Stolen Kona Mountain Bike - UPDATE

[lex2000]

A while back I posted in bikepirates about my girlfriend's Kona Lavadome mountain bike being stolen (I searched for the original post but couldn't find it). Well, today I was riding the 12 Sandy bus in NE Portland on my way to work, and what do I see a tweaker riding down the sidewalk? You guessed it...a Kona Lavadome. I wasn't 100% sure that it was my

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stolen bikes

[anonymous]

I just wanted to share a similar situation with you. I had two bikes stolen from my garage in St. Louis. (I think it was payback for calling the cops one time when these two dudes were about to kill each other in front of a bunch of kids in the alley behind my house). Anyway, I walked out of my house one day to see this little kid riding down the street on my bike. I said, "Hey that's my bike," and my friend Beth started chasing him! The kid was so scared that he hit the front brakes and flipped over the handlebars in the middle of the road. Beth started ripping the bike away from the kid while I was saying,"Oh my god are you okay?" I was actually worried if he was hurt... He was under 10 years old!! He said he got it from his cousin... who said he got it from a friend who was supposedly at six flags that day..

We kept that bike, but never found the other one!
I'm only telling you this because I think its funny that we both spotted stolen bikes riding past us on the street!

But to answer your question, though, If that bike was really your girlfriends, that guy couldn't have legitimately bought it.. it's stolen... so, I believe you would have the right to get it back (even if he paid someone for it.) If you didn't have the serial number, you couldn't have proven it to the police though.
You really couldn't have done anything differently though... I mean, you couldn't have ripped him off the bike.. you would have had to follow him and call the police or something like that if he wasn't willing to give it up. Then you just have to decide if you are better off just buying a new bike!!

Tiffanie