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So what wildlife have people managed to hit on their bikes?
Whilst people may bemoan my over-bikedness (I may not need five inches of travel around Wendover), I was very grateful for it's assistance in running over a bloody badger! Damn thing shot out of the hedge as I was tanking down one of the bridleways, straight under both wheels (think I clouted it with the pedal too). After I put myself back on track turned to see it running off into the other hedge, so seems to have survived okay - it felt seriously solid when I hit it!
So as I say what have other people managed to hit?
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a squirrel fell out of a tree onto my head last week, does that count?
I ran over one of those very long dog leads once. Fat lady on one end, Yorkshire Terrier doing something in the bushes on the other.
Both yelped but lived to tell the tale.
Reminds me of this....
what's wierd is that they made no real attempt to see if the bloke was ok...
Only safe thing to do when confronted with an angry ninja is get the hell out of there.
I've hit a deer out on the road bike, or more correctly the deer hit me!
Weird I was just reading this: [i]We rolled into Sebree where Nina was waiting for us. She had bad news that one of the two DC brothers had been hit by a deer and his bike was wrecked, their trip was over. Robbie's crash description was very funny. His recollection of the nanosecond before impact was 'wow, that's a huge dog, I'd best get the dog spray' . A second later the deer and he collided and all the gear, bike and rider were jettisoned in different directions.[/i] on [url= http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=1r4vFZo&doc_id=8912&v=4p ]mcmoonter's blog[/url]
rabbits more than once
and I also managed to to hit a bat once, on my shoulder not with the wheels 🙄
a squirrel fell out of a tree onto my head last week, does that count?
I'd say that it does 😉
turned to see it running off into the other hedge
You're lucky he didn't come back and rip your face off. Even Chuck Norris is scared of angry badgers!
A group of school childrenSo what wildlife have people managed to hit on their bikes?
Since starting night riding this year I nearly ran over a slow worm which turned around to put it into the hedgerow and nearly got taken out buy a deer which also ran out in front of a car coming the other way that sh*t us both up proper I reckon! Had a bird fly through my front wheel, although felt sorry for it it was rather funny seeing feather kind of explode until I realised my shins were covered in dead bird.
Also hit a chav on way back from work years ago. He properly flew at least 4m I reckon
Some odd old women feeds pigeons in my street and they like to wait to take off until I just get to them, managed to bounce a few off my head. I wouldn't recommend it