Metro joins the ‘recovery agents’ taking back London’s stolen bikes from thieves

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Just metres away from where I was parked, a stolen e-bike was pinging our GPS tracker.

We had travelled around east London following the signal for the past hour.

It had moved from Whitechapel, to outside the Royal London Hospital, went on the Elizabeth Line before ending up here – round the corner from Ridley Road Market in Dalston.

Some days see recovery agents enter addresses to find a hoard of stolen bikes. Others see them climb up tower block, locating the exact flat using beacon signal technology.

Recovery agents at BackPedal can receive up to three reports a day of stolen bikes in London that they have fitted with a tracker as customers turn to them to help protect their property.

And it’s no wonder. Last year around 14,000 bikes were stolen in London, and only 1% of cases led to a ‘positive outcome’.

The ]agent accompanying Metro was Bilal Ali, who was driving us to where the bike was in his family car.

On the way, he tells me stories of balaclava-clad teenagers with knives turning up to stop him taking ‘their’ bikes. But this has not stopped Bilal from ever recovering one.

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