I Got My Bike Back!

Someone entered our house through the unlocked back door and stole my bike from the garage more than a month ago. I got it back the past weekend, thanks to this amazing person. He started a program named Bike Rescue (www.bikerescure.org) when he was looking for bikes to rehab his broken back. He found so many suspiciously cheap bikes in the underground market so he decided to do something while his disability forced him out of the previous job. He used his commonsense to judge the seller and bought good bikes at “surprisingly” low prices. He set up a website and put in effort to search for the bike theft victims (i.e. He found me through a post I put on Craigslist declaring my lost bike.) For the ones he couldn’t find the original owner, he sell them at reasonable prices. He made about 60 cents per hour in the past few years by this program. He is now back from disability making ends meet with a couple of other jobs. Nevertheless, he didn’t give up this less than a dollar per hour business and is growing it into a bigger cause. I could not believe when I received his email saying he might have recovered my bike. When I did see it in his storage, I was wordless, just like some of the other victims like me checking out their lost bikes at the same time. I offered all the cash in my wallet ($75) to him but he only took the $50 he paid to get my bike back. Maybe I shouldn’t make that offer at all, because it could be an insult to some gracious person like him. What he did is priceless. It people like him who make this world more beautiful.