CHARITY cyclist Steve Jones has again fallen foul of a bike thief.

Atherton man Steve is wheel-less after his £600 mountain bike went missing.

Steve hoped to help cerebral palsy sufferers by riding his burgundy Concept K-3 bike in a 400 miles Russian marathon.

But the bike, computer-equipped and fitted with slick front and knobbly rear tyres, disappeared from outside the TNT gym Steve was visiting in Bag Lane, Atherton.

It was doubly sickening for Steve since just a year ago a mean thief stole another mountain bike from under the window of his Gloucester Street home.

His wife Joanne said:"It took him a long time to save up for this following the last theft.

"He can't afford to another."

Anyone with information about the missing bike should contact the nearest Police station.

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