Return of the bike

One of the benefits of the unplanned return was a chance to pickup the bike the cops had recovered in Victor Harbour but it didn't go completely to plan.

Firstly, we were arriving on a Saturday and they only operate Mon to Fri.Happily the case manager was prepared to send a patrol down to hand over the bike when we came past so we told them we would be swinging by on Saturday.

Once we arrived at Victor Harbour we gave them a call and were advised a patrol would be along shortly. After half an hour a squad car came along and disappeared inside the garage out the back of the cop shop.  No acknowledgment from them as they flew past.

After another half hour, and no sign of any activity, Liz gave them another call to see if the message had been passed on. It had, so the controller wasn't sure what was going on. More delay and I was quite happy to forget the whole process.

Eventually even Liz had had enough so we decided to head off again. Nice try. The car battery had lost some charge through the van and we couldn't start the car. A challenging call to RACV eventually got the location sorted and then Mr Plod came out to cough up the bike so everything got sorted after wasting a couple of hours.

On recovering the bike we discovered the seat and post have been removed so it's not quite ready for riding just yet.