Thanx Hiko !
This afternoon I unbelievably found my Bike prominently displayed in a local shop barely a kilometer from where it was nicked. The Police prompty turned up and I got the short lived pleasure of riding it to the Police Station lock up.
I'm told that I can have it back in a couple of days.
It's been nicely cleaned up, serviced and polished with all broken parts replaced.
Very nice of them to have done this for me I might add !
The fact that nothing had been changed except the recovering the perfectly good vinyl on the seat - boggles the mind !
My frame and engine number were nice and clean and perfectly visible (unmolested). They had however swapped my 2,000 B almost new Japanese drive chain with a 600 B Chinese piece of crap and unfortunately caned the guts out of the engine.
Also having dropped it for the first time in it's life - so she has a couple of memorabilia scars.
Needless to say I am a very happy pedestrian now and count myself very lucky indeed to have found her at all, particularly in one piece so close to home. Mind Boggles !
If I hadn't put some effort into handing out reward posters - I'd have not been visiting the bike shops and would never have stumbbled upon the old girl.
If one reads between the lines here - one might develop a variety of unusual insights in regard to the weirdness of the whole saga.
Those who made intelligence a career ( nicking Bikes ) - would do well to wear heavy weight earmuffs and carry a blow torch next time they try nicking my Bike.
Might start investigating some of these bike meets now !
Kev - The Temporary Pedestrian
