Brookline Ghost Bike

Ghost Bike, 29 Longwood Avenue
Brookline, Massachusetts
Diana Fixed Focus Image

Spend enough time on a bike and these memorials haunt you.

Photography Portfolio: www.johnbulmerimages.com
Revolution 7 Creative: www.revolution7.com
Design Newswire: www.r7newswire.com
John Bulmer Design: www.johnbulmerdesign.com

Flick Photostream at: www.flickr.com/photos/johnbulmer
© 2010 John Bulmer Photography. All Rights Reserved.

Ghost Bike, Broadway

[Above] Ghost Bike, Jose Perez
Broadway, Albany, New York

Visit Bulmer Photography for more details.
Visit Bulmer Photo's New Image Feed.
© Bulmer Photography. All Rights Reserved

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.

Visit Bulmer Photography for more details.
Visit Bulmer Photo's New Image Feed.
© Bulmer Photography. All Rights Reserved