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#21 ·
last december while riding the fire road back to the family cabin near tomahawk, wi, two deer came from the woods and were running beside my GF and i. it was snowing pretty heavily and after dark--beautiful and surreal. that is until they cut and ran abruptly across the old lady's line in front of her. she freaked out, turned the bars 90 degrees causing her front tire to dig into the hardpack snow. over the bars, tears and about a 2 mile hike in the driving snow. she was pissed that i did not think it was un-funny.
 
Discussion starter · #22 ·
You need a whistle or bell!

Ernesto I think you need to invest in one of those whistles to scare critters that people mount on the hood of the car............of course you may have to ride really fast for it to work. Maybe a bear bell would be better.
 
#23 ·
I was riding with a mate one day and on the path we were on there were about 15 ducks. Usually they all fly away, but one ran right in front of me, then back left in front of him. He went straight over it!

(not a through the spokes story though sorry)
 
#24 ·
whislting

Mattman said:
Ernesto I think you need to invest in one of those whistles to scare critters that people mount on the hood of the car............of course you may have to ride really fast for it to work. Maybe a bear bell would be better.
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one time i was whistling while riding, and it attracted a horde of wood-midgets. They chased me because they wanted to dry hump me. I don't like to be dryhumped. Especially by midgets.
 
#28 · (Edited)
not really through the spokes but i ran over a 3.5ft rattlesnake on a switchback bend and it missed me on the upstroke of my pedaling, so i got lucky. needless to say it was pretty pissed afterwards and my friends behind me had to wait a few minutes for it to calm down and crossover. that was prolly one of my scariest experiences ever.
 
#29 ·
Not quite as exciteing as some of the other stories, but here it is anyway. Riding a century a few years ago a buddy and myself were on a small coultry road with no one else around, with me slightly in front of hime. We come over a small rise and there is a squirrel in the middle of the road looking right at me. I decide to aim right for him, figuring he will run one way or the other and I will miss him. He starts running right, and then changes his mind and runs left again right under my rear wheel. Luckily he did not make it into the spokes. When I looked back he was running into the woods.

I really like the one about the squirrel that got flung up onto the riders back, that would make an awesome video clip!
 
#30 ·
In my :madman: experience it is wiser to hit the squirrel, rabbit ,lizard, old lady than try to avoid them heres my story: In 94 i was riding along downtown in a park and an old lady walked out in front of me. i avoided her but the only place i had to go was into a tree so i did. as i lay there bleeding out of my head unconcious a bastard came along and stole my bike this was 7/1i woke up on 7/4 in the hospital with a skull fracture that should have killed me it was a month before i could read and actually comprehend sentences again. about three weeks ago i was on cobblestone and a lizard zipped into my path suddenly. i automatically avoided the little guy but in the process directed myself into the wrong line and went otb into a rock the size of a beach ball. this time i caught myself with a diamond pushup style grip on the rock i was goin face first into and just scraped my knee a little. helmets are good things, i wear them. im usually pretty good at control when the unexpected arises too these are just a couple of experiences that came to mind. The funny thing is that notice when im riding that squirrels especially will run right at you and then turn and bail out at the last second like the ad where they make the car wreck and than high five each other .
 
#33 ·
Rats!

Riding home from the pub one night through a dirtier, sparsly populated part of the city.
turned off of Folsom onto 15th and heard/ saw something scurry along the gutter behind parked cars. It was pacing me... Had that creepy "ew, huge rat feeling" and decided to pick up the pace. Just then huge rat darts into the road right at my front wheel. It bounced off . I pulled my feet off the pedals and watched it trying to run in the air. It landed, got traction and went right under my rear wheel... I didn't look back.
 
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