Condition of Bicycle / Distinguishing Features:
aftermarket DuoTrack front shocks, black aluminum bar ends, somewhat scraped up, especially where one of the sides meets the handle bar from a spill onto blacktop. black vetta c-15 cyclometer on right side of handle bars... not currently working. black magnetic pickup from cyclometer mounted on right fork. two zipties were put together (you can see the two clips) to do this because the zip ties that I had at the time were not long enough. The handlebar has small rust dots on the top. This was also when grip shifts were first comming out so the handle bar grips are the origional "grip shift" grips which are badly worn. There is a lizzard skin protector around where the fork meets the frame. on the top frame tube towards the side of the handle bars there are still visible marks from where a bike pump clip was attatched to the bike. about 2-3" from the seat post there is a nasty 3/4" long scratch on the top tubes left side as you are riding it. The tires are the origional big kahuna tires, and are a bit dry rotted and worn. the front tire has a brand new tube(less than a week old). both tubes are shrader valves. The front brake works great, but the back break is in bad need of adjustment... but it still works slightly.... There is a black water bottle holder mounted on the bottom bar of the frame and there should be a sticker from the "bycicle place" in gaithersburg, MD where it was origionally purchased. The plastic pedals have plastic toe clips. The left toe clip is broken off at the pedal. The straps that are used to tighten the clips are badly frayed and the metal buckles for the straps are badly rusted. The little rubber things that keep the 3 brake cables from bouncing on to the top bar of the frame are very yellow with age. The bike was also very dirty/dusty from sitting in my garage in MD for a very long time until I moved to chicago (I have been here 5 weeks). The bike is about 10 years old, I bought it when I was in middle school..... I thought that the origional blue fork faded to purple at the back of the bike looked really cool back then. That's pretty much my junky bike, but it's my junk and I'd like it back.... I don't know the serial number because back home in MD I lived in the country and we didn't even lock our back door, much less record a serial number off of a bike for fear of someone stealing it.....I wish I had a picture...... Trek may have the serial on file because I sent in the registration card and I was acutally notified about a recall on my front crank... but that was also about 7 or so years ago.
Incident Description
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Incident Description:
My roommate and I got back from a ride and left our bikes on our 2nd story back deck. Our kitchen is adjacent to the deck with the back door leading from the deck into the kitchen and two windows from the kitchen overlooking the deck. I was cooking dinner in the kitchen (with the dishwasher on part of the time.. probably why I didn't hear anything) when it was stolen. The theif came into a courtyard, up the stiarcase onto our deck and took my bike. My roommate's newer and nicer bike that was sitting right next to mine (and acutally closer to the stairs) was left alone. My bike has a much smaller frame by 3", so my theory is that the theif might have been short and chosen my bike due to the smaller frame and lower seat. We left my roommate's bike out as bait until 2am and watched to see if the theif would return to try to snatch another one, but unfourtunatly the theif never returned. I might set out the bait a few more nights and see if the theif checks back again..... He/she will definatly be suprised the next time.
