Confronting London’s Most Infamous Bike Thief

This week we caught and confronted a bike thief and he revealed his methods…

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On average let’s say a month how many bikes would you would you steal and how much would you make as well probably around about 30 bikes 35 bikes some of them sell some of them don’t sell probably around about 25 grand for Grand yeah put that one on it I’ll rip it straight off what with your hands with my hands yeah how would you steal this it looks pretty you know Before you ride off what would you do if your back was stolen I would be very sad you report to the police uh coming coming Dante report what would you do if your bike was stolen well uh I would report it to the police but I did nothing happened

I would yell I would maybe try to grab him and get back my bike don’t what you do feel bag but stolen uh it did I feel this man’s pain this man being my a cameraman jib rules like me him and many others our bikes have been stolen This

Is Not Unusual for London however bike theft has become an epidemic of sorts with more than 50 bikes stolen a day According to some statistics is it your bike huh is that your bike the hurt and pain I felt from my bike being stolen is the reason why I’m making this video to

Interview a bike thief and understand their motives and methods to also steal my own bike in public to see if anybody will try to stop me I can’t actually reveal how I got the connection to the bike Thief for obvious reasons uh but the only request that he had was that I

Shout out his YouTube channel so here’s his YouTube channel okay that’s enough promo all right so I’m sat here with a actual bike Thief first of all let me ask how many bikes have you stolen to to count probably about 450 500 bikes I’ve been probably doing it for about 6 7 years

Now how did you get into it things with money when money’s hard just easy easy target what type of bikes do you normally do you normally go for if I want money big bikes African twins gs’s big bikes like that to make money but if

I want a bike to get myself I’d go and get go and get sh300 Bev just things like that and what’s like the riskiest bike to go for like one maybe one that you wouldn’t go for just something with too many locks is there like a specific

Bike lock that prevents you from from trying to steal it no lot could stop me from stealing a bike but people there’s Heroes that try to grab you or things like that just avoid those sort of bikes just grab the easy targets have you ever had anything like a a fight breakout or

Something like that that happened when you were stealing your bike getting caught or something like that uh yeah I’ve been rugby tackled by off duty police officer he rugby tackled me sat on top of me he’s was out my legs and I got arrested for that that’s because

There’s so many people about is near High Street so what you did it during like the daytime uh yeah daytime daytime’s the best why is the daytime the best cuz that’s when they leave their bikes when they locks night time they lock their lock their bikes up if I

Follow someone at daytime and I’ve got a garage or a Target and then fair enough I will do it at night time cuz it has to be a night time job bu until then times so that line bike right there yeah the line bike’s got no battery and cuz

Someone stole it like what I told you earlier oh someone’s already finessed it yeah so yeah give me a diagnosis of this it just literally R out the battery use the battery for their own their own sell so you’re telling me they literally just rip it there’s no like just just rip it

Open could you take some of these parts and then and then use them or or is this useless now I could take the seat p could take it takes a couple things not really worth it do you ever steal any of the other parts let’s say a bike is like

This would you maybe steal like a tire a chain something else that’s valuable or is that not valuable to you just as long as it’s a high NB bike I take the factory I take just anything I need really where do you sell the bikes to or

Like what’s the what’s the way to make the money from the from the bike theft uh just sell it to people that ship it across board uh border to Bulgaria and stuff like that I got a couple people that buy the bikes and send them abroad

Cuz if you send it abroad the numbers don’t matter the bike won’t come up stolen so they get the legit money for it is there someone you contact specifically or is it like how does how does it work from like you getting the bike to actually to actually getting the

Money in your hands uh multiple people uh I got people that send into Romania people that send them to Poland got got quite a lot of contacts was it like fun to steal bikes was it like exhilarating what was the what was the feeling uh at

The start yeah it’s fun it’s always fun stealing by it but when you get C it’s not really that fun do you normally do it by yourself or with other people as well uh I usually have a group no point not doing it myself cuz I can’t to the

Bike off myself can’t you just ride it off the big bike you can’t start a big bike so you have to just tow them off push them away hide them somewhere and get them sold so you’re telling me you feel like No Remorse for these people

Whatsoever no no REM no REM I mean not even like a little bit I I never get to see them so I don’t know how they’re feeling if you did get to see them if if you saw them like I’m guessing you’d feel you’d feel the type of way right no

Not really wow okay okay do you recommend people to do this uh no cuz I want more bikes for myself like I said earlier I’d rather rather all the money go into my pocket than their pocket what’s the most expensive bike you you’ve stolen would you say uh the kv4

How much did you sell that for uh they sell about around about 4 and a half Grand wow was it like an electric bike I’m guessing uh no it’s a motor bike oh you still motorbike as well sports bike yeah sports bike wow this this point I

Had realized this was no ordinary bike Thief this was a motorbike thief and how do you still is there like a how do you Ste those uh literally just I’m on the bike my mate jumps on the bike I just tow him off that’s it I put my foot on

The foot Pig Yeah and R my bike and it it propels his bike forward how would you react if someone stole your bike or was attempting to steal your bike uh can’t really say that can’t really say what I do apart from police have you had like any any fights or any

Altercations um with someone that you’ve you know been caught was thinking about uh yeah yeah a couple times a couple times I was in an underground trying to grind the lock off the bike a man come down with a pole so we have to defend ourselves what if someone has like a

Tracker on the bike what do you do then uh signal Jam turn signal jummer R they can’t track they can’t track it it gives me time to look around the bike and take the tracker out of the bike I mean it sounds simple when you’re saying it but

I’m guessing it’s does is it complicated cuz it you know sounds pretty easy from the way you’re describing it uh really and truly you just look at the battery if there’s more than two wires coming off the battery you just follow those wires down it’s probably the side panel

Front panel and then you just see a little blocks that’s a little block that’s beef in red then you just rip it out or it says GPS on there if it’s got c in there just R it out SN it CH have you ever felt like you know using these

You know skills that you have to do other things that isn’t like stealing bikes uh not really not really is it just cuz it makes too much money uh there a lot of money to be made on average let’s say a month how many bikes would you would you steal and how much

Would you make as well probably around about 30 bikes 35 bikes some of them sell some of them don’t sell probably around about 25 Grand 30 grand first of all how do you even steal the bikes like what’s what’s your process some locks you need tools some locks I

Could just do it with my hand do it with your hands yeah okay let’s yeah let’s go to the bike and see what you can do put that one on it I’ll rep straight off well with your hands with my hands yeah all right let’s do It how would you Ste this it looks pretty you know So it literally completely obliterated basically the these are like the worst bike locks to get if you were going to 100% more I’m surprised you don’t use like any other specific tools like a you know like um grinder yeah like a grinder have you ever used that before yeah yeah

Yeah yeah I’ve used a grinder before is that useful yeah see it’s easy to get rid of big chunky locks and stuff like that so let’s say this bike right here right a chain like this this is not one we seen before when we filmed the video

How would you take this one just rip it rip it so everything is ripping yeah everything’s ripping but then how how would you rip something like that it’s not even look how thin it is from over here exact same as the other thing it just ripped but this is like a chain

Though yeah chain still rip the metal will come off the links will come off and what about this one I need a metal pole as the trolley Pole or something like that well you just wedge it in there I’ll wedge it in there and just

Twist it twist it and jump on it until it snaps has your bike ever been stolen never you you want to meet a bike Thief okay yeah why not have you got any questions for the for the for the bike Thief what what motivates you money money [ __ ] I get it

Can you show us any basketball moves um maybe I’m a bit shy right you know we where the gro is you know we where the feeling ising who wins gets the [Applause] Bike so how how do it feel you want a you want a free bike by being a bike Thief at basketball life is good you know what I mean thank you my bro no worries second handshake you can ride off of course I Pro it today have a nice Day SL our bite to give away real life way all right guys we’re currently in a notorious bike theft location I’ve set up a bike behind me and I’m going to steal it we’re going to see if anybody tries to stop me how long it takes because I can’t really trust the bike

Thief techniques it wasn’t that sophisticated I have also brought a uh a bolt car just in case you know no need to be afraid I’m not going to kill anybody it’s just don’t worry it’s not it’s not what you think guys calm down bro before I sto the bike I was extremely

Nervous I did a few laps up and down the road to get what wait why did I do that up and down the road to get to get myself in the mode to steal my own Bike I am about to steal a bike with a gazillion people in front of me What a surprise literally nobody stopped me you know who who would have thought in London that crime doesn’t get stopped you know I don’t really blame them you know I’m like a big guy I’m a big but like 2 seconds later this lady stopped me and started

Questioning me have you s it well You’ got no they’re um this is like this is my phone what she then actually started to call the the police so I told her this was just a YouTube video and this is what she had to say holding you’re

Holding two things you don’t look like a bike Thief to me because no you don’t did you ever me a bike Fe no and if I ever do a [ __ ] could look like what about if I was like if I was like this yeah help and some people will say black

Guy up to no good okay now I’m thinking about how you talk how you spoke I I don’t think you look quite dgy enough who would have thought someone who looks like me would be told I don’t look dodgy enough they call me up AOW a class yeah

You’re well spoken well spoken yeah in fact I was so inocent looking that this lady started to introduce me to another friend this is hello this is my friend Chris Chris hi nice to meet you and then they gave me tips on how to be a better Thief who would have Thought okay so what would you do if your bike was stolen oh I’m from Copenhagen I’m from Denmark so coming here to London I would start build up aggression towards the whole system that kind of validates that it’s okay to steal bikes I have a bike

That I’m not even bringing out that I bought brought from Copenhagen and I’m not bringing it to the streets because I don’t want to lose it do you feel like London has that reputation of like you know you can’t leave your bike around yeah yeah really really a lot yeah you

You see like three guys and they come with a and then people are just walking by because they’re just like numb yeah because it’s kind of just accepted that’s that’s how it is but from like a whole societal point of view where you want people on the street you want

People on the bike it’s really annoying that it’s all just uh Ultra processed foods and just uh don’t move just hit on your screen that’s sorry I’m old thank you very much what’s your name thank you Tommy Tommy Tomy real life is wild yes it is especially in London especially thank

You my friend good day thank You sorry about my past life sorry but we just missed sorry it had to end up like This sorry I caused you pain sorry I forgot your name s sorry but you left me out in the rain thought I knew you better thought I knew your intentions thought I knew but didn’t have a C now to think the damn thing was True wait how old are you 12 would you ever steal a bike no why because they paid for it last time I got back the first day someone stole it what would you say to him if you could say anything to him um nothing I mean you said nothing to to

Your bike Thief oh if someone stole my back yeah and it was someone that you just saw oh I say I’m thinking your PR kind to fo a bike nobody knows what’s going to happen and then we film it that’s the whole concept that we’ve always done it