Faux ghost bikes

"Hey, I wont do that, I'll be a nice guy, rather than attempting to be clever through nihilism and ending up being a penis".

He's not trying to be clever or nihilistic. Its an a-board on a bike that happens to be cream (Not even fucking white). Its not a clever play on any ones suffering, its people reading too much in to nothing, and in the fact that no one knew anything about ghost bikes when it was made it shows the ghost bike campaign to be drastically lacking in its aim of rasing awareness about cycling, given that know one even knows about, or cares about the ghost bikes, let alone the cause. You are making him out to be deliberate an evil. Hes not. Its just a non issue in his eyes. It was a toss up between black and off white, and he went for the latter. Ooooh. What an evil man. You guys are acting like some one killed jesus or summit.

Cyclist together should support cycling related issues.

I don't mean to sound like a massive cunt, but; what a load of fucking bollocks mate.
We aren't one big happy family. We have different opinions to each other. As you can see here not every one supports the campaign. Just because I'm a cyclist doesn't make a clone. I like to think I have retained the ability to think for myself. I don't support the CTC's no RLJ policy, but I do support some of their town planning suggestions.

i see ghost bikes as the singular most negative aspect of promoting cycling.

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Agreed. Its a fucking stupid way to promote cycling. It says:
"Hi, loads of people get killed all the time. Roads are really unsafe. But get a bike any way. You might even be lucky enough to get killed and have a ghost bike placed where you took your final breaths."
Definitely a positive outlook.

Also think the Brick lane bike should be re-sprayed so as to remove the obvious offence it is creating (hence this thread)

Most things offend a few people.Tv programes, adverts etc. Its just a fact of life. If you didn't want to offend any body you can only really stay in your room and do nothing. And as I repeatedly keep pointing out, no body outside of the cylcling community and those have known people who died on the roads no about or care about the ghost bikes. So I' sorry you are offended, but its a bit of an over reaction. Its clearly not even a ghost bike. Its an offwhite a board on a bike. Wooot.

In a time of economic slowdown you are seriously asking that we spend money (4 or 5 cans of paint and however many hours of labour) to re-spray it because a handful of people are offended, by something that looks like something else that no one knows or cares about? Maybe if you band together to pay for it, it might be considered. But when we are loosing hours because the business is struggling its hardly likely its going to happen, least of all because its quite frankly a crazy request.

I'm sorry that you expect immediate and dramatic results to all of your endeavours.

I don't. But if you went to an ad agency or what have you and said: "I want to raise awareness of a cause. I have a plan that should yeild some results in x numbers of years," then I doubt you would get a pay rise no?

I have a few gallons of pink paint left over from my room. Anyone wanna help?

Don't be silly. If the bike ends up pink I'm not going to lie about it. I'll be obliged to say you were talking of it. The internet does have connection to the real world. If you are going to commit a crime, and crime it would be, don't be silly enough to tell an employee / casual friend of the victim huh?
Not to mention that its a pathetic thing to do really. Your campaign is so fragile and delicate that it can't handle things that look like it and you have to vandilise things for your campaign.