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Was it in a relevant geographical location? For instance, in Amsterdam (NL) there is a well-known black market for bikes, and when a bike is stolen there is al
by nmc 13y ago
Was it in a relevant geographical location?
For instance, in Amsterdam (NL) there is a well-known black market for bikes, and when a bike is stolen there is always a good chance of finding it there.
On the contrary, for example in Paris (FR), my advice would be to forget about it — people even steal the heavily-impractical public rental bikes.
General advice for your next bike: take appropriate security precautions (more insecure neighbourhood -> bigger chain), and try to have it look cheap and dirty to discourage thieves.
- ancarda 13y agoI'm in the south of the UK. I'm not really sure if there's any black markets for bikes here. I've never had to deal with something like this before.
- collingwood 13y agoLocal car boot sales, private adverts in shop windows. If you are in or near London, Brick Lane market may still be a possibility, although Wikipedia says it's not so notorious as it once was. Consider challenging the insurer's decline of your claim, particularly if the bike was expensive.
- GFischer 13y agoIf he hadn't particularly registered his bike, I think he's out of luck, but he can try. I work for an insurance company (not in the UK) and we specifically ask for such easily movable objects to be explicitely registered in the home insurance policy (make, model and in some cases identification numbers), they're otherwise excluded. People must remember to register new purchases (they usually don't), and it's up to the insurance company whether to cover them or not. As part of a bigger (proven/proveable) theft, they might, but usually not as a singular event (too easy to abuse). Apparently in the UK it's an optional: http://www.which.co.uk/money/insurance/guides/contents-insurance-explained/how-contents-insurance-works/ http://www.which.co.uk/money/insurance/guides/contents-insur...
- ancarda 13y agoYeah, that was the issue. I didn't register the bike with insurance, so it wasn't covered.