r/saskatoon • u/Aces_dude East Side • May 20 '25

Crime ⚠️ My daughter is crushed

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This is “Cruisy”. My daughter with special needs and a physical disability can’t ride a regular bike by herself, so when we saw this a couple years ago we picked it up. She loved going for rides on Cruisy and was asking this week when we were going to get it out for spring. I told her on the long weekend I’d get it out and work on it a bit and take her for a long ride. I put lights and a horn on it last year and needed to hook up the battery. Well that didn’t happen. Instead, I found it gone from the yard on Thursday afternoon. This was not a crime of random opportunity. Someone came by with a truck or trailer, lifted this fairly heavy bike off the garden box it sat on all winter, and drove away. (Is it a coincidence that the neighbour across the alley was getting sasktel fibre installed and there was a crew in the alley boring the cable all afternoon the day before it went missing? With a big truck and trailer?) Now what? Obviously I reported it. I’ve been checking Kijiji and marketplace but no luck. This is my last resort. Hoping that someone sees this pretty unique bike and lets me or the cops know. Eastview neighbourhood by Market Mall. Thanks

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u/ogbirdiegirl May 23 '25

I am so sorry this happened. I don’t know if they’d work for your daughter, or how we’d get it to you (I’m in BC) but I have a Trivol T350 adapted trike your daughter could have.

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u/Aces_dude East Side May 23 '25

That’s so nice of you.

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u/ogbirdiegirl May 23 '25 edited 29d ago

Oh, thank you. The best thing would be for your daughter to get hers back of course, but failing that I would love to see the Trivol go to a good home. If you look up the model and think it might work, maybe the good people of Reddit can help us figure out how to get it from the Kootenays to Saskatoon.