[Closed] Strange things you see on your ride

Fat men on shit bikes wearing full sky team kit.

There's a time portal on my route home. I've seen the future.

You really don't want to know...

it's 26 inches isn't it binman?

Huge black tortoise ambling along the trail.

I saw a porn shoot once.

jekkyl - worse. 25.75.

1. A couple proper at it and not caring.
2. A lady taking a dump in the middle of the trail.
3. Power rangers at Swinley.
Probably more but those are the ones that stuck with me.

a lynx ran out in front of me today on a fast descent, one of those 'wish i took the go-pro moments'

A bloke b*llock naked riding a bike on a fireroad.

A shed up a tree

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those stupid re-enactment people on Holmbury in the middle of the night - sh!t myself..

Seen Porn shoot at a race circuit (brought back loads of goodies for the team..

Once came around a corner on some singletrack to see a bloke looking down the barrel of a gun straight at me. Scary for a moment.

There's a time portal on my route home.

No it's just The North. A portal into the past.

I have a "singing ringing tree" along one of my fave trails, complete with all sorts of sparkly dangly effigies, I posted it on here a while back, must do an update.
I also spotted a naked girl (must have been about 19) on top a horse in a field off a quiet cheeky trail.. Took me about an hour to ride past 😆

I got to a gate to be met by two blokes coming out of the woods - each had a can of Tennants in one hand, and a goat on a rope in the other 😯

Did see an oldish bloke with just a pink g-string on when I was riding down a Surrey Hills trail called China Pig last year 😯

I once rode through the middle of a Gurkah bivi site hidden away in a wood. Three or four bashas either side of the singletrack I was riding. I'm not sure who was more surprised, me or them.

A lady used to take a Tai Chi class on Epsom Downs.
She would be one side of the track ,her class on the other and we would ride right through the middle.

STWers

Joggers.

A full on dungeons and dragons fantasy role play battle. Lots of people dressed as elves and wizards and what not, hitting each other with cardboard swords.

The only time someone dressed head to toe in lycra has been able to point and laugh at what others are wearing!

I went past one of those role-plays the other day. Baffles me!

Photo shoot in a public park, at a war memorial. Bikini clad models draped over a Harley Davidson.

A couple hard at it on a bridge over the canal, followed less than a mile later by a girl having a shit on the towpath.

Wizards, wenches, knights and princesses running around the woods...

Ritual in an adjacent farmers field; some in white robes, some naked, dancing around a fire.

Eagles, snakes, badgers and bats.

four heavily armed bushes standing up in front of me on a trail on a night ride scared the living daylights out of me turned out to be paras setting an ambush(I ride on a military training ground)then had a surreal chat about bikes with them VERY WEIRD 😯 😀

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This chap saying his (very loud) prayers on Rivi pike.

Weirdest thing I found this week: A bright pink suitcase on a footpath in the countryside, at least a mile from any road / bridleway / house. Naturally, I looked inside. It was empty, except for a recent letter from a hotel in the Caribbean stating that the guest account is in arrears.

I'm struggling to comprehend this mystery. Any sleuths got any bright ideas?

Doggers in Quantocks on a night ride and a nice lady taking a wiz in Wigan stick in my mind.

😯

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We have a wookey on Mendip at present, known on here as Scienceofficer, he's just a hairy mass

This afternoon in and around St. Andrews:
- A dozen or so Orthodox Jewish teenagers on assorted bicycles. All without helmets.
- Two hot teenage girls in the town centre. Snogging. With tongues.

One was exciting, one wasn't...

Fred.

I'd never met him before but knew it was him instantly.

Have just got back from a lap of Cannock, home of the strange. The list is endless but here are a few

Shrines to various shall we say...interests
A white haired woman who used to walk her three black dogs at night
The bloke who sits on one of the benches by Fairoaks pool. On his own. At night.
The Stickman
The Anti-Stickman
'glamour' photoshoots
A group of proppa dwarves on mini mtbs
BSOs hanging from the trees
A pair of crutches by the trail

And tonight three blokes walking In formation around one of the trig points

This Is Cannock

1. Glue sniffers totally zombiefied at 7am on a trail.
2. Guy properly hoovering his blocked paved drive.
3. Assorted knickers on a fence.

Tonight - a group of women practicing pole dancing on the edge of a rugby pitch at the local club. They had proper poles set up for each of them and everything. Same time next week I reckon...

Reliant Robin fibreglass bodyshell near Oakham. Guessing the scrappies had weighed in the chassis.

LARPers. full on battle on holmbury hill.

Plastic tits.

One bloke tying another to a tree deep in a wood at night. With heavy rope. Both look startled and just said "evening lads".

What was worse was that my mate didn't think anything was odd.

A couple at it in daylight. I shouted 'get in' as I passed and he grinned. 😆

Have disturbed a few couples both daytime and at night but always old people never really young and fit.
Nothing much else springs to mind right now

You always know when lowey has been out riding.

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Gay dogging session. It was so surreal I didn't even realise what was going on for months later

An owl, about a foot tall, stood stock still in the road staring me out as I approached at about 40mph down a v steep hill. It wasn't going to move so I had to swerve.

As I passed it, it's head turned slowly through 180 degrees and twin beams of light from its eyes projected a message on the sky above me: Ur bik s Sarcin*

* this last part isn't true. It's a Focus Cayo.

Saw a pair of chavs rowing a bathtub down a disused canal!!

Also a few smack heads in the bushes (I ride in nice areas me!)

Surprised at the amount of porn shoots people have stumbled across though...

He's the singing ringing tree on my trail I mentioned earlier..

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Came across a goth on his own, mucking about with a weegie board. Further down the trail at the exit was a black Reliant Robin...it was stuffed full of cuddly toys 😯

Assorted army battles, including setting off a trip flare in the dark, and standing in a field while they shot at each other for a few minutes from ethier side as if I wasn't there!

Roleplay types

Doggers, one couple twice, once on the way down a trail, and still at it pedaling back up a half hour later!

You always know when lowey has been out riding.

The condom makes the person feel its more real?

Lowey?

Re the singing on Rivi- I remember seeing loads of Nigerians(?) all dressed in white singing up there on a really early Sunday morning. I loved the vibe.

Saw a full on naked bloke on the trail once, literally skipping along and whistling a merry tune. When he saw me he dived into the bushes and put his shorts on but to be honest I don't know which of us was more startled. Each to their own I s'pose.

There is a semi-feral bloke who walks around the Chase in various states of undress. Have seen him a few times wearing just a loincloth and there have been reports of him naked

I saw what i thought was a lizard cross in front of me on the moors last weekend, it scarpered across just in front of me and was fairly quick so couldn't get a propper look at it.

I thought we don't get lizards over here, maybe its a newt?

It was black with yellow stripes or spots, had a quick search on google and this salamander came up, do we get them here in the UK?

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A couple of years ago I saw a Macaw flying overhead. It was quite startling and surprisingly large.

Whilst gawping at it I realised I was straying in to the middle of the road whilst a car was doing the same thing the other way. We both swerved back to our own sides just in time.

you miserable lot stop mocking the LARPers

its an awesome way to spend your sunday, been a few years mind but definately a case of dont knock it

saw a skeleton in a burned out car once

an orange canary

a bloke having a shit.

two women & a photographer on what I thought was a nice wedding dress shots, turned out to be a "vampire dress up" which I think might have turned interesting.. but I doubt it would have with 3 sweaty blokes starring.

a 'new' trail I discovered led to a bloke in full drag (I cycled past quickly), which led onto a 'shed' with a bloke waiting just wearing a string vest... I turned around and cycled away sharpish!

not quite strange, but very pleasing, whilst happy bimbling along the Thames (footpath), having been scowled at by ramblers, there up in a tree (20 ft or so), with a bushman(a saw type chaps) in one hand and the branch he was sawing at in the other, feet braced against the trunk was a very heavily built, tanned, check shirt wearing chap - when he saw me he took out the saw, waved, smiled shouted hullo and then carried on sawing

Ah, the woods.

Tho this:

saw a skeleton in a burned out car once

Is a bit harrowing.

Worst I've seen is a mid 40's couple at it at the top of a hill. Later saw them drive away in a rather nice nick audi quattro, what a guy.

I saw this tonight..

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The Naked Rambler near Bakewell

A woman sat on a rock in the middle of a river meditating with a huge grin on her face 🙂

Saw Police car parked in front of a huge pile of flytip, they said it was,nt them though

Well, I saw a sheep having sneezing fit whilst out today. It was actually quite funny 😀

strackbaz - Member
Came across a goth on his own, mucking about with a weegie board. <snip>

Is the 'weegie board' used for communicating with the souls of dead Glaswegians?? 🙂

I was buzzed by a Wellington bomber last Sunday

A massive rubber cock lying in the middle of nowhere, and a 4ft tall stuffed Sylvester the cat toy hanging from a noose 20ft up a tree

"I was buzzed by a Wellington bomber last Sunday"

or something that looked like one. would be nice if there was one flying.

There's an American religious sect near us - kind of a more modern Amish. On a night ride, we spotted 2 of them pushing a 90 year old lady in a wheelchair into the woods at nearly midnight 8O. We keep expecting to find the rusty wheelchair in the woods and a pile of fresh earth!!

big black cat-as in fk me that's massive and not a doemstic moggy

and

a youngish bloke who had decided to end is life on a rope in a remote part of the woods 🙁

I saw what i thought was a lizard cross in front of me on the moors last weekend, it scarpered across just in front of me and was fairly quick so couldn't get a propper look at it.

I thought we don't get lizards over here, maybe its a newt?

It was black with yellow stripes or spots, had a quick search on google and this salamander came up, do we get them here in the UK?

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You do get lizards all over the uk - can be reasonably varied colours inc. yellow/green, and look very "lizardy", move fast.

but nowhere near as distinctive as that salamander - not native or recognised alien species, so if you saw similar to that, no idea.

tazzymtb - Member
big black cat-as in fk me that's massive and not a doemstic moggy

The Cannock Chase Panther?

On tonight's night ride I saw an Owl, cat, rabbit, two badgers, a satellite, chased two Army Tanks and got close up to four helicopters. 🙂

And fell off twice 🙁

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One of these fella's about 3ft long and build like a brick out house crossing the trail I was hammering down
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There's probably loads I can't remember but the ones that stand out.

Only the other night up Rivi, 2 people just stood there in the middle of the trail staring out at about 11 pm

A witch on a cycle trail into bolton town centre

A lady jogger having a pee at the side of a local Bridleway - that was awkward kind of " hiya "

Police helicopter directly above me as I went down a cheeky trail, yeah did get me a bit paranoid but think they were just taking the mick.

Just saw a guy walking his medium size fluffy white dog. The dog was standing up right with his front paws on the handlebars of a trike scooter.

You do get lizards all over the uk - can be reasonably varied colours inc. yellow/green, and look very "lizardy", move fast.

but nowhere near as distinctive as that salamander - not native or recognised alien species, so if you saw similar to that, no idea.

Ah your probably right then, it was moving quite fast so couldn't get a good look as in ran across in front of me, i was close to running it over. Here's a common lizzard which seems a bit more likely...

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I once actually hit a couple at it in Crowthorne Woods, left tyre marks in the guys leg!

Stumbled into a rave at Swinley, with the DJ set up under the bridge and as i ride down a steepish slope was faced with a tent across the trail and took the guy ropes with me, 2 blokes still off their faces chased me.

Dog shrine off Tunnel Hill on the ranges, a tree covered with photos of a dog, its leads pinned on there and some dog based poetry.

When i rode around Liverpool Street/ Moorgate in London in 2001/2002 used to see a guy in a 3 piece pinstripe suit, bowler hat, briefcase and brolly under his arm on a unicycle.

tazzymtb - Member
big black cat-as in fk me that's massive and not a doemstic moggy

and

a youngish bloke who had decided to end is life on a rope in a remote part of the woods

tazzy are you not a cheshire local? was it up the cloud that? if so i knew of that person hung in the woods! 🙁

grim

ive seen a few weirds things, up near a very very very high trig point i saw a group of 10ish monk type people in those orange robes (think GOURANGA from GTA 😆 ) wiht nothing else on other than the robes, it was a cold winters day too, that was one of them WHAT THE **** moments with it being so remote and so random

not seen anything really really weird though i must say, usual creepy type noises on night rides in winter in the dark (usually solo so shit your self territory) then in the summer months at night out till the same time at night and dont hear a sound (so clearly it is all in my head!)

Speshpaul - Member
"I was buzzed by a Wellington bomber last Sunday"

or something that looked like one. would be nice if there was one flying.

I saw a bunch of wizards, elves, warriors etc in the woods, the highlight being one bloke shouting "someone take this spell off me so I can fight!"

A couple at it in the car (I assume so, either that or they were making tea as the windows were so steamed up!)

Sadly no naked ladies of any description, they don't seem to be around down south!

White 7 series BMW stuck in the mud on a disused track. 7 of us offered to help push the car out. Very odd behavior from driver. We realized what was going on, when 'he' got out the car in full drag, white dress, high heels, lipstick, the works. Never did give us a clear explanation, just looked awkward & embarrassed throughout the whole episode.