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One night, Simon Garrett locked up his bike in what he thought was a secure locker in the basement of his apartment building.

But, the next morning, when his roommate went to get a bike to ride to work, they were missing.

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“My roommate called me and said ‘Hey, did you lock the bikes up properly?’ and I said ‘Yeah, of course’, and he was like ‘Well, they’re gone,’ ” said Garrett.

“It turns out they had dismantled the door, left my lock intact — just bypassed it completely — and stole my bike.”

For Garrett’s roommate, a bike was his main way of transportation to and from work. For Garrett himself, his bike was primarily for recreation but, it did have a lot of sentimental value.

“That bike kind of saved my life, to be honest. Like I’m not trying to be melodramatic about that, I was in a pretty bad place when I bought that bike. It meant a lot to me,” he said.

When Garrett realized he wanted to get more into biking, he had invested in a more expensive Trek bike, which took two years of monthly payments to pay off. Now, Garrett said he won’t be purchasing a new bike until he feels he has a secure place to keep it, as he no longer trusts the security in his apartment building.