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Bee File Photo 2007/Randy Pench

David Takemoto-Weerts, bicycle program coordinator at UC Davis walks among hundreds of bikes that have been picked up on campus and stored in this warehouse.

You gotta love Davis, the bike-crazy burg.

Apparently, students at UC Davis have this strange habit of leaving their commuter bicycles behind upon leaving campus for the summer. They either lock 'em up and then retrieve them in the fall or they just leave them behind to lighten the load when moving out of the dorms.

A story in the student newspaper, the Cal Aggie, reports that the university's Transportation and Parking Services will post with impoundment warnings that give the owner 48 hours to remove bikes from racks. If the bikes aren't retrieved, they go into the university's annual spring bike auction. 

Read the complete story here.  

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