It makes a hell of a bang when your about 20m away.
Wasn't even windy. Stopped to admire the view, there was a creak and a fairly large, fairly rotten tree toppled over about 20m off the trail.
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I had that happen to me on a solo night ride. Closest I've come to pooing myself whilst cycling.
Filmed at work
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Matt - cant see it.
Your riding must be pretty seismic jambo.
Too much curry?
Your riding must be pretty seismic jambo.
Oi, I've lost weight....
are you one of the actors in Chronicles?
Try sleeping over in the jungle in the rainy season. All you can hear (apart from frogs) all night is trees falling over one by one.
Closest I came was stopping to admire some huge tarantula thing, and a coconut tree relieving itself of most of its coconuts about 20m away over the path where we'd walked 30 seconds earlier.
Cycling to work one day, a slate fell off a roof, saw it slide down in slow motion and straight through the roof of a newish car, the chap wasnt happy when he came out and accused me of doing it,me,trying to explain i didnt usually carry a large welsh slate with me and his roof did and was missing one didnt help.
Another neighbour came out and looked up and said Joh youre a slate missing off your roof, which didnt go down at all well either.
also when i was a kid we had a rope swing on a large tree, a village down the road a few kids had the same, pity the branch fell off and killed one of them,it took quite a few adults to lift it of the poor child, as it was estiamated to weigh a ton or more,after that the adults cut down any rope swing they saw.
Earlier this week I rode out past a mighty oak, which I have been riding past for years, and when I came back 20 mins later this is what I saw!!
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In the immortal words of Victor Meldrew 'I couldn't belieeeeeeve it!!' no real gales or lightening. I had to look on the trail to convince myself that it was the same trail, and there were my tyre tracks running under the fallen boughs! A real sorry sight to see such an old tree fall like this..... but it was as rotten as a pear! Don' sit under old trees guys!
The January 3rd storm brought down more than a dozen of our trees. They fell like dominos. It was terrifing.
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Love that last pic 8)
jj55 - looks pretty rotten, looks as if it may have been a v joint too which is weaker, add a canopy of sap and bud, chuck in some wind and it is a bit much for the old girls.
Occasionally the boss and I send trees whistling past each other to test alertness, quite a blast from 100 foot Sitkas.