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Hmmm- The cyclists should have slowed much more even stop esp if the horses looked jittery !! Don't get me wrong I have had a few ridiculous altercations with horse riders but a huge peleton generates noise and wind!!
its a race, surely there should of been some sort of rolling road block in force?
I got the impression it was more of a Sportive?
[Edit] no, looks like it was a road race, sorry.
From what I've seen far too many roadies treat a sportive as a race for there to be much difference.
That video is from a road race in NY State, USA.
Mind you a similar incident happened at a road race in Essex a few weekends ago, the horse riders ignored a warning sign and and were on the course when the bunch came hurtling round the corner. The 2 lead cars enforcing the rolling road closure had warned them but by then there wasn't enough time to get the horses safely off the road before the bunch arrived.
Fortunately no major injuries although at least one of the riders was thrown from her horse.
If the horse isn't absolutely bomb-proof, it should never be anywhere near a public road!
I have this arguement with my old man who drives carriage horses. He claims that horses have a 'common law right' to use roads, but having seen the damage they can do when they spook, I think they should be illegal.
He had one horse that would go apeshit whenever it saw an umbrella, even if it was 200 yards away! Another always tried to jump over 'SLOW' sings on the road. And he had another that dropped dead and blocked a busy main road for 3 hours while they tried to shift the bloody thing!
I tell ya, don't get me started. Ban the lot. They moan about us using roads and paths "as a race track", at least I'm 100% in control of my bike - it doesn't have a mind of it's own and do random things whenever it sees a crisp packet on the flippin floor!
[i]it doesn't have a mind of it's own and do random things[/i]
mine seems to 🙁
I ride in the Chilterns, there's a A LOT of horses about the place, and like most things in life, some Horses and their riders are fine, others less so. Give them a wide berth, if you're approaching from behind tell the riders well before hand. Be prepared to stop.
It's not hard really, let and let live and all that.
Also there's the added benefit of nice fit bums in tight jodhpurs...
I think horses should only be on the road if they can handle the traffic .Otherwise its not nice for the horse to get scared oranyone it may injure if it goes nuts.Maybe they should be trained like the ones the police ride
I knew a horse which was scared of the sound of its own feet so everytime it clip-clopped it would go scizo. The owner had its feet removed and replaced with marshmallow rollerskates.
True story.
bakes - pics or it's made up.
Yeah, belonged to horsey steve didn't it?
Is there a horse equivalent of the driving test (or even cycling proficiency)?
That video is nowt, I present you with a horse that takes on the peleton in an old TdF
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in TdF[/url]
How did the horse get on in the GC?
How did it eat after an day's racing?
Did it have to take horse drugs etc?
I'm here till Thursday....
Hmmm... Tyres or tubs for a horse in the Pyrenees?
Looks like that horse was high on Ketamin...
It is doing a decent amount of work up front tho. I wonder how many riders just tucked in behind it 🙂
Funniest bit in the original vid is when one rider gets smacked in to the bushes by the horses *rse.