A10 > The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 2, 2003 STRONG MESSAGE greeted passersby at Azad Adventures last week after the front win- dow of the sporting goods store was smashed and three expensive bikes taken. Pictured are owners Shane and Suki Spencer. Reward prompts bikes’ return A $500 reward appears to have prompted the spee- dy return of three high end mountain bikes stolen from a local sporting goods store last week. Thieves broke into Azad Adventures on Lazelle Ave. at 4:41 a.m, June 25 by smashing the store’s front display window before making off with three mountain bikes, a backpack and some clothing to- talling more than $10,000. The after hours alarm for the store is set up to sound at the home of Shane and Suki Spencer, the shop’s owners. Although Shane Spencer was at the store within minutes of the alarm going off, he says he just missed the thieves who took the Cannondale Ge- mini 900 bikes, which retail at more than $3,000 each. “I threw on my pants and ripped down here in my bare feet and just missed them by seconds,” Spencer said. “The alarm only goes off for four minutes and when | got there it kept going for a full minute.” Spercer said several people from the local mountain biking community had their eyes open for the stolen bicycles following the break-in, Azad is the only Cannondale dealer in the northwest, Spencer said, adding their distinctive frames incorporating three triangles made them ea- sily recognizable. Within two days of the theft, Spencer said two of the bikes were found in Terrace and a third ap- pears to have been brought to Greenville. All three bikes were returned to the store, in various stages of being broken down into parts, he said, While the couple is happy to have the bikes back they still have to pay for replacing the broken display window, their insurance costs will rise and the bikes can no longer be sold as new, Spencer said. While waiting for the replacement display win- dow for the store the hole was boarded up with a sheet of plywood on which Spencer’s brother Ryan, painted a towering Grim Reaper figure with a mes- sage to the thieves: “Thou shall not steal.” MacKay’s Funeral Service Ltd. Serving Terrace, Kitimat, Smithers & Prince Rupert Monuments Bronze Plaques Terrace Crematorium Concerned personal service in the Northwest since 1946 4626 Davis Street Terrace, B.C. 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