Hendrix's Trike Update: TRIKE FOUND! BRose called me. Earlier today Matt "Puppy Love" Duffin sees the trike being ridden by a 9 year old street urchin. Urchin is confronted, instantly gives up and protests innocence. He is not the first, or probably second or third, person to ride this bike after its fall into prying hands. Trike has obviously been 'around the block' but otherwise rideable. Matt calls BRose. BRose calls Katie, Hendrix's mom. Trike is returned. On Hendrix's Birthday. BRose spends time talking with family. Katie's mom is in her 80s, Irish, loves bikes, used to ride all the…

We don't usually hype ebay auctions around here, but this week our good friend Wayne from Dirt Works Australia emailed us to let us know about something special they are doing to benefit the building of facilities for Djarragun College in Far North Queensland. Mat Hannan is riding his bike and also auctioning off a Long Haul Trucker that was hand painted by Aboriginal artists in his efforts to raise $5,500 for the college. Only two of these bikes exist, and just one of them is being auctioned. The auction is currently running on ebay and can be found here.…

Oh, for the luvva Pete... From old pal DP here in the MPLS: "My gf Katie had her 56cm green stock Cross Check ripped off from garage 37th and Bryant" Contact me if you know of it's whereabouts. Yeah, right. Speaking of bike theft this is a pretty good idea, assuming of course that you can survive the entire video due to terrible production value, the off-sync audio and video, the fact that this object is probably beyond reality for most people to implement, and (let's not forget this) that the narrator is inexplicably half naked. But once you get…

It was about this time that the Duke boys realized.... Thanks to Anthony for the shot. -----

You know, I don't post about every bike that gets stolen around here. It would be mostly futile, the bikes don't usually get found (though sometimes they do), and you'd get as sick of seeing these sorts of messages as I get hearing about them. But I know many of you share my deep dislike for bike theft. So when I read something like this, I get steamed. This is MPLS local: My friend Katie's son has a brain injury so he rides an adult trike - but some fucker stole it while he was at a park. Hendrix is…