Securing your bike to a tree might not be as safe as you think. When someone really wants your bike he may just chop the entire tree and take it anyways… Don’t believe this? – Well, this just happened in China.
To be precise, a man on a scooter saw and approached a locked bike in Changsha city in the province of Hunan. Obviously he liked this bike so much, he had to steal it. Unfortunately for him, it was locked to a tree.
Yes, he did… He took out a saw and started to chop the tree down. At first the tree wouldn’t budge. Finally it fell and he was able to remove the bike from the tree stump, put it on the pillion of his scooter, and drove off.
In the future you may want to lock your bike to something made from metal… An angle grinder might be more difficult to find in a similar situation…