"do you think the thief was specifically looking for bikes to take and sell on, or just some guy who thought he'd look less conspicuous walking a bike down the road than carrying a TV & video under his arm."

I think it's the latter, we may never know.

S/he probably walked back here, saw the neigbors bike out on their driveway with the garage door open, took that and on the way in or out saw mine through the window and came back, or at the same time with another person or a car. It would be hard to "waltz" down the road with 2 bikes ;-)

The cops won't dust for prints which could find the culprit if they have a record, guess they have other fish to fry.

Do theives go looking for bikes or specific ones? I would never run an add like "wanted thus and such a bike this size with this and that", bad karma if a theif would steal one to sell it to me

"You also mentioned Irulan is seeing "another bike forum". I thought we were exclusive - I didn't realise we were only dating... "

It's ok Irulan, as long as your bringing the info home to us


gotta go see Lance in SF (I hope he's over the flu) (see thread "who's going to SF....) I was at the SF farmer market yesterday, so exciting to see the US Postal team cars, vans, equipment trucks etc parked downtown