[Closed] What's the maddest thing you've seen out riding?

i saw a care in the community person, once

Once saw a box of frogs.

Aleigh and CG

I saw a bloke in London breaking into his own shoes.

I once saw a bloke sitting on a bucket with his trousers round his ankles reading a paper.
also saw a bloke wearing nothing but shoes and a smile.
also saw 5 blokes,er 'pleasuring' an 'older' 'lady'
all three incidendents,I was greeted with a cheery 'good morning'
these are all true.
(it is a bit strange on my local trails!)

Similar to Carpe diem, there was a family group of 6 or 7 taking pics of their kids in the bluebells on the trail at Cwmcarn today - on the first climb so not in any danger of being knocked over, certainly not at my speed, but made no effort to move as I scrabbled past in the scree for another go of the final descent.

I saw a man in a loin cloth walking on the chase...
I had a tall person step out of the trees on a dark night ride on some singletrack a couple of years back.. wierd.
Ive had lots of encounters on the dog.. It wasnt the best marked trail in the early days, I had and old couple walking a Jack Russell, I avoided them all - just - but they did not tell me about a second dog that almost had me off.. I have even seen a horse following the singletrack above fairoak pools.. maybe its me...

A few years ago we were doing the Nan Bield pass and as we approached I think it is Small water there was a woman in a wedding dress stood in the lake but only her ankles were under the water
and a bloke on the side with a video camera .

they were still there when we had carried our bikes to the top

Once saw a box of frogs

🙂

i once had a buck deer dart across the road a couple of feet front of my mate riding in front of me on a road ride, only to get hit by a 4x4 going the other way, and in the process get thrown/spun back across the road through the middle of the 6 foot gap between the two of us back onto the verge it had come from, all at about 17ish mph (us, not the deer or the 4x4, natch). would have really hurt if it had collected either of us.

took a few minutes for the pulse to drop after that one. sadly the buck didn't fare very well

Riding the coastal path late one night between Lymington and Christchurch.

Walking the other way - a bloke in a kilt playing the bagpipes 😮

2 people pushing up the cwmcarn dh run, on the main line too. cretins

I dont know about out riding but we were at Lands End last week and there was a woman walking a tortoise on a lead.

Rode up to a couple completely naked, at it, in the middle of a trail. Think he'd just gone past the vinegar strokes. I didn't speak, just rode around them and carried on.

Often see a naked bloke with dangly earings and eye make up, on a bike,on the icknield way nr luton, once i saw him crouching, facing away from me, i thought he was just looking into the field, then i noticed he was having a shit. Nice.

there's a bloke who regularly plays a full size Alpen horn at the Lickey Hills

shortly after LOTR was on last week i came across a group of 4 mid twenties men 2 as orcs 2 as regular humany people with swords and bows etc

Doggers in my park ! 🙄

saw a guy walking around swinley playing bagpipes once.

60+ woman, having a pee, under the bridge, on the way back to the car park from riding "The Wall"

Doggers in my park !

Cannock Chase night rides. Only two types of folks parked up some dodgy track on the chase of a night and that's tokers and pokers

[i]i came across a group of 4 mid twenties men 2 as orcs 2 as regular humany people with swords and bows etc[/i]

yeah, there's some re-enactment group up by us who do this quite a lot. They all stop fighting and just stand there while people walk/ride through the middle of them.

I remember seeing a car once with a fish on the back.
The driver indicated before doing a turn!!!!!

Thought i saw a politician who told the truth, then i woke up,must have been a dream. 🙂

Rode part of the Sustrans West Country Way from Bath to Barnstaple and, just outside Saltford in Somerset, saw this:

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Only ever seen floral tributes for human roadkill prior to this.

rode past (about 4 feet from) a pair of fighting deer one night, fully locked antlers & scrumming away merrily

Turned out we were heading straight for their assembled lady-friends too, so was half expecting to get charged but they didn't even notice us as far as I could tell

[edit - StefMcDeff, that's a sad & beautiful thing]

Saw a farmer shouting his head off at lamas who were patently ignoring him. Guess he regretted getting rid of the more subservient sheep

Also stumbled upon the arse-end of an illegal rave with a handful of resilient crusties pilled to bits and still going for it to psychedelic trance at about 2 in the afternoon while doing the Seven Hills Killer ride on the Isle of Wight a couple of years back.

Just missed a badger by millimeters in a dark wood; shat me up!! Also hit a pheasant on my chest whilst riding.

A roe? (deer) crossed me in Guisburn yesterday 🙂

Aleigh and CG

Pics?

Homer Simpson nailed to a tree

This made me chuckle.
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Bunch of people taking their pets for a walk along the downs.
The pets?
Llamas

Was years ago, but that sight has stayed with me.

Came accross a bloke playing some bagpipes at a reservoir near M62 J22.( Saddleworth)

Solo night ride over Ogden / Piethorne. Pitch black, funny noises, turned helmet light on to see 20 sheep in a perfect semi circle stock still - all with reflective eyes....staring at me - Bit spooky to say the least. ( rode on quite sharpish)

Chris

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So you post a f&(*ing great pic on the forum. Yeah cheers.

Now editted, calm down.

human skeleton in a burnt out car

Not really that mad I suppose, but the Bradford Monk Man is spotted occasionally on our rides

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Passed a pile of abandoned bikes at the mouth of a red route at, ah, Gisburn Forest IIRC. They'd been dumped in such a way as to completely block the singletrack, I'd to loft my bike and carry it over the pile.

We shortly found out why; a family with half a dozen kids had decided that it'd be a great place for a quick game of hide-and-seek. Presumably they were going to take any survivors onto the M6 for a picnic later.

Oh, we went to check out the new tracks at Billinge Woods the other day. A couple of choice sights from that included a rambler walking up the switchbacks, and a couple of kids on BMXs with no helmets or protection hurtling down like the place was on fire. Fortunately, not at the same time.

Have almost run and cycled into moose a couple of time whilst over here, freaking huge things I can tell you.

Also managed to cycle right into a moose hunt one with guys in camo, guns, and the whole nine yards. "Morning, errh, sorry, which way without getting shot at?"

There is a lamp post on one of the tracks on my local loop comes on at night and everything only trouble it's in the middle of nowhere not a house for miles god knows why its there.

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Thank you

Dez- sorry, genuine mistake. I get a bit confused with the posting links / posting pics thing. I hope that no harm was done. However if it was, I can take the blame for it rather than you, get them to email me.

Ambrose

There is a lamp post on one of the tracks on my local loop comes on at night and everything only trouble it's in the middle of nowhere not a house for miles god knows why its there.

Any wardrobes nearby? Or weird looking statues? Does it snow a lot?

I dont know about out riding but we were at Lands End last week and there was a woman walking a tortoise on a lead.

I think I bumped into her up near John O'Groats in about 1987

Cougar - Member
Oh, we went to check out the new tracks at Billinge Woods the other day. A couple of choice sights from that included a rambler walking up the switchbacks, and a couple of kids on BMXs with no helmets or protection hurtling down like the place was on fire. Fortunately, not at the same time.

Ahhh so it's chav infested already :(....wondered how long that would last
Caz xx

Plenty of squaddies on training exercises during night rides round my way. Almost got run over by a tank a couple of years ago!

Also saw a guy on a unicycle over at Swinley last week (Wednesday evening I think). Has to be a member of this forum?!

I saw a family walking their pet sheep up Hodder's Combe on the Quantock's this winter gone. It had a lead.............

A sack of badgers.

On the way back from a ride in Brecon, climbing the A470 towards Pen-y Fan, I looked to the right and saw a woman playing a cello half way up one of the waterfalls. A second look spotted a man taking photographs of her, kind of explained things I suppose.

Just about to pull into a bothy in the Cairngorms when 4 blokes emerged out the front door wearing 17th century Redcoat uniforms, Musketts - the full nine yards.

No words were exchanged and I was so gobsmacked I just continued on my merry way

Coming off one of the road connecting links on our local ride found a couple in a car , she was pleasuring her male companion in an oral fashion. She flushed up a treat as we rode past waving and laughing 😆

Seen the Bradford Monk guy mesen, thought i was off me head still from the night before, until my Nephew clocked him on the way back...
Out riding with my nephew again and witnessed a 3 girl porn shoot on the waterfront at Moses gate country park on a hot Saturday... If you don't know the place, this is a magnet for family's with young kids...

tonyd - Member

Also saw a guy on a unicycle over at Swinley last week (Wednesday evening I think). Has to be a member of this forum?!

Wasn't this guy was it?

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For me it was on Friday evening. Cycle commuting home via the extremely busy A3 and as i approached the bottom of Clapham High Street saw a guy on a 'tall' bike on the other side, heading North towards Stockwell. He was overtaking a bus.

No idea what he does at the numerous traffic lights. (well, actually, I do know, I guess he RLJ's). It was a model very similar to the bike on the left 😯

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MTB-Idle

Wasn't this guy was it?

May well have been, he was pulled over to let us by and I was a bit gobsmacked to take too much in. Can't imagine there's too many of them about!

At the end of a very long descent in Morzine just after a sharp 90 degree bend the trail went past someone's garden/garage where there was 6ft tall blonde women in a tiny bikini working on some timber on a workmate with the biggest belt sander I've ever seen. Next to her was a weird old trampy looking man sat in deck chair watching intently. As each person rounded the corner they nearly fell of their bike. It was like that 'push me and then just touch me' [url=

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Surreal.

Ahhh so it's chav infested already :(....wondered how long that would last

I wouldn't quite call it an infestation, but yeah, can't say I'm totally shocked.

on a ride near Sheffield last year
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Two people in black cloaks and cowls rummaging arund the woodland near Newland Corner - geuinely creepy like that M Night Shylaman movie - the Village maybe?

I am going up there tomorrow for another spin and to look at the newest trail 😀
I'd PM you if I knew how then I'd not take this off topic lol
Caz xx

Cougar - Member

Ahhh so it's chav infested already :(....wondered how long that would last

I wouldn't quite call it an infestation, but yeah, can't say I'm totally shocked.

Glove tree?
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Or what about child's policeman uniform hanging from tree in dry cleaning bag miles from the nearest road?
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Or the two women in red capes walking side by side not very far from that police uniform tree. When I asked them where was the big bad wolf they looked at me with the blackest eyes but said nothing. I was so creeped out I had to cycle away very quickly!