Bicycle Graveyard

I would say that cycling is very popular here in London.  Not like it was in Amsterdam but much more than it is in Tulsa.  The one thing I can't understand though is how people just give up on their bikes and leave them to to die chained up somewhere.  It is funny to watch a bike disappear over time as people steal the components off of it. This is the remains of a bike locked up right across the street from our new flat.

I wish that I had taken pictures before so that I would have documented its death but unfortunately only have the end product.   When we moved in to the new flat, this was pretty much a full bike.  The only thing missing was the front wheel.  Since then just about every time that I have seen it something else was missing.  If you have every worked on a bicycle you know that certain repairs take some pretty specialised tools.  Couldn't have been a very quick process stripping the cranks off,