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I saw one or two in NYC when I was there back in May. Great idea
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i think its an awsome project, but i would cut out the peds walk...
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A couple points:
You would need to speak with the bereaved families, it would be disgustingly insensitive to set up a memorial for the lost of someone else's loved one without their permission or input.
The council might come along and chop the bike if it was attached to signs and traffic controls.
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Yeah, I think it'd be very important to get into contact with family too. I think it depends on who it's for too. I mean if it was someone who simply commuted on a bike every now and then it probably wouldn't be such a good idea as someone who was really into cycling.
Plus wouldn't someone nick it? Left in the same place 24/7/365 any skag head who needs a fix will have it if they can, regardless of it being a memorial or not.
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one way to get around it being nicked is to fill all the allenkey holes with ball bearings and then superglue them. also if someone rides it there then cuts the tires so no one can cycle it off... basically anything to make it unridable.
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the ones i have seen have been basically unridable, you assemble it out of junk parts, then spray it white, so every thing is paint gunked, and most of the parts don't work. also i think most people avoid stealing gravestones and like things. bad karma...
i think it would be good to use the riders frame if it gets really bent up
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Hmm obviously you'd want it to still look like something like a bike though :P
vegansdontneedgears i think it would be good to use the riders frame if it gets really bent up
That's a good idea. It'd hit home to people a hell of a lot more too, though, again, there's the possibility that some families might find that a bit too much.
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obviously the choice is first with the deceased (i.e whats said in a will, or such), and loved ones.
i just think a bent bike would be really powerful.
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I don't think there is that much of a groundswell of leaving "attach my bike to streetlights" in your will just yet.
Hell, no-one I know even has a will.Approaching a grieving family and saying "we would like to place Fred's mangled bike up on the highroad" (which you drive past every day) would take a lot of nerve.
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at the risk of tempting fate if i am killed whilst cycling on the road i give my consent for a ghost cycle to be installed as envisaged on the website ghostbikes.org. (i have an old wreck in my garage you could use). also i would like someone to send a photo of me to the minister for transport. cheers.
i will let my sister and mum know.
its a bit ghoulish eh !
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|³|MA3K I don't think there is that much of a groundswell of leaving "attach my bike to streetlights" in your will just yet.
Hell, no-one I know even has a will.Approaching a grieving family and saying "we would like to place Fred's mangled bike up on the highroad" (which you drive past every day) would take a lot of nerve.
i have a will, and it says "If my demise is the product of a traffic event involving my self on a bicycle, and an automobile, it is my wish that a "ghost bike" to the specifications of http://www.ghostbikes.org be instilled near the site of the event..."
ahh what you learn with lawyers n the family
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phil at the risk of tempting fate if i am killed whilst cycling on the road i give my consent for a ghost cycle to be installed as envisaged on the website ghostbikes.org. (i have an old wreck in my garage you could use). also i would like someone to send a photo of me to the minister for transport. cheers.
i will let my sister and mum know.
its a bit ghoulish eh !
same with me, although locktite all the parts so thieving scum don't take it!!
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Here's a piece on ghost bikes from the Guardian's Literary Review last Saturday.
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2280598,00.html
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I don't "get" the ghostcycle London website... Apart from that poor bloke who got killed by a coach near Imperial College it all seems to be people with minor injuries having a whinge
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Leah ( a rad chica from New York) is interested in expanding Ghost Bikes to more cities around the world.
If you don't know the project, check it out here: www.ghostbikes.org
of course, we have ghost cycle: http://www.ghostcycle.org.uk/ but we don;t see many of the memorials around at all.
if you are interested drop a line on their website, or email me, Laura@bicyclefilmfestival.com and i will send you her email.
They are doing a ride this week in NYC if anyone is there:
2007 3rd Annual Memorial Ride & Pedestrian Memorial Walk Timeline
Sunday January 6, 2008
Bronx/Manhattan Ride
9:30: Gather @ E. Gun Hill Rd & Seymour Ave, North Bronx (Subway: E.
Gun Hill Road Station of Dyre Ave bound 5 train)
09:50 – Juan Solis Memorial @ East Gun Hill Road & Bouck Ave
10:55 – Unnamed Cyclist Memorial @ Melrose Ave & 153rd St.
11:45 – Bathroom break (ca. 5-10 mins) at Haarlem Meer restrooms
(110th & Lenox Ave entrance to Central Park )
12:10 – Manhattan pick-up @ Central Park South & 7th Ave.
12:25 – Franco Scorcia Memorial @ Broadway & W.40th St.
12:55 – David Smith Memorial @ 6th Ave. & W.36th St.
01:30 – Manhattan pick-up @ bike path entrance to Queensborough Bridge
(60th St, between Second & First Avenues)
02:30 – Convergence w/ Queens & Brooklyn Rides. See Brooklyn Ride for more info
Queens Ride
9:00 – Gather Jamaica Center @ Parsons Blvd. & Archer Ave, (Subway:
Jamaica Center, last stop on the E & J; LIRR: 1/2 mile east of Jamaica
Station)
10:00 – Elijah Wrancher Memorial @ Springfield Blvd. & 130th Ave.
11:30 – Habian Rodriquez Memorial @ Main St. & Horace Harding Blvd.
01:00 – Carolina Hernandez Memorial @ 57th Ave. & Junction Blvd.
02:30 – Convergence w/ Bronx & Brooklyn Rides. See Brooklyn Ride for more info
Brooklyn Ride
9:30 - Gather @ Seth Low Playground, South Brooklyn (SE corner of
playground , Ave P & W12 St. Near F, N & D trains.)
10:00 – Mark Grichevsky Memorial @ Bay Pkwy & W10th St.
11:30 – Unnamed Cyclist Memorial @ Fulton St. & Utica Ave.
12:15 – Jeffrey Moore Memorial @ Chauncey St. & Rockaway Ave.
01:00 – Anthony Delgado Memorial @ Palmetto Ave & Central Ave.
01:45 – Luis Ramos Memorial @ Flushing Ave & Beaver St.
02:30 – Craig Murphey Memorial @ Union Ave & Ten Eyck St.
Three rides converge at Craig Murphey's memorial.
03:15 – BK side of the Williamsburg Bridge
03:30 – Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge
03:45 – Sam Hindy Memorial @ Manhattan entry to the Manhattan Bridge
(Near intersection of Canal St. & Bowery.)
04:30 – Convergence of Pedestrian Memorial Walk & Cyclist Memorial Ride
04:45 – Memorial for Unknown Cyclists @ City Hall
05:00 – Street Memorials Rally @ steps of City Hall
Pedestrian Memorial Walk
03:30 – Gather @ Cadman Plaza on North side of Tillary St. (Cadman
Plaza E & Tillary St.)
03:45 – Memorial @ Tillary St. & Adams St. (BK side of the Brooklyn Bridge)
04:00 – Memorial Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge in honor of all 2007
NYC Pedestrian Deaths
04:30 – Convergence of Pedestrian Memorial Walk & Cyclist Memorial Ride.
04:45 – Memorial for Unknown Cyclists @ City Hall
05:00 – Street Memorials Rally @ steps of City Hall