Ghost bikes: memorials to road victims blamed for putting people off cycling

Marooned on a traffic island in the centre of one of London's more aggressive, unpleasant junctions, it is at first glance an almost discordant note of beauty: a bicycle completely painted a spectral white and covered with a mass of flowers.

But it is in fact a deeply gloomy spectacle.

Commemorating Min Joo Lee, a 24-year-old fashion student killed last month while cycling through King's Cross, it is one of the latest examples in the fast-growing global phenomenon of "ghost bikes".   More Read