Seattle’s cycling mayor is trying to find a very important bike — his wife’s.

Seattlepi.com says Mayor Mike McGinn sent a message on Twitter late Wednesday that the bike belonging to his wife, Peggy Lynch, had been stolen after he rode it to work.

He says in a tweet: “I know I’ve been encouraging people to ride bikes more, but I didn’t mean u could ‘borrow’ my wife’s bike w/o asking.”

McGinn, a former Sierra Club leader, frequently commutes by bike and often rides to events and meetings. He’s a strong advocate of making Seattle more bike- and pedestrian-friendly.

McGinn spokesman Aaron Pickus says the bicycle was taken from a city garage. He says the mayor borrowed his wife’s bike because he recently donated his own to a charity.

-- The Associated Press