So, yeah, someone stole the bike I ride to school on. Kind of surprising since it was locked to a bike rack on a fairly busy corner in a pretty safe town (Dartmouth Ave. in Claremont, CA) in the middle of the afternoon (sometime between 1-4pm). Unfortunately, I was using a cable lock because I figured nobody would steal it in this town and some of the bike racks I use are not set up to work with U-locks....so that is a lesson learned, I guess. I had that to think about as I enjoyed a lovely ~3.5 mile walk home last night.
In any case, the bike is pretty unique so maybe it'll turn up: Empella Bonfire CX frame (mostly white with red and blue), matching Al fork, Ultegra cranks and mechs, v-brakes and barcon shifters.
It sounds nicer than it is, as a lot of the parts were spares or really old (Ultegra stuff was from '98, frame maybe '02). The only relatively new parts on it were bar tape and shifters. I'm (almost) more pissed about the timing and inconvenience of this than actually losing the bike- finals start soon, still have classes, live a few miles from school and my fiancee uses the car most days. Balls. Now every time I see a person on a white bike pass me I go into street justice mode for half a second.
In any case, the bike is pretty unique so maybe it'll turn up: Empella Bonfire CX frame (mostly white with red and blue), matching Al fork, Ultegra cranks and mechs, v-brakes and barcon shifters.
It sounds nicer than it is, as a lot of the parts were spares or really old (Ultegra stuff was from '98, frame maybe '02). The only relatively new parts on it were bar tape and shifters. I'm (almost) more pissed about the timing and inconvenience of this than actually losing the bike- finals start soon, still have classes, live a few miles from school and my fiancee uses the car most days. Balls. Now every time I see a person on a white bike pass me I go into street justice mode for half a second.
