A Bicycle Eaten by a Tree.

Posted by Anita in Everything Else on May 25, 2007 at 6:18 pm


Bike in a Tree

On Vashon Island (near Seattle, Washington), a tree grows carrying a rather unusual passenger – an old bike. Apparently some kid chained a bike to the tree decades ago and never picked it up, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around the bike.

The tree and island gained some level of notoriety when Berkeley Breathed, creator of Bloom County, wrote a children’s book inspired by the bicycle eating tree entitled Red Ranger Came Calling.

Story found via The Museum of Hoaxes (but this was not a hoax), pic via Arborsmith.


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16 comments to "A Bicycle Eaten by a Tree."

  1. Daniel Kim
    May 26th, 2007 at 3:24 am

    A bicycle-tree hybrid. Genetic engineering has GONE TOO FAR!

  2. Lola
    May 26th, 2007 at 3:32 am

    It is hoax. Trees only grow by their tops

  3. Jose
    May 26th, 2007 at 4:59 am

    How many years has the tree? Look at the bike. Is that a 50th years old bike?

  4. David Lozano
    May 26th, 2007 at 5:37 am

    I think the kid still on the bike. Where is the X-ray picture?

  5. Paul
    May 26th, 2007 at 6:57 am

    Lola, I agree that it's a hoax, but if trees only grew by their tops, there would be a whole lot of really skinny trees in the world...

  6. Katherine
    May 26th, 2007 at 11:20 am

    I thought this looked familiar, that's my step-mother's favorite childrens book. It's cute, you should read it.

  7. Daniel
    May 26th, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    It's actually not fake. I couldn't find it on snopes, but I found it elsewhere:

    http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionN o==1412

  8. ted
    May 26th, 2007 at 7:25 pm

    The tree is actually NOT eating the bicycle. It is simply growing around it.

    If this is real, it was obviously set up a long, long time ago, and never touched since. Dubious, but not impossible.

  9. Marcus
    May 26th, 2007 at 8:19 pm

    This is too good.

  10. Allan
    May 27th, 2007 at 12:00 am

    Not a hoax, I've got a news clipping from the Oregonian (November 15, 1993) about the bike, with a pic of a man grasping the front wheel of the bike. The man, who lived in Vashon at the time, theorized that the bike had been there some 40 or 50 years.

  11. nolhay
    July 19th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

    we have old trees around my house that have old barbwire (from the farm boarder) in them much like this bike

  12. Sara
    October 19th, 2007 at 11:12 am

    I've been there - it is real, and very cool to boot. This isn't a hoax, staged or anything of the sort - just an example of what Nature will do if need be.

  13. Dominic
    March 15th, 2008 at 4:07 am

  14. Aron
    March 15th, 2008 at 4:49 am

  15. Joe
    March 15th, 2008 at 6:58 am

  16. Hero
    March 15th, 2008 at 3:02 pm


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