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@gubhi
it’s my mates bike. He went for a ride around March 2016, stopped at some lights, a guy approached him and took it while wielding a knife. We tried to look for it for a year, but nothing. The years went by. Kinda forgot about it, life episodes n stuff.
Found it on eBay last week in a bicycle shop, bicycle shop is 0.5 miles from where it was stolen. Went to the shop. It was the shop owners bike. He told us he got it from a guy who lives in Italy but regularly visits Birmingham. The Italian rides with a cycling club here in bham and was told that the bike belonged to the club before they sold it to him, which he then sold to the bike shop guy. Apparently it went all over Italy. Crazy. Either way we got it now. Luckily I had a fair few photos that were dated. The shop owner wanted the bike serial code number first but we had lost it. It was a distinct bike cause it’s a rawed 2015 vig with a leggera fork not the original vigorelli fork. My mates so happy and so am I!