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"Charity worker in appeal for return of stolen mobility trike"
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Posted 13 years ago #
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I have seen this trike at St Leonards. I hope she gets it back. :-(
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I know Caroline a bit, certainly to say hello to in the street, and the trike's a great thing for her to get about on. I was meaning to contact her about her plans for a disability cycling group to see if my professional expertise would be useful.
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That's awful... I too hope she gets it back - and/or it is covered by insurance
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This is terrible news. I met Caroline when she was selling the Spokes Map buffs at the last meeting. She's a real fun character. I do hope she is reunited with her trike very soon.
Anything I can do to help, please, anyone who knows Caroline, please offer my sympathies and offer of help in any way I can.
Dave C
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Hrm. I think it's worth having a look at eBay; I would swear blind there was a blue trike there within 10 miles of my postcode at the weekend but it's gone now.
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"I would swear blind there was a blue trike there within 10 miles of my postcode at the weekend"
yes, but no -
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pashley-Picador-adult-tricycle-/200680867273
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Ah yes. That one looks quite similar but the tubing is different.
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Preloved has a few adult tricycles but non look like Carolines. There are a couple of Wanted adverts asking for one, and I'm thinking of emailing them the article.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Rather than a Pashley Picador, I think Caroline probably rides a Viking Cargo:
Nothing leaping out on Gumtree or eBay at the moment, though. :-/
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Yes I checked Gumtree also. I guessed that others would have checked ebay, frm the listing above, which is why I searched on google, which drew up preloved.
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I saw Caroline today. The trike hasn't been recovered. She's checking gumtree and ebay regularly. And her insurance won't pay out because it wasn't locked properly - she has some hand difficulties as a result of her CP and couldn't manage the lock in the cold.
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I posted the link to the newspaper article on YACF on Thursday evening and asked the locals to keep an eye out. Went out to see The King & I, came home, went to bed, and when I looked at the forum again on Friday morning, they'd started a collection to replace the trike. There's more than enough pledged now to cover a new trike and a lock she can operate. I saw her this morning as I was coming out of Tesco and told her - I don't think I've ever seen anyone looks so shocked and pleased!
She thinks the NHS might supply adult trikes as an alternative to wheelchairs so we agreed I'd ring the mobility centre at the Astley Ainslie tomorrow to check and if they do, she'll pursue that route, but if not, or if she's not eligible, I think she'll accept the YACF money. So she shouldn't be trikeless for long.
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That's wonderful Kirst!
There's an NHS Scheme that supplies / funds / supports adapted cars for people with disabilities that I was reading about. I kinda wondered at the back of my head if they would offer something like bikes or trikes to people as well on it. Anyway I hope by either route she soon has a trike again and can once more pedal around town.
It's sad that it comes to this sort of thing - but you may want to suggest one of the tagging schemes for the replacement trike? Obviously its something very important to her and any little thing that might reduce chance of it getting stolen or increase chance of recovery has to have some merit.
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well done Kirst and all the donors! (what is YACF?)
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Wow that is brilliant. I am so glad there are so many kind hearted people out there to counteract the worthless scumbag that stole it.
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YACF genuinely are a nice bunch, well done all!
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@SRD = Yet another cycling forum.
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"Yet another cycling forum"
Of course the irony of it being called that allows this one to be more than J(ust)ACF.
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There is a progression with that site. Started out being the cycle forum on the side of something else I think, then the software on that changed and people didn't like it, so a new forum was set up called ACF (Another Cycling Forum). Then the guy who ran that annoyed various elements with changes and a somewhat heavy hand the censorship - I was told off for putting dots (...) at the end of a topic title. To be honest, it was his site and I figured just roll with it, but it does appear to have become a bit more personal.
Anyway, that created a huge split. YACF was set up (other members found safe haven at CycleChat) and eventually ACF disappeared. I actually still have an ACF cycle jersey...
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YACF seemed to me to be the forum of choice for the Audax scene.
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It was also a fixed-wheel place. Read about fixed on there loooooong before it became trendy (with quite a few daily practitioners) and was one of the reasons I gave it a shot in the first place.
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It kinda reminds me of a football forum I used to frequent years and years ago called 40% (which was an offshoot of the official Guardian football forum after that fell over one time too many - there are always politics involved in fora).
Called 40% because... Roughly 40% was actually about football, the majority was random silliness (with at least 50% of that being dodgy puns).
Posted 13 years ago # -
Might just be a coincidence... But this looks VERY like the trike...
http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/tricycle/93499469#gallery-item-full-2
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@anth: A police spokeswoman said: “This theft has had a significant impact on the owner’s everyday life, so we would appeal for anyone with information to contact police on 0131-311 3131, or Crimestoppers on 0800-555 111.”
You know what to do.
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probably isnt but absolutely no harm in reporting it
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If it is legit, it might make a good replacement!
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@Anth
It was also a fixed-wheel place. Read about fixed on there loooooong before it became trendy (with quite a few daily practitioners) and was one of the reasons I gave it a shot in the first place.Gaspos! You've fallen into the deadly logical trap of hipsterism. Knowing about something before the hipsters makes you an even bigger hipster!
Someone find me a picture of anth's face and a cut'n'paste of a pair of NHS glasses!
I freely admit (or perhaps that should be fixedly maintain) that I heard about fixed gear long after it was cool. It did in fact take me ages to work out that all the fuss about fixies wasn't Fixie the company; I thought they must have been doing amazing trade for all these people to own one of their bikes. Their website is worth looking at for the staggering amount of self-aggrandisement going on. I can't quite convince myself it's not satirical, it's that bad.
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"I thought they must have been doing amazing trade for all these people to own one of their bikes"
Erm.... *puts hand up*
In my defence I only bought the frame, when Hubjub sold them and no-one else in the UK did, and only after my skip-rescue first-fixed which, despite being too small, had done a sterling job of convincing me it was the way to go even though I could never get the rear wheel locked into place sufficiently to hold chain tension for further than 20 miles, died.
The Peacemaker is also now dead. Turns out those early frames weren't treated inside, and one too many Edinburgh winters did for the inside of it.
Sigh.
There are times I really miss having a fixed wheel to ride...
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