Residents baffled by comical appearances of exercise bike

REPORT BY PAUL GIBSON

It was like something out of a TV prank show, or creepy drama but the movements of a bright orange exercise bike seen across Hailsham has gotten residents asking questions about the mysterious ‘bikesie’.

It all started when a photograph appeared online of an exercise bike chained up on the bike racks near to the doctors surgery in Vicarage Field on August 22nd.

A frenzy of confused group members replied to the thread wondering who, and why it had appeared there. Over the course of the following few weeks, the bike was seen in a total of nine locations including Western Road, Tesco car park, South Road and other locations around the town centre.

Hailsham News has been teased as to who is responsible for the mysterious movements of the bike - they have been labelled as Hailsham’s very own ‘Bikesie’.

A silhouetted image of the culprit who apparently changed the bike location in the early hours of the morning was sent to the news team - we had to ask some questions to see what the prank was all about.

When we asked ‘Bikesie’ the reason behind it all, they simply replied: “Purely for personal amusement and to gift a smile to others.”

The bike has not been seen recently around town, so it’s unknown if it’s likely to reappear anytime soon, or if ‘Bikesie’ has any other plot in mind to get the town talking.