What else does this ghost bike represent beyond the memorial?
According to the history of white bikes, it can represent a sense of freedom. A movement called the Provo movement in the 1960s, a Dutch counterculture movement, created White plans which included the White Bicycle. These bikes were used as an anarchist project to liberate two-wheel transports. An individual was supposed to help himself to a bike and then leave it somewhere for someone else to use. This was a community proposal to protest private property and pollution and aimed for bikes to replace all motor vehicles. This historical background sheds a new perspective to this ghost bike. The bikes can be seen as a symbol of protest and freedom of speech. Not only do they serve as reminders of tragedies and accidents that took place, they are also a cautionary reminder for drivers and bikers. Given the nature of the accident, the Roxboro ghost bike serves exactly this purpose. A hit and run accident leave space for unknown facts and conditions, making it difficult to develop feelings as intimate as the ones that might arise in any other memorial. This bike is a public form of protest of this tragic injury and represents a form of peaceful protesting. The power and silent words that this ghost bike stands for lives on beyond the body of Tony Turner.