Bicycle Found

[paultreacy]

My son and I found an abandoned bicycle last evening and brought it home with us. It was in fairly bad shape but it looks like it was a relatively young bike.

If your bike was stolen recently and you can accurately describe the bike we have, I will hold it for you to come fetch. Otherwise I will return it to full working order and keep it.

Good luck.

Paul Treacy
PHOTOHUMOURIST.com

[paultreacy]

The reason we retrieved it was because the council would otherwise have picked it up and trashed it.

[ALIB]

Wouldn't it be best to hand the bike into your local police station ?

[paultreacy]

I don't have a car and I'm certainly not going to carry a wrecked bicycle all the way to the police. It'll take a lot of work to get it back to working condition and my experience with the police is that it'll just get left or chucked out. They certainly wouldn't appreciate me delivering to them a found bicycle in bits. This is not an expensive model. If it was, I wouldn't have found it.

[paultreacy]

In mid-December I will consider it to be a found object and will restore it to working order for family use.

[paultreacy]

Reduce, reuse, recycle or return, should someone take ownership. Seems fair enough to me. I'll put a call into the cops tomorrow morning and see if such a bike was reported. If it matches a description they can come and retrieve it.

[stuart]

The Met can sometimes be the good guys as in this award winning programme:

The Streets of Growth idea is straight-forward: unclaimed bikes provided by the
Met Police are refurbished by East London teenagers unable to aff ord a bike and
keen to learn new skills. Once they refurbish the bikes under expert guidance,
they keep them and gain accreditation in Level 1 AQA Bike Maintenance, not
only giving them independent transport, but setting them up with new skills.

I know Bromley Cyclists run schemes to enable youngsters to get cycling. Might be worth seeing if they have an interest. I think a lot of the technical support is given by Winston at SE20 Cycles in Maple Road. Might be worth having a word with him (or just to get the parts necessary for a DIY restoration). Good bloke!

Stuart

[Annie]

Talking of bikes,
there has been one attached to the railings of Hornimans Museum for weeks now,
not sure if it's dumped or just tied there everyday at 7.10 am when I pass it on the way to work.