Just because a bike has been locked up forever and is in ****ty condition doesn't mean that nobody is coming back for it. I had one beat up 10 speed that i used to leave locked up for a long time at the train station. I used that bike only for riding to and from the train station. I wasn't comfortable leaving my nicer bike there for long periods of time so I used the beater. Also I had a bike that I kept locked up outside the train station in Lancaster, PA. That bike was for whenever I went to visit my friends there. Amtrak wouldn't let me take my bike on the philly to lancaster train so I bought a cheap bike and left it in lancaster so I wouldn't be stuck without a bike on visits. That bike sat there for periods of over 3 months untouched.