Okay people.  THIS IS THE STUFF I AM TALKING ABOUT!! You can not make this stuff up.  Yes, my bike is back.  An unbelievable roller coaster story but it can happen no other way in my world apparently.  While everyone was racing Sunday I was out driving the race course looking for my bike, driving the neighborhood, talking to neighbors, filing a police report, getting my car fingerprinted, everything you can imagine to get my bike back.  While I was doing that my husband was home checking craigslist and ebay. On Monday at 7pm my husband found my race wheels (Easton TT front and Reynolds SDV66 back wheel) on craigslist; they were being sold for $550 as a set or $300 each.  ARE YOU KIDDING ME! Anyone in their right mind should have known they were stolen.  The details on the ad said he had only had them for a few months and bought them new for $1299. COME ON!! Anyway, Chris called the Santa Rosa PD who then sent us to a detective in the Property Crimes Division.  From there things became real interesting.  First off, this was not your average detective(s).  He and his partner are both triathletes and are doing Ironman Arizona in November!!  How much better can it get; detectives who truly understand what I was trying to recover. He and his partner took my case on full throttle and set the plan in action.  They had the sting set up for 1pm on Tuesday-they had the whole department involved and had about 8 other detectives undercover when they met the crook to buy my wheels back.  My husband, being the builder/mechanic for my bike, gave so many minute details on the wheels that when the detective had them in his hand he knew in one instance they were mine! BLAMO- mister man was arrested on site! YAHOO!  From there it was about getting my bike back.  Of course the perpetrator did not know where it was, they searched his house and came up empty and after awhile the thief finally caved and said he may know where it was thrown away (not by him of course, he was just the sell guy).  Sure enough he walked them straight to a golf course, close to where I was staying, and there it was in a bush.  My sweet Crono all layed out in a bush!  Bottom line-the bike was retrieved, there were grease prints all over it so they are having those run to try and find the “others” involved and mister seller is in jail. HA!  I need to give a giant THANK YOU to one Detective YEAGER and his partner.  These guys deal with much more than stolen bike cases.  It feels really good to have them take my case as serious and they did.  We would not have a happy ending if it was anyone else.  The Santa Rosa PD, Property Crimes Divison, kicked some serious butt and I owe them a ton.  I was on the brink of having my season change course but now I can keep working towards being in the best shape to tow the line in Kona in October.  If you live in Santa Rosa and know Detective YEAGER and his partner, please give them a HUGE THANK YOU-even maybe a hug for me.  I am meeting them tomorrow to get my bike back and will of course give them the biggest hug ever!