I was just riding this 2-3 months ago, they did NOT weld a cable to it...you can still ride it.

It was pretty fun I'll probably do it again.

The piece has grown on me, but honestly, if you're going to put something like that out in public you kind of have to be willing to let people climb on it. That to me is part of what makes public art cool - you can actually come into contact with it. Over at Penn, Klaes Oldenburg's "Button" is constantly covered with scampering children, who love it (my daughter included).

If Iroquois can't handle this kind of use (or is too dangerous to be used this way), maybe it shouldn't be out in public but in a gallery instead.

They did, but someone unhooked it. You can still see it dangling from the thing.