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Did anyone ever see the Reno 911! when Dango put his bicycle around a 20 foot pole? This reminds me of that.
Too bad only one lock is connecting it to the rack.
Yes but you can’t ride away with six locks on your wheel or it wont turn.
Get the Bic pen – we’ve got work to do.
(A) valuable bike (B) rough neighborhood (C) Harry Houdini bicycled back from the grave
Photoshopped much?
Considering I’ve seen this done before, not likely.
(D) bizarre art installation?
I hope those are all keyed to the same key. Otherwise the owner is gonna have a hell of a time…assuming he ever comes back for it.
I’m saying it’s an art installation. Gotta be.
or (D) Magneto’s taken up cycling
The front tire is flat. Guess it is still available for mischief.
a) pick that single lock attaching the bike
b) sell it as scrap metal
@Dono
I’ll take “C” for 2000 Alex.
how does the guy do to _carry_ them all?
If you look closely, you only have to break one lock at the scene. Then you can stealthily(!) drag away the 2-ton beast to your garage where you can remove the other locks at your own pace.
(E) the owner is a professional bike thief, hence all the many (illegally) acquired locks, and HATES it when his stuff gets pinched.
I say “OVERKILL”
who’s with me?
Looks like the thief is going to get a bunch of locks and a bike rack along with is next bike.
I love that only one of the locks actually attaches to the bike rack.
Notice there’s only one lock actually securing it to the rack, so a thief could just break that one, throw the bike and the rest in a van, and deal with the rest as time allows
I’d say the bike’s there to prevent the theft of the bike locks.
Three possibilities come to my mind:
1) it’s a “chain of locks” — done as art
2) it’s a “chain of locks” — done as a kludge
3) the owner of the bike has been pranked by his friends.
Only if it’s case 2 does it really belong here, I’d think.
Is this the definition of paranoid?
This is in front of Broadway Bicycle in Vancouver, BC
http://www.ziplocal.ca/companies/989968-Broadway-Bicycle-Repair-Sales-Shop
Between teh fact that the bike is solid black with no logos, the tires are flat, and many of the locks don’t seem to be attached to anything… I think this is just an art piece.
It is actually called the Bike Dr. now:
http://www.thebikedr.com/
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/26/bikebike_lock_sculpt.html
Everyone keeps mentioning to cut the one lock securing the bike to the rack, then take the bike home to remove the rest of the locks.
But then in the end, you went through all that work for a crappy 1980′s 10 speed. Save yourself the time and get one at the thrift store for 10 bucks.
yeah, i think the little placard sitting on the bike seat seals it as an art installment. that and the random silver spray paint splashes.
Haha, all those locks are worth more than the bike!
Seat’s still for the taking
Do you see any chain … It must be an art
lol, imagine someone actually stole it
undskyld tyv.=
sorry thief.
this reminds me – theres something kinda like this in my town. it doesnt have all the locks. it a random metal bike welded down in the town centre. it takes up some space on the bike racks though. i think its cute.
The saddle is still removable!
Nice rack.
Tour De France it is not!!
Tour De Junque Yard more like it
Didn’t anybody bring the bagels?
It’s the captions that make some of these shots funny. To the caption guy: ROCK ON!!
See the little sign above it, attached to the seat? This is probably the famous monument of some small, pointless town and it’s tradition or something to deposit your bike lock on the monument whenever you have a bicycle go to the grave.
OMG. Are you fricken serious? Who would take on that challenge?
this was a student project from the studio art program at Capilano University. I remember seeing it when it was new.
I agree with Chevy: excellent work Caption Girl. What we need is to be able to vote for BEST COMMENT.
(Good ones regularly from Dono1, honorable mention on this one to zzz05.)
nice work of art…i say this because if you really look closely…and i mean nose-to-the-screen closely, you will notice that 1.-there is no chain on the bike. and 2.-some of the locks aren’t actually attached to anything, they are just lying there. great work, though.
That’s… actually really beautiful. Sort of Marcel Duchamp meets H.R. Giger.
Of course it is an art-bike. Why else would there be locks attached to nothing?? I wouldn’t be surprised if the seat is welded on as well…
My initial reaction was “This is totally something I would do to my roomie’s bicycle.” So yeah, initially I thought it was a prank, but clearly it’s a work of art on closer inspection.
Chill out you guys, I’ve seen this before, it’s an art installation
I’ve lived in worse nieighborhoods.
This bike looks like it is being devoured by something! I have seen ants on a carcass that looks just like this. Makes the bike seem alive, Creepy!
all those locks probably cost more than the bike
@Dave
good luck riding that away
soo much weight and wheels would never turn right
these locks are cleary photoshopped on to the bike. they are all the same, and most of them are just placed in the general vicinity of the bike, kind of just floating in air.
Don’t want that bike. The front tire’s flat.
@Brad
I didn’t even realize that. Way to pay attention.
unsafe at any speed.
Looks like someone’s got OCD.
I believe the whole point of this [yes, photoshopped] image is that only the front wheel is actually secured to anything. Probably with a quick release lever, even.
This is known as a free bike. The uselessness of the original lock is what is being mocked here.
Too bad only one of the locks belonged to the owner…
and yet theres only one actually connecting it to the bike rack… cut that toss it in the back of a truck and your dun HAHAHAHA
This is a real art installation outside of Mountain Equipment Co-op in Vancouver BC.
Not shopped. This is a sculpture in Vancouver.
http://gizmodo.com/263849/bicyclebike+lock-sculpture-wards-off-thieves-actual-bike-riders
Nice work, It doesn’t look easy to put them all and if you are in a hurry….
Na na, I got ur valve stem caps : )
You can still steal his seat and leave him with a pretty bad day.
I’d steal the locks just to annoy them
… no, it’s not photoshopped… it’s an art piece. You can clearly see the artist statement tag above the seat, and some of the locks are obviously welded together (you can see the weld fuses)
Anyone else notice that despite all those locks, only one of them is actually keeping the bike from being stolen?
Makes me think, a vindictive person could lock up a parked bicycle just by adding another such lock to it. The original owner would only have 1 key (the one he himself added).
It is really funny
what a crazy man can do such a thing? 
) really funny
This is not Photoshopped. It’s actually in front of the MEC in Vancouver on Broadway. It’s the same rack that has the exercise bike locked to it.
But why is only one out of all of them actually linked to the bike rack?!?!
imagine driving by this
Wow. Never expected this one to be an art object.
Actually, I did it, and it’s not even my bike.
The dude stole my spot! That’ll teach him!!
I laugh at all the scrubs who call this as shopped because obviously they can tell. To bad it is a real bike in Vancouver BC.. once again the “its shopped I can tell by the pixels” crowd gets owned.
I think as a follow up art piece someone should steal all of the locks and leave the bike.
I’m going to throw out there that the locks probably cost more and weight more than the bike it self.
Actually, this photo is pretty old.
Yes, it’s real and it’s in front of the MEC in Vancouver. However, the big yellow sign in the reflection is of the Deakin Equipment store that has since taken down the big yellow arc of lettering.
wouldn’t it be cheeper (and easier) to simple replace the stolen bike?
more clusterf.ck than left 4 dead on expert
@f
But would it turn left?
Wow I would love to find this somewhere. It just so happens that all but one of those locks I can open in under 20 seconds. Mmmm cheap masterlcok cylinder locks…mmmmm.
Well… WTF… So many Locks…?? I feel Price of Locks is more than the bicycle
@GuiGui
One “art”, please!
safety 1st
Im surprised the bike hasnt sustained structural failure from the sheer weight of locks
Guaranteed to prevent theft and job retention.
I can still steal the seat.
Mwa ha ha ha HA
I would steal his seat…
The title is epic win.
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