Stolen bike RECOVERED!

[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.

[mimitabby]

Raleighdon offered to go with him too. Raleighdonson said no thank you.

[Eden]

I would be very suprised if the person who had it was not the thief.... otherwise why would they have given up the freewheel and I am assuming the brake(s) they put on it so easily? Though they may have sold the fixed hub and wheel for more than it cost them to buy the freewheel I suppose. (btw - unless they put shifters on it too, they just converted it from a fixie or fixed gear, to a single speed, which only has one gear, but is able to freewheel, for those who like the cool-factor of a single speed, but aren't so sure about the not being able to stop pedaling part if its a fixie- some people use what's called a flip flop hub that is fixed on one side and freewheel on the other - take off the wheel, turn it around and you've changed the bike - but you really should have two brakes on a single speed!)

[RoadRaven]

I thought you meant that the bike had lost the cable and the wheel, and so now there was a new wheel on the stolen bike, and I was guessing that along with the stolen bike there was also the pleasure of the replacement bike which will have been purchased before the stolen bike became unstolen, sorry for any confusion I caused... *Rave takes a deep breath and flaps off in a flap*