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Bike mutilation - Should I pluck out mine own eyes? - Can a charity be set up?
I’ve just spotted what must count as the most malformed abomination against two wheeled nature imaginable. A 1990’s sloping top tube time trial bike converted to a hipsters fixie (twatty deep section rims, 8” wide flat bars e.t.c) – with a large wire shopping basket seemingly welded on to the front.
I’m not sure what would have been the greater mercy – to put the bike or it’s rider out of their misery….
Is there any chance that a charity could be set up to rescue bike from such abuse?
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Good point! - but to be used like that...
- the indignity!
I am just imagining the bike propped up against the bar, "Back in my day, I could go well under the hour" and "It is too easy these days" with a heavy dose of "The youth of today" etc...
Surely the bike would rather be out looking silly than gathering dust in a shed?
Sadly not - I was so flabbergast the thought of recording such a horror didn't cross my mind. If, however, I see it again I'll definitely be recording it for posterity.
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For reference purposes, of course.