Stolen bike RECOVERED!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Road Raven

Raleighdonson has two bikes now, yes. And since he's the slug of the family, he's not riding either.
I am not sure what you are talking about. It's a fixie and now it has a freewheel. It used to NOT have a freewheel, which I believe means that when your pedal moves in either direction, the wheels move too.

There's a new fad going around in young daredevil bikers to do trick riding much like skateboarding. They ride backwords too. Somebody wanted to use your bike for these riding gymnastics, or just to be "cool".

If it were me I would have brought the police to talk to the young man about where he got the bike. Could be he already was on record for bike swiping. People need to learn there are consequences for taking bikes- whether they assume the bike is "abandoned" or whether they maliciously steal it.

Glad you got the bike back though- a good ending! Maybe you should just sell it as a freewheeler now- you'll get more than $20 for it I'm sure.

[mimitabby]

I agree with you Lisa, I would have called the police or at least the campus police! and i certainly would not have given him 20 bucks for giving back something he "FOUND"

[Tuckervill]

drift: Doesn't it turn the wheels backwards when you pedal if it is a "fixed gear" bike? Doesn't a freewheel mean the wheels don't turn when you pedal backwards?

So they put a freewheel on it, and now it's like all our bikes, not like a fixie.

Karen

[mimitabby]

yes, Karen, I think that's right

[Jiffer]

Awesome! Reminds me of when Dh's truck was stolen. I actually saw it being stolen from our apartment, told Dh, who ran outside in shorts and tank top, no shoes. Saw it idling in the street while one of the two guys was getting into his own car. Dh opened the driver door, grabbed the guy by his shirt and yanked with all his might ... to no avail. The guy hit the gas and drug Dh down the road. When he turned right, Dh went tumbling onto the street. After a trip to the ER with MAJOR road rash, he was thankfully okay.

The very next day, I spotted it parked not too far from our apartment. They had apparently dumped it after the episode with Dh. Good thing, too, because our livelyhood was in that truck. His tools and supplies for some work he was about to do, which we needed desparately. We never thought we'd see that truck or everything that was in it again.

Congrats on getting the bike back! I wonder if we'll come across my 9 year old's bike that was stolen recently. Hmmm!!!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Oh, so it USED to be a fixed gear, and now it's a freehub.
See here for the difference between freewheel and freehub:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech/fix/?id=cogs
Most bikes don't have actual "freewheels" anymore.

So now it can't go backwards when you pedal backwards anymore. So someone just wanted to put a regular wheel on the back, or make their other bike into a fixie using your wheel.

[mimitabby]

And Lisa, fyi, Raleighdonson has a fixie (he says) because he's too lazy to shift
gears. And (sigh) I believe him.

[Xrayted]

Very cool about your son getting his bike back afterall. He is too kind though, I would have brought the campus police with me so the guy could again explain how he got the bike.