Abandoned bikes

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Do you have any pics of it?

Nope. Maybe I can take some today.

Saw this in the centre of Amsterdam earlier on today, looks like it’s been there for some time.

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Saw this specimen in DC several months back, standing next to its less valuable brother-in-arms

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Interesting patina, like it a lot

I saw a pretty nice trek multi track in true temper ox looking very abandoned today.

Rear wheel was not attached to frame but was locked with it and all buckled. The frame was pretty rusty and certainly looked like it hadn’t moved in some time.

What’s the ethics of me going and trying to get it? I was probably going to ask around some of the houses first see if anyone knew who’s it was or how long it had been there.

Also do hacksaws go through chain locks?

What type of lock is it? Bolt cutter is better for regular chains, sucks trying to saw trough..

Just looks like a chain with a plastic outer, could be a very thick cable though. It had a code lock.

You’d think the code would eventually come back to someone if they set it and forgot temporarily.

Code locks are well easy to open. Just pull both sides of the chain tight, spin the codes round and push to the left. They will slot in the grooves and lock opens. Literally takes seconds.

Don’t steal bikes etc.

Hmm I didn't know that. Bolt cutters sound fun though.

I did some investigating on google street view and it's been there since at least 2014, no sign of it in 2012. Although it still had both wheels attached to the frame at that point. Both wheels are off and locked up with it at the moment.

Sounds like it's ripe for rescuing.

Abandon sort of .bikes have been stripped and no one has claimed or done anything been there more 2 months does not look good for the area

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That happens everywhere, even ‘nice’ areas. Near my work there are loads of abandoned stripped frames. None of them anything worth having but they’re all D-locked or big chains. I’m tempted to go and cut them free just because they’re a bit of a nuisance and are in the way when you want to lock up. No one ever removes them. There’s a green mtb frame and forks at the station which has been there since I worked here previously, so at least since 2012 and maybe as far back as 2009!

Notify the council. They should go pick them up

spied this rossin at the local recycling centre yesterday - unfortunately the tip-man wouldn't let me recycle it. Due to the high number of students in the locality, I think it's likely it was left behind in a student house and was cleared out by the landlord. I don't think it's a particularly high end one, but deffo too good for the scrapper.
hopefully it'll get resurrected somehow rather than going to the big bike park in the sky.

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Judging by the tap hole, what sort of monster has the draining side on the left of the sink!!!!

Sink to right, drain to left is the defacto in north of England + Scotland.

Absolute savages.

Sink to right, drain to left is the defacto in north of England + Scotland.

Germany as well..

That would be hilarious.

I think a camera on a rack at a distance would be brilliant not to catch people just to see what happens. Speed it up wildlife film style like a mouse eaten by maggots. We are the maggots in this case sorry to say.

Maybe, or maybe not the same one..

Top tube dent in the same place, but I guess it would be.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C33mMt5Pl1O/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Looks like they all have this dent... factory? :)

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14870482/

Blast from the past. This thread IS that green Cannondale!