Originally Posted by
timdoug
A friend left his bike in an apartment basement after moving. 1 year later he moved back to the state. We went to look for his bike. It was still there. We fixed it up. He has a bike. He is very happy.
Originally Posted by
timdoug
I would bet the owner of the bike knows where the bike is, and would expect that it is stolen. However, when he comes back for it and it is still there he will be very happy (and surprised).
Besides you said it yourself it's just a crappy old Schwinn. Go buy something from Bikesdirect, it'll probably work better anyway.
I hope that your friend realizes how lucky he is that a year later that his bike is still where he left it. After moving out of the apartment and not taking his bike with him the landlord would have been correct to assume that it had been abandoned. Why didn't your friend take it with him, and why did he feel that he could leave/"store" it (for free) in the basement of an apartment building that he no longer lived in?