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My sister's bike has been stolen!

Bad news to report from Evanston, Ill. My older sister, Teresa Parod, reported that her bicycle had been stolen Tuesday. The theft took place outside the Art Institute in Chicago despite the fact she had locked her bicycle.

Teresa has a love of cycling that rivals mine. While she was in high school, she often would ride her single-speed bike seven miles one-way from our farm in Brighton, Ill., to Southwestern High School in Piasa. That's something her younger brother didn't do -- until several years after I graduated from college. She was with me on my very first weeklong bicycle ride 20 years ago, the BAMMI ride from Chicago to Edwardsville. And she and her kids were with me last year on the West Shoreline Tour in Michigan.

She rides a lot. She may not be as fast as her brother, but she gets there and that's the important thing. Hopefully, she'll find another bike quickly and get back on the road.

Meanwhile, I'm including a link to Jim Langley's article about locking your bike and what to do if it gets stolen. A lot of the things Langley, the former chief technical editor of Bicycling Magazine, says make sense, so I recommend them to you.

Roger 1 comments 10:57 AM

Comments:

This is a tragedy. I hope the theif is caught and imprisoned. I also think referebces to your sister's slow speed are unnecessary. A few comments on her great personality might be in order!!!

# posted by  Anonymous : 10:52 AM

 

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