Bike's been nicked!

[JudgeDredd]

Thanks all...

I'm still really seething about it now. It's worth nowhere near to the guy what it is to me. I reckon in parts and service etc it's probably worth £1300-£1500...he'll probably sell it for £100 for a fix of some sort!

That's the scumbag

[BanzaiCat]

You might think about posting this on Craigslist where you live, and ask for help from the locals if they've seen this asshole.

Maybe even offer a reward for the bike itself, if you can swing that. But posting something online there would be free and you never know, it might turn up something.

[spelk]

Sorry to hear about your loss JD, get the images you have to the rozzers - although I doubt they'll do much. However, look it up on ebay - a friend of mine had her expensive bike stolen from outside work, and it showed up on ebay the day after. The police managed to track the seller down and get the bike back! Good luck in your quest for justice!

[JudgeDredd]

Thanks all...keeping an eye on eBay and Gumtree.

I'll have a look at Craigs List Banzai - thanks.

[Staggerwing]

JD,
I'm also sorry to hear about your bike getting swiped. It's just effed up- I remember those pix you posted from one of your rides. Perhaps your Craigslist reward posting should offer a modest sum for the return of the bike within the week, a much higher sum after that for both the bike and pix/video of the perp after a good stomping, and a link to where folks can see the video you have. Make it a race between the perp's conscience and the enterprising spirit of his so-called 'friends'. Who knows?  ;)

[BanzaiCat]

Also: are there other CCTV footage from businesses around there that might have caught this guy?

[Toonces]

When you said you're bike got "nicked" I thought it got scratched.

This is way worse!!!  Wish you the best, Judge.   >:(

[GDS_Starfury]

Thanks all...

I'm still really seething about it now. It's worth nowhere near to the guy what it is to me. I reckon in parts and service etc it's probably worth £1300-£1500...he'll probably sell it for £100 for a fix of some sort!

That's the scumbag

wodin

[MikeGER]

Sorry to hear JD  :(

put the footage up on YT and a link to a new special facebook page "Charity bike stolen" ...after a short while put the local media (newspaper, tv station) on the track ...talk about the emotional value cause all of the charity-work done with that bike, and crumpled future plans ...never about the money ...you will get a lot of flack for public pillorying that scumbag by the Political Correctness crowd so, but that doesn't matter ...the normal people will prevail. 

The public will trace him down...

...and then spooky Gorginardi might fly someone in;-)   


i am maximum pissed already just from reading that news! 

...rolling dice and drawing chits for the joints to hit 

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Thanks all...

I'm still really seething about it now. It's worth nowhere near to the guy what it is to me. I reckon in parts and service etc it's probably worth £1300-£1500...he'll probably sell it for £100 for a fix of some sort!

That's the scumbag

That motion interlacing can be removed in software. Then you deconvolve the image to get about 200% resolution back. I would do it if I had not just upgraded to win 8.1 wiping my system clean. I have to reinstall everything.

[GDS_Starfury]

there are times when you people scare me.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Run your video through something like registax. It was designed to get detail out of blurry astro images shot through the atmosphere. Deinterlace, sharpen with wavlets. Output your best frame (or stack frames if he stays still for a while) using lanczos 200%. Then take that image into a deconvolution program like image magic or images plus.


You will be surprised what you can get out.

[BanzaiCat]

That motion interlacing can be removed in software. Then you deconvolve the image to get about 200% resolution back. I would do it if I had not just upgraded to win 8.1 wiping my system clean. I have to reinstall everything.

What would you use? Photoshop? Premiere? Final Cut Pro?

Just curious, I have the two former, but not FCP. I've never done deinterlacing but love fixing things like this.

[bayonetbrant]

you can de-interlace in Photoshop

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Final cut can handle it if you are into video. I prefer the astronomy stuff that is more geared to quality over speed. When you have small angular specks way the F far away you need scientific grade processing not entertainment grade processing.