Is your bike really your bike?
 

This article was on the local news website....is this where your stolen bike has been stripped and resold on another legitimate frame.....read on

http://www.hillingdontimes.co.uk/new...ly_your_bike_/

Shame there is no more information about the shop in question.

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i hope it is stuffed if it's not lol.

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I wouldn't be suprised if a lot of the secondhand parts sold on Ebay don't come from stolen bikes. I think that we're all guilty of over-looking this possibility as we're getting a bargain.

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The V5 says its mine and that's good enough for me. :p

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+1

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Yup mate what u said there :)

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Dunno what the law is like for chopped bikes like the ones in the article but you have no legal rights if you buy a stolen bike - it gets repatriated and you don't get any money back.

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Is this just another way of scaring everyone into buying new? *cough economy*

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hope so.. if it aint then cupar mc's is in BIG TROUBLE....

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Basically, this is why selling a frame with V5 should be illegal.

Tea leafs simply buy a frame+V5, nick a bike of same model and transplant all parts except frame. Sort paperwork to deal with "change of" engine number and away you go - new bike for price of a frame (and some build time).

It's also why I am cautious looking at a bike with different engine and frame numbers when the OEM was the same. Not always a definite walk away, I just look much harder for the explanation.