This is a typical "scrapper" pickup truck which lives a few blocks away from us. As you can see, once again the scrappers have beat us to a bike frame. More than once we've found nice bike parts in the trash but were unable to carry the parts at that moment. Returning with a Workhorse bike to retrieve the pieces not ten minutes later, the scrappers had claimed the booty instead. To find bike parts in Chicago takes a lot of persistent alley riding, luck, and the ability to transport parts as soon as they are discovered.

back