When I asked the woman with that FREE SCOOTER sign what it was about she began by saying she had a scooter cluttering up her back yard and asked "Want it?" Then she grinned like that was a joke and turned around her sign. The other side had something to the effect they should jail Rove instead...

     

  

        

        

        

I was talking to another bicyclist and he told me about the time "somebody beefed my rear wheel." I wasn't sure what he was talking about until he explained that he had locked his bike to a post and somebody had stolen the rear wheel. Since then I've been thinking of the time somebody stole my bike's seat, including the post that had a shock absorber built into it. Riding home without it was no fun, but it had to be better than walking a bike with no back wheel. I hate getting beefed.

Back when Cake was a local band in Sacramento, they had a song with the line "Bicycle thieves are the worst kind of thieves" in it. I wish I had a CD with that song on it.