Author Topic: The Dead BSO Thread... (Read 69998 times)

Kim · « **Reply #101 on:** 22 April, 2017, 07:39:06 pm »

Thames mud, presumably...

Andrij · « **Reply #102 on:** 22 April, 2017, 08:36:00 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 22 April, 2017, 07:39:06 pm

Thames mud, presumably...

More impressive if it wasn't London mud.

Jurek · « **Reply #103 on:** 25 April, 2017, 07:04:34 am »

Visible only at low tide, adjacent to Limehouse Lock.
Tho I think it probably took more than one person to lift it over the railings which are 4ft + in height.

hatler · « **Reply #104 on:** 25 April, 2017, 08:18:13 am »

I wonder what might have been the set of circumstances where this was deemed a good idea.

woollypigs · « **Reply #105 on:** 25 April, 2017, 09:07:31 am »

Quote from: hatler on 25 April, 2017, 08:18:13 am

I wonder what might have been the set of circumstances where this was deemed a good idea.

Alcohol

andyoxon · « **Reply #106 on:** 25 April, 2017, 08:51:51 pm »

P1030018 by ao, on Flickr

Seen on the eastern edge of Sutton Courtenay, stayed there for ages, then one day...it was gone.

Jurek · « **Reply #107 on:** 30 April, 2017, 03:42:51 pm »

Quote from: woollypigs on 25 April, 2017, 09:07:31 am

Quote from: hatler on 25 April, 2017, 08:18:13 am
I wonder what might have been the set of circumstances where this was deemed a good idea.
Alcohol

This.
And an illicit/un-traceable 'hirer'.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #108 on:** 30 April, 2017, 04:18:23 pm »

Quote from: Deano on 07 September, 2014, 10:43:06 pm

Getting there.. Spotted this in the bike sheds last week:

Dunno whether they'd had an off that morning, but I wouldn't be surprised if it'd been like that for yonks.

That looks like Teethgrinder's bike after a stiff climb.

Pingu · « **Reply #109 on:** 02 May, 2017, 09:41:53 pm »

IMG_8445_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Kim · « **Reply #110 on:** 02 May, 2017, 09:51:37 pm »

That's not dead. It's just a bit drunk....

rogerzilla · « **Reply #111 on:** 02 May, 2017, 09:57:36 pm »

I do wonder (a) who goes round stamping on bike wheels for fun and (b) how crappy a front wheel must have to be to bend like this. I can stand on either side of the rim and balance on the axle of a decent front wheel (don't try this with a dished rear wheel, you will wreck it).

Kim · « **Reply #112 on:** 02 May, 2017, 10:02:34 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 02 May, 2017, 09:57:36 pm

I do wonder (a) who goes round stamping on bike wheels for fun

Men under the age of 25.

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(b) how crappy a front wheel must have to be to bend like this. I can stand on either side of the rim and balance on the axle of a decent front wheel (don't try this with a dished rear wheel, you will wreck it).

Have you ever tried kicking one in the spokes, thobut?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #113 on:** 03 May, 2017, 10:15:47 am »

Men under the age of 25... when drunk, or frustrated in their attempts at theft. But it's also quite easy to pringle a wheel by braking heavily while turning sharply and falling off all simultaneously because a car has just cut you up on a mini-roundabout. I discovered thiswhen I was 17.

Oxford_Guy · « **Reply #114 on:** 08 May, 2017, 07:43:11 pm »

Spotted near the Punter pub in Oxford, which is by the Isis river:

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #115 on:** 12 May, 2017, 03:11:03 pm »

Hammerite'll sort it.

JStone · « **Reply #116 on:** 13 May, 2017, 04:25:47 pm »

A skip-full of dead BSOs in Lerwick

IMG_2593 by jrs_bristol, on Flickr

andyoxon · « **Reply #117 on:** 02 August, 2017, 12:53:18 pm »

IMG_20170712_065449330 by ao, on FlicKR

In Rosedale, at Bell End Farm...

T42 · « **Reply #118 on:** 02 August, 2017, 02:38:45 pm »

Awwww.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #119 on:** 02 August, 2017, 02:45:43 pm »

That's probably part of the BSO2[something] thing that's going on.

woollypigs · « **Reply #120 on:** 02 August, 2017, 04:23:58 pm »

There is loads of these yellowBSO scattered around Yorkshire

Juan Martín · « **Reply #121 on:** 08 September, 2017, 06:26:00 pm »

OxfordBSO by JuanM58, on Flickr

Oxford, the other week.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #122 on:** 08 September, 2017, 08:15:33 pm »

We have dead or moribund BSOs abandoned in the shed at work. I'll photograph a few. There's also a £5k Pinarello Dogma locked with a £10 Halfords combination cable, but that's another story.

Gattopardo · « **Reply #123 on:** 08 September, 2017, 08:19:15 pm »

Dibs pinarello

Are they disposing?

rogerzilla · « **Reply #124 on:** 09 September, 2017, 03:30:01 pm »

When someone complains, security usually remove the rotting bikes. I watched an Apollo BSO go from its you-can-still-smell-the-paint maiden voyage (on which it got a puncture and was never ridden again) to a mass of rust in the 18 months before it was removed.

I would wager that many BSOs manage less than 100 miles before scrapping.