A boy left his bike locked to a tree in 1914

[jujupunk]

My GF sent me this... great picture!

"A boy left his bike chained to a tree when he went away to war in 1914. He never returned, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around the bike."

 

[saltyman]

:shock: wow, amazing

 

[FMJ]

Trees grow faster in the jungle

 

[tintin40]

:shock: wow, amazing

second that :shock: :shock:

 

[Harryburgundy]

Brilliant

 

[pete_mcc]

Nice story ruined only by the fact that it's a child's bike. We were very backwards in the early part of the 20th century but the UK didn't send 8 year olds off to their death in the Somme....

 

[stewlewis]

My GF sent me this... great picture!

"A little midget fella was being picked on by workmates who hung his bike out of arm's reach in the fork of a tree's trunk in 1954. Try as he might to reach it, the tree although growing upward very slowly grew faster than the wee man. Having not had ladder or health and safety training the little bloke had to abandon his bike, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around it."

To this day when you see a pair of 70's or 80's trainers aging slowly over a telegraph wire spare a thought for Davey Dynamite who suffered at the hands of bullys.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/bicycle.asp

 

[NAILTRAIL96]

Nice story but the bike should still be on the ground.

 

[JeRkY]

Have to admit I thought it was fake too. Certainly the story doesn't line up as Pete_mcc pointed out.

 

[matthew71]

nice front radial, must have been a racer