My Bike Has Been Leader 725 with hed wheel

there are two types of people in the world

those who trust without it being earned
those who will not trust unless it is earned

i am one of the first, so i believe the OP.

i'm sure that sounded good in your head but if you think about it thats a load of pompous nonsense. you don't know me and, as you put it, i havn't earned your trust, but you would nonetheless take it at face value if i told you that i had succesfully performed a brain transplant without any surgical knowledge or experience? no, of course you woudln't. you would exercise some degree of common sense (assuming you have any) and a heathly dose of scepticism.

accepting that the bike was stolen in the first place, it seems to me incredible that someone known to the bike's true owner would pose as the thief offering the bike for sale, going so far as to arrange a rendez-vous with its owner (the "imposter" must have known it was the bike's owner he was agreeing to meet as if he never stole the bike in the first place why on earth would he arrange to meet a random buyer?) before sending him an email that sounds like something straight out of a gothic thriller.