Yikes, Bikes!! by beachzz
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Bike parking under the Huntington Beach pier. I've seen even more here, bikes are big down there. One day, my sister, a friend and I had parked our bikes next to a cafe on Main Street in HB. We were just coming back from lunch when a woman told us some guy had tried to steal them, even though we'd locked them all together. He had big bolt cutters and was going around trying to take anything he could find. Fortunately, too many people saw him and he was caught.
Reminds me of a time when I was about 8 or 9 and I'd ridden to the store for my mom. We didn't lock our bikes back then and when I came out, my bike was gone. I didn't know what to do, so I walked down to an alleyway and saw 2 boys with my bike. I went after them, yeilling at them to give me my bike back. I must've scared the heck outta them. cuz they pushed the bike at me and ran away!! Don't mess with MY bike!! lol
Comments (7)
wysiwig
Looks like a two wheeled orgy. I've been down to the pier but never looked underneath. See what I missed?
Faemike55
Great picture and interesting and informative story.
soffy
This could be where I live:) Bikes all over the place,great capture *****
photosynthesis
Quite a jumble of bicycles. I liked your childhood story - sounds like you were a tough young lady...
durleybeachbum
Great Scott!
MrsRatbag
I've never understood how anyone could steal something like that; what a lack of basic human morality! Super scene you've captured here, that is a LOT of bikes!
anahata.c
i can't believe how far behind I am in your gallery---you've posted a lotta pics in the last few weeks! Ok, so I begin with this one. A really fine shot of the riotous visual 'fair' of bikes all massed together under a pier. You have a great angle, and the massing of bikes makes for big webs and gatherings, and they play beautifully with the huge pillars and concrete on the top. And the white in the shot is just great. This is a Marilyn shot through and through: vivid, exciting, a wholly unexpected take on things, and bursting with energies. All from a bunch of bikes all crammed together under a pier. Great angle. Love this shot.
And you had cahones to run after those bike thieves??? Big cahones. (even though it's not anatomically possible, lol.) In THIS city, if I ran after a bike thief, they'd find me in a dumpster somewhere. You got guts, lady.