Advertising Bikes: Share your pics

[gaijintendo]

I keep seeing bikes chained to railings or rotting away in the name of advertising restaurants or painter decorators.

I'm going to collect some photos of them as I go.

Here is one I see quite often, and it's not a good example - the hoarding has been kicked out of the frame. It was advertising the Vietnamese restaurant "The Hanoi Bike Shop"

 

[gaijintendo]

This is what encouraged me:

I remember that was more the butcher boys bike, I was a bakers boy and had this one. Not available at Halfords though.

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[gaijintendo]

Not all of them are rotting away though. Two cheese-related examples, one from Cambridge, with admirers, and a similar one from Holland with actual cheese:

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Now those are some gouda wheels!

 

[classic33]

 

[growingvegetables]

Curmudgeonly harrumph!

Next time I'm in Leeds city centre, I shall photograph the advertising bikes - every single damned one of them chained and locked to a cycle-stand, supposedly for people-on-bikes to lock their bikes to.

 

[IBarrett]

I wonder if the one in West Bridgford Nottingham has been spotted.
It will be dark when I get there tomorrow evening but I'll try to get a pic if not.

 

[Julia9054]

Outside some tourist attraction in Krakow

 

[gaijintendo]

Ink?

I don't think that one is ever locked.

 

[gaijintendo]

This is a sad looking Falcon mixte.
Makes me want to start the RSPB(ikes) and "rescue" it.

For only £5 a month, you could give a bike like this the gift of a chain.

 

[biggs682]

View attachment 380081 Ink?

I don't think that one is ever locked.

i wonder when that was last ridden

 

[gaijintendo]

i wonder when that was last ridden

How would you go about that, forensically speaking? Try and age the youngest consumable, the estimate the usage per year?

Google Street view first spotted it in October 2015

 

[biggs682]

How would you go about that, forensically speaking? Try and age the youngest consumable, the estimate the usage per year?

Google Street view first spotted it in October 2015

i wonder if it's still there ?

 

[Tin Pot]

 

[gaijintendo]

 

[gaijintendo]

Same guys, and some opportunistic advertising too.