On my way home from work the other day I stumbled across a bike in Stoke Newington. Chained to a lamppost and painted white, it didn't look like it was to be used, so I snapped a photo with the intent to find out if it was part of any particular street art project.

Coincidentally I ran across another, this time on my way to work when I got off the bus a stop early to grab some breakfast. This one's purpose was more clear, as there were the remains of some flowers and a laminated placard. It turns out these were ghost bikes placed in memory of cyclists killed on the road. The one in Clerkenwell was for Rebecca Goossen:

The colleagues of an architectural assistant killed by a lorry at a notorious central London junction paid an emotional tribute to her this week by placing a “ghost bike” at the scene of her death.

Rebecca Goossen, a 29-year-old German who worked at Farringdon-based Metropolitan Workshop, was struck by a cement mixer turning left between Goswell Road and Old Street two weeks ago.

Goossen, who was cycling from her home in Bethnal Green to Metropolitan Workshop’s office, was pronounced dead at the Royal London Hospital.