49-Year-Old Man Quits Job To Build Giant Bike For His Son

A Chinese mechanic quit his job to create a larger-than-life bike for his cartoon-obsessed son.

Zhang Yali, 49, from Jilin City, started the bike three months ago as a surprise gift for his son Zhang Wenzhong. He said he son was a cartoon fanatic who majored in animation at university, and works as an animation artist in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province.
"My son is thousands of kilometres from home. My wife and I miss him a lot so I created this bike to inspire him," he said.

"Animation is the art of exaggeration. So I thought that this giant bike would be the perfect gift for him."

Zhanag extimates that it cost him about £2,000 to create the one tonne bike which stands more than 10ft high and 18ft long. Zhang used two giant wheels from an excavator to create bike. The seat is made from old sofas, and can sit up to eight people in two rows.

His wife, Mei Jianhua, was not initially impressed: "We are not a rich family," she complained. "He not only quit his job, but spent the family savings on a pile of trash. "We quarrelled many times over this, but gradually I came around to the idea as it's a gift for our son and his persistence touched me."

Zhang is now seeking volunteers to help him ride the bike to Shenzhen to give it to his son personally this summer.

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