Sheep poo, the 2nd worst kind of trail excrement?

Not even close to dog, but surely it has to be next. Excepting human as it’d be exceptional to encounter that on a trail. Also excepting a photo I once saw of foot-deep cattle slurry around a feeding circle in winter.

They just drop it thinly scattered all over the place. Good luck weaving your way around it on any grassy track or bridleway in the borders.

Packs into tyre tread and sticks strongly. Stickier than any mud I’ve ridden in. Bits come off randomly at high speed. Still a fair bit in the tyre after a few fords and a 30-40km/h rocky and tarmac descent. The little pellets get in the most ridiculous places too like inside my top chain guide.

Do people still use downtube mudguards? I have a Mudhugger EVO long front and long rear with the BB extender.

Yep completely agree. Gets everywhere and sets rock hard if you don’t clean it off straight away. Stinks too.

Don’t mind a bit of sheep poo.

Rode across Snowdonia the other weekend. Bags, clothes and bikes where covered in it.

It is basically slightly fermented grass, pretty benign really. Probably quite good for you, my dogs think so.

It’s not good for you, it’s actually quite baad; and your dog choosing to eat it isn’t a woolproof way to decide if something will make a healthy snack.

Stop bleating on will ewe.

Deer poo welds to frames under certain conditions, far worse than sheeps. Make your own Deore poo joke.

Don’t forget fox poo, photo finish with dog must push sheep into third?

It’s the sheer quantity with sheep, it gets everywhere. Worse when it’s wet out, no one wants sheep poo splattered up the face ?

Dogs would definitely disagree – it’samid walk treat.  So would I, might be percussive on1 the mudguard, but way less problematic compared to dog or a gloopy cow pie

Pig is worse.

I think carnivores poo Vs herbivores poo is the big separation.

And sheep poo is WYSIWYG.

Cow poo on the other hand, is a different matter. Ah, okay, looks dry and solid. Nope, just a crust to lull you into a false sense of security.

All of the reconstituted grass versions are just part and parcel of being in the countryside

Amusing. I consider sheep crap about as normal as leaves or dirt. Apart from trying not to traipse it into the house I completely ignore the stuff.

Winter riding in the Clwyds, it ends up everywhere.

You can’t get the stuff off with a decent jet wash so stuck with the smell all the way home – yuk

It is at least from a herbivore so along way along way behind dog muck left behind by owners and don’t understand the need to hang bags of dog muck in trees or leave it behind a gate just before they get back to the car.

I remember having a thoroughly delightful (no exaggeration) nights sleep in the Cairngorm in a barn sleeping on a bed of dry sheep poo.

It was just the right level of firmness for a really good night’s rest.

Anyone who has ridden through a cowpie at any kind of speed probably prefers a trail covered in sheep nuggets.

I once hit a frozen horse poo.  It was like hitting a breeze block.

I think cow’s worse than sheep isn’t it? my hierarchy (worst first) would be Dog, then cow, sheep, horse, and sheep before only in so much as it’s sometimes unavoidable, and like others have said unless you wash it off straight away, it sticks like crazy glue.

Sheep isnt bad at all, doesnt really smell or nasty

Cow shit is far worse, Fox is rank

Human has got to be the worst, more so than dog.

Chicken sh1t is pretty grim.

Mudguards are still available, are they not..?  I live in an area with lots of sheeps, coos and deers, so there are cruddies on all of our bikes; I just cannot understand folk who don’t use them.  But then, applying some common sense is not something that us riders always feel able to do.

Meanwhile, thinking about cattle – there’s a lot of E,coli swilling about in your average coo plop, being bugs of varieties that are worse for humans when they get into your own system.  Best avoided.

I had a flying mouthful of coo plop a while ago. Can confirm it tastes sharp, acidic and generally not good. Was then made worse when I went to rinse it all out, but my bottle was also covered. So for explosive coverage, sheer volume and high chance of a face splat/mouthful, I am rating cow pats as no.2.  Dog is no.1.

Pig is worse.

Chicken sh1t is pretty grim.

We don’t have hundreds of those roaming on trails used by bikes though do we.

Anyone who has ridden through a cowpie at any kind of speed probably prefers a trail covered in sheep nuggets.

That’s rider error though, they are big enough to spot and far enough apart to avoid.

Mudguards are still available, are they not..?  I live in an area with lots of sheeps, coos and deers, so there are cruddies on all of our bikes; I just cannot understand folk who don’t use them.

Yes, as I said I have the biggest ones available for rough MTB use at both ends of my bike. Even then I had the odd nugget flung onto my trousers and top, splatterings along the sides of my bottle, and tyres needing cleaning before loading into the car.

Do people still use downtube mudguards?

I looked into this after posting. The options from Crud, SKS, and Zefal are all designed for round tubes. Mucky Nutz Gut Fender might be worth a try.

Yeah, the Gut Fender will fit to anything as it’s just a flat piece of plastic with some folds.

Human has got to be the worst, more so than dog.

Yes, my list is:

1. Human

2. Dog (plus other dog type animals)

3. Pigs

4. Sheep

5. Cattle

On a night ride once – nice dry trails, all fine – and then we came to a section of bridleway that had obviously just had an entire farm’s stock of cows go along it.

It was absolutely vile. Literally inches deep in well churned liquid cow shit.

Sheep shit is annoying cos it sticks so much and is just scattered everywhere, there’s no avoiding it.

“We” found a cheeky/abandoned trail in the valley above Samoen, back in 2012 ish. Clearly used to be a steep as death sketchy DH track, that was no longer in regular use. Great fun.

One of our number got to the bottom having ridden through a human turd.

It was identified as human turd by the 4″ of pink bog roll whipping around his front wheel

Grim.

1: Human

2: Dog

3: Fox.

Vegetarians don’t count.

following on from the worse kind of trail excrement thread, what the best kind..

haha!

sets like concrete, its a driver for washing my bike after a ride, when i really dont want to

best, horse poo, its just grass

following on from the worse kind of trail excrement thread, what the best kind..

Worm, obviously. Creates loamy soil.

Bullshit.