The Secret Life of Bikes

[Above] Boy & Bike, Yankee Clipper Race, Windham Mountain
I couldn't pass up this image. When I was a kid my bike was everything to me. This is probably the reason I am still infatuated with all things velo. More Windham and Mount Snow race images can be found at: www.flickr.com/photos/johnbulmer

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The Summer Mechanism

[Above] The Summer Mechanism

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Bike with Coca Cola Ad Panel

[Above] Bike with Coca Cola Advertisement
The Secret Like of Bikes
Disposable Camera

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Bike Chopper

[Above] Bike Chopper
Somewhere in New York City
Lower East Side

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The Secret Life of Bikes

[Left] Bikes,
Crushed Shell Alleyway,
Provincetown, Massachusetts


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Ghost Bike

[Left] Ghost Bike
Memorial to David Ryan
Riverview Road,
Clifton Park, New York

There was a time in my early 20's when the only two satellites that orbited my planet were cycling and punk rock. I was young, lived alone, was unattached, and was singularly focused on all aspects of riding. Over the past 18 years, I have had more scrapes, altercations, and near misses than I care to recount. I have only been hit once and for that I consider myself extremely lucky. There were times I was logging between 250 and 300 miles a week. Broken down in hours, that is a lot of time on the bike. It is also a lot of time on the shoulder of road fighting it out with SUV's and pick-ups for a few inches of real estate. I remember the day David Ryan was killed. I think we shared a few group rides but I not sure. What I do know is that we had the same interests, traveled in the same circles, and were roughly the same age. Any number of times, it could have been my name on a ghost bike on the side of the road. Too many times, actually.

I saw a photo of this memorial in the local paper. Like a lot of local photojournalism, the image was weak and boring. Out of respect for a fellow cyclist, I wanted to shoot a fitting image of the ghost bike before it disappeared.

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Delivery Bike

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Delivery Bike
Somewhere in the East Village
New York City

I love discovering the strange cycling mutations of New York City messengers and delivery people. Equally impressive are the nerves of steel required to thread one of these frankenbikes through the rush hour traffic around Chinatown, risking life and limb, just to deliver hot Kung Pow chicken.

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