Just this week after a weekend of bringing bikes back from Mammoth, my wife woke to find that the racks on her car were gone. Not just a little bike rack, but the entire Yakima rack, crossbars, towers, bike trays and all.
At first I thought who the heck would take the entire rack? It makes no sense, then I started suspecting newly minted bike thieves running short on bikes to pinch and looking for a way to carry around their new conquests in style..
But several people suggested that maybe some 'tweaker' stole it for scrap metal given the cost of Aluminum these days. What a bunch of Crap stealing my crap for scrap. I dont think the 3lbs of aluminum at a coupple bucks a pound will come near to the cost of replacing them, so you would think, why dont they just dig through our recycling for bottles and cans and milk jugs like the rest of the folks in the (what we like to call) 'bum rush' that happens before every trash day and now, more often than not, every morning between 2 and 4am outside our window. Crap, I would rather give them the $6 as 'protection' money to make sure my racks stay safe. What a bunch of CRAP.
