Originally Posted by dragonwalker

Alright, basically I went to a shop located in a decent sized strip mall. I locked up my bike with a padlock and stell cable not a very thick cable but thick enough that you would need bolt cutters to get through them. I go inside look around, after 5 minues I look over and my bike is still there. 3-4 minutes later, I look again and it's gone. The lock has been cut and the bike is nowhere to be seen. No one saw anything and there are no cameras anywhere on the premesis recording the bike racks. Oddly, I see a very beat up bicycle abandoned face down on the road path about 20 feet away. I have this gut feeling that it belonged to the person who stole my bicycle. This bike has no identifying marks or registration for that matter. I put this bicycle back onto the rack where mine was stolen and waited a couple hours to see if this same guy by chance would come by to pick it up, nothing happens.

I've called the police to make a report, checked Craigslist as soon as I came back, and just finished calling some local pawn shops (most say they don't buy bicycles because they can't verify it being stolen or not), so far no luck. Can someone give me a suggestion as to where someone might try to flip this bicycle?? I'm about to try local bike shops but the ones I know of don't buy used bicycles.