Whitebikes was a project that attempted to encourage cycling by making the bike a shared commodity. Bikes were left on public ground for anyone to use. They were free and users accessed them by calling the telephone number secured to the frame to receive the lock combination. In this way the whereabouts of the bikes could be kept track of to aid the process of bringing them into the workshop for repairs and maintenance.

Three unwanted and homeless bikes were donated to the project by a community based bicycle programme, Becycle. The bicycles were fixed and painted white in admiration of the Provos - a Dutch political group of the 60s, one of whose aims was to abolish the car. Painting them white also emphasised the tarnished aesthetic the bikes developed with time, symbolising their journeys throughout the city.

The project was launched in November 2008, and was successful for around 10 weeks, however eventually the communication between the bicycle users and myself tailed off, and the bikes disappeared...