I love to ride my bike. Some people, it would seem, feel differently. I have started to capture images of the unloved bikes I see on my way around the place and will put them here because, well someone has to do it. Here are the poor lost souls ( recent finds first) ....and while I'm at it I have no idea why anyone but me would find this interesting but there you go.
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Here is probably the oddest of all, this is actually my bike that was stolen just before Christmas 2014, outside the library in Manchester. I reported it to the police with photos and everything but never even got a message back. so some 5 months later I found it while I was out wandering and as it turns out it was just dumped in the woods around the corner from my university, I wonder how long it had been there. The people who took it had trashed it, I resolved to go back the next day and get it, well I got busy and had to put that off for a few days and sadly when I did it was gone but.. still, what a strange thing eh! Farewell blue bike, you were ace, and you were a replacement for a bike that had been stolen so perhaps there was a perpetual cycle ( yes, I know) of bike.. stolen.. replaced.. stolen, etc..
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| this one's been here forever, losing more parts |
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| a newly abandoned one |
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| at least they're together |
most of these are red, do people buy more red bikes or abandon more red bikes?
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| it's the rusty and mangled chain that gives it away every time |
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| not a bicycle but an abandoned motor scooter, it can hang out here with its fallen comrades |
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| this one is not abandoned, just badass with its massive bell all chained up in Picadilly gardens while its owner hits the town. |
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| this one was here for ages, I took a photo of it every day for a while ( for a college project) til one day it was cut down :( |
There are others who also feel bad for the poor lost cycles of the world
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