Bicycle Tag of bike

Old: the Francis Crick Institute, Midland Road

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New: musical picture clue; also a microdot...

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i'm not getting anywhere with "mural spirit level" or "graffiti spirit level"

Purple rain, Prince? I've not got anywhere either.

Sorry the clue was not hazy enough

Ah.

Lately things don't seem the same but I could cut over to the upper side of town for this one.

Forgive the spam but if you enjoy riding around unfamiliar parts of town seeing interesting things, join me next Sunday in Enfield:
https://www.lfgss.com/events/7096/

The clue was super obvious and easy, fear not! Wrong part of town for me though...

Old. Where Jimi Hendrix penned Purple Haze, former Upper Cut Club, Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate.

New: staying on purple, next stop

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Switched pedals for the theme Nick? Impressive attention to detail

Sick whip too, comrade Oat

I've found it but not sure how I did. No idea how the clue relates.

Old: Manor House, Manor Park—Gladding Road on the purple line

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New: a purple building

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Eh? When I go to Manor Park Station on Streetview, I see no building looking like the one pictured by you and Oat.

I’ve added a link to the “old”; it’s behind the church. My photo was taken from here on Comet Close.

Ah! Thank ye.
Got your new one BTW - but no bikee at present :(

I don't know if it's a retag as the previous one was not specifically the tag but that building was in the pic. And the previous tag is in the new pic.

The big purple fellow was the one we were going for. Glad it’s easy to find 👍

As Aglet says, mine was the manor house that gave Manor Park its name, Manor Park being one stop further up from Forest Gate on crossrail/Elizabeth/purple line.

I'd always assumed the eponymous manor had long since gone, but it just about survived, now well hidden by surrounding 80s housing. It was probably built around 1800 by James Humphreys, who had bought manorial rights of the whole of West Ham from the Crown. It was sold to Eastern Counties Railways, and sold again to William Storrs Fry, son of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry. It then became a Roman Catholic Industrial School in 1868 until Co-op took it over as a milk factory/depot in 1925. They continued to own it until the 1980s when it was sold in a state of decay to an Irish property developer and turned into 10 flats.

Interesting but pretty bleak details of its time as an Industrial School:

http://www.e7-nowandthen.org/2015/11/a-nod-at-our-neighbours-manor-park-pt-2.html?m=1

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol6/pp68-74

OLD: a building.

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NEW: Let's talk about SEX.

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Woah Wigan, you left Hackney, you got your passport?

Please save your hate speech for your old-timey bicycle club meetings.

If you need more clues then you need to look westward.