A notice up outside the police box:
Bike clearance on pier 17 & 20 Feb 2014

All "illegally parked bikes" (which is all of them, since there isn't any legal parking on Lamma) will be confiscated and destroyed if on the pier on those dates.

Thanks to our glorious local government for all their care.

On the subject of parking on the pier if the idiots who park and chain their bikes in front of the life saving rings each and every morning are reading this. Stop doing it you fucking morons.

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The bike clearance is happening this morning! Anybody around to take photos?

One more clearance this Thu morning, Feb 20. They'll also clear the area outside the Library where the yellow works office container has been shipped in a few weeks ago.

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Here are the photos and comments about the last operation, less than 2 year ago:

http://www.lamma.com.hk/forum-OK/viewtopic.php?t=11135&start=7
http://www.compunicate.com/Lamma-zine/Blog/Blog-2012-03.html#Mar28

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Bike clearance at YSW ferry pier this morning, Feb 17, 2014, a professionally done video by Robert John:



The confiscated bikes have been moved to a cleared and padlocked area along the cable road, just below the windturbine.


Discussion with several dozens of posts today:
https://www.facebook.com/Lamma.Gung
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2418687010

Next bike clearance, including the area outside the Library, THIS THURSDAY, Feb 20 !!!

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A few pics from about 5pm.
A few dozen bikes still on the railings but now there is a stretch of barriers and hoardings on the north side where they will be doing the works.

A few more photos, a sight so rare, it's only seen once every two years or so, for just a few hours:

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Revised video by Robert John. He writes:

Yung Shue Wan Pier Bike Removal

"Published on Feb 17, 2014

Special thanks to the Hong Kong police, government employees and the Lands Department for letting me film on the pier while they worked. This footage was shot on my Canon 70D and edited in both Sony Vegas Pro 12 and HitFilm Ultimate 2 using their Cine filter.
Music by Andrea Bocelli: Romanza 'Time to Say Goodbye' was used in this video for a non-profit student project."

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So he noticed that he'd titled it "2004 Yung Shue Wan Pier Bike Removal"?

Yes, he noticed, but only after I told him.

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There are about 80 bikes there, nothing really nice but at least half still would do as "ferry bikes". Several have HKE plant registration plates.

There is no reason to put them way up there except to avoid the bad publicity they got last time when they just took them directly to the compacter at the waste depot.

If you want to liberate a bike, there's a gap where the fence meets the fence around the reservoir....

Might not be there long. Now that both bike purges have been held they will probably spirit them away to be destroyed out of sight.

makes for another tourist attraction on lamma... all be it for a short time.

For the sake of history, here's how the confiscated bikes dumped on the cable road look like today.

Most unusual angle of the new "Temporary Bike Park"!

You've got a new drone or quadcopter? Or a really long lens shooting from high up at the Trig Point?

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