Bicycle Graveyard - Why are so many bikes end up underwater
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Chris S
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That looks like the Netherlands. Stolen bikes are thrown in the canal once they're no longer needed.
Read the article. It's a worldwide phenomenon. That picture is from France.
Chris S
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- Birmingham
I didn't see the link. Just as I thought, it's a serious problem in the Netherlands as well:
In Amsterdam, drowned bikes were at one time heaped so high in the city’s 165 canals that they scraped the underside of flat-bottomed barges. The solution was fietsen vissen, “bicycle fishing”. In the old days, this task was accomplished by freelance scavengers who plied the canals in rowboats, using hooked poles to extract bikes, which were sold for scrap. In the 1960s, Amsterdam’s water agency assumed responsibility for bicycle fishing. These days, a corps of municipal workers trawl for drowned bikes on boats equipped with cranes attached to hydraulic claw grapples. The problem is not as severe as it once was, but fishers still pull 15,000 bicycles from the canals each year.
In Amsterdam, drowned bikes were at one time heaped so high in the city’s 165 canals that they scraped the underside of flat-bottomed barges. The solution was fietsen vissen, “bicycle fishing”. In the old days, this task was accomplished by freelance scavengers who plied the canals in rowboats, using hooked poles to extract bikes, which were sold for scrap. In the 1960s, Amsterdam’s water agency assumed responsibility for bicycle fishing. These days, a corps of municipal workers trawl for drowned bikes on boats equipped with cranes attached to hydraulic claw grapples. The problem is not as severe as it once was, but fishers still pull 15,000 bicycles from the canals each year.
wiggydiggy
Guru
I did, pretty interesting. The game they describe where people would push their bike with no one on it I used to do as a kid, never into water though, we used to call it 'doing a ghosty'.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
Thank god it's not just Manchester's ill-fated Mo-bikes ! China's stockpiles are worrying ! What a waste.
Cycleops
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- Accra, Ghana
Failed TdF riders bikes?
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
only one shopping trolley I see.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Is it because bikes can't swim?
mickle
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I've always been of the opinion that the only good Raleigh is a Raleigh at the bottom of a body of water. Preferably a canal.
