Cycle Stands do too.
At a new shopping complex on a housing estate in Ashford the developer generously provided 8 new, high quality, stainless-steel cycle stands. Not so clever was the fact that these stands, (fixed to the paved area by rawl-bolts) were located too close to the kerb of the car-park. This fact was reported to the site manager, but argued that they were located as per their position shown on the drawing, and that is where they would stay.
How is it then that there are only three stands visible in this picture; and not eight? The answer to that is that it is quite easy to unbolt such stands, and there must be a market for Stainless-steel tube, and no questions asked..
Eventually, like the Little-Piggies, they all went off to be marketed.
However there is another point worth noting; had all the stands remained been complete , then should a lot of bikes arrive at the same time, then shoppers would not have been able to get to and from shops and cars because bikes and stands would have obstructed them.
In practice, of the short period of time that the stands were in a complete, state, the only bicycle I saw chained to these stands, belonged to yours truly.
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