The $37,000 amazing piece of art was built with funds from Nissan, which is building a car dealership in the city of Santa Rosa. This amazing tower (obelisk) of bikes aka Cyclisk was made with 340 old bikes and is 650 feet tall!
Here is more from the creators via Treehugger and check out the several other pieces of art down below!
Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector collected the hundreds of bicycles from community donations; most were unusable and abandoned, not stolen, we hope. He calls it "an intersection of ideas, so it can keep growing with the community."
According to his partner in this project, Ilana Spector, "Collecting unusable parts from the debris piles of nonprofit community bike projects has proven to be a win-win; community bike DIY places are thrilled unusable parts are not becoming land fill and the City is psyched the sculpture will solidify Santa Rosa as bike-friendly." One obelisk doesn't make a city bike-friendly but hopefully it will raise awareness.
Images thanks to Mark Grieve
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