Let's repeat that: conspiracy to commit a crime, robbery, assault and kidnapping with a deadly weapon.

The irony was - Simpson had been attempting to steal back sports memorabilia that had once been his.

I know, kind of, how OJ feels.

Last week, my bike was stolen from outside the local gym. Of course, no one saw it happen and the cops consider the chances of getting it back as light.

"They took the lock and chain as well?" asked the woman who took my report.

Yes, they took the lock and chain as well.

As I came out of the station, two guys asked me what kind of bike was stolen.

If I hadn't seen these guys were wearing shields and carrying guns - that they were the ones who would go forth into the rainy night and bring me back my bike - I would have suggested they were the guys who probably stole it.

Alas, my bike has not shown up.

Instead, I search bike racks to see if its new owners have parked it where it should not be (like, um, my house) and rehearse in my head vigilante actions to wrestle it back from a passing cyclist.

OJ, where were you and your pals when I needed my bike back?

Simpson, a former American football star who was one of the first to transcend his sport to become a mainstream celebrity, maybe should have known thug life wasn't the best strategy to get his stuff back.

Especially when his track record included a 1994 televised car chase across Los Angeles and a controversial acquittal in 1995 after being charged with the murder of his wife.

After last week's verdict, Fred Goldman, the father of Ron Goldman, murdered alongside OJ's wife Nicole, said he was "thrilled to see the potential that he could serve the rest of his life in jail where the scumbag belongs".

But Simpson isn't the only 70s icon to get recent payback.

It's been revealed that Evel Knievel, the legendary motorcycle daredevil stuntman, was under investigation by the FBI over possible involvement in a string of shakedowns and beatings.

Here's Evel in other action.

Knievel, who died last year, claimed to have been a swindler, a card thief, a safe cracker and a hold-up man during his high-flying life.

According to the New York Times, "His most well-known run-in with the law was a 1977 attack on movie studio executive Shelly Saltman, whom the daredevil beat with a baseball bat in the parking lot of 20th Century Fox.

Saltman promoted Knievel's infamous attempt to jump Idaho's Snake River Canyon and then wrote a book about the experience, angering Knievel by portraying him as ''an alcoholic, a pill addict, an anti-Semite and an immoral person."

Knievel was sentenced to six months in jail and Saltman won a $12.75 million judgment, but never collected."

Neither did Fred Goldman collect on the $8.5 million awarded to his family for the death of his son.

A criminal court found Simpson not guilty but, according to a civil court, the former football star was liable for the death of his wife and her friend.

Don't ask how that works. Apparently it just does.

"I love everybody," Simpson told Detective Tom Lange from the Los Angeles Police Department during the epic 1994 car chase.

"It's going to be better tomorrow," Lange replied as he negotiated via telephone for Simpson to surrender.

It was better for Simpson - for 13 years. Everything catches up in the end.

Remember that, bike thieves.