Sunday was the first day I had to myself in a couple of weeks and I knew that I would have a busy week at work coming up, that I decided to take a walk across the island. Starting at 8th and Broadway I walked nearly to the East River, turned around, and walked to 8th Ave. Not quite river-to-river but close enough.
There were many abandoned bicycles along the way. By the way, I only saw one abandoned bike in Seattle. It was a beauty that I should add to the gallery.
The bike in the photo below caused me to do a double take. The front tire is missing, The wheel is there, but the tire is gone. I didn't notice it at the time, but when I was preparing the pictures in Photoshop I saw that a couple of the tires had been slashed. Could this be what happened? Someone slashes the tires and time, the elements, and passers by remove the rubber?
Missing front tire on a Rand National (or should that be National Rand?)
Look closely and you'll see slashes in the middle tires.
For you nyc graffiti lovers, you'll notice the "neckface is ugly" tag behind the bicycles in the top picture. There are neckface graffiti all over town and I started noticing them last summer. Do a search for neckface and you'll find lots of pages devoted to his/her work.
Time for me to go home. Columbia's network has been really slow since yesterday. You don't want to know how long it took me to post the bike photos, but you do know why I've been double-posting comments nearly everywhere. All that is to say, I may not post anything new until the network traffic eases.
More abandoned bicycle photos.
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