How is this possible?

[Zen]

If it is indeed true.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/post/Bike-bought-for-5-at-yard-sale-belonged-to-Tour?urn=top-262060

[pll]

Very strange. Abandoned on an interstate?

[Zen]

I think there is more to this story

[kmehrzad]

I think there is more to this story

I agree. How did they identify it as Landis' bike, through the custom pedals??

[GLC1968]

I call bull-pucky.

[Bike Chick]

Yeah......sounds like a Kentucky tale to me! Nothing is stated in the article about how they found out it was his bike or confirmed it. Who would want it anyway:mad:

If it's true, the guy needs to take up mountain biking and hang on to it. He'll never get that kind of $$$$ for it.

[OakLeaf]

"Abandoned on the interstate" was the seller's story, not the buyer's, and they don't identify the seller.

I'm not saying I think it's for real, only that there's nothing in the story that says to me that the bike wasn't actually stolen - whether it was from Landis or from a neighbor's back yard. Disc brakes alone would make it worth more than $5, and they're also something that would be recognizable to your average non-cycling yokel, since they look just like motorcycle or car brakes. Can't see the rest of the components in the picture...

[GLC1968]

Oak - I agree. I think the guy who bought it at the yardsale is probably telling the truth (if that's really where he got it!). I don't buy the story that the bike was found on an interstate and that whomever sold it didn't know it was worth more than $5. Come on. Even crap bikes around here go for at least $25 at a yard sale!

[kfergos]

This is unbelievable enough that I'd want to take a second look before getting involved with that bike.

[Roadtrip]

The local news channel here did a story on this bike as it happened not all that far from here. Thought I'd pass along the link. The video from the short segment that aired are in the article, including some close up pics of the bike.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/24619202/detail.html

[Zen]

There is only one person who can verify this.
Wonder why he's silent?

[Owlie]

Something seems a bit, well, like this guy (http://mommylife.net/archives/2009/08/04/puffer%20fish.jpg)

[OakLeaf]

There is only one person who can verify this.
Wonder why he's silent?


Hmmmmmm.....

threw the bike out of the car on the interstate in a drunken rage, and now doesn't want the embarrassment? ;)

[Owlie]

Hmmmmmm.....

threw the bike out of the car on the interstate in a drunken rage, and now doesn't want the embarrassment? ;)

Is he going to deny throwing the bike out of the car, and then some time later say that he did?

[OakLeaf]

LOL Muirenn! :D

[kmehrzad]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/post/Solved-The-mystery-of-the-5-Floyd-Landis-bike?urn=top-262838

[Zen]

I read that and for some reason it still sounds fishy.

[bmccasland]

I read that and for some reason it still sounds fishy.

You mean this part: They locked the bike on their rack, but when they arrived at their destination, it wasn't there because a gust of wind had blown it off

:rolleyes: Must have been a mighty strong wind to blow a bike off a locked rack at highway speed. :rolleyes:

"locked" my hind toe.

[GLC1968]

I agree with Zen and I still call 'bull-pucky'.

A 'gust of wind' blew a locked bike off a rack and no one noticed until they got to their destination? Come on!

[Owlie]

Yeah, and with a bike that expensive, I'd be trying to find a vehicle big enough to put the bike in. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I hate putting my $800 bike on the rack, sturdy though it may be. And I think that I'd have noticed if it fell off...