Erection date: 15/7/2008
Installed on the fifth anniversary of James's death.
N1, Essex Road, 123, Mosquito Bikes
The bike was attached to a bike stand outside Mosquito Bikes, the bike shop where James worked. May 2012 we noticed that the ghost bike is no longer there.
Credit for this entry to: Ross Corben
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
James Foster
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Ghost Bikes provides a lot of info on James. He worked at Mosquito Bikes on E...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
James Foster
Built the ghost bike for his working colleague at Mosquito Bikes in Essex Roa...
The ghost bike in our photo was stolen but replaced with another in October 2014.
We thank Soren's girlfriend, Alice Larivière, for alerting us to this ghost bike, which she and Soren's friends erected, and for sending ...
Henry Warwick, a cycle courier was killed near this spot. RIP
Dec 2012: Ross Corben tells us the bike has been moved to a new location, a little eastwards, on the north side of Dalston Lane.
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