Abandoned bikes

exactly, nothing to do with my question

exactly, everything to do with my question

That's better...

How you know it's abandoned. Was it locked up?

I bet it would go walkies quicker if you put a cheap lock on it.

How you know it's abandoned. Was it locked up?

Good question. If it's locked up... well, it's locked up. Even if it's there for a month. Maybe the owner went for a pint, slipped in the loo, broke his collar bone and was taken to the hospital? :-)
If it's not locked, maybe someone can lock it and leave a note to the owner? If it's a dark industrial type of alleyway - it was possibly stolen and then abandoned. If there are some dwellings around, you can knock few doors and ask politely about the bike.

If it's not locked you should do what I did and report to the pigs and let them come collect.

Then 1 hour later when you're still waiting for them but not wanting to leave because it will be stolen you phone up asking where the fuck they are at which point they tell you there's no record of your original call. So a bit pissed cos you've sat around waiting, you discuss with the officer on the phone and agree you'll take it home and they can collect there - because you're not willing to walk away but on the other hand you have stuff to do and you're not able to hang around all night.. waiting. Then in the following months you make numerous regular and repeated phone calls asking why on Earth no police officer's come to even look at this bike because you would actually like this bike to be reunited with it's rightful owner because you know how utterly gutting losing a bike can be. And so forth until eventually 3 months after recovery they come and collect.

should maybe report it. if not finders keepers

It's my pub bike. Leave it there.

You could pick it up, take it to the police station and if no one claims it, its yours.

htfu.... if you want it.... take it !

Was an old bike with no saddle and no gears. Looked like a throw out.

Gone now.

Gone now.

You snoozed and you loozed. Still, answers the question though - non-abandoned bike. Or probably just thieved by another.

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Have seen a bike locked to some railings that is quite rusty and missing its wheels and seat.

I was wondering if there was a process to to 'claim' the remains? Its an old 3 speed type bike, if that makes a difference.

Bolt cutters..?

Its an old 3 speed type bike, if that makes a difference.

Yes, all the difference.

I prefer the idea of Bicycles and Abandoned Ethics

Its an old 3 speed type bike, if that makes a difference.

Jog on fella, 3 speeds are a no no, please refer the whatbikecanIliberate wiki section 14 subsection J for a complete list

Have seen a bike locked to some railings that is quite rusty and missing its wheels and seat.

I was wondering if there was a process to to 'claim' the remains? Its an old 3 speed type bike, if that makes a difference.

Only the local authority can remove abandoned bikes from the public highway lawfully. There is a process by which a notice has to be placed on the bike, etc. I think I may know which one you mean, if it's been there for ages. It's now only a wreck and I'm suprised that no-one's taken action yet.

Then there's that black frame with the chrome forks down the bottom of Hackney Rd.

You know how it goes... as soon as the first bit leaves the bike, that's it - the bike's got the mark and it's only a matter of waiting for it to slowly decay, with parts disappearing nightly. It can sit happily for weeks, but once the first bit gets nicked, it's doomed.

The way I see it, you may as well "liberate" it, hand it into the police saying you found it with the lock broken - thief must've been disturbed and run off (minor fib but I've genuinely found a bike in that state before). In 4 weeks it's yours legally. You can leave a note, in case the rightful owner comes by, in which case you saved their ride from suffering the death-of-a-thousand-cuts. If they don't come by and claim, it would have been robbed to death anyway but you get a beater out of it, which will get looked after, not get sold for crack.

It's shady territory morally, but it's how I feel about the matter.

[INDENT]The sight of a broken-down machine is to the overhauler as a wayside corpse to a crow; he swoops down upon it with a friendly yell of triumph. At first I used to try politeness, I would say: 'It is nothing; don't you trouble. You ride on, and enjoy yourself, I beg it of you as a favour; please go away.' Experience has taught me, however, that courtesy is of no use in such an extremity. Now I say: 'You go away and leave the thing alone, or I will knock your head off.' And if you look determined, and have a good stout cudgel in your hand, you can generally drive him off.

** Jerome K Jerome,**
** Three Men on the Bummel, 1900**
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Jerome K Jerome is a good one. Got that from The Cyclist's Companion. He has other good things to say about the art of loafing about and generally doing nothing, which, aside from cycling, is another interest of mine.

Who really doesnt like their Alu Langster, its been stripped to bits outside LCB top of brick lane, frame the only thing left, still locked up after at least 6weeks or so.

i watched its progress over the last few weeks, gradually noticing less and less bike. when it was first locked up it looked spanking new. shame. now its just a frame, soon to be a folded up piece of alu.