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From The Mirror:

10 May 2006
WORLD TOUR BIKE STOLEN
A MAN who has spent 44 years cycling round the world had his bike stolen within four hours of arriving in England.

Heinz Stucke has ridden 335,000 miles through 193 countries on the same three-speeder - the world's longest cycle ride.

But yesterday the distraught 66-year-old was desperately searching for the old-fashioned machine.

German Heinz, aka the Bike Man, said: "I'd just got off the ferry. It's an old clonker so I don't see why anyone would want it."

It was stolen outside his tent in Portsmouth. Police are now set to lend him a bike from lost property.

World Sausage, at the forty-way intersection of Market, 15th, and Church, has shuttered its doors. The eponymous world-weary bicycle that was hanging on its walls disappeared some months ago, and the word is that the genial owner had sold it to another couple. It is being remodeled as a old-style Fishe Restaurante.