Last year, we conducted a unique urban experiment for Hudson Urban Bicycles. On January 1, 2011 we chained a fully loaded bike — bells, basket, lights and more — to a post along a busy Soho street. We took a picture of the bike everyday for 365 days, watching it slowly vanish before our eyes. The photos we took were then turned into a daily calendar. We call this project LIFECYCLE: 365 days in the life of a bike in NYC.
We call it 51 seconds of fine lunchtime entertainment.
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Waste of a perfectly good bike. Yeah it's true we live among petty thieves, is that any surprise, does that really warrant an "experiment"? That bike deserved better IMO.
Besides the sequence looks rather contrived. At the start the bike is locked with what appears to be a Kryptonite "Fuhgeddaboutit" --one of the toughest locks you can buy. Somewhere around day 200 the lock disappears from the scene. Sorry I don't believe that some thief went through the trouble of dismantling this hardened steel u-lock just to leave the bike sitting there. Rather I think a perfectly good bike was sacrificed to make a silly time-lapse art project.
I couldnt agree more with the top comment. thieves dont want to go thru the hassle of breaking a kryptonite lock. its too much work for them.
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Dude. It's a bike, not a puppy.
Why is it a waste of a bike? All the parts were stolen so they were used by someone. And why wouldn't someone steal the lock? It's probably worth more than the bike itself. This experiment is cool and I can't believe someone actually took a pic of it everyday!
a kryptonite lock thief would go to the hassle of stealing it!
haters gonna hate
I thought aq=ll you had to do was hit the lock with some freon or liquid nitrogen and they would shatter?
I was told by an avid bike rider that you can bust a kryptonite lock with a ball point pen.. The man who told me that also chased down his stolen bike, stolen while locked with a kryptonite, when he spotted someone riding it. He got it back.
Thank goodness. If ony there was a video of someone stealing asshole bikers every day, I would pay for that.
I can't believe the basket lasted until day 220.
Wow, I can't believe that I Heart NY water bottle hung on for 160 days.
I've had bikes that were locked properly with a Kryptonite lock stolen. If a thief wants it, they'll get through that lock.
dude that's not a puppy, that's lady gaga
=v= The Bic pen exploit was fixed 7 years ago; you can see that the U-lock is the newer, sturdier kind. Maybe somebody broke it by other means, or maybe it was removed to add some drama to this "life"cycle exercise.
The chain (also by Kryptonite) looks to be one of the sturdier ones. It may well have been the city that cut that one, so as to free up the rack for parking.
What's with the Advil "spoke card?" Corporate sponsorship?
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