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The only abandoned bikes are the ones taken by the police/council and auctioned.
Everything else is not.
In my opinion.
Unless it's been CLEARLY abandoned, meaning NOT locked and rusting away on the side of the road. Stem was stuck, tyres flat, spokes broken.
I actually found one of these. Riding back home saw this bike all rusty and spidery webby lying on the side of the road clearly visible. Wasn't there in the morning, I would have noticed it.
There was one shop and private homes, asked at the shop and a rang the bells of few near-by houses.
No one ever saw that bike there before.
Left it there, maybe some one just left it there and went to take, dunno, a car or something.
Came back next morning, was still there (of course no thieves would take it).
So I took it.
That, again, in my opinion, is an abandoned bike (may be just because I took it? No idea, but to me that was as much as a properly abandoned bike as one can say)
Planning on cleaning, re-grease, true/fix spokes, new tubs/tyres and ride along that stretch of road, maybe the owner is still there and might want it back. It's an Elswick Hopper, no fancy tubing.