my DDG Shooter was stolen in March 2011. The other day i seen the bike last weekend in the bike shop as they were replacing the pedals for the person who was on it......
It had bin resprayed but i new it was a Shooter because of the welded piece between the headtube/steerer tube/down tube area, i asked him if it was a shooter and he said yeah, then he turned the bike around and i saw the 'Blackspire chain tensioner on the cranks and i new it was mine straight away as you never see a ddg with that chain system in the same area....
i looked closer and it had the same wheels asweel as mine, but the forks were different, the tyres were different and so were the stem and bars and brakes.
i said to someone who works at the shop 'im sure thats my bike', he said they have bin doing it up for him bit by bit, i said the forks were different and they said they had changed them....i asked if they were orange rock shoxs before he said they were painted black but sure they were orange underneath, then i saw him changing the pedals and i said are those pedals your taking off 'gusset's' and they said yes!
i couldnt do anything because i was on my own and these guys looked hard and wouldnt let me just take it back
BUT THEN......
The bike turns up on Gumtree?
so i rang the police and they recalled the incedent and told me to see a police officer which i have done and wait for them to contact me..
this is what it did look like
and what it looks like now
what do you think???
i no its probably gone now as it can go quick off gumtree... i said to the police 'why dont you meet them take it off them and impound it till you sort out the investigation? i can get the bike shop to confirm the parts they tuck off were the parts in the photo?? but they said its not that easy?
i just thought id put it to you all and see if you think its mine or not?