A Milnerton man recovered his R65 000 custom built mountain bike through an ad posted on Gumtree the same day it was stolen.
|||Cape Town - A Milnerton man recovered his R65 000 custom-built Santa Cruz mountain bike through an advertisement posted on Gumtree the same day it was stolen.
John Wilkinson had only had the bike for four days when it was stolen from his garage last Thursday.
On the same evening, the bike was listed anonymously on Gumtree as an urgent sale.
Wilkinson contacted a friend, Waleed Baker, who is also the founder of Pitstop, to help him recover the bike.
The frame of the bike was imported from the US and had to be assembled according to Wilkinson’s specifications.
It took six weeks to assemble and cost Wilkinson R65 000 to import the frame and acquire the other parts.
“I arranged to respond to the Gumtree advertisement and the person made contact with Waleed and me.
The guy arrived at Pitstop and I waited in the office while Waleed spoke to him. I went out and identified the bike. We told the guy he was in possession of stolen property.”
Baker took the bike and the man drove off.
Milnerton police are investigating a case of possession of stolen property and are still trying to track down the man who placed the Gumtree ad.
Cape Times