{"id":141646,"date":"2016-06-28T13:31:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T13:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=141646"},"modified":"2016-06-28T13:44:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T13:44:12","slug":"profile-stolen-ride-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2016\/06\/28\/profile-stolen-ride-london\/","title":{"rendered":"@StolenRide: Where Cyclists Look Out for Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Nobody wants to have their beloved bike stolen, but now at least there\u2019s a way for fellow cyclists to help one another out. @StolenRide is a London-based community of over five thousand cyclists, bike shops and others in which members help one another to locate stolen bike via Twitter. According to @StolenRide, information compiled by Litelok\u00ae suggest that the true figures for bikes stolen per year in London are higher than the roughly twenty thousand reported to the police, perhaps closer to seventy thousand.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The service was started by Richard Cantle after he tried to locate his own stolen bike on Twitter. @StolenRide uses the power of social media and the cycling community to combat bike theft. First, those who need help tweet a photo, description of their bike and where it was stolen and mention @StolenRide. The account then retweets these for those in its community to see. Here is an example of a recent tweet that was retweeted:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StolenRide?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StolenRide<\/a> Genesis Equillibrium Disc 10 nearly new stolen from Stoke Newington Fri 23rd June, pls contact if seen <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k3gl12Dgpu\">pic.twitter.com\/k3gl12Dgpu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Peter Watts (@PeterWattsSD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterWattsSD\/status\/747731791134531584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Here is another recent tweet:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StolenRide?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StolenRide<\/a> State Bike Co. Contender, silver with black carbon fork and deep rims, stolen yesterday from Archway. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PztvaGN5M2\">pic.twitter.com\/PztvaGN5M2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Duane Dalton (@duane_dalton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/duane_dalton\/status\/747032239712641024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Next, others in the @StolenRide Twitter community help out by both keeping an eye out for these bikes themselves and retweeting the posts so that others in their network can also help out. If someone happens to spot a stolen bike anywhere, they tweet the owner. They may also involve the police.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cantle, although the police do not always take the cases seriously, the service works. For example, James Vernon had his \u00a34,000 bike stolen in Islington, and it was then spotted on a Spanish website by someone in Spain. Below is a photo showing the original tweets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141648\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/06\/2015-03-30-1427738655-6257302-Recovered_Stolen_Bike_London.jpg\" alt=\"2015-03-30-1427738655-6257302-Recovered_Stolen_Bike_London\" width=\"587\" height=\"611\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a photo of the happy owner who was reunited with his bike:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-141649\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/06\/JamesVernon-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"JamesVernon\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Armand also spotted another bike that was retweeted by @StolenRide, a \u00a32,000 road bike. He then worked with the police to get the bike back to its owner.\u00a0Another bike was reportedly located in Moldova via @StolenRide.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, @StolenRide has no plans to cover outside London. It does, however, plan on expanding their services within London and move into the prevention of bike theft later this year.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you know any cyclists in London, let them know about the @StolenRide community. For those without Twitter, it is also possible to use the community\u2019s Facebook page (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StolenRide\">www.facebook.com\/StolenRide<\/a>) or view tweets on their website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stolenride.co.uk\">www.stolenride.co.uk<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody wants to have their beloved bike stolen, but now at least there\u2019s a way for fellow cyclists to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":141650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[455,395,415],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-141646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-urban-cycling","tag-stolenride","tag-bike-stealing","tag-thief"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>@StolenRide: Where Cyclists Look Out for Each Other - 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