Calm down pūssy cat! No one was blaming a woman, but rather mens' egos when it comes to women. FFS, some people are just looking to be offended.....

Calm down, big masculine bozo. She was right.

You go Girl!

I was wondering when someone was going to jump all over that :fred: comment. It sure didn't take long.

At the root of every problem there's always TWO GUYS FIGHTING OVER a woman.
(there fixed it) :D

I don't think women appreciate being talked down to and being called pūssy cat.

Just FYI.

First and foremost--keep a pump on the bike at all times. Then this is never that big of a deal.

Second--just because your tube held pressure doesn't mean someone sabotaged your bike. A small leak can deflate a tire over the course of a day and not show up on your leak test.

First time I heard some one get called a mysogenist misanthrope, I could only think of my own
four letter repetoire...haah? what? Then I looked them up in a dictionary.

I've had tires just go flat before, in my garage, then pumped them up and no problem. Sometimes valve stems leak. Twice, I'd consider enemy action unless the valve turned out to leak at times away from the office. I carry a pump at all times so it's just an extra 5 minutes.

I've been looking at the Tachyon XC cam for my bike - and in a case like this, it would have enough battery time, and with a big card in it, enough memory space, to leave it somewhere hidden watching your bike all day. Something to think about. Your decision then whether to forward the video to the guy and say "next time this video goes to your boss and to building security." or whether to just send it straight to his boss, HR, and building security and file an HR complaint. Or whether to go let the air out of his car tire. I wouldn't do the latter, because it makes you guilty too, but it might feel good.

I'm probably not getting a Tachyon camera because they recommend against rechargable batteries. But other than that it looks good.

The other guy at work that rides had his front wheel taken right off the bike last year.

Irony is one of the security desks looks right out to the bike racks. Bad part is, it is the one area where I don't think they have a camera pointed at.

And if all they did was let the air out, I would call that a prank by a jerk, including punks in the neighborhood, a grudge would have been a pin hole in both tires, tossed saddle, etc.

Unless you're Tom Jones and it is like 1971. :rolleyes:

Never hurts to be suspicious. prepared. Once a fellow cyclists parked in front of Trader Joe's told me a passerby spit into my water bottle. Those who hate cycists are everywhere. I don't take my water bottle into a store. But, I now note water bottle position before entering stores, to see if its been moved.

But I understand the paranoia that something like that induces. It's not as funny the second time, so maybe the next time they unhook the brake cable, something like that.

But I agree that if you straighten up and act like it didn't faze you, the lack of reaction will make it less fun for the perpetrator and it probably won't happen again.

And just on the technical side, have you checked to see that the mechanism in your valve stem is all tight inside there? I've had it come loose and the air escape while I was in at work. You just need to use a small screwdriver or needlenose pliers to tighten it back up if that is the problem.

At the root of every problem there's always an EGO.

Or her user name is 'KitN'.......:thumb:

Huh? Is the world black and white to you? Try re-reading what I wrote, this time for comprehension.....

Done.

Nope, you still look the same.

Then you probably see the world in black and white. Sad for you.

All aspects of this thread, including the Kitn related ranting, are hilarious.

"Hi honey, watcha doing?"
"Oh, this guy on BikeForums had the pressure let out of one of his tires."
"Gosh! And did a battle of the sexes ensue?"
"You got it. Can you bring me a beer and a towel for my forehead?"

But that's what the internet is for, I guess.

I'm curious -- just how do you frame the sentence "Calm down ***** cat" in a way that isn't sexist and condescending?

(of course, people believe all kinds of idiot things...like the other day, some fool on some other forum protested that his use of "that's so gay" to describe an idiotic stunt was not derogatory...because he was using it to mean "stupid" and not "*****exual". Wow.)

That was why I suggested it. Think about it: which would you prefer, to catch someone on video in the act of tampering with your bike...or to warn him off so he doesn't tamper with it?

This requires a camera!

Any chance of parking the bike within view of a computer you have control over? I'd throw a webcam on it for fun.

When I shared an office with some folks, we loved pulling "in good fun" pranks on each other. To give ourselves a heads up, a couple of us installed a webcam with software that would record when it detected motion. I think such a thing would be helpful here.

If you decide to go the vengeance route, definitely make absolutely sure it's him.

So... you didn't tell her to calm down, call her "***** cat," pretend it's a completely platonic play on "KitN," and that its usual meaning never crossed your mind, despite that you consciously circumvented the board auto-censor by adding a special character to the word, accuse her of looking for things to get offended about, and add some acronymic profanity just for fun?

It's still possible, I suppose, that I "see the world in black and white." Which of those things was grey?

So one is either a sensitive PC man or a knuckle dragger, huh?

Lighten up Francis.

STRIPES quotes really only work when Francis is being comically oversensitive. This time, Ziemas is being a bigot.

Which of the things I mentioned didn't you do?

A bigot now! Wow, you're really overly sensitive. Or looking for an argument. Do you take everything so seriously in real life, or only on the internet?