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I was just directed to a gallery of photographs<\/a> of the Ghost Bikes<\/a> that are found in New York. Each of these machines marks the spot where a cyclist was killed by a car.<\/p>\n

Over here we have flowers at death trees. Poignant in their own way, but somehow lacking the simple humanity of these riderless steeds sadly sitting on flaccid tubes, cranks forever now motionless and transmissions rusting into seizure. They remind me of Greyfriar’s Bobby. Their riders gone they are left without purpose except to mark the spot where yet another non-motorist lost his life to the cult of the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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