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user-inactivated  ·  4157 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: By Request: Outside Magazine's "Who Pinched My Ride?

What is it about a bicycle that often makes its theft seem so much worse or more personal than the theft of something of similar or greater value?

I've had a bike stolen and a bike vandalized into the next century on separate occasions and those two acts made me angrier than almost anything else that's ever happened to me.