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12 Feb 2010
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Ouch for you and your bike
Hi Mika, greetings from Abu Dhabi, UAE. I'm just another hubbler. I feel so terrible for you and your stolen bike. Besides the emotional loss, I hope you have insurance to cover some of the financial loss.
Ouch.
Keep your chin up!
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13 Feb 2010
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@ doschinos
thank you for your reply. no I dont have insurance and money is not the point.
I started to describe the loss of my bike to the locals here like this:
imagine you come home and your house is gone, there is only a big hole in the ground and nothing left of it. How do you feel if something like this would happen?
Greetings from Damascus
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14 Feb 2010
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Carl Rommel
hello again,
we have the first person that looks like the thief on the picture and he is into big bike here in Damascus .... but it is to early now to tell you more ... but he is from the neighborhood.
the biker traveller I am looking for is Swedish (another bicyclist told me about him), his name is CARL ROMMEL, born in 1980
@Chris pls check the HU website if he is registered and send him an email with my details thanks
More later
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14 Feb 2010
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Originally Posted by mika
@Chris pls check the HU website if he is registered and send him an email with my details thanks
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Hi Mika
I've had a search of the HU member list, but it's only searchable by nickname, not real name (also, people are not required to give their real name). I looked at carl/karl/rommel combinations, but no luck. I'll send a pm to Grant who has administrator rights. Maybe he can help more.
Good luck,
Chris
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14 Feb 2010
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Hi Mika
Just sent this chap a message via facebook: Carl Rommel | Facebook
He's Swedish, is called Carl Rommel and his Facebook image is of someone, (presumably him) in front of posters Kings Hussain/Abdullah of Jordan. Also based on his education, he could well be born in 1980. I gave him your email and described the situation and gave a link to this post.
Will let you know if I hear more.
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I'll send a pm to Grant who has administrator rights. Maybe he can help more.
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Received a reply from Grant. He can't find any CR in his substantial HU database. I recon it's the Facebook-CR from the post above. Hopefully he'll get in touch.
buena suerte
Chris
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17 Feb 2010
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Hi Mika
I forwarded a Facebook message from CR to me to your email address. Another dead-end. Any positive news?
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18 Feb 2010
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no news
Hi all,
no news means bad news.
I am still hunting the thief. Have a look at the picture again, we believe now that he is from Sudan and that the hair on the picture is his real hair. And somebody has seen him ... so maybe more on this today in the afternoon.
Its now nearly a month. The first little report is published in an English newspaper here ... Syria is not an easy place to get the bike back ...
at Chris and Grant. Thank you for checking the names. But this is it, we cant find the name of this mc traveller.
More later
Mika from Damascus
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18 Feb 2010
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There are only two entries in the Swedish phone book for Carl Rommel.
You have to add +46 and remove the first 0:
[url=http://personer.eniro.se/query?what=wp&search_word=carl+rommel&geo_area=]carl rommel - telefonnummer, mobilnummer, adress, karta & v
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at AliBaba: Carl Rommel is not the Swedish bike traveller we are looking for. We only have a sort of name: Eawith Nedergaara (1982) - but we are also not sure if this is the name of him.
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Nedergård and Nedergaard are swedish names, Eawith is not.
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