Had to share this: the second highest search term for this site is now “childrens bikes for £50″

Perhaps I should just run with it and start a blog about cheap bikes? That do nothing but sit there, chained up?

Well 48 hours have passed. The hard drive of my secreted laptop has been filled to the brim with footage of a static, chained bike as the world gets steadily darker, and then lighter, and then darker again. It would be poetic if it wasn’t so boring. Apparently at some point a guy took some pictures of it. But that’s all. Here it is: still there.

Somehow I imagined this would end up being a bit more rock n roll (in a minor traffic offence kind of way). It’s all very quiet.

Too quiet…

Could this be a double-bluff? Bike cops playing the waiting game? Well, I got all the time in the world my friends…

Next stop - making an ‘anonymous complaint’…

Way back last year Gwyn was awarded £50 to execute this great idea:

“I’d spend five quid on a crappy bike, then forty-five quid on really heavy-duty chains. Lots of them.

Then I’d find one of those prissy “bikes chained here will be removed” signs, probably in an outright bike-hostile area like Ganton St near Oxford Circus, chain the hell out of the bike, and retire to a nearby cafe with a video camera to await developments.

The resulting video, probably in time-lapse, should be highly entertaining. Five points if they have to get welding equipment. Ten points if they cut through the sign.”

Well, at 6.20pm today Gwyn’s mischievous wish was finally granted. His £5 dream machine was chained, like a bicycle Emmeline Pakhurst, beneath just such a sign at the Ganton Street end of Newburgh Street :

Oh will they be removed indeed? Well, Bike Oppressors, we’ll see about that..

Bring it on Bike Cops. I reckon we’re looking at an angle grinder at least. We’ve got a secret camera set up on the bike 24-7 so watch out for a video update once it’s all over. Hee hee!

But…what if they never get it off? What if we kept adding chains to the bike until they submitted, defeated, and allowed it to remain? What a historic blow for bike liberty that would be!

So - if you have any spare bike chains then please do drop by the bike (Ganton Street end of Newburgh Street) and enhance its union with the lamppost (and give the camera a wave whilst you’re there). Although do make treble sure you’ve got the right bike…

Yikes, what happened there?

Okay, all of you who live in London, get your bike locks at the ready. Here’s the machine…

What a beaut! It’s been parked there for 6 months in, erm, training.

But now - cometh the hour! If you have no idea what I’m talking about read this. And hunt down any spare/cheap d-locks you have in time for next week…