NEW YORK – Bello Nock, the daredevil clown, was all smiles Sunday when he was reunited with his lost little bike.
The star of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &Bailey Circus thanked Ricky Robinson, who found Bello’s foot-high, 6-inch-wide contraption Friday night outside a restaurant on Manhattan’s West Side.
“Give me a hug. I need my bike. That is my bike. Thank you, buddy,” Bello said, outside Madison Square Garden, where the circus was performing.
In exchange for returning the bike, Robinson, 54, will receive a $1,000 reward, a new bicycle donated by Toys R Us, and free tickets to Knicks games and the circus show named for Bello, “Bellobration.”
The itty-bitty bike was taken from a Manhattan street Friday. After reading about the lost bike and seeing a picture of it in a newspaper, Robinson showed up at Madison Square Garden on Sunday morning with the bike.
“I didn’t know what it was,” said Robinson, a native of Bridgeport, Conn. “I didn’t know how anybody rides it.”
The clown had said he couldn’t replace his trademark bike, which has been in his family of circus performers for a dozen years.
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