This evening I was exploring some local tracks on my CX bike, was struggling along a broken concrete road when I came across a load of scrap cars by the track. Then I saw a couple of gypsy horses behind them, as a neared one of them (slowly, not like triathletes ;0) ) it stepped away, I saw a glint on the track and too late realised it was the horse’s chain! The chain rose up across the track just in front of me. It knocked me off then the horse started walking away dragging bike and the bike down the track! After a being dragged a few meters I managed to lift the chain over my head and scrambled to unhook the bike. I then collapsed in shock,

I’d lay there a few minutes barely conscious for a few minutes before the horses owner sauntered over, he briefly asked if I was ok, then he started eyeing up my bike, asking what it cost etc. Adrenalin kicked in again and I managed to get up and walk away with my bike, straightened it up and rode slowly home with only a few bruises and grazes.

On reflection, the bloke was probably harmless but I was so close to being strangled by that chain.

Sorry for the click bate headline,

5 pages and two wieldings of the banhammer.

Seems I was wrong!

On reflection, the bloke was probably harmless but I was so close to being strangled by that chain.

Sorry for the click bate headline,

Well yes…

Missed opportunity for a driveway resurfacing quote.

If only you’d bought some lucky heather none of this would have happened.

So the horse was a gypsy?

5 pages and two wieldings of the banhammer

2 pages before someone pipes up with their story about once being pulled off by a gypsy*

*Insert correct terminology here

1 page before someone blames the OP.

So the horse was a gypsy?

I don’t know what the breed is called but the one only travellers or gypsies seem to have.

So the Rolling Stones were right?

It’s a piedbald horse ,  not that I’m a traveller or anything

Are you trying to suggest that the horse was a gypsy and because of that, it was trying to pinch your bike from right under you?

The gutter press called, they’re looking for a headline writer.

Cob conformation, often piebald or skewbald, feathered heels

That’ll be a Gypsy Horse accoring to wikipedia (or a Gypsy Vanner to most horsey people)

Where’s junkyard when you need him? 🤔

1 page before someone blames the OP.

If only he’d learnt how to behave around horses!

Neigh luck …

Oh… 2 horse jokes on the trot…. Bravo….

I can see this being the mane thread today.

Why the long face? You managed to hoof it away easily.

If he keeps posting incendiary posts like this, he won’t be on here furlong.

He’s just trying to stirrup trouble.

I can’t decide withers or not the op is serrious.

Do we know if he was riding a Giant Reign when it happened?

^^^i read your name as clop and thought “he’s* opened a new user account and paid premier subscription for it just to comment on this thread. That’s some dedicated punnery right there.”

*you may not be a he, but I’m sort of convinced nearly everyone on the internet is a 45yr old man in y fronts who lives with his “mom” who is also his best friend.

I’m 46 now. It was my birthday on Monday.

Aw man, brad pitt made me piss myself, his accent in that movie was just superb.

when he was telling the two guys about wanting the new caravan with the cushions ‘periwinkle blue’

i was ill laughing.

and the bit with the dog snarling ‘ya ****’

i may have to go and buy that now.

perchypanther – Member

I’m 46 now. It was my birthday on Monday.

Well that makes things difficult as i also thought you were nearly everyone on the internet and just really good at multi screening. I shall have to reconsider one of my assumptions.

i also thought you were nearly everyone on the internet

Not everyone.

Some of them are my Mom. She’s my best friend.

I’m bloody not, son.

🙂 Well played mama, well played.

So Bez is Perchy’s mom persona, so much sense. This place gets more surreal by the day. I blame gypsy horses for dragging people off [topic].

We are saddled with some euros wierdo’s here…

Thanks god the OP is OK and didn’t have to go to horsepital

Rein it in a bit, folks. He was lucky he didn’t get a shoeing.

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/click-bate-does-it-work-on-you/

I thought I’d give it a try acdave2

I’m not sure it’s worked though as deflected from what was actually quite a serious situation being dragged by my head by a metal chain. Leaving horses chained up like that next to a ROW is not safe. The traveller / hermit / whatever he was, also took more interest in my bike than whether I was OK.

Then when I got home my wife was nagging me about riding alone ;0)

Anyway, glad to be the inspiration for some horsey puns

That’s why we all go biking with our mountain bikes.

Adventure!

Wild dogs, horses and stuff like this.