Stolen Trek Lush Mountain Bike Calgary

Feeling very upset today. Yesterday Frank and I and our two friends who were here visiting from Ireland decided to go for a bike ride along the river in Calgary towards downtown. We lent them bikes and rode to our favourite outdoor store, MEC. Locked all four bikes to the bike racks outside the front of the store, and shopped for an hour. Came out and my bike was gone, the cable lock cut through. I couldn`t believe it.

Yes, we hear about this happening in Calgary a lot, but naively I guess I didn`t expect it here in broad daylight in front of this shop with lots of people coming and going. I`m really mad at myself for not having used our heavier Kryptonite lock. Expensive lesson. My last equally expensive mountain bike was stolen from our garage. Our home insurance gives us zilch.

Bike description:
TREK Lush ladies full suspension bike
Bright green colour
Dropper seat post
29 inch wheels
white saddle
Green Wellgo flat pedals
Ergo cork and metal grips
Stolen in downtown Calgary from outside MEC on July 30th afternoon.


Serial number on underside


Store management informed (they don`t have video surveillance unfortunately), police report submitted, ads placed on Facebook and other buy-sell sites. Not much more I can do now. Friends are kindly offering to watch buy-sell sites, but the chances of recovery are miniscule. I`m putting the bike details here in the unlikely event that a potential buyer who gets suspicious might Google stolen mountain bike in Calgary and find this. Nothing to lose, right.

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