A soldier went to war in 1941

[ZygoteLittle]

and left his bicycle chained to a tree. ...

 

[LukeTheJoker]

http://www.craigboyce.com/w/2012/07/bike-in-tree-vashon-island-the-real-story/

Luke.

 

[ZygoteLittle]

I can’t believe that stuff on the net is bogus; thank you guys for reveling “The Truth” (whatever that is).

 

[Mike G]

Well if nothing else now the RRB members have a pilgrimage destination!
To make the pilgrimage complete you have to show up at the bike eating tree dressed in an AC/DC Angus Young School Boy outfit and offer the tree an NOS Diamond skip tooth master link, while screaming as loud as you can, "The Blair Witch is fake!"

 

[B607]

If it was chained to a tree it would still be sitting on the ground. Trees don't lift anything. Ever see a fence nailed to a tree? Ever see a fence nailed to a tree that was "lifted" 6 feet in the air? No! Gary

 

[GuitarlCarl]

If the fork in a tree growing up under a bike, split to each side, it would lift the bike as it grew. A fence nailed to the OUTSIDE of a tree is not the same. Think about a small tree, maybe only a foot tall. Branches reach out but only a few inches off the ground, yet in later years those same branches are now many feet off the ground and much larger. That bike, how ever it got there, wasn't put into the tree. The tree grew around it. That said, a kid could have tossed his bike into the lowest fork he could reach, leaving it, and the tree would grow around it. But it would still rise as the tree grew.

Carl. < not actually an Arborist....

 

[ozzmonaut]

The newspaper article states "Does it surprise Helen that a bike has grown around her son's red bike?" So apparently proofreading wasn't a big story either.

 

[B607]

If the fork in a tree growing up under a bike, split to each side, it would lift the bike as it grew. A fence nailed to the OUTSIDE of a tree is not the same. Think about a small tree, maybe only a foot tall. Branches reach out but only a few inches off the ground, yet in later years those same branches are now many feet off the ground and much larger. That bike, how ever it got there, wasn't put into the tree. The tree grew around it. That said, a kid could have tossed his bike into the lowest fork he could reach, leaving it, and the tree would grow around it. But it would still rise as the tree grew.

Carl. < not actually an Arborist....

Branches on a young tree do not rise along the trunk as the tree grows. A tree grows from the tip, not along the length of the trunk. A trunk gets wider, but does not go "up". I own a sawmill and I know wood. Go back to your guitar Carl, and leave the wood to me. Gary

 

[GuitarlCarl]

I actually never claimed to know trees, just the opposite,
but only threw a hypothetical observation at it...


How do you think the bike got inside the tree?

Carl.

 

[aka_locojoe]

Happened in my town. Guy went off to Vietnam war and left bike leaning against a tree.

 

[DoubleL]

If the fork in a tree growing up under a bike, split to each side, it would lift the bike as it grew. A fence nailed to the OUTSIDE of a tree is not the same. Think about a small tree, maybe only a foot tall. Branches reach out but only a few inches off the ground, yet in later years those same branches are now many feet off the ground and much larger. That bike, how ever it got there, wasn't put into the tree. The tree grew around it. That said, a kid could have tossed his bike into the lowest fork he could reach, leaving it, and the tree would grow around it. But it would still rise as the tree grew.

Carl. < not actually an Arborist....

But...an arborist would agree!

 

[DoubleL]

and left his bicycle chained to a tree. ...

 

[DoubleL]

Pretty darn cool however it got there!