A distinctive yellow bicycle given to Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo’s wife by Lance Armstrong that was stolen in August was found Sunday chained to a tree off Cemetery Lane, sources said Wednesday.
“I was happy and surprised,” DiSalvo said Wednesday. “I had written it off as gone.”
The DiSalvos received word the bike had been found the very same day they got a check from the insurance company covering its loss, he said.
“So we have to return that,” the sheriff said.
Pryce Hadley, a ranger with the Pitkin County Open Space and Trails Program, first noticed something in the brush off Cemetery Lane near the spot where the Rio Grande Trail crosses the road when the lights of his vehicle picked up a reflection Saturday night, he said.
He said he came back Sunday morning and discovered the Trek road bicycle with Armstrong’s name on it locked to a small aspen tree in a portion of the city of Aspen’s Red Butte Open Space area.
“The bike was about 100 yards from the (Roaring Fork) river,” said Hadley, who’d read about the theft in the newspaper back in August. “It was pretty easy to recognize Lance Armstrong’s bike that belongs to the DiSalvos.”
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