Geraint Thomas has been forced to call for an Uber to take him home from a training ride after he became stranded when his bike was stolen. Later on Sunday it emerged local police officers had recovered the bike and arrested a suspect.
Thomas, the 2018 Tour de France winner and double Olympic gold medal winner on the track, said the Pinarello Dogma F with F12 stickers was taken while he stopped for a coffee in Menton earlier today.
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He came out and the bike was gone, leaving him stranded in his kit and so there was nothing else for it but call an Uber driver to get him home. The bike was stolen during his ride in southern France close to his home in Monaco.
"Lovely ride. Lovely coffee stop in Menton," he said. "Except someone nicked my bike. Now in an Uber home. It’s a Dogma F with F12 stickers. Random miss matched wheels and in need of a wash."
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While it was a nasty surprise for the Ineos Grenadiers rider, he was still able to see the funny side in posting a photo of himself, masked and in the back of the Uber car.
"I haven’t downloaded my Garmin this week," he added. "If it ain’t on TrainingPeaks it didn’t happen, right?"
The theft of the 35-year-old Welshman's bike is the second high profile robbery of cyclists in France in recent weeks. Late last month over 20 bikes were stolen from the Italian national team in Lille.
The bikes belonged to the Italian track team riders competing at the Worlds in Roubaix that week. The stolen kit was worth about €600,000, with police in Romania finding the stolen property during a raid on a suspected drugs gang the following week.
