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I knew we had a few but not as many as this. Pointing out the more concerning contact toxic plants first as we can easily ride through them, then others you should not get into cuts or eat (of course).
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the dreaded triffids!
To be fair I'm more worried about being taken out by a car than flaura and fauna! Helpful to be aware though
Don't forget about the noisy ones too
@patron Thank you for the links. They are interesting and a little surprising too. I knew there was a reason I never quite liked tomatoes.
I've been done by Giant Hog weed about 20 years ag0 on my arm when I started working by rivers. Arm came up with a big blister that use to play up for several years later on hot sunny days. still got a tiny scar where on the spot.
BITD Primal Wear had a "plants to avoid" t-shirt including several poisonous plants and, worst of them all, the Face Plant.
I remember in mbuk, they had a picture of a rider who had lost the front wheel on a corner, along with the caption “digging a hole . . For a face plant”
It’s still a standing joke in this house 30 ish years later.
I try to avoid digging, just in case.
Is it just me, or did he spend a long time saying that. Apart from Giant Hogweed, all the other plants he talked about are going to get you if you eat them. But who does that?
I gave up partway through so perhaps it got better, I don't know.
Is it just me, or did he spend a long time saying that.
I thought the same. That video could have been 5 minutes and still been overkill. 17mins just because he liked telling us how MTBers wear shorts and ride through undergrowth a lot... 🙄
I misread ther title as toxic pants..
I watched about five minutes and never got past the shorts/undergrowth bit. I just gave up.....
Based on all the information and lectures and videos we got at school about giant hogweed, I kind of expected it to play a bigger part in my life.
Nothing worse than a thick bramble dangling down and getting ripped between gloveless fingers IMO.
As others say, the video is basically beware of giant hogweed, which i already do, seen it plenty of times in wilderness, but never near a mountain bike circuit, we're quite lucky that we go to places that are forestry land, or had tracks cut through, it's being pretty well managed in the UK to be fair, any time i've seen it and reported, it's been sprayed and killed pretty quickly.
As above though, it's brambles on the downhill bits of tracks i fear most, earlier this year was pretty much the official ending of me ever wearing short sleeved tops when riding!
I’ve been badly hogweeded twice now (xc map route rider) and I now react easily to gawd knows what in the countryside so I now always wear 3/4 shorts/long socks/long sleeve tops as a couple of weeks of bubble blisters isn’t nice
I kind of expected it to play a bigger part in my life.
Thing is it's really nasty if you do get a smear of juice on you. With kids in the olden days you know... Played outside etc the stems looks like great digerydoos and you can imagine the mess that would get you into.
The Venn diagram with mountain biking is a little tenuous though there's not a huge crossover I wouldn't have thought beyond standard "Don't touch hogweed". Everything else is just daft though again beyond don't eat stuff you don't know is safe.
On a side note if you are ever hungry and there is fireweed nearbye pull one up and split it. Scrape out the pith it's delicious and suspiciously reminiscent of energy gels.