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Chef Jody Adams using Facebook to find bicycle thief

This unidentified man is seen riding away on chef Jody Adams's bike, which was locked outside the Healthworks Fitness Center in Porter Square. Adams posted the picture on Facebook.Facebook

When she’s not busy in the kitchen, Jody Adams spends a lot of time on her bicycle. Sometimes the chef-owner of Rialto rides for charity — Adams will be among the 6,000 cyclists taking part in next weekend’s Pan-Mass Challenge — and sometimes she just rides to get around. That’s what Adams was doing last week when she pedaled her newly refurbished Cannondale bike from Brookline, where she lives, to the Healthworks Fitness Center in Porter Square, where she works out. Adams locked the bike to a bike stand outside the gym, but when she came outside two hours later, it was gone. “I didn’t have the serial number because I bought it secondhand. It had been in my basement for eight years,” she said. “I’d just resurrected it with new tires and pedals and lights so I could ride at night. It made me cry.” Adams was upset and posted a note on Facebook: “It’s just a thing and can be replaced but it breaks my heart about humanity.” Soon after, though, she was contacted by someone who’d been at the gym and, while working out, had seen a man stealing the bike. The woman grabbed her phone and took photos, which she sent to Adams when she learned it was her bike. Monday, Adams posted the photos on Facebook, with a request that friends alert Cambridge police if they can identify the man. “You can see him just riding away. He’s so cavalier about it,” says Adams. “It’s just a rotten thing to do.” Luckily, the Cannondale is not the bike Adams rides in the Pan-Mass Challenge, so when cyclists hit the road for the Dana-Farber fund-raiser, she’ll be with them.


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