There's a bike I've been passing on my walk to work for like a month. It's missing its front and rear wheels. But it has kind of a sweet saddle I think would suit me. Nobody in the stores it's in front of know anything about it. I'm thinking I could take the seat and stick a note in the seat tube, in a ziploc, telling them I have the seat with my contact info. Even though obviously I don't think the owner is coming back. If they did come back I'd feel bad. There aren't any laws saying you can't leave a bike chained up as long as you want to a public bike rack.
There were a lot of complaints a few years ago about the city not removing abandoned bikes. The thing is technically the city doesn't remove bikes because they're abandoned, it takes them because they're junk, just like it would take care of any other garbage on the street. So it's not like there's a reclamation program where this might be re-used by a charity or something, it's just going to get destroyed by the weather. And/but this bike doesn't meet the criteria of "abandonedderelict", which is three of the following:
The appearance is crushed or not usable;
Have parts missing from bicycle other than seat and front wheel;
Have flat tires or missing both tires;
Handlebars and pedals are damaged, or the fork, frame or rims are bent;
75 percent of bicycle is rusted.
It only meets two. Well, I guess I could take a closer look at the condition of the handlebars, pedals, and fork.
How would y'all think about this?