Its quite interesting to sometimes watch an abandoned bike in any busy street. Gradually it erodes away as a tide of people lap at its shores. I once watched a bike in my city centre outside a local hifi shop. The owner had clearly left it there, gone to do some shopping and returned to find his bike or lock damaged, which made riding away clearly difficult.
Obviously the rider being male is a presumption via the bike's geometry and size.
It being a very cheap Saracen of some sort, clearly the rider thought nothing of abandoning it. I wondered at the time, how often do these specific ghost bikes appear? Given the high rate of theft in the cycling communities, it must be often. Over the period of a couple of weeks the bike, bit by bit, gradually disappeared, until all that remained was a frame and forks chained to the sheffield stand.
In the end the council took it away. Which is what I presumed happened to the bike in the video below:
There is something about long distance riders and runners that I admire. Stubbornness, tenacity, strength of mind. Philippe Gilbert is one of those riders, a champion and a hero of the Tour de France - last year he went from sprinters jersey to yellow.
There's something inspiring in watching them train, even for a relatively short distance rider like myself:
And for some very strange reason this Family Guy clip popped up in the related videos bar:
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