Cambridge=bicycle graveyard!

Just got back from a top weekend in cambridge, but ive never seen so many bikes tied, chained, locked to random bits of metal! Even lifted 5ft up in the air onto some railings! Some looked like they'd not been ridden in months, possibly years! Green tyres the works!!!!!

Students, ain't it.

They all have a bike, ride it occasionally, lock it up and forget where or lose the key, then move away for a new student to add theirs to the pile!

Must admit i added to the pile when someone bent both my wheels on my commuter overnight a few years ago 🙁

Yup saw a few where some stupid tunc had obviously jumped on the wheel as they walked by! Hence the ones up in the air!! Needless to say there were no 3k carbon exoticas lashed to the railings!!!! Oh and saddle theft seemed to be common!!??

Thinking of applying to the council to offer removing all the unused D Locks and chains from around the city
Fortune in scrap to be made for the price of some bolt croppers or cutting discs

Have a look up the station too for a whole plethora of dead bikes

You do see some interesting older bikes, there is a nice Kona Explosif circa 1994 left out in all weathers

I've not once seen a decent bike chained up… It's just too tempting for the local neds/pikeys/chavs* and will be gone in a flash. Bike theft is outrageously common in this allegedly student town, hence the reason for me using a 20 quid racer with gaffer tape on the handlebars. There is no way my lovely new Merlin would be going anywhere near the place.

Oxford is the same, there used to be a crew (allegedly) who would rob a van load of bikes from Oxford take them to Cambridge and flog them, then go and do the same in reverse a few weeks later.

I used to live in Cambridge and yeah, the amount of bike skeletons is crazy, but somewhat understandable.

And bike theft is pretty bad in Cambridge too. Mate of mine had a half decent Marin HT, left it locked up outside a pub using a decent D lock and some blokes drove a transit in front of it to shield it from the street and they stripped the frame – pretty much completely!!