Black and grey fine line tattoo of a vintage bicycle with a front basket on the forearm, set against lace fabric.

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Vintage bicycle on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A vintage-style bicycle with a front basket is drawn in black ink on the outer forearm. The linework is fine and even, with light shading on the spokes, frame and under the wheels to give a sketched, dimensional look. The design is set in black and grey against pale skin and a lace fabric on the left of the frame.

Fine line Forearm Bicycle Basket Wheel Frame

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Brother Anselm had ridden the hill road to Sallow Cross every Thursday for eleven years, and in all that time the bicycle had never been given a name. The machine had come up from the valley in the back of a carrier's cart, black and heavy, with a wicker basket fixed over the front wheel that nobody at the abbey had asked for. The abbot said it was vanity. Brother Anselm said it was for the eggs.

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The eggs went down in the basket wrapped in straw, and the bread after them, and the candle ends for old Mrs Pryce, who could no longer climb to the chapel. On the descent the spokes sang. On the climb he walked it, one hand on the saddle, talking to the wheel as a man talks to a mule. The village children said the monk spoke to the bicycle and the bicycle answered in clicks.

One February the snow came early and the road vanished under it. The abbot forbade the ride. Anselm went anyway, pushing the frame through the drifts with the basket stacked high with loaves. When he reached the cottage Mrs Pryce was sitting up by a dead fire, and she laughed at him for coming so far with bread she could not eat. He left the loaves on her table and rode back with the wheels packed solid with snow, which made the descent a slow grinding thing.

On the next Thursday there was a folded blanket lying in the basket, and tucked beneath it a note in the abbot's crooked hand that read only: Mind the frost on the bend.