ghost bike

However one feels about their proposals, there's no question that each ghost bike represents a moment when something has gone horribly wrong.

A ghost bike was placed next to the roadside where he was killed in tribute.

We run a ghost bike Flickr group here.

Ghost bikes are typically old bicycles painted white and placed where bicyclists have died.

Some fatality locations are marked by white-painted ghost bikes.

Tell us what can be done to prevent them - Help the Guardian create a global map of 'ghost bikes'

The bicycles are built in a partnership with German builders Ghost Bikes.

Do ghost bikes make cycling safer?

We're also planning a UK wide map of ghost bike pictures so if you feel you can help do leave an image there.

"Ghost Bikes are small and somber memorials for bicyclists who are killed or hit on the street.

We want to create a map of images of ghost bikes to help portray the global impact of the project Continue reading...

I couldn't make it to the Ghost Bike memorial for Min Joo Lee.

These photographs depict "ghost bikes," memorials to bicyclists who have died in collisions with cars and trucks on New York streets.

The ghost bike phenomenon, where an old bicycle is painted white and locked up at an accident site, serves the same purpose in relation to cycling casualties.

On the first anniversary of his death, MacIntyre's family placed a ghost bike at Carrs Corner as a permanent memorial.

In 2009 Anderson, Morgan, and Cole began recording new material under the name Tandem Ghost Bike.

A ghost bike memorial in King's Cross, London, commemorating student Min Joo Lee.

Also in 2005, Time's Up teamed up with Visual Resistance to begin the white Ghost Bike Project.

Last week, a collective of artists called Visual Resistance began using bicycles that have been spray-painted white, called "ghost bikes," to designate spots where bicyclists have died.

This is why I'm supporting the corporate manslaughter charge and aiming to be at King's X tonight (6.30pm) for the 'ghost bike' memorial to Min Joo Lee.

Aside from a place to leave pictures of ghost bikes you've seen in the UK, it's also a place to chat about friends you've lost and cycling safety so do join the group.

Specialized tracks allow for four players to ride alongside one another, similar to Nintendo's Excitebike, while in others players complete in-line, with a player's friends appearing as ghost bikes on the course.

We also looked at the 'ghost bike' memorials (pictured in this post) which you see erected at various spots across the world to mark the death of a cyclist and make others aware of road safety.

Among the featured work is a history of the Critical Mass ride, Amy Bolger's photos of illegal messenger races, and a mural devoted to the "Ghost Bikes" project, which commemorates riders killed by automobiles.

Standing in front of a "ghost bike" painted white to honor the fallen, Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, the advocacy group that organized the rally, described the city's streets as "out of control."