Joined: 02 Jul 2007Posts: 517Location: the only hill: Beacon
Hey creatures, my super-awesome rad-jew/fiddler/music teacher housemate, Mai Li, recently received a road bike via our other housemate (Eric the ridiculously pale and unbearded, as you may know him), and had finally been converted to the way of the drop bar and what she calls 'cat in heat position'. In a fit of pique, she left her new and precious steed unlocked in front of our house for a few days (foolish, foolish!). Sadly, the bike disappeared sometime last night, and she (in tears) discovered it this morning. She is broke as a joke, and we'd be glad to see this bike back in our stable, as I'm not sure how easily we can all scrape together resources to get her another.
It's a ~56cm lugged blue Nishiki with gold lettering, probably from around 1984, and you may recognize it as the bike Eric-the-palest used to roll around on until he finally got a bike that fit him. May also include ridiculous accessories like a ladybug-spot painted top tube cover, and/or a couch-sized cruiser seat.
We pulled this bike outta the basement at our old house, the Hill-ton, and fixed it up with scavenged parts, so it's not beautiful, but it was free, and biking is her main form of transportation beyond hitching rides and so on. If you have a similar-sized bike or frame lying around that you'd let go for cheep or free, holler at me? 27" wheels okay, I just want to get her back on a bike again. Can trade woolens or delicious meals, I make amazing, beautiful, and delicious/spicy things.
Love!
-N*
the dreaded ben
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:39 pm
Grumpy GreebJoined: 20 Aug 2005Posts: 5329Location: flavor country
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henry
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:42 pm
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The phrase is: "Have you ever seen a duck that didn't look like it was having a good time."
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Ok, sorry for the delay. I left for Suiattle yesterday morning and haven't had a chance to tell this tale.
Part I:
So Friday night, Wreyfords, myself and a few others are hanging out at the Summit. The Wreyfords leave to check out the scene in front of the QFC (since this is where Ryan saw his bike a few days ago). I head there shortly afterward and go in to buy some beer.
I pay for the beer, come outside, and find Ryan holding a ~56cm lugged blue Nishiki with gold lettering, probably from around 1984. He is informing a young tweaker that the bike is stolen, and that he is taking possession of it. The kid disagrees; he insists that the bike legitimately belongs to him, or at the very least, he isn't the one who stole it. Ryan, in turn, invites him to either summon the security guard from inside the store, or call the full-blown police. The kid declines.
The kid is informed that we are going to lock the bike to the rack in front of the store, then go home and make some phone calls, and return in a half-hour. Furthermore, he has absolutely no choice in the matter. Unless, of course, he would like to call the police and straighten things out that way. He again declines, but is overall pretty agitated about the situation. Chase manages to lock the bike to the rack with one arm, and then Ryan and Chase walk back to the house, and the kid tries to follow them.
I stick around for a minute and talk to the kid's friend. This guy is thoroughly entertained by the entire situation, and is getting a pretty good laugh out of seeing his friend so worked up. He also informs me that his friend traded the bike to "this old guy we know" for "$10 of drugs". I ask him where he thinks the old guy got it, to which he replies "well, he stole it. Obviously." I bid him a good evening, and head home.
dog licking ice cream coneJoined: 11 Aug 2008Posts: 3022Location: Rainbow Road
Part II:
So, we are all home now. Ryan wakes up everyone he knows trying to get a hold of Nova. In the meantime, I rouse my maintenance guy, Sway. If you haven't met Sway, the relevant details are:
1) You don't want to fuck with him.
As you may know, our basement was broken into last week. A couple days afterward, someone cut a garden hose and was siphoning gas in front of the building. Sway is not really happy about either of these events, and I had a full rack of beer, so it wasn't too hard to get him on board.
Ryan finally gets Nova on the phone, and sends her a picture of the bike. No dice, it isn't her rad-fiddler-jew's bike. Since the bike is almost certainly stolen, however, Ryan decides to go back to the store, see about reclaiming it and trying to find the owner.
So we do that. The front wheel has been taken off the bike, but it is otherwise intact. The kids have gone somewhere else. So, the bike is wheeled back to the house, put in a secret location, and Ryan posts "bike found, is it yours?" to Craigslist. We decide to sit out front of the house for a little bit to see if the kid tries to come by. I am in the middle of posting to the forums when...
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Part III:
The kid comes by the house. He still insists that the bike is rightfully his, and that he wants it back. Sway leaps into action, and demands to know if the kid has ever been in the building. The kid doesn't have a whole lot to say about this, and starts to reach toward his pockets. Sway tells him to get his hands the fuck away from his pockets. He does.
Sway continues his interrogation, but the kid isn't nearly as talkative as he had been earlier in the night. He is probably starting to realize that he isn't going to get the bike back, and is kind of in way over his head at this point. Sway grabs the kid by his shoulders, which prompts the kid to start screaming in a manner not unlike that of a stray cat. Sway lets go of him, and he runs off.
We stayed up a little bit longer, with no further events to report. In the morning, Ryan bought renter's insurance.
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Chip McShoulder wrote:
Part III:
We stayed up a little bit longer, with no further events to report. In the morning, Ryan bought renter's insurance.
good story, but be careful about goin' around liberating bikes. There are lots of people more violent than me out there, and if you tried to throw a lock over my beater bike I'd start the conflict resolution by breaking your nose.
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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:00 am
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langston wrote:
Chip McShoulder wrote:
Part III:
We stayed up a little bit longer, with no further events to report. In the morning, Ryan bought renter's insurance.
good story, but be careful about goin' around liberating bikes. There are lots of people more violent than me out there, and if you tried to throw a lock over my beater bike I'd start the conflict resolution by breaking your nose.
Yeah, you kinda had to be there. No one was kicking our ass. I've ran into these kids every night since then and they're to scared to do a damn thing. We're talking about 18 year old, tweaker, street-kid bike thieves, not the bloods and crips.
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gsbarnes
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:01 am
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Crips and Bloods hang out at Lake Sammammish these days, so no worries.
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jeff
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:24 am
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gsbarnes wrote:
Crips and Bloods hang out at Lake Sammammish these days, so no worries.
Race fail.
lantius
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:45 am
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jeff wrote:
gsbarnes wrote:
Crips and Bloods hang out at Lake Sammammish these days, so no worries.
Race fail.
the race is at greenlake, not lake sammamish.
gsbarnes
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:49 pm
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As a 21st century bike gang, .83 strives to be color blind. Try to keep up.
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fatasian
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:56 pm
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jeff wrote:
gsbarnes wrote:
Crips and Bloods hang out at Lake Sammammish these days, so no worries.
Race fail.
take the high road or gtfo. /wink
see how that happens?
jeff
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:04 pm
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fatasian wrote:
jeff wrote:
gsbarnes wrote:
Crips and Bloods hang out at Lake Sammammish these days, so no worries.
Race fail.
take the high road or gtfo. /wink
see how that happens?
What race are you again?
fatasian
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:14 pm
dick wang's fatherJoined: 26 Aug 2008Posts: 1707Location: devenshire
Nascar?
fourfingersdown
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:17 pm
r.w. = rainn wilson!Joined: 21 Mar 2008Posts: 1078Location: NOT FUCKING ENGLAND
Pretty sure I just found the owner of the bike!
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Razi
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:02 am
Joined: 16 Dec 2005Posts: 866Location: Seattle
I give this thread two extremely enthusiastic thumbs up.
Unrelatedly, on my ride home from my market town to my mountain village yesterday, the woman sitting next to me in the bush taxi kept on having her boobs completely pop out of her tube top whenever the car hit a bump in the road. The road to my site is really shitty. It was the best third world taxi ride of all time.
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Razi wrote:
I give this thread two extremely enthusiastic thumbs up.
Unrelatedly, on my ride home from my market town to my mountain village yesterday, the woman sitting next to me in the bush taxi kept on having her boobs completely pop out of her tube top whenever the car hit a bump in the road. The road to my site is really shitty. It was the best third world taxi ride of all time.
Grumpy GreebJoined: 20 Aug 2005Posts: 5329Location: flavor country
henry wrote:
Razi wrote:
I give this thread two extremely enthusiastic thumbs up.
Unrelatedly, on my ride home from my market town to my mountain village yesterday, the woman sitting next to me in the bush taxi kept on having her boobs completely pop out of her tube top whenever the car hit a bump in the road. The road to my site is really shitty. It was the best third world taxi ride of all time.
I love you Raz.
a goat-b-q is clearly in order.
Razi
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:10 am
Joined: 16 Dec 2005Posts: 866Location: Seattle
I love you too, Henry.
I'll be back in a year, give or take a few weeks.
By then my curry goat making skills should hopefully be top notch. As it is, my curry goat now is ok, but not as good as what you can get on the street. Goat-b-q is an awesome idea.
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