They stole their bikes???

[MartianDestiny]

can't wait to hear the back story on this one....

http://www.cyclelicio.us/2009/02/lan...ike-found.html

From the looks of the picture it's only missing a couple thousand dollars worth of wheels...

[Zen]

From the looks of the picture it's only missing a couple thousand dollars worth of wheels...

Look for one on the rear of a fixie near you!

[emily_in_nc]

I'd love to know how it was actually recovered. Glad it's back, and hopefully with no damage and no components removed!

[NoNo]

This was the story on CNN today: Bike recovered

I just wonder. When I travel with my bike, I don't dare leave it in my car, and it isn't worth nearly as much as that bike. I take it up to the room with me. Why wouldn't they do the same?

[Tuckervill]

Because there are 25 of them in the truck?

Karen

[Zen]

When I travel with my bike, I don't dare leave it in my car, and it isn't worth nearly as much as that bike. I take it up to the room with me. Why wouldn't they do the same?

they're not attached to their bikes like we are. They didn't scrimp and save to buy them. There was someone in the Tour last year who had some sort of mechanical issues and he just chucked his bike as hard as he could into the bushes. That really chapped my rear.

[ny biker]

They each have multiple bikes. They would need a separate room in the hotel to store them all, plus the manpower required to move them in and out of the hotel. So I can see why they leave them in a van. And apparently they usually do take precautions (backing the van up to the wall to make it difficult to open the doors and remove anything).

[limewave]

We leave our bikes in the car. However, we keep them upright in the bed of the truck which has a locking cover. I'd much rather keep them in there then in my hotel room. I just feel like that's the safest thing to do. Hotel rooms are kind-of transient. Staff have keys to the room, cleaning staff come and go, etc. But we are the only ones with keys to the truck.

[kacie tri-ing]

they're not attached to their bikes like we are. They didn't scrimp and save to buy them. There was someone in the Tour last year who had some sort of mechanical issues and he just chucked his bike as hard as he could into the bushes. That really chapped my rear.

His chain broke when he was about to win a stage. He wrote about it on Bicycling. I was really mad too, but I could almost understand once I read his story. You are right that they are not attached the way we are.