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Michelton Colombian cyclist Scott Esteban Chaves is among those chosen by his team to contest the Tour of Spain 2019 . Although he has been about to start the last great lap of the year without his bicycle. The mechanic of the team David Fernández has reported the loss of the same during a trip with the airline Vueling through his Twitter account.
"Vueling misses Esteban Chaves' bike to run the next lap . As calling on the phone is no use here goes my SOS call," Fernandez's message said.
According to the newspaper As , the value of the Colombian bicycle would be approximately 14,000 euros . In addition, the Colombian had to try it when he arrived from his country, since it was a model made for him.
After the complaint through social networks, David Fernández finally received a reassuring response from the airline , which said that the bicycle was in perfect condition in Barcelona and ready to be sent to the desired place. The mechanic did not hesitate to share this message in and delete his previous tweets.
It is not the first time that the mechanic has to resort to social networks to recover lost objects. When he worked for the Sky team in 2016 , he suffered a similar mishap with the Czech Leopold Konig's bicycle . In addition, everything also happened just before the Vuelta and after a flight with the same airline.
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