Very true – I see a lot of abandoned bikes locked up in London where one wheel has been stolen and the owner has apparently thought “well that’s that, then. Back to public transport for me…”
It’s sadder as these bikes are gradually stripped down to rusting skeletons.
When I was living in Japan the day after newyears was the clean out day when everyone put all the stuff they no longer had room for on the sidewalk….I picked up a few fully functional bikes tuned them up and sold them to co workers. These were in most cases bikes discarded because of upgrades not guilt or lazyness
I don’t complain. It’s another one to run thru the shop, another fix and flip. And for every person that throws a bike out, there’s a customer for a used bike in excellent shape and ready to ride.
Nahh – a cat would just find the nearest human to cuddle upto and provide them with all they need.
Then . . . they would get lonely and do that cat thing where they journey home like a homing pigeon
One of my friends at college made a couple of bikes like that. Once he made a kind of triplet trike. One at the front to steer, and two behind parallel to each other independently pedalling. It was kind of misaligned so the steersman had to lean all over the place just to get it to go vaguely in the right direction. I seem to remember we rode it 400 yards to the pub.
Well embarrassingly enough I read a statistic on bicycles in the United States…We have the most bikes per capita in the world, however we are near the bottom of the list on bike use per capita in the world. We have to have one or two of everything…but in most cases don’t use it.
More likely that they are too lazy to offer it to a charity!
Very true – I see a lot of abandoned bikes locked up in London where one wheel has been stolen and the owner has apparently thought “well that’s that, then. Back to public transport for me…”
It’s sadder as these bikes are gradually stripped down to rusting skeletons.
Is it really that sad? If the owner cared so little, they’re now being recycled into people who want them.
When I was living in Japan the day after newyears was the clean out day when everyone put all the stuff they no longer had room for on the sidewalk….I picked up a few fully functional bikes tuned them up and sold them to co workers. These were in most cases bikes discarded because of upgrades not guilt or lazyness
I don’t complain. It’s another one to run thru the shop, another fix and flip. And for every person that throws a bike out, there’s a customer for a used bike in excellent shape and ready to ride.
Hmmm… wonder if we could place our old bikes on the ice flows like the Eskimo’s did with their elders?
Tried it. They keep finding their way back home … well, the bikes usually do; I don’t know what becomes of the elders.
Would that work with cats?
Nahh – a cat would just find the nearest human to cuddle upto and provide them with all they need.
Then . . . they would get lonely and do that cat thing where they journey home like a homing pigeon
Speaking of cats… Where’s The CAT??
They’re simply providing me with an endless supply of second-rate components & frames for my welding experiments.
Building a festive trebuchet in the backyard?
One of my friends at college made a couple of bikes like that. Once he made a kind of triplet trike. One at the front to steer, and two behind parallel to each other independently pedalling. It was kind of misaligned so the steersman had to lean all over the place just to get it to go vaguely in the right direction. I seem to remember we rode it 400 yards to the pub.
Well embarrassingly enough I read a statistic on bicycles in the United States…We have the most bikes per capita in the world, however we are near the bottom of the list on bike use per capita in the world. We have to have one or two of everything…but in most cases don’t use it.
“We have to have one or two of everything…but in most cases don’t use it.”
I believe the term is ‘conspicuous consumption’.
It’s not conspicuous if it’s gathering dust in the garage.