Author Topic: The Dead BSO Thread... (Read 69951 times)

The French Tandem · « **Reply #125 on:** 09 September, 2017, 05:54:42 pm »

Quote from: Juan Martín on 08 September, 2017, 06:26:00 pm

OxfordBSO by JuanM58, on Flickr

Oxford, the other week.

Are you sure this is not a sort of conceptual art exhibition? Otherwise, I can't explain how the front rim got caught this way between the fork and the hub.

Kim · « **Reply #126 on:** 09 September, 2017, 06:16:32 pm »

Isn't the rim passing between fork and hub the normal way of things? It's just flopped over through lack of spokes.

Torslanda · « **Reply #127 on:** 12 September, 2017, 12:29:03 am »

Most of that will buff out. Not trying hard enough...

Pingu · « **Reply #128 on:** 15 September, 2017, 07:47:08 pm »

IMG_9533_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Kim · « **Reply #129 on:** 15 September, 2017, 07:56:22 pm »

Dead in the Goldfinger sense...

Kim · « **Reply #130 on:** 25 September, 2017, 04:29:53 pm »

Hiding behind the bins at Wing Hall campsite:

Vince · « **Reply #131 on:** 25 September, 2017, 06:40:36 pm »

I should have taken a photo of the dead BSO that donated a pedal to a LEL rider at Spalding.

Pingu · « **Reply #132 on:** 27 January, 2018, 10:19:49 pm »

IMG_7039_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

woollypigs · « **Reply #133 on:** 28 March, 2018, 03:45:27 pm »

Well since most rental bikes are kinda BSO this article goes well here :

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversupply-in-china-huge-piles-of-abandoned-and-broken-bicycles/556268/

Here is some of the many photos

Just mental !

Polar Bear · « **Reply #134 on:** 28 March, 2018, 04:26:48 pm »

Quote from: woollypigs on 28 March, 2018, 03:45:27 pm

Well since most rental bikes are kinda BSO this article goes well here :

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversupply-in-china-huge-piles-of-abandoned-and-broken-bicycles/556268/

Here is some of the many photos

Just mental !

With all those yellow bikes I couldn't help thinking about New York cabs and wondered if this was where New York Bozo bikes went to die.

Palinurus · « **Reply #135 on:** 28 March, 2018, 06:19:49 pm »

Quote from: woollypigs on 28 March, 2018, 03:45:27 pm

Well since most rental bikes are kinda BSO this article goes well here :

Might get a container of those sent over, I don't like cleaning bikes so I could just get a new one out every couple of weeks.

Palinurus · « **Reply #136 on:** 08 May, 2018, 05:44:38 pm »

By the Grand Union near Watford on my off-road commute route. Not sure how it ended up being removed from the canal though.

Blodwyn Pig · « **Reply #137 on:** 28 September, 2018, 02:42:38 pm »

IMG_0310 by mark tilley, on Flickr

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #138 on:** 28 September, 2018, 03:06:22 pm »

Quote from: Palinurus on 08 May, 2018, 05:44:38 pm

By the Grand Union near Watford on my off-road commute route. Not sure how it ended up being removed from the canal though.

I presume canals get dredged from time to time, and what comes up, comes up.

Peter · « **Reply #139 on:** 28 September, 2018, 03:19:11 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 28 September, 2018, 03:06:22 pm

Quote from: Palinurus on 08 May, 2018, 05:44:38 pm
By the Grand Union near Watford on my off-road commute route. Not sure how it ended up being removed from the canal though.

I presume canals get dredged from time to time, and what comes up, comes up.

The Canals and Rivers Trust have members and volunteers who regularly haul stuff out of the Rochdale Canal. Bikes and shopping trolleys are the commonest items - knives and crowbars sink into the silt.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #140 on:** 29 September, 2018, 12:57:01 pm »

Quote from: Palinurus on 08 May, 2018, 05:44:38 pm

By the Grand Union near Watford on my off-road commute route. Not sure how it ended up being removed from the canal though.

Anachronistic Ever Ready Rearguard there.

andyoxon · « **Reply #141 on:** 29 December, 2018, 08:12:26 pm »

Some brightspark, in Littlemore, has stomped on this pony... Holey tubeless tyres, I see.

IMG_pony by a oxon, on Flickr

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #142 on:** 06 January, 2019, 11:14:02 am »

Are they solid tyres with air pockets?

Pingu · « **Reply #143 on:** 23 February, 2019, 08:04:36 pm »

IMG_2509_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

ElyDave · « **Reply #144 on:** 11 March, 2019, 07:21:08 am »

A dead WSO? ^^^

Seen on a walk round the village, behind a locked gate

Needs a bit of surface treatment, but looks sound

Paul · « **Reply #145 on:** 11 March, 2019, 09:24:28 pm »

That saddle looks like it might take some getting used to!

essexian · « **Reply #146 on:** 01 April, 2019, 07:52:34 am »

On the tow path just south of Gnosall.

2019-03-31_09-16-36 by essexian, on Flickr

Kim · « **Reply #147 on:** 01 April, 2019, 04:53:55 pm »

There's one sturdily D-locked to a signpost near here that I intend to photograph for this thread once I work out whether it's abandoned or not. The lack of seatpost and front wheel make the status unclear.

Kim · « **Reply #148 on:** 20 June, 2019, 10:06:49 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 01 April, 2019, 04:53:55 pm

There's one sturdily D-locked to a signpost near here that I intend to photograph for this thread once I work out whether it's abandoned or not. The lack of seatpost and front wheel make the status unclear.

I guess that's now pretty unambiguous:

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #149 on:** 20 June, 2019, 11:08:04 pm »

Funnily (or not funnily) enough, I was thinking along similar lines (but more "how not to lock up your bike") about a black 1980s road frame locked to some railings not far from here. All that's left now is frame, crankset and rear mech. Everything else, including forks and pedals, long gone. Odd that the cranks haven't been taken too.