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Hands up who thought this was a tubeless thread?
Never seen a live badger.
I see lots of dead ones, and when I worked for BCA driving in and out of Devon and Cornwall badgers and pheasants were by far the most common things lying in the road, after tyres and hi-viz jackets?
And I was expecting a return of the tubeless thread! Is disappoint.
We’re getting quite a few urban badgers in north Bristol nowadays.
A few years back me and a mate were on our way out of Bristol after a gig, on the A420 on Two Mile Hill, right by St Michael The Archangel church, and a badger just sauntered across the road in front of us, first time we’d seen an urban badger like that.
Hares are surprisingly big if you get one close up; on my way back from the pub one night with the same mate, on a single track road, we came up behind a hare just lolloping along in the centre of the road, it didn’t give a damn about having a car crawling along five or six feet behind it, we followed it for at least a hundred meters while it checked out different field entrances before it found one it liked and turned off. I wouldn’t want to hit one of those on a bike at speed, although the hare wouldn’t shrug the impact off like a badger would, it would still have you off the bike, like hitting a medium sized dog.
Seen live ones whilst cycling at dusk in the suffolk countryside. I remember seeing a dead one on the Northumbrian moors which was the size of an adult pig.
Also found a badgers skeleton when one of the allotmenteers opened up his compost heap one spring. Must have hidden in there to take advantage of the heat of the decomposing matter, or after worms, and died.
Also bumped a deer one dark dark night up around the Afan bike park trails. Well, i think it was a deer, whatever it was it was shifting undergrowth and tree branches 4 ' from the ground level.