Motorcycles don't grow on trees!

[Peter Henry]

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/7176/tree1hl.jpg (http://imageshack.us) :P :P :P

[Steve W]

Surely the bike was there first and the tree grew round it so the heading should be: 'Trees do grow round motorbikes'....

[Peter Henry]

Mr.Steve...I would suggest that your thinking is flawed. The bike was just left in an open spot and just by chance a tree grew right in that spot? Please! Your a funny guy! :P

Might I suggest that the bike was abandoned and left possibly leaning against the tree? In time the true grew appendages that captured the bike? :wink:

[Law]

Personally I think that an alien was using a teleporter thing to get a cool motorcycle back to his home planet to show his mates, but accidently beamed it into a tree. :wink:

[Spiderman]

Well you're all wrong.

Its clealrly the new Thatcham approved immobiliser

:lol:

[GSXR Carlos]

Personally I think that an alien was using a teleporter thing to get a cool motorcycle back to his home planet to show his mates, but accidently beamed it into a tree. :wink:

is that just outside of the pic then??

[Steve W]

Mr.Steve...I would suggest that your thinking is flawed. The bike was just left in an open spot and just by chance a tree grew right in that spot? Please! Your a funny guy! :P

Might I suggest that the bike was abandoned and left possibly leaning against the tree? In time the true grew appendages that captured the bike? :wink:

No... the bike broke down and was then abandoned and, yes, a tree grew right in that spot, whether by design or by chance depends on your theology/philosphy...

Yesterday there was great true story on ceefax of a three year old getting stuck (by glue) to the seat in a public toilet... and you think my explanation is unlikely :wink:

[K]

OK, I'm gonna be a sad tree nerd now. :roll:

The tree was there first.

The bike was abandoned leaning against it.

The tree then grew roots that encompassed bits of the bike.



How can this be so - look at the tree, the trunk above the bike is solid - if it had grown up around the bike, branches would have grown up through the frame and generally lifted the bike off the ground (look at the width of the trunk - this tree's a fair few years old) - the branches would not have then fused back to form a single trunk.

This looks like a tropical or semi-tropical tree too, judging by the other plants in the background. Many trees in these climates grow what are called Arial Roots.
These are roots that start growing above ground, snake down the trunk and then enter the soil.
(Generally bacause of the air humidity that will support them and also to give a far wider stability base in unstable ground - kinda like a tripod.)
An arial root growing down would easily encapsulate the bike - leaving its wheels on the ground even as the tree continued to grow.

I've seen some fantastic photos of trees doing this sort of thing. Trunks engulfing fences n the like. The best was a pic of a tree with an old WWI rifle embedded in it. Jammed in the fork of a tree as a marker for some unknown grave it was then held fast as the tree grew around the stock.

Um... I'm only sad enough to know about trees doing this kind of thing because I grow/train Bonsai Trees. :oops: Some need wiring to get the best shape - and you can't leave the wire on too long or it'll mark the bark - and eventually cut into it as the tree grown round it.

So I'm a nerd. But at least I'm not a Geek! :wink:

[Steve W]

How do we know the picture is genuine!? :)

[_Stretchie_]

Personally I think that an alien was using a teleporter thing to get a cool motorcycle back to his home planet to show his mates, but accidently beamed it into a tree. :wink:
Along similarish has anyone seen 'The Philedelphia Experiment'?

[Peter Henry]

*raps monitor screen with knuckles*

Well hello K! Many thanks for sharing your in depth botanical knowledge with us there! It is obvious to all but Mr.Steve that the tree was there first.(oh dear you just can't get the staff these days!) :?


















K..Only pulling yer leg.That was a Argument Thread kinda reply! :wink: :P

[kwak zzr]

it would have been alot easyer to just chain the bike to the tree :wink:

[goonrider]

This is simply motorcycling going back to it's roots :roll:

..apparently the Exhaust has a healthy 'bark' too :oops:

..adios

[Peter Henry]

I had heard that they were going to open a new Kawasaki branch in the area......I think this one could be an off shoot from the main franchise. Access is pretty easy as it is directly off the trunk road. :P :P :P

[SVTONYB]

I had heard that they were going to open a new Kawasaki branch in the area......I think this one could be an off shoot from the main franchise. Access is pretty easy as it is directly off the trunk road. :P :P :P
:lol: :lol: :lol:

[K]

*raps monitor screen with knuckles*

Well hello K! Many thanks for sharing your in depth botanical knowledge with us there! It is obvious to all but Mr.Steve that the tree was there first.(oh dear you just can't get the staff these days!) :?

I dunno. You open yourself up to the ridicule of your peers by reavealing a hitherto unknown, embarrasingly nerdish, aspect to your personality, soley for the purpose of backing up - nay, defending - the stand taken by a fellow (whose pearls of wisdom you have respected in the past, even though they were about Ducatis) and this is what I get. :cry:




















K..Only pulling yer leg.That was a Argument Thread kinda reply! :wink: :P :wink: