Bereaved
My Giant VT has just been stolen from outside our office. In broad daylight in front of a busy car park. I could see it from our office window. It was there this morning then gone by lunch.
I took it for granted. It was my bike and I’d spent a long time making it just right. It was my comfy armchair I returned to after riding ‘other’ bikes. It was the only bike I could ride without having to think about how various bits of it were performing compared to other bikes. It wasn’t on test or anything it was just ‘My Bike’.
Now it’s gone and suddenly I appreciate what it meant to me. I’m gutted. I feel bereaved and now I’m in mourning. I wish they’d taken the car, the contents, anything else that I had around of value rather than my Bike.
Of course no one saw anything and the CCTV camera overlooking my car from down the road is a dummy. Our web cam that often points at where we park was pointed inwards at an empty sofa. Whoever took it would have looked perfectly normal, standing outside the office of the local office of a mtb mag taking a bike off a Thule roof rack.
Angry, sad, stupid, depressed, bitter, upset… tick all that apply.
So, if you are in or around Todmorden, West Yorkshire and see a Blue Giant VT with Mavic XC wheels, Carbon bar, Formula discs and no seatpost (That was in the car) give us a call.
It’s not been a good few months so far for bike thefts around here.