“Just had a green Brompton stolen from where it was locked at North Cap and H NE,” Wells wrote. “Has a rack.”

A photo of Wells’s missing ride soon followed.

But the former Ward 6 council member was also hot on the thief’s trail, issuing a lookout for a man in “neon reflective green work pants.”

In a telephone interview, Wells, who said the bike was stolen during a visit to the Council of Governments office, did not sound happy.

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“I try not to covet things, but I did like my little bike,” he said.

Wells said he paid $1,700 for the Brompton bike when he started his job as DOEE director. He even picked a green shade to match the department’s signature hue.

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“It folds up, so it’s multi-modal,” he said. “You can take it on Metro, put it in the back of a Car2Go … it’s the perfect bike for Washington.”

On the council and as DOEE director, Wells was and is known for his sensitivity to environmental issues. He drove a Prius, The Post reported last year. He read “Birds of America.”

“There’s a whole biophilia movement in America that you need to see green, be part of the environment to feel good,” Wells said last year in a story that mentioned the bike. “We have that in D.C., so I’m going to promote it. I’m very focused on kind of integrating the green or the environment of fish and wildlife back into the city.”

Today, Wells objected to the idea that a bike theft would be considered routine.