You're right, plenty bikes get abandoned out of pure laziness. But I think most people realize they can be fixed, which is why they're abandoned in the back of

You're right, plenty bikes get abandoned out of pure laziness. But I think most people realize they can be fixed, which is why they're abandoned in the back of their garage rather than thrown in the trash and replaced. Right? For example, my mum has a bike like that. She's been putting off repairs for some 15 years now. Mostly it just needs some love from someone to adjust gears and stuff to work again. She knows it's still a working bike so she doesn't toss or replace. But it's easier to just avoid using a bike than to invest the energy to fix that one. We've tried a couple of times but it's juuuust bad enough to need a professional, which increases logistics exponentially. My point is, abandoned and unused is very different from thrown away and replaced.