Does it take a bike thief to catch a bike thief? That was the thinking of Kathryn Lucas in Denver, who after she saw her stolen bike on Craigslist arranged to meet the seller for a “test ride.” When she saw the bike she knew it was hers, right down to the red bar tape, and that test ride of hers kept going until she was far enough away to put the bike in her car and drive off. The thief was later arrested, but the cops cautioned this wasn’t a tactic they’d necessarily recommend. Well, no — if it had been a dude, there’d have been some revenge at the end of a karmic tire iron.

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