New China Archive

China in the 2020s

Bike Graveyard

My friends and I stumbled across this shared bike graveyard in Wuhan during a walk in 2019. There are many such mass dumping grounds for old shared bikes that were abandoned either from being damaged or their companies going bankrupt.

The photo portrays a large pile of abandoned bikes in China. Wuhan, China.
A shared bike graveyard under a highway overpass in Wuhan, China (June, 2019)
The photo is of a bike graveyard in Wuhan, China in 2019.
Bike graveyards in China are often well protected because there are many people who want to raid them, which is understandable considering the massive waste involved in letting them rot. (Photo taken in June of 2019)