PERTH Police have charged a man with stealing a bicycle on Saturday 29 October 2019.

It will be alleged around 3pm the man was at a bike shop in Beaufort Street. He took a Cervelo road bike valued at $7,800 for a test ride and failed to return it.

On Monday October 21 he was spoken to by police and the bike was recovered.

A 24-year-old East Fremantle man was charged with stealing and he will appear in the Perth Magistrates Court 4 November 2019.