The woods are funny place so what have you seen?
A man practicing bag pipes. People having sex. A group walking lamas. A naked man in his car at night with the interior light on. Naked hikers!
A real, genuine Cinnamon Girl...
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Binners
Doggers.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
Someone making a porn movie (amature I think, they were using a Rover 214)
Met a porn star and her makeup artist friend in the ride start/finish pub. I noticed the place seemed somewhat different as soon as we walked in - she was on the way home from a spot of filming and she weren't no wallflower!! Not entirely impossible but the pub is proper in the middle of nowhere. Different.
Saw a guy getting a nosh once at the bottom of a darkened lane.
Saw a woman in a basque leaning up against a jeep for a sexy photo shoot in the Goyt Valley once. I didn't know what say so I just went 'WAHEYY' as I rode past.
Rode out of the mists above Folkestone years ago to be confronted by approximately 100 yards of barbed fencing strung with dead jackdaws every 12 inches or so. Proper freaked me out. That and a body hanging from a tree in Kings Wood near Challock.
Bloke practicing bagpipes for me too, oddly.
Oh, and a bloke on a weird moped scrambler bike asking me and my mate where the best trails were on rivvy. We showed him, then he stacked it 5 or 6 times near the chimes gardens and carried on getting up. Giving us the thumbs up that he was ok (he clearly wasn’t) to only continue his adventure. I’ll never ever forget my mates face when he took power at a drop off.
Saw a guy skiing (full get up apart from chav sportswear) down an inner city pavement (long and sloped) at 3:30 in morning, in spring (yes no snow). I let on as I passed, he acknowledged "alright mate"
A bloke in a mobility scooter pretending to be a race car, at 630 in the morning
2 maybe 3 guys (I didn't want to see what was going on), half naked in an old stone sheep pen. A mate reckons they had a camera on a tripod too.
A naked rambler in Long Dale, Middleton By Youlgrave
I obviously cycle through the wrong woods... 🤣
A office chair with restraints for arms and legs. A old mini turned into a pirate ship.
There must be something about bagpipes!!
Last year in the middle of the Quantocks we bumped into 2 heavily intoxicated old gentlemen up on one of the trig points. One of them was playing the bagpipes (quite well actually) while the other one was flying a massive kite tied to a huge reel of fishing line.
This thing was up so high you could barely see it. I've got pictures somewhere.
Naked rambler on the downhill from Great Dodd. Are there lots of naked ramblers, or does he just get around a bit?
A bunch of druids conducting a ceremony of some sort.
A teenage girl getting a nosh in broad daylight on the footpath at the end of my road. I had to give a cheery ‘Good morning!’ So I could get past. I think I spoiled the moment for her.
Apart from the usual stuff at Cannock, a naked rambler on the Wrekin.
Convinced Chobham Common is the dogging capital of England.
A miniature yellow submarine and a floating duck island made out of a purple Reliant Scimitar. Both on a lake I ride past often, I’ve never seen anyone there or any ducks.
Lots of people dressed as knights/vikings/WW2 soldiers for various bits of filming or re-enactments.
A girl having a poo next to a tree, with her friend not doing as good from shielding her as she would’ve liked. Cue laugher from us, and shrieking from them.
Seen a few other in various states of undress and compromising situations but that seems to be the norm!
Out of the mist in the Lakes a pack of Foxhounds overtook me followed by a bunch of grown men in foxhunting outfits but no horses, if only I'd had a coconut shell with me!
Whilst threading my way through some large bushes along a quiet trail on Holmbury Hill, came across a group of Orcs complete with large plastic swords waiting to ambush (presumably) some elves/dwarves/whatever... I was jokingly challenged then allowed to continue.
At the top of Lythe Fell Rd, Bowland a woman in the back of a Volvo V70 doing a glamour shoot. She looked freezing cold.
A chap who had just hanged himself... Is the most depressingly weird.
Lots of other stuff; naked ramblers etc.
Middle aged bloke wearing only a thong on the moor above kinder reservoir.
Used to see a lady who would walk around with a parrot on her shoulder.
A guy on the middle of a trail in a hammock asleep.
A group of about 20 people of all ages dressed up as wizards, they told me they are looking for dragons.
A decapitated deers head
A crucified Woody from Toy Story doll nailed to a tree.
Whilst threading my way through some large bushes along a quiet trail on Holmbury Hill, came across a group of Orcs complete with large plastic swords waiting to ambush (presumably) some elves/dwarves/whatever… I was jokingly challenged then allowed to continue.
We came back to the car park and found them all getting ready, loads of them, wizards, elves, trolls, fairies, hobbits. They were practicing their battle moves, putting prosthetics on, it was so funny, made our day.
Christmas League Gentleman edition being filmed...at chapel of last hope, mid summer.
There must be something about bagpipes!!
If your next door neighbour practiced the bagpipes, how long before it would get annoying? That's why they play in the woods 🙂
Apart from the usual collection of doggers, a medieval battle, and Dr.Who's Tardis.
Two (separate incidents) hangings, a crime scene dig in the middle of Epping forest on a night ride of a shallow grave & a pair of tits.
What did you guys do upon discovery on the people hanging? Always wondered what I do in that situation and woods around here are terrible for it, so only a matter of time really..
A cockatoo being taken for a walk along Riverside Park on a lead, while I rode by on my Wazoo in full fat mode, smiley faces everywhere!
Guys on fat bikes.
Rode through a halloween costume party on a night ride in my local woods, got hexed by a wizard, chased by a werewolf, and nearly rode over a really pissed skeleton
What did you guys do upon discovery on the people hanging?
Recoil and ring the police.
HT550 this year 2nd to last day cannot remember the hill we I was pushing up, Croatian guy 300 metres ahead was walking naked apart from is rucksack due to the sweat salt rubbing on his bits he was in a world of pain 🙂
last September I passed by one of the rowing clubs on the Tyne and saw the 20 strong female crew posing naked with their boat for the annual calendar shoot, on the way back the chaps were out posing. Strava shows my slowest ever ride along that section was on that day...
I also once cycled past an elephant standing in a field, odd thing to see in Gateshead on a Sunday morning.
