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texbike
06-15-2014, 09:45 AM
This isn't my bike nor do I know the owner, but the notice was posted on one of our local cycling lists. Apparently the owner's bike was stolen on Friday the 13th (bad luck, right?). Please help a fellow Merckx lover and keep an eye out for it

Of note is the large size - 63 cm! There can't be a ton of these out there. Here's a copy of the owner's post:

"I know I'll never see it again but keep your eyes open for my Eddy Merckx stolen from Brackenridge hospital bike parking area. It was Friday afternoon using bolt cutters . The parking attendant only 25 feet away saw someone by the bikes and then walking a bike away which she described which had to be mine. It's an early 80s Eddy Merckx 63 cm, not too many people could ride it, maroon and silver repaint, with a rack and old faded red pannier. Bike thieves should be castrated"!

Thanks!

Texbike

Ahneida Ride
06-15-2014, 10:04 AM
Bike thieves need a 5 minute re-orientation meeting with Uncle William.

ultraman6970
06-15-2014, 01:50 PM
63?? that bike will be hard to hide... IMO the guy who took it screwed up because with that size will be easy to find if he tries CL or Ebay.

SlackMan
06-15-2014, 04:01 PM
I'll keep an eye out around here for it, but not much bike action on our local CL.

S

alessandro
06-16-2014, 12:11 PM
Tex, see PlattyJo's thread:

Great news! Stolenbicycleregistry.com and Bike Index have joined forces (https://stolen.bikeindex.org/)!

The SBR + BikeIndex merger means all 25k stolen bikes are now queryable -- even on Twitter, using @bikeindex's great @isitstolen Twitterbot! You can tweet a bike's serial number to the Twitterbot; if that bike is on file as stolen, @isitstolen lets you know!

Read about the other details here (https://medium.com/@stolenbikessfo/stolenbicycleregistry-just-merged-with-bikeindex-org-102ffa548821).

Post it up!