Luke Jessen, who owns Piggy Back Rides, LLC, a bicycle-powered cab company that serves downtown Waco visitors, made a chance discovery that led to the recovery of one of the two bicycles stolen from the business just more than a week ago.

He was driving back from lunch when he spotted a man on the stolen bike on Webster Avenue near the Salvation Army in downtown Waco.

“We were driving back from lunch and happened to look and see the bike,” he said.

“We did a double take and said, ‘That looks like ours!’ and sure enough it had all the tags on it for the city permits we had put on our bikes. So we did a U-turn in the car, called 911 and were fortunate to have law enforcement show up immediately,” Jessen said.

Officers detained the man.

The second bike, which is still missing, has the name “Luke Jessen” painted on the down tube.

“The big bad wolf is not going to steal our three little pig’s bikes, we are going to keep going and we will be back Friday for business,” Jessen said.

The two bikes stolen together are worth about $1,600 dollars.

"Patrol units now are looking for the bikes they have pictures and serial numbers,” Jessen said.