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Don’t leave your bike against a tree
There is a mighty sycamore tree in Scotland that has swallowed a bicycle. The story goes that a local boy left his bike propped against the trunk when he went to war in 1914, and never came back. Over the decades, the tree embraced the old bicycle, growing around and over it, gathering the machine into its woody heart. Today, all you can see of the bicycle are the handlebars poking out from the trunk.
The Bicycle Tree of Brig o’Turk is a fitting testament to the symbiotic relationship between man and tree: the tree has not suffered from absorbing the bicycle; the plant and the man-made object are successfully growing old together. But now the local residents are calling for a preservation order to protect their iron-eating tree.
Picture of the tree.
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Steve is this one of those spot it if you can Photo’s
I cant see any handlebars?Peter
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Peter,
If you look on the right hand side of the pic a branch appears to merge with the roof. From that point, if you follow an imaginary horizontal line back across (right to left) to where it intersects with the tree trunk in the immediate foreground you should see the rusty handlebars, right next to a bulge in the trunk.Steve
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Yes, I can see them now 😮
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That’s amazing Steve.
Took some finding though. Here they are Peter 😮
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I would love to believe it,
but I dont,sorry guys
Nice myth though
Peter
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quote Peter Normington:I would love to believe it,
but I dont,
sorry guys
Nice myth though
Peteroh trust you 😉 :lol1:
only part that looks a little odd to me is that the cross bar with seat tube and the top of the back end of frame is out of line with the bars. you can see them slight down to the left of the bars.
if its true ide like to visit, i like this sorta thing. 😀
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thats a twig, not a cross bar 😉
Peter
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it seems like it is a common occurrence
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/get … onNo==1412
same bike?
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hmm not sure what to believe….
However going with myth for this one 😀 oh and some PS work 😉
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This bit looks like a tethering ring?
Peter
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I think you are all barking up the wrong tree :lol1:
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Not so sure its a fake, I know a tree round here that has swallowed a steel fence! Many that have swallowed ( if that’s the word?) barbed wire.
Alan
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