There’s a policy here where you can’t secure a bike to anything except a designated bike rack or risk the lock being cut off and the bike confiscated by the administration. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough bike racks. So it is not an unusual sight to see a bike hoisted into a tree or buried in mud or disguised as “modern” art to deter theives. (Although it should be noted that some of the provided bike racks aren’t even bolted to the ground creating a criminal’s Costco by forcing theft in bulk.)
I walk right on past several easily stealable bikes on my way into classes, while folding up my 6-lbs scooter to its smallest 24 inch length so that I can set it under my chair when I sit down or clip it to my backpack while piling up on subpar rice.
I’ve seen other distinct Razor scooter riders. Two have the Razor A model, like me. The other appears to have a larger, less compact Xootr. (One was walking out of the Wiley dining court, one arm around his girlfriend, the other holding a dirty, beat-up A2 series Razor. See? Cool people do it too.) Mysteriously, I didn’t see any of them until after Labor Day (when I presume they went home for the weekend, dug their childhood scooters out of their garages and brought them back to campus).
So I’m a trendsetter here too.
