So I always surf the classifieds for the odd bargain, be it marketplace, here or gumtree etc when I came across a bit of a cheap one. It was a Breezer hard tail with a steel frame, which ticks boxes for me, so I click on it to find it was missing the front wheel, mmmm….. suss?
So I text him to suss it out, 10 minutes later my phone rings, “Hey mate I’m the guy with bike, oh yeah they stole my wheel, frame size? I don’t know it’s fits me fine” by this stage bells are ringing it’s definitely suss I’m like okay I’ll think about it mate, “Mate it’s worth a bit and I’m selling it cheap, so don’t wait too long”
So I do a a bit of a trawl through Facebook and I found this ad from two years ago which is the bike (the steerer extender was the give away), so I sent her a PM to see if she recovered it and I was just judging this bloke from an ad and a phone call.
She messaged later saying it was never recovered, so I sent her the details and she couldn’t believe it that was their bike.
This all happened earlier this week, today I received a message saying that they gave all the information to police who went paid this fine gentleman and recovered their bicycle.