bikemore 

I never know about these. That get to be quite an eyesore. Last year
I posted the bikes on the fence at the Myrtle St playground (the other
end of the street from me). All the busted up ones disappeared about a month
after I posted them. Of course this year there is a new set of busted
bikes.

Don't know if this show has been posted before (around the 24th).

Pictures show what they mean.

https://www.hereandnow.org/2010/12/24/abandoned-bikes

And I usually get at least a half dozen bikes to Bikes Not Bombs a year. Sometimes
more.

southpawboston

While not on public property, the bike cage at my work gets littered with about a dozen abandoned bikes a year. I'm working with our facilities and legal depts to have them tagged and eventually donated to Bikes not Bombs.

Amesja

I don't understand why people abandon bikes. If they are worthwhile to ride they are worthwhile to take back home -even if someone steals a wheel or seat off of one. I suppose the ones that get hit by snow plows doing the sidewalk and bent to living bejebus are beyond being cost-effective to fix but there still are good parts on them usually. That is up until they sit outside for 6 months in the weather and rust to nothing.

bikemore 

I think it is partly that they have little invested in them to begin with. Once a seat is gone or a tire has gone flat, they find it easier to get another bike then
to find there way to a place that can fix it.

Amesja

I suppose it is hard for me to look at this through the eyes of people like us who would come to a site like this. Then again, this is the same kind of thinking that blinds them to the differences between a real bike-shop bike and a department-store disposable bike.

Still, it blows my mind. Even a disposable department-store bike has a few components on it that are worthy of repurposing/use.

roccobike

College campuses are littered with the carcasses of bikes left behind. Students look at it as an expense. Whey you're plunking down $500 for books, another $100 for transportation is cheap and disposable. I've sold several bikes that I've flipped to students who want to ride a bike instead of drive. They really go for vintage bikes. Rigid fork MTBs are a favorite with the guys. Cheap, rugged and reliable, how can you go wrong.