stolen. He delisted it pronto and didn't respond. And he'd been responding to previous questions about the bike no problem. So I emailed the police, easier said than done, because there was no central Leicestershire email address just a bunch of particular ones, so I just plumped for one (eastleicester.npa@leicestershire.pnn.police.uk) and emailed them the details including the crime reference number.

Maybe it wasn't your bike, maybe it wasn't stolen. Who knows. The specs really did seem the same though as yours though, and the seller was based in your area (Leicester), and it was listed 8 days after it was stolen from you (on 16th Nov). Plus it was listed in an odd, wrong section for bikes, it was in Sporting Goods>Cycling>Bike Components & Parts>Forks. In the conversation with the seller, he told me it was 10 speed though. But from the photos of the bike on eBay I'm sure it's actually 11 speed. The only differences I could see between your one and the listed one was the listed one didn't have mudguards and the personalised head cap wasn't there, but those are easily removed/replaced.

Here's the now ended listing: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/401027829760
The seller also had listed three other bikes too, two of which were sold via eBay one of which wasn't.

Let me know if you want a copy of the full conversation I had with the seller.

Hello,

Had my Cannondale Supersix, black 2013 Ultegra 54cm, stolen in Norwich centre yesterday (Tue 3rd November '15) between about 2.30pm and 3.30pm. It was locked up in the bike racks between McDonalds and the Millennium library next to Next opposite a church.

This one:


With Continenal Grand Prix 4000 tyres.

Reported it to the police pretty much straight away. They mentioned CCTV. It wasn't insured.

If anyone sees something like that being sold, especially in the Norwich area, do please let me know.

https://stolen-bikes.co.uk/stolen-bikes ... n-norwich/

Thanks, Ben.