# Ai Weiwei's stacked bicycles
**URL:** https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054
**Category:** Linkblog
**Created:** [January 18, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054 "2013-01-18T00:50:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@spirito](https://fixed.org.au/u/spirito)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/1 "2013-01-18T00:50:37Z")
wow !!
[‘Stacked’ by Ai Weiwei: 760 Stacked Bicycles at Galleria Continua | Colossal](http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/01/stacked-by-ai-weiwei-760-stacked-bicycles-at-galleria-continua/)
[Ai Weiwei Piles 1,200 Bikes On Top Of Each Other, For Dazzling Effect | Co.Design: business + innovation + design](http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665720/ai-weiwei-piles-1200-bikes-on-top-of-each-other-for-dazzling-effect)
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### Author:  [@system](https://fixed.org.au/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/2 "2013-01-18T01:05:51Z")
Much better than that chain dog shit you posted last week 😉
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### Author:  [@spirito](https://fixed.org.au/u/spirito)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/3 "2013-01-18T01:11:19Z")
> [@sugarkane](#):
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> Much better than that chain dog shit you posted last week 😉
It’s all a question of perspective or drugs (or both).
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### Author:  [@Gordy](https://fixed.org.au/u/Gordy)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/4 "2013-01-18T01:48:20Z")
Yep, two thumbs up!!
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### Author:  [@rolly](https://fixed.org.au/u/rolly)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/5 "2013-01-18T02:35:45Z")
I feel like my garage is starting to look like this…
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### Author:  [@shortsie](https://fixed.org.au/u/shortsie)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 6:38am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/6 "2013-01-18T06:38:37Z")
Its an art!
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### Author:  [@rolly](https://fixed.org.au/u/rolly)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/7 "2013-01-18T12:30:19Z")
> [@shortsie](#):
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> Its an art!
do an art!
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Commuter](https://fixed.org.au/u/Captain_Commuter)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/8 "2013-01-19T02:06:20Z")
i reckon there’s a dollop or two of hot glue in there
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### Author:  [@P\_N20](https://fixed.org.au/u/P_N20)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/9 "2013-01-19T17:13:21Z")
Never mind.
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### Author:  [@DICE](https://fixed.org.au/u/DICE)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/10 "2013-01-19T17:39:45Z")
Another view:
And an older bicycle work by Ai Weiwei
Forever Bicycles, 2003:
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### Author:  [@Balki](https://fixed.org.au/u/Balki)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/11 "2013-01-20T18:06:51Z")
Waste of bikes
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### Author:  [@DICE](https://fixed.org.au/u/DICE)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/12 "2013-01-20T20:51:15Z")
Others would dissagree.
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### Author:  [@Balki](https://fixed.org.au/u/Balki)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/13 "2013-01-20T21:22:22Z")
‘Others’ would be entitled to their opinion.
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### Author:  [@The\_JAMS](https://fixed.org.au/u/The_JAMS)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/14 "2013-01-20T22:14:29Z")
njs?
barspinz?
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### Author:  [@droz](https://fixed.org.au/u/droz)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2013, 5:02am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/15 "2013-01-21T05:02:41Z")
As much as I understand this is a nice piece of artwork by a respected artist, it pains me to think of the importance of bicycles to the well being of people in developing countries who might have been a better use (or prosepctive use after this installation has finished) than this.
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### Author:  [@spirito](https://fixed.org.au/u/spirito)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2013, 5:11am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/16 "2013-01-21T05:11:02Z")
poor Chinese peasants, eh?
Perhaps ask Ferrari and Lamborghini and Aston Martin where all there supercars are going?
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### Author:  [@droz](https://fixed.org.au/u/droz)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2013, 6:58am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/17 "2013-01-21T06:58:08Z")
I was thinking more about Africa, to be honest.
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### Author:  [@spirito](https://fixed.org.au/u/spirito)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2013, 12:34pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/18 "2013-01-21T12:34:25Z")
> [@drozzy](#):
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> I was thinking more about Africa, to be honest.
I still don’t get the logic. Maybe we should switch off FOA and divert our time/energies to helping out at soup kitchen’s and homeless shelter’s?
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### Author:  [@AL9000](https://fixed.org.au/u/AL9000)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/19 "2013-01-21T14:41:28Z")
> [@drozzy](#):
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> I was thinking more about Africa, to be honest.
Bike frames with wheels and nothing else aren’t going to be much use to anyone.
The size of this piece should have given you an idea of just how big bicycle production is in China, 1900 frames is a tiny tiny fraction of the output of their factories. Giant alone makes ~6 million bikes a year, and Forever (the bikes in the piece), once peaked at ~33.5 million/year. So that’s about 3 hours of Giant’s production (assuming 24/7 ops), less, considering it’s only the robo-welded frames and machine built wheels.
Plus, who says it’s a permanent exhibit or that the frames will be scrapped once it’s over?
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### Author:  [@horatio](https://fixed.org.au/u/horatio)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/20 "2013-01-21T14:51:55Z")
The real question is what is the artist trying to say??
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