After having reported it to the lost propery office of the police, waited three months and having gotten a letter stating the bicycle was mine I got to work on it. With a liberal spraying with anti-rust spray, the use of force and a list of swearwords I managed to get the pedals and the crankset off. A couple of days later I took the bike with me to the Cykelköket bike kitchen and, again with liberal spraying with anti-rust spray, the use of force and with the help of a Greek guy I managed to get the bottom bracket out too. (Never spray anti-rust spray on a bottom bracket that you plan to use!)
Then I could measure the distance from the bottom bracket shell to the rear dropouts with a piece of string, and state the the frame was actually bent. The left side was about three millimetres shorter than the right side, and there was a crack in the chainstay that looked quite worrying too. Too bad, because I was starting to like this frame! It was aluminium so it was very light, and though white is a terrible choice for bicycle frames (they start looking dirty within minutes) the frame felt like it could be a lot of fun.
But that's just the way it is. So:
Adieu, Anonymous Giant ATX 777!
The crack in the chainstay.
Nope, it's not OK anymore.
Ride safe!
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