Stolen Trek-Livestrong bike recovered after sale at Mexican flea market.

A Trek-Livestrong team bike, stolen from Mellow Johnny’s bike shop in Austin in November, is back home, minus its wheels, after being recovered in Mexico.

The bike apparently was bought at a flea market near Guanajuato, Mexico, and brought to a bike shop near there. The shop owner recognized it and called Trek’s Latin American manager, who identified it.

The Trek TTX time trial bike is the property of Trek Bicycle and was used by the team’s Ryan Baumann last year (Baumann is racing for the Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling Team this season). When stolen it was set up with a Bontrager Aeolus 90 front wheel and a Zipp disc rear.

The bike has been returned to Mellow Johnny’s. Store sales manager Ted Arnold said that other than the missing wheels, it appears to be in perfect condition.

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VeloNews.com editor Steve Frothingham joined the gang in bike-crazy Boulder in early 2008. He is the former executive editor of the trade magazine Bicycle Retailer & Industry News. He also was a reporter and editor for The Associated Press, where he covered three presidential primaries in politics-crazy New Hampshire. His racing career began on a BMX track in 1980 and reached its zenith with several miserable road races as a category 2 in the early 90s. He subsequently retreated to cat. 3, where he has had a consistently mediocre (at best) record ever since, in road, mountain bike and cyclocross events. Follow him on Twitter at @steve_froth

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