Just a quick personal note. I (again) had some computer issues, but they have cleared up for now. Special thanks to Advanced Communications for fixing my keyboard, and no thanks to Best Buy/Geek Squad for breaking it.
Another thank you goes to Seth W for showing me how to properly hitch my bike. I had to leave it hitched for a few days—longer than usual, and when I when to go pick it up, someone had tried to jack it. I hitch to a parking sign with a security cable, and someone had pulled it up and over the side. But I thread the cable through the front tire, so it’s basically unrideable until that’s taken off. The winner thought that taking the front wheel off would actually do something, but it doesn’t remove the cable. The front wheel’s quick release was on the ground and some parts of it were missing. That’s all I’ll have to replace. More of an annoyance than anything. Life goes on!
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That story about your bike reminds me of a dumb criminals section I read in an Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader a long time ago.
There was a time I was substitute teaching in rural Texas and rode my bike to work as often as I could. Even though I had a cheap old Roadmaster, it was all I had and I insisted on rolling it inside the building and parking it up front next to the teacher’s desk. No flack from anyone, of course, because it was a rough area for thefts. Since moving into my apartment, whatever bike I use stays inside the front room.