Heinz Stucke , the German cyclist who has ridden 335,000 miles in almost 44 years on the same bike and then had it stolen in Britain celebrated after it was recovered.
Distraught, he appealed to police and media, telling the Portsmouth News: "I would do anything to get my bike back, I'm emotionally attached to it."
He told BBC radio he was rejoicing after police told him the bike had been found abandoned in a park.
"I ... expected it to be found, because it's not a flashy one, it's not an expensive one," he said.
The bike, an old-fashioned, black, German-built three-gear cycle, has taken Stucke through more than 200 countries and into the record books as the world's most travelled cyclist since he set out from his home in Hovelhof, Germany, in 1962.
He has painted a map of the world marked with a route of his journeys on to the frame.
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