Abandoned bikes

dam shame, some one needs to liberate it and give it a home. or try to fine original owner.

Yeah that could be such a nice bike with a bit of love and care.

the tyres aren't even flat yet!

honestly, i have had this idea for long.
all these abandoned bikes. i've been really tempted to buy a pair of 4ft bolt croppers to be honest.

those in the camberwell neighbourhood might have seen these 2:
about a year ago there was a black one outside edwardes locked up with an abus. just that bloody lock is 50quid new. one day someone started taking bits off it and it was left with the frame, forks, headset and cranks 3 days later. i think someone didn't want the steel handlebars from it and chucked it in the skip and now it's sitting in my room.

and there was this dawes touring bike outside a shell station on walworth road with a bent top tube. parts go missing from time to time. someone finally removed the frame last week.

are there actually anything we can do about these? would it be possible to set up an association so we would be allowed to do it legally? you know there's a seller on ebay from merseyside which sells bikes built from salvaged parts... they're a legal thing.

could easily furnish a full polo team!

I remember the one outside the shell garage, Edwardes regulary has old wheels and frames left by the bin outside, generally shit or bust but one day summin worth havin might turn up.

i've picked up quite a few useful bits from there meself!

Sorry to drag up an old thread but that bike is still in Mornington Crescent, handlebar decoration and all!

yeah i need a new polo bike!:)

YEAH i go passed that bike all the time, i just thought someone was riding it and liked greenery

to be honest i can't believe someone hasn't nicked it yet. Are you absolutely certain someone isn't still using it and is just locking it in exactly the same place every day....? Unlikely I guess.

asm, it hasn't hasn't had a chain on it for months.

that's a hardcore style of riding

Kelvin that's a hardcore style of riding

Isn't it just a scooter then?

*Five points for hitting petrol-heads, Jet-skiers too
No points for hitting P Platers, they do the work for you
Three points for a Volvo-driver, dock one for stereotyping
But here's the way to maximm points, you'll do it without trying
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Hit anyone on Reality TV, call it "Non-Survivor"
Three points for a pagan worshipper, four if they go to heaven
Five for a World Business Leader, plus six for S Eleven

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But you can leave your mark, on a smaller sphere
Tell the cops "He just came out of nowhere"

One point for road rage tailgaiters
Two for custom license platers
Three for the Beamer driving ponce
Four for a limo full of debutantes
Five for the re-made retro classic
Six for the original while we're at it
Seven if it's open-top red and sporty
Bonus if the driver's over forty
Eight for bumper-sticker teasers
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We must observe equal opportunity
Put the pedal to the metal and hit everybody.*

anyone sure it's not a bike thief trap set by ITV?

ahh that would be soo funny...one of us bike loving angles go to give a bike a new life and get caught up in a trap like that!..brilliant!

bike loving angle? insert geometry joke.

asm bike loving angle? insert geometry joke.

haaaa brilliant...well spotted..10 points for you sir!

How would you remove the U-Lock. If you can prove that the bike has been abandoned, legally you can take it. Its just getting that proof that it has been abandoned which is the hard thing.

get someone to watch it night and day for a week? Who's in?

1) aidan

asm get someone to watch it night and day for a week? Who's in?

1) aidan

i see you favour the bracketed number when forming a list, how interesting

I knew a list would get you interested. I'm astonished you haven't joined it!

its probably soooooo rusty what with all the rain and what not!

how would you remove the d-lock anyway?

eeehhh?

contact the council, say you've been away for a while and you've come back to get your bike and have lost the only key for the d-lock.

they might say tough shit.
they might say they'll come along and crop it for you, providing you can provide proof of ownership*

but, it's stealing isn't it? regardless of how you dress it up. maybe the owner died or just didn't want it anymore?

at the end of the day, it's abandoned, and the correct way to go about it would be to tell the police or the council, they'll put a notice on it for a week or so, then remove it, where it'll sit in their pile of rubbish until the auctions.

jv got drunk, locked it there then forgot where they locked it?

haha my mate got pissed down his local boozer went home, got up the next day and his bike had been stolen out front of the house, he had insurance tho wasnt to bad reported it stolen got a new one paid for ...went down his local boozer the next week and there was his bike chained up outside the pub!