Famous clown gets tiny bike back
A star circus clown got his custom-made mini-bike back Sunday, a few days after it went missing on a Manhattan street.
Bello Nock, the daredevil clown and star of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus thanked Ricky Robinson, who found Bello's shiny foot-high, 6-inch-wide contraption Friday night.
Robinson found the "bitty bike" outside a restaurant Friday night on Manhattan's west side, not far from Madison Square Garden, where the circus is performing. After reading about it in the newspaper, he brought the bike to the circus Sunday morning.
"Give me a hug. I need my bike. That is my bike. Thank you, buddy," Nock said to Robinson, who did not know how the bike got to where he found it.
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."