Quote Originally Posted by tulip View Post
There are a couple of bike coops in and around DC.
Not to hi-jack the thread, but... Tulip, do you have more information about DC bike co-ops? I tried one day to do a 'net search on that and got no results (could have been my search, though).

Sorry for your brother, Kimmyt. Where in DC did it happen? I work in the Golden Triangle district, near Dupont Circle, and see the same bikes locked in the same places every day. Some of them are really nice, too. The only ones I've ever seen touched are ones that have been left overnight. The Friday night party crowd in downtown DC seems to take out a lot of *ahem* excess energy on bikes left locked up overnight. I've seen some very sad sights when I've come into work on Saturday morning. Taco'd wheels, attempts to remove locked wheels, bent frames, shredded bar tape... Very sad