Come get your bike - locked to mine at McCarren by asphalt lock
Hi - you locked your bike with pink handlebars to mine at McCarren sometime between now and 2 pm. If this is your bike or your friend’s come get it ASAP before I call someone to cut the lock - you’ve fully trapped me.
CONCLUSION - thanks everyone! while I don’t think it’s super likely that the person intended to steal my incredibly loved (and functional!) but not particularly valuable bike, you really never know! While I think the person was probably just not paying attention, definitely wasn’t willing to risk it!
The commenter who pointed out that it was just the brake cable caught had it right, but with my particular brakes you actually need tools to get the cable out. Lucky for me, a really nice person grabbing a drink at the Turkey’s Nest had his toolkit with him, and he freed my bike and put the brake back together well enough for me to wheel it over to B’s Bikes on Driggs for a brake adjustment (major shout out to nice people!)
I’ll leave this up mainly in hope that Pink Handlebars sees this and feels bad (AS THEY SHOULD) - if so, pls dm me and I’ll give you my Venmo for the $10 I spent fixing my brakes.
Till next time everyone! Thx for the amusement in a truly annoying moment