Thought i would finish a story i posted about a month ago, I collect old TT bikes and have been looking for a Hooker for a few years,two turned up on Ebay last month so i made a offer just to see where the seller was on the amount,minutes later i had bought it. I recieved the bike and at once knew i had seen the paint job before,A poster on Slowtwitch had even said they had never seen a black one,the photos on ebay did not look black but i could not tell what the paint was.
When i took the frame out of the box i told a friend i bet the bike was stolen,so a few days later i did a Google search and found posts on Slowtwitch about a fellow Slowtwitcher when he had bought the bike, then more posts about the paint job he had done, then posts asking folks to keep a eye open that the bike had been stolen, I found the owner and sent a message asking if he had ever found the bike, No but thanks for asking was his answer,at this point i sent him my phone number asking him to call me,i about a hour we were talking and i told him i had his bike that had been stolen fives years ago it had just arrived from Colorado not far from where it had been stolen. So tons of emails, fights with ebay, calls to police, the bike arrived back home last week almost five years to the day it was stolen.
When i took the frame out of the box i told a friend i bet the bike was stolen,so a few days later i did a Google search and found posts on Slowtwitch about a fellow Slowtwitcher when he had bought the bike, then more posts about the paint job he had done, then posts asking folks to keep a eye open that the bike had been stolen, I found the owner and sent a message asking if he had ever found the bike, No but thanks for asking was his answer,at this point i sent him my phone number asking him to call me,i about a hour we were talking and i told him i had his bike that had been stolen fives years ago it had just arrived from Colorado not far from where it had been stolen. So tons of emails, fights with ebay, calls to police, the bike arrived back home last week almost five years to the day it was stolen.
