I owned and used a few bicycles, the most of which are gone: in a way, bicycles fade into the places to which they belong, for a given time: they are motion.
Or they just get stolen, if you don't have a good lock...
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Here is my submission to fixedgeargallery. And here is an update.
Legnano Road Racing (RIP), it was stolen feb 2007 outside a shop. I left it unlocked for a few minutes... I'll never do it again!
Maybe it was a bit small for me, but I used to commute every day with it (and have some sunday ride).
I found this old touring Tanfoglio 10 years ago at 3 AM, abandoned on a petrol station in via Nomentana (Rome), just because the rear brake was loose and touching the wheel. I heavily modified it, learning a lot of things on the art of repairing bicycles at Ciclofficina Donqui.
I used it for a several years in Rome, to eventually give it away (after saving the good parts) before it got completely rusted.
Lapierre Jakima, my first french bike. It was stolen in the centre of Toulouse while I was at a nepalese restaurant. The guy who took it must be suffering the worst pains for the curses I put on him!
Oh, this bike! It's an old Motobecane I found abandoned in the garbage in a street of Toulouse. It missed the front wheel and the rear one was unusable. It simply was all broken! How could I leave "her" there? I brought it home on my other bicycle (a guy screaming at me "where did you steal that bike?!?") and repaired it. I forgot it at my old place when I moved. What a pity...
I hired this Movimento for 10e per month only in Toulouse. I was not sure to put this picture here, since this is not a bicycle, but a real tank!
