parked bikes as advertising plaform.

I recently noticed these around town and I was wondering if they are "real" bikes or just a form of advertising.
I admire the ingenuity of this guerrilla advertising but I hate to loose the good spots to tie my bike. I can only imagine how frustrating it
can be to loose a parking spot to a red bull car.

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Permalink Reply by BalloonBiker on October 4, 2010 at 6:57pm

I actually saw one being riden around River North last week. I was tempted to take a picture...but well, I was with co-workers and didn't want to seem creepy.

I still don't underrtsand how some of the more poorly locked specimens haven't been stolen.

Carl said:

Their reply post is rather false. Several of those bikes have NEVER moved. No one is riding those bikes, I suspect.

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Permalink Reply by Steven Vance on October 7, 2010 at 11:55am

Some of your comments have been featured on Curbed: Chicago.

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Permalink Reply by Pablo on October 7, 2010 at 3:03pm

I saw one out on the road today at St. Claire and Ohio.

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Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on October 7, 2010 at 6:48pm

Well we have no w bullied a real estate company into complying with our will, what is next?

I figure of we keep doing this bigger and bigger each time taking baby steps from one organization to a slightly smaller one Chainlink will be able to shape city political policy by the end of 3011.

No, the '3' is not a typo.

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on October 7, 2010 at 7:01pm

"Bullied?" Whatever. I'm too tired to try to figure out what your point may be.
It looks to me like the realty company was glad to have the negative publicity (and possibly even hoped for it), and was not any more sincere about being apologetic than about the claim that the bikes were being used regularly by employees.
I wonder what 'Curbed' got out of the deal?

notoriousDUG said:

Well we have no w bullied a real estate company into complying with our will, what is next?

I figure of we keep doing this bigger and bigger each time taking baby steps from one organization to a slightly smaller one Chainlink will be able to shape city political policy by the end of 3011.

No, the '3' is not a typo.

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Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on October 7, 2010 at 8:51pm

Your first mistake is to look for a point in my posts.

H3N3 said:

"Bullied?" Whatever. I'm too tired to try to figure out what your point may be.
It looks to me like the realty company was glad to have the negative publicity (and possibly even hoped for it), and was not any more sincere about being apologetic than about the claim that the bikes were being used regularly by employees.
I wonder what 'Curbed' got out of the deal?

notoriousDUG said:
Well we have no w bullied a real estate company into complying with our will, what is next?

I figure of we keep doing this bigger and bigger each time taking baby steps from one organization to a slightly smaller one Chainlink will be able to shape city political policy by the end of 3011.

No, the '3' is not a typo.