All About Bikes!!!

Okay no food post today cuz it was uninteresting but I will tell you all about bikes and keeping bikes in USC.

I've had a horrible experience of getting my ever-so-loved bike getting stolen in the beginning of last semester. Okay I was a freshman and I am from Irvine California. Yeah. I know nothing about things getting stolen other than occasional scientific calculator robbery in high school.

Well so my bike is gone. Initially, it was hard for me to swallow cuz I DID PARK IT N LOCKED IT ON THE BIKE RACK when most people just leave it free standing...

but guess what I locked my bike with~~

Yeah a plain old thin bike cable.

Yeah that's totally enough to safeguard your bike -_-

So I learned my lesson.

So after a whole semester of no-bike-ing on campus, I realize how much longer everything takes for me to get to places... sure I'm spoiled after having a bike, but I come to realize I would be much much more efficient with time if I have a bike again. Still that was not enough to convince myself to get another bike when I'm scared to have it stolen again [I become quite attached to anything I own... I guess I should use Buddha's teaching of detachment...]. BUT 2 reasons have prompted me to search for bikes again...

1) My work is on the very very opposite side of campus and i work alot @_@ Walking late at night from my work is much less safer than biking back, I figured. If anything happens, I can spritz my pepper spray and pedal for my life. [my work is just a street across from the school boundary

2) I like with my sister and she has a bike. It's hard when we are trying to go somewhere and she wants to use a bike, but chooses not to since I don't have one. I feel bad for her and she's been trying to make me buy a bike.

So here I go again looking for my bike and I found a nice bike with my fav color with rather reasonable price. Yes much less expensive than my last one [this place is doing a no tax promotion with cash payment whoop whoop! that is alot!]

Gorrrrrgeous. Promotion goes for $139.99 or smth. Okay so before I even begin attempting to get a bike I went on a research about bike locks.

So I am going with Kryptonite New York Mini lock. Highest security rating and designed for, as the name goes, ppl living in high crime area like New York! [or, in my case, LA!]

It's called a fahgettaboutit or smth like that. well i don't think i'll ever not worry about my bike every again =( but it'll give me a lil peace of mind.

ALSO! I am getting a kryptoflex cable to loop around my wheels n seats since bikeparts-stealing is pretty common here too. I don't wanna hafta worry about spending another 30 dollars getting another seat [and the inevitable inconvenience in the morning of missing-seat-discovery]. So why not get a cable that's 13 dollars to wrap around the whole thing. I know it might look CRAAAZY every night doing that but everything's worth it more than worrying about losing my bike again. Yeah i got quite paranoid n determined now.

OKAY so my total expense for having another bike would be around 200 dollars. That's a big investment and I don't want it to go down the drain. I am saving big time right now for it n hopefully i can get it soon. I'm pretty excited for it! You know really, I am not that bitter about my bike theft incident. I'm pretty sure those bike thieves don't wanna b doing what they r doing - sneaking up to a college at the middle of the night and putting frowns on bike owners... who'd want to do that? I feel rather bad for them. If my bike had given them extra money to get rid of one wrinkle off their face even just for one day then I am happy. They need that money way more than I do... I do understand that. Hopefully they can put a smile on their children or dependent family.

Anyways, that's my little investigation of bikes and how to keep bikes properly locked and what not. Wish me luck in not having it stolen again. I really like this bike much more than my previous one so hopefully i can get it soon... I am saving very diligently for it! It's all my hard-earned money so don't think i'm spoiled hahaha. well i know i am but on this one, i'm working hard for it!!!!!

Love, Angela