Orphan bicycle

[3] Many bicycles are also thrown at the sea, in rivers or in other nature, which disturbs wildlife[3] and can be considered vandalism.

[4] Orphan bicycles can often lack essential parts such as saddle, handlebars or wheels, which spoil the streetscape.

In other cases, there are bicycles that the owner has left on purpose for various reasons, for example because they consider it obsolete.

Luud Schimmelpennink was part of the Dutch counterculture movement Provo which in the mid-1960s focused on provoking a violent response from authorities by using non-violent methods.

When Luud joined Amsterdam's city council in 1967, he proposed the Wittefiestenplan, that all abandoned bicycles that were collected should be painted white and placed back on the streets so that they could be used by everyone.