> Tetsuki Kaji and Kosuke Endo are two Japanese cyclocross riders who are trying to pursue their cyclocross dream in Belgium and the Netherlands.

> To further improve their fitness, they went on a month-long training camp in Girona.

> But 10 days ago, things went wrong on their way back to the Netherlands. "40 kilometers before Lyon, we stopped at a parking lot to eat at a nearby restaurant," Kaji testifies.

> "When we returned to the parking lot half an hour later, our bus was gone. Everything was gone."

> The stolen loot: 6 bikes (Giant), 5 sets of wheels, spare chains, bike computers, heart rate monitors, cycling jerseys, cycling shorts, cycling glasses, helmets, laptops, passports, and so on.

> "All we had left were our phones and the clothes we were wearing," sighs Kaji.

naive easterners thought the world was a high trust society