Free bike!

recently that guy in Toronto who probably has two partially worked in Brooks saddles in his collection was busted for possession of over 2000 stolen bikes. It's really sad that someone could go on stealing that many bikes and get away with it. I don't mean sad in the sense that he is sick and probably has some sort of velo kleptomania but sad that nobody ever caught him despite knowing who he was. If he had started spray painting his name on walls in the summerhill area they would have organized a task force and busted everybody buying spray paint in the GTA but he didn't. He stole bicycles. I am not claiming that I am any better because I have stolen a bike before. It was behind the station in a garbage truck. I also purchased what I believed to be a stolen bike and tried to cleanse my throbbing conscience by telling myself the guy had found it in the garbage. Sad isn't it. Sadder still is that the above pictured bike was outside my workplace and may as well have been locked up with a noodle. Oh had the frame been my size. Through out the day I took my breaks outside and was in awe to find it still intact, I had been expecting to find a securely locked front wheel safe from the evil elements surrounding it. One of my coworkers, a fellow cancuk, pointed out that one could easily swap front wheels and flee the scene leaving a bewildered velo owner to find my poor excuse of a commuter bike instead. Alas after a hard days work I found that the owner had safely guided their steed out of the valley of death and was probably safely home in the shower with the large screen LCD televiision sitting out on the sidewalk where nobody would think of stealing it.