abandoned

digable planets once said "new york is a museum with its posters and graffiti". if that is true then certainly abandoned bicycles would have to count as part of the museum's sculpture. and in fact if you take a closer look at most big cities you will find similar exhibitions. but as with most other things, new york must certainly do it in volume.
this is why i love abandoned bicycles of new york, a part of j schumacher's very enjoyable blog. if you have ever spent any time in the city, no doubt you've seen one of these. it's difficult i think to figure out how these came to be here. i suppose one could spend many hours spinning an imagined tale for each one. perhaps some are left temporarily at first. the well meaning bicyclist secures his mount to a parking meter or sign post overnight, visiting the neighborhood of a friend, only to come out the following morning and see the transport mutilated or vandalized in such a fashion as to be now unrideable. shocked and distressed, our hero, without resource or assistance leaves his faithful companion to now die a slow death on public display.
that is a grim tale and i know i have seen evidence that would support such a tale. and in fact as time goes by many of these become a whipping post for passers by. a sort of a psychic post war mussolini. and still others remain intact and even preserved, as if the rider was going off on another kind of journey, but hoped to return one day and free his steed from its suspended state, give it new life and ride the city streets once again!