LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The bicycle had two flat tires, but Greg Estes figured the $5 asking price still made it a bargain. Little did he know just how much.
Estes checked on the bike’s origin after buying it at a yard sale in Owenton this month. He learned it was custom built for cycling star Floyd Landis for a 2007 mountain bike race in Colorado, shortly after Landis’ now-vacated victory in the 2006 Tour de France. Landis crashed in the Colorado race and finished second.
A manager at Cyco-Path Bicycles in California says they built the bike for Landis. He told Estes he could get $6,000 or more for it on the open market.
The bigger mystery is how the bike got to Kentucky at all. The yard sale owner told Estes she found it abandoned on the side of a highway.
