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Lonely Locked Bits of Bikes

Hapless innocent casualties with unknowable stories, like puppy bones leashed to a tree.
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Red Specialized
Hardrock south of Devon on Clark.

Silver Trek
Metal merging with ground near Winona and Kenmore.

Cut cable.
Knobby tire and a story on Clark near Berwyn.

Hidden Trek bike frame.
Tucked amidst brush and fence near Cicero+94.

Bike bits by Metra.
Not uncommon near college train stations.

Locked black bike frame.
Schwinn "Clean Creek" bones near Lunt and Ravenswood.

Nibbled Red Trek bike
With helmet near Touhy and Paulina.

Lonely locked bike bits.
Rusty Trek, maybe still in use but unlikely.

Abandoned bike bits.
Upended frame and chains.

Taco'd locked bike.
Precious green John Deere with horribly bent wheel.

Lonely locked bike husk.
Mostly stripped blue Schwinn at BrynMawr and Kenmore.

Lonely locked bike carcass.
Blue Huffy bits, outside Horner Park on Montrose.

Lonely locked bike frame.
White frame, precious and light, near Halsted and Melrose.

Lonely locked bike.
Bits of a Specialized Hard Rock frame sharing a post.

Lonely locked bike.
Nondescript blue/gray frame, mysteriously co-locked with a working bike.

Lonely locked bike.
Largely intact Ross on Kenmore.

Lonely locked wheeless bike.
Largely intact "Viva" near LPZ.

Lonely locked bits of bike.
Pretty Schwinn bones at Belmont train stop.

Lonely locked bits of bike.
Tragic story midway out on Montrose Pier.

Loney Locked Bits of Bike
White ten speed.

Lonely locked bike.
Sweet old green Schwinn, reportedly at W Institute Pl and N Franklin St more than a year.

Lonely bits of bike locked to a tree in Rogers Park.
Far.

Lonely bits of bike locked to a tree in Rogers Park.
Close.

Lonely locked bits of bike.
Nearly nothing at Catalpa+Sheridan.

Lonely locked bits of bike.
Nearly nothing at Catalpa+Sheridan.

Decomposing bike.
Abandoned Schwinn in Andersonville near NeoFuturarium.

Odd locked bike.

Lonely locked bike frames in snow.

Lonely locked bike wheel in snow.

Lonely locked bike wheel in snow.

Orphaned bike.

Lonely Locked Bike Bits.

Lonely Locked Bike Bits.

Lone locked bike wheel.

Lonely Locked Bike

Lonely Locked Bike Bits.

Lonely Locked Bike Bits.

Chicago Abandoned Bike Tag
Rarity discovered on a sidewalk, posted for reference.