Bubblewrap

sorry if this is a dumbarse question, but what's up with the bikes in bubble wrap on the streets?

Eh up? Where?

Shrooms haven't worn off yet have they?

2 bike in West London, locked to lamp posts wrapped in bubble wrap...

no schrooms.... unfortunately...

One on Charlotte Street and one on Tottenham Street...

In Noho.

as far as my research tells me, a bicycles of such wrapped intensively in bubble wrap is often found to be packaged for departure or arrival of transportation, very common for plane journeys. If A "bubble wrapped" bicycle is found locked it is most likely left for a certain period of time before it can be collected for departure or shipment.

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Its youf culture fing, like wearing your jacket back to front or leaving the price tag on your baseball hat. you are so not street.

wtf

example: My whips got bear bubbles innit, nah wot I mean?

I've seen a few people riding bikes without seatposts. I used to regularly go to a building throughout the day, and every day at around lunchtime a bloke would roll up on a dilapidated mountain bike with no rear brake and no seatpost or seat. At first I would only see the bike, and I thought it was abandoned there for some reason until I realised it kept coming back at the same time every day. I then thought that maybe the seat had been removed as some sort of anti-theft measure. Eventually I saw the owner riding it without a seat and realised that this was just how he liked it. Very weird.

Its youf culture fing, like wearing your jacket back to front or leaving the price tag on your baseball hat. you are so not street.

don't be ageist. my gran keeps the plastic cover on her sofa.

There was a kid here I used to work with and I would get mad at him because he rode without cages or anything, and I would always tell him how dangerous it was to ride fixed like that. But apparently having his feet in cages made him "nervous" and preferred to have his feet free. Odd.

A sign heralding the imminent apocalypse. Or was that Hippy's 20,000 posts?

I've seen a few people riding bikes without seatposts. I used to regularly go to a building throughout the day, and every day at around lunchtime a bloke would roll up on a dilapidated mountain bike with no rear brake and no seatpost or seat. At first I would only see the bike, and I thought it was abandoned there for some reason until I realised it kept coming back at the same time every day. I then thought that maybe the seat had been removed as some sort of anti-theft measure. Eventually I saw the owner riding it without a seat and realised that this was just how he liked it. Very weird.

oh my man, you missed out. There used to be a trend quite a few years ago now, where trial bikes/trick mtb bikes where cool.

what people were going for was this:

with their MTBs. I did that for a while too. You take your seatpost and saddle out and either leave it (or even cooler) stick a tennis ball on there. Thats also not to rip your asshole incase you sit down. Its great for showing off and trying to do tricks on your MTB but honestly you get fucking tired from standing up all the time and the frame geometry really isnt designed as well as the trials ones.

There was a kid here I used to work with and I would get mad at him because he rode without cages or anything, and I would always tell him how dangerous it was to ride fixed like that. But apparently having his feet in cages made him "nervous" and preferred to have his feet free. Odd.

Atleast 3rd of people ive met who ride fixed tell me that

^^What? That having their feet in cages makes them nervous?

^^What? That having their feet in cages makes them nervous?

yeah, and that they dont feel comfortable riding with them

don't be ageist. my gran keeps the plastic cover on her sofa.
Thats cause she' s down with the homies. Top biatch.

I'd feel the complete opposite. But I guess whatever makes you comfortable.

these 2 bikes were wrapped in such a way that they could not be ridden... as if someone had taken a roll of bubble wrap out into the street and wrapped any old random bike locked up in the street. Wheels and all.

Would be rather funny returning to your bike to find it covered in bubble wrap...

:-)