What can compare with the thrill of a brand new bike?
Those long days of wishing and waiting are finally over, and the proud new owner can
look forward to enjoying his bike in many ways.
You're taking a lot of responsibility in owning and riding a bicycle, for you are now an operator
of a wheeled vehicle.
These bikes have been abandoned.
Where are their owners?
Have they lost their keys?
Did they move away?
Or do they just not care?
In some cities, they're called derelict bikes.
The real derelicts are their deadbeat owners.
What becomes of an orphaned bike?
This bike has fallen and can't get up.
Soon it will fall prey to the night vandals and end up like the others.
Cut down.
Rust it out.
Cannibalized.
One of these bikes is not like the others.
Shunned, pilfered for spare parts, its carcass left by the street like roadkill.
This vacant lot has become an abandoned bike graveyard.
A dumping ground inhabited by the Forsaken, haunted by ghosts of abandonment's past.
Here we see locks, but no bikes.
What does this even mean?
Modern bikes are all around us.
Neglected, forgotten, entangled, humiliated.
Hopeless.
Where are their owners?
What kind of people are they?
Is each of us capable of turning our back on a friend, discarding them like trash?
And if so, what does it say about a society?
We make sure his bicycle is always in perfect mechanical condition.
Be sure all the spokes of the wheels are tight and replace broken ones at once.
The goodbye rider is easy to recognize.
Always park your bicycle in the safe place, or you may not be able to enjoy your bicycle
along the way.
