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Lance stolen bike.jpgTrek time trial bike stolen from Lance Armstrong's shop
As Lady Bracknell might have said, “to lose one time trial bike may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.”
Careless, or not, that’s the fate that has befallen Lance Armstrong after the theft last weekend of a $10,000 Trek Equinox TTX SSL bike from the building housing the seven times Tour de France winner’s bike shop, Mellow Johnny’s, in Austin, Texas.
The bike, which belongs to Trek, was used last season by Team Trek-Livestrong rider Ryan Baumann, and was being stored on a separate part of the premises to the shop.
Mellow Johnny’s is using Twitter to try and get the bicycle back, a tactic employed by Armstrong himself when his own similar bike was stolen following the prologue of the Tour of California earlier this year.
Earlier this month, that bike was sold for $130,000 in an auction at Sotheby’s in New York to raise money for the Texan cyclist’s Livestrong charity.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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