Except for the brand-spanking new gray bike in front, all the rest on the rack appear abandoned since I first set eyes on them two months ago. They're decent bikes, too. A couple even have the rider's helmet in the baskets. They're not chained, either. Seems like such a waste. On base all the bikes have to be registered with security and no one, absolutely no one, rides without a helmet. A good number of the workforce on the base is Japanese and many of them ride bikes to work. As for these abandoned ones, if it weren't for the law I would have picked the best of the lot and pedaled away.
