Dumpie mobility

Bfast- bean/cheese burrito leftover with dumpie salad greens
Lunch-- Gatorade and ciabbata and butter
Dinner-- soft turkey tacos, tortilla chips, juice

Sitting here reading an article about how the "thems" are upset that the cities need to do more to stop the stealing of bicycles around the country. Of the solutions that were suggested are better locks or to camouflage your bike (thru the use of sticker removal, black spray paint and yes even duct tape the frame to make it ugly). Better locks and their proper useage I can understand (Mine is now a u-shaped metal tube with a keyed connection end on both sides ($10 AT WALLIE)

But to cammie the bike.. These people spend $500 to $3000 (choke choke) on the state of the art 2-wheeler to show off just how green they are and that they ride the same bike Lance (330,000 gallons a monthe water use for his "little" home in Austin) Armstrong or others ride.. Hey guys its not the price of the bike that matters its what you do with it..

Trash had dumpie bike 1 (ol' blue) a few years ago. She had a cheap frame and was an original components bike that I had pieced together in the side yard of the old 'stead. It had some solid rubber inserts, in stead of tubes, in the tires (flat-proof) that I had found and a very dependable gear shift (only 2 gears of the 18 worked). The seat was a fat-ass seat I had found on the curb of another house and the baskets, similar to what are on the current dumpie-bike, were also pulled from another trash find. That bike was uglier than hell but it accompanied me well on many a dumpie diving jaunt, as well as bein a good commuter bike for the daily 14 mile trip (28 miles round trip)to the babylon work place. Good memories indeed.
Until one day I took the bike down to Babylon, LOCKED IT UP with a cable lock in front of the office with all the "spensive bikes " . The bike was there at 1130 lunch and 2pm smoke. When I came down at 430 to ride home the bike was gone.. STOLEN.. The joking persisted for weeks about how the ugliest bike in the rack was stolen. And the "spensive ones" remained. I just figured someone needed her more than me.

Maybe someone else knew the story about riding UGLY so it wont get stolen. I sure hope they are taking care of "ol Blue" as we all called her..