Ghost Bikes are memorials for cyclists who have been hit on the street. These memorials feature a bicycle painted white, and these bicycles are located near the spot where the person was hit. The memorials were first created in St. Louis, Missouri in 2003. Now, they can be spotted all over the world.
Some of the ghost bikes have other information about the person who was hit, and some contain flowers and messages left by friends and families.
I've recently spotted one of these ghost bikes in London on Commercial Road. I also read about them before, as I discovered several paste-ups of a portrait in Shoreditch. The portrait was named "Andrew", and I discovered many of these around. After doing some research, I discovered that Andrew was a reference to one man (Andrew Hull) who had been killed in an accident while riding his bicycle. More about this and the paste-ups can be read here: http://ghostbikes.org/london/andrew-hull
Ghost bike
The above ghost bike was discovered on Commercial Road near a flat I stayed in for a week in early 2013. It is a memorial for a sandwich worker, Javad Sumbal, who was hit at the end of 2012 on his way from Stepney to Shadwell to the deli. His work colleagues painted the bicycle white and placed it at the junction where he was hit.
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