A customized bicycle these days can run $10,000, which goes a long way toward explaining why bike theft has evolved from the “quaint” days of yesteryear into a criminal enterprise, writes Christopher Solomon at Wired. (Think neighborhood-roaming trucks equipped with ladders.) Solomon’s story provides an astonishing example thanks to an amateur sleuth named Bryan Hance of Portland, Oregon. Hance is co-founder of the Bike Index, where people can register their bikes and report them stolen. The site has helped get more than 14,000 bikes back to their owners over the last decade, making Hance quit…