Surely we can trust hundreds and hundreds of small business owners to be very strict about law enforcement when it pushes against their financial interests, in a country with more bikes then people.

No stolen bikes end up in shops, no siree. Yeah right.

We’re living in an era where people regularly use tracking devices to retrieve their stolen bicycles. If they turn up in a store the owner should run into trouble even without regular checks.

Of course this depends on the police not being lazy which clearly is a big ask but if that is too much any law is pointless.