People Suck

[pasithea]

I was out at like 8:30 this morning in a fairly unpopulated area. I parked my bike and had walked about 15 feet away from it, clear line of sight, I was still wearing my helmet and stuff.

I had crouched down because I found some oyster mushrooms and I was like "Wow cool! Actual edible mushrooms!"

In the ~10 minutes I spent collecting them, so fucking asshole stole my bike. My bike was a piece of junk. 15 years old. it wouldn't even shift into the top gears anymore. It'd just got back from Burning Man. What the fuck!?

I ran back to the corner, looked both ways, saw a guy on a bike, flagged down a car, got them to give me a ride after them, turned out to be the wrong bike. Shit shit shit. I can't afford to replace my bike right now. Why do people fucking suck so much? What kind of jackass does shit like that?

Comments

[foxgrrl]

Someone just gave my roommate two new bikes. Maybe you can have one…

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

If you wouldn't mind asking, I'd appreciate the possibility. I commute on my bike and it sucks being without it. :(

[frith]

My bike was stolen once. It's a Peugeot. It was only a year or so old at the time. I had stopped into the corner store for some fruits and vegetables and I'd left my bike leaning against the window. When I got back out, no bike. I think I saw some kids with it a week or so later but I wasn't sure. I got another bike like it, only a bit shorter (end of stock and they were out of my size). A few years later the cops called: they found my bike abandoned in the basement of a bar. They knew it was mine because I had let the cops engrave it during some kind of bike awareness blitz. I still have that bike. Rode it again today.

So: garage sales, Craig's list, Salvation Army... get a twenty-year old Peugeot. It will be better than anything under a thousand dollars that you can buy today (new bikes use aluminum crank parts, 20 years ago Peugeot was still using steel).

[yetanotherbob.livejournal.com]

Agreed, mostly. Although I'd say Goodwill over Salvation Army. I won't have anything to do with Salvation Army for ethical reasons.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

Craigs List and Freecycle. You'll find another bike soon enough.

[doctorpinkerton.livejournal.com]

My condolences... I've had the same bike for the last 25 years and would hate to lose it.

I'd suggest taking my approach next time and DELIBERATELY make your bike look like a pile of shit (but tweaked to run wonderfully). Undesirability is a GREAT deterrent!