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Ian Bibby reunited with his bike (source Twitter)Madison Genesis rider Ian Bibby gets his stolen bike back
Ian Bibby has been reunited with this Genesis Volare bike, stolen outside a café in Lancaster last week while the Madison Genesis rider was inside.
The bike, worth £7,000 and one of only ten in the world, was recovered after a tip-off from an address in Lancashire, apparently as it was about to be sold on for £2,500.
Police believe the prospective purchaser planned to break the bike up and sell the parts on eBay.
Bibby has raised his arms in victory a good few times in his career, but possibly never with as much relief – nor, indeed, as much underwear showing – as in the above picture he tweeted earlier this afternoon.
“My little Genesis bike has had a right adventure this weekend,” he said. “But he's back with his dad! Thanks for all the help!”
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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Ian have you read the Ralpha Review on the other page...
the velvet suit and sideburns and winklepickers are on order no doubt
Melvinned!
Nice undercrackers.....
New sponsorship from Kryptonite coming up?
I had to laugh at Adam Blythe's reply to him on Twitter:
I bet you wish you could lift that bike as high as your armS!!! #heavy #needacrane
themartincox - I know where you're coming from though I suspect he did feel bad about it. My favorite is Stoke on Trent's favorite billionaire, Mr "mobile phones" Caudwell. He had his Trek Madonne nicked a few years back and Trek gave him a replacement. Bit different than the tug of war I have had with insurers to get my compo for the two bikes I've had nicked over the years.
Still - "much will have more" as the aphorism goes (is that an aphorism)?
If only the police put quite so much effort into tracking down bikes normally.
He didnt pay for it, I would hazard a guess he would have been given another for free and there would likely have been very 'emotional' attachment to it.
More of an issue for average Joe the commuter who has his bike stolen who then has to save an pay for another one as the police wont be putting any effort into recovery of that.
slightly grinchy I know
/end of rant
It's not a fashion faux pas, the police have had him on the rack and stretched him - Look at his arms!
'the feds'
??
WTF?
fair play to the feds & a big up to the person who gave the tip off - good on u
I left £7000 on the street whilst I nipped into a cafe the other day ....
Perhaps we need to be more careful with our possessions.
Nice grundies
90's neat grey hair combed back, beige cardy
00's neat grey hair combed back, beige cardy
10's neat grey hair combed back with a patch of skin showing in the middle, beige cardy
90s - Ponytails.
He's mixing his genres a bit - skinny jeans AND pants out is trying to be hipster and gansta. Is that a 'hipsta'?
It is a fashion that I gaurantee you will look back on in 10 years and think "what an absolute tw@t I looked!".
At least you'll have something to laugh at.
Great advertising coup by Madison, they'll surely not start locking up their bikes now.
Very difficult for thieves to shift something like this, as this proves.
Let's see
70's - tank tops & shirts with huge spangly collars
80's - hairdo territory, briefly permed followed by a flat-top
thank Dog by the 90's I was old & jaded enough not to care
As a young person, I can inform you that this is the fashion of the day
From now on, when I see a kid with their arse hanging out of their jeans, I'm calling the look 'Bibbyshorts'...
Think the quite here is:
Bibby keeps his pants up high, after getting truly caught with them down.
No he's got a pair of good old fashion Lancashire belly warmers on..or just had a wedgie from the old bill..
Someone nicked his jeans so he's wearing his sisters?
are the pants too high, or the trousers too low?
Well done Lancs police
I hope the thief gets a hefty sentence now that bikes been recovered and that Ian learns from his mistakes.
1. Don't leave you bike unattended at all
2. Tighten your belt before taking photos like above