Decorated bicycles on the 'Magere Brug' - 5
Postscript mid-July: I have also seen such decorated bicycles on other bridges in the Amsterdam city center by now .
The bikes are the work of an American man in his 50s by the name Warren Gregory, nicknamed the Flower Bike Man.
The story pretty much goes like this: Warren’s bike-decorating began when his wife couldn’t find her bike at Amsterdam Central. Warren’s wife, Michelle, has had epilepsy for years and often struggles to remember details like where she parked her bike.
To help her out, Warren decorated Michelle’s bike in bright flowers so that it would be unmissable. He then decorated a bunch of abandoned bikes, which he left along with the route home so that she would never get lost again.
More here: www.instagram.com/flowerbikeman/?hl=en
Sad news (extract from Het Parool, 19 August 2024):
Flowerbikeman Warren Gregory is completely fed up: his bicycles decorated with plastic flowers are vandalised, punctured or set on fire time and again. He no longer sees a future as a bike decorator in Amsterdam. ‘Everything I post online becomes a target.’Flowerbikeman Warren Gregory is completely fed up: his bicycles decorated with plastic flowers are vandalised, punctured or set on fire time and again. He no longer sees a future as a bike decorator in Amsterdam. ‘Everything I post online becomes a target.’
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Decorated bicycles on the 'Magere Brug' - 5
Postscript mid-July: I have also seen such decorated bicycles on other bridges in the Amsterdam city center by now .
The bikes are the work of an American man in his 50s by the name Warren Gregory, nicknamed the Flower Bike Man.
The story pretty much goes like this: Warren’s bike-decorating began when his wife couldn’t find her bike at Amsterdam Central. Warren’s wife, Michelle, has had epilepsy for years and often struggles to remember details like where she parked her bike.
To help her out, Warren decorated Michelle’s bike in bright flowers so that it would be unmissable. He then decorated a bunch of abandoned bikes, which he left along with the route home so that she would never get lost again.
More here: www.instagram.com/flowerbikeman/?hl=en
Sad news (extract from Het Parool, 19 August 2024):
Flowerbikeman Warren Gregory is completely fed up: his bicycles decorated with plastic flowers are vandalised, punctured or set on fire time and again. He no longer sees a future as a bike decorator in Amsterdam. ‘Everything I post online becomes a target.’Flowerbikeman Warren Gregory is completely fed up: his bicycles decorated with plastic flowers are vandalised, punctured or set on fire time and again. He no longer sees a future as a bike decorator in Amsterdam. ‘Everything I post online becomes a target.’
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