Strangest thing that has happend to you or that you have seen, while biking?

I’ve seen quite a few strange sights while out on my bike, some where amazing some just scary.

Once first thing on a misty morning, I rode into a clearing in the middle of Dalkieth country park and saw three deer stand up out of the mist and bound off again and disapear.

I’ve also seen countless crashes and oddly dressed people doing all sorts.

Anyone else experienced anything strange?

elderly naked (male) walking dogs in Hanchurch

Guy arguing with a lamp post.

Abducted by aliens

I saw a fox making sweet love with a badger.

Will they have boxs or fadgers?

Solo night ride a few years back, lights browned out towards the end, so rode into car park sans illumination, flicked lights back on so I could find my car only to spotlight a couple of the light on their loafers persuasion….(how to put this delicately?) …… doing an impromptu and alfresco prostate inspection.

Also as OP Adult Stag in the mist early doors…. Absolutely awesome!

Oh yeah, nearly forgot, night ride in Rendlesham Forest on the anniversary of the UFO incident…. nearly got abducted by weirdos wanting me to take them to my leader.

Abducted by WCA

2 guys dressed in armour hitting each other with swords.

Numerous intimate encounters.

Heard, but didn’t see, a werewolf.

2 men in the middle of a forest dressed in army gear carrying a canoe with a cardboard cut out of David Hasslehoff in it.

Had some guys shooting pheasants in the next field to where i was cycling the other day blissfully unaware they were raining pellets down on my head. Or Perhaps they were aware????

Whilst in my local forest…..a man in the ferns with a bike, with just purple pants on, with casual shoes and socks……………..and when I say pants I mean Y fronts !! lol

I was shocked, but then a little worried……

The porn shoot i witnesed at moses gate country park is the pinnacle for me..

Oh and while some one mentioned UFO’s….
If anyone oop norf remembers a headline in the bolton evening news in 1991 “UFO’s spotted over Bolton moors”…

That might have been some moron in a blue mini 850 doing reverse donuts on Anglezarke car park firing army flares liberated from the stores out the passenger window… 😳

Once first thing on a misty morning, I rode into a clearing in the middle of Dalkieth country park and saw three deer stand up out of the mist and bound off again and disapear.

There’s absolutely nothing strange about that at all.

One of the strangest things I ever saw was 4 cadbury cream egg cars (smart cars in disguise) racing round Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow early one Sunday morning with Murray Walker comentating on a PA, a woman stood waiting to hand out free cream eggs but there was not a single spectator in sight.

Oh bum. I thought I had abducted an alien and it turns out to be DezB.

Sorry about the whole probe thing. Just an simple misunderstanding old boy!

A road sign in a french forest which said – in English

“If you here a loud whooshing sound, like a jet engine, leave the forest quickly and don’t look back”

Imagine if you did abduct DezB though. What would you do with him?

Aside from the probe?

darn my google image searching skills are not fast enought today 😕

A wallaby. In the wild. In Oxfordshire.

(I have photos to prove it)

…other than that, one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever seen was a video on the web of some scots guy manically beating the crap out of some Kona frame bearings with an unsettling intensity. Sort of remided me of something from Silence of the Lambs. That was pretty weird. 😉

I took 5 ASBO kids on a ‘social-development-day’ riding on Cannock Chase…all went well until we got back to the carpark to see a couple going for it in the back of a horsebox, what I can’t understand is why they didn’t close the door or why they carried on as the ASBO boys whooped and hollered. The Chase can be a very strange place at times!

darn my google image searching skills are not fast enought today

That is actually a photograph of the day in question.

Strangest thing ive ever seen whilst riding was a pure white stag stood at the edge of a clearing with his head in the air….

Naked man.

bloke running scared (from what i have no idea) with only a dress shirt, open to the waist and shoes on – 3pm friday afternoon!!

Night ride on woodbury common chasing down a couple of mates (ok then, i had been dropped) when i hurtled out of control into a bunch of royal marines having a pow wow before going into play war games.

Riding on the moors and old mine workings past Lochwinnoch a couple of years back during summer when the ferns were high and my mate says ‘It was round about here a couple of weeks ago that the Lochwinnoch Leopard was spotted!.’ (and not for the first time) Makes you pedal just that little bit faster.

Also sheep crashing through the fern unseen, just off of the track, when you are out on the bike on your own.

Many night time startled (rabbit in the headlight look) people in compromising positions. Usually when there are loads of us out and just light up the place…

was riding my local trails a few years ago (shotover park in oxford) – came round a quick corner to meet some guy having a dump in the middle of the trail, luckily had enough time to swerve and miss him and the offending turd! 😯

also whilst riding saw some kids walking down a lane swinging a bloody pigs head about was pretty wierd

An little old lady taking a wizz in the bushes whilst holding on to her dog. Obviously just caught short and the poor old dear didn’t know what to do with herself, eventually falling over in a panic.

I decided the best route was to ride on rather than go back to see if she was okay – I thought she may have been slightly embarrassed.

🙂

The Southern Yeti – Member
I saw a fox making sweet love with a badger.

Will they have boxs or fadgers?

Fox knows.

I’ve had to slam on the brakes for a defecating chav squatting by the side of a trail before. He greeted me with a cheery “Mornin!”, as if pooing outide not 100 yards from a public convenience is the most normal thing in the world.

There’s a herd of deer complete with a white stag near where I live too and I’ve found myself riding through the trees in the middle of a startled herd more than once. Magical.

Other highlights have included meeting a bunch of smartly dressed kamikaze Hassidic Jews on bicycles coming the other way who absolutely refused to give me an inch of space on the trail.

Up on the local woods a load of “role players” pretending to hit each other with swords then the same bunch on another occasion with a bloke tied up in just his y fronts?

Not really seen anything like the above. Never even seen a couple having sex.

A goblin (though he denied it)

Just remembered the best one – My neighbour in a car with a cucumber and a crowd of observers but not, interestingly enough, her husband.

We made eye contact across a crowded car park and I rode on.

Next day I had to walk past her house while she was doing the garden and I really struggled to make eye contact. Not sure why I was embarrassed though.

I’ve managed to create a pretty surreal sight. Towards the end of a ride in the hills coming back to civilsation, trail is close to a rambers pub so the woods around are busy with old walkers rambling almost out of site of the carpark then back to the pub high tea.

I jam a wheel into a rut and almost go over the bars. Somehow manage to get a foot down but my other foot and both hands somehow refuse to let go of the bike. I lunge forwards, fork springs the bike backwards and upwards and it tries to go over my shoulder, with my leg still attached The momentum keeps me hopping forwards down the hill in this strange yoga position head down looking backwards, bike and leg in the air, past the walkers, while I’m involuntarily shouting ‘Jesus!’ really quite loud. Eventually I stop but the bike just wants to stay up there for a while so I’m left standing on one leg still, head down. Then someone switches the gravity back on. The bike comes down and I collapse in a heap. As I get up the saddle rail hooks into the little clip that holds the camelpak hose on my should strap and I’m standing there with a bike that I can’t quite figure out how to put down

I think I did much to foster spirit of mutual understanding and respect between mountain bikers and elderly red socks that day. No need to thank me, really.

2 possible winners –

1. Ouiji board with a dead crow nailed to the middle 😯

2. A blown up safe (subsequently reported)

When I was about 17, so in 1990 or so, having just got to Chanctonbury Ring I was lying next to the bike having a breather when two rather buxom, topless horse riders rode past 😯 😀

Few years ago, there I am quietly minding my own business, riding along a path in a Norwegian forest, when suddenly several bushes jumped up and pointed guns at me. 😯

T’was a bunch of young soldiers in ghilly suits doing their military training. 🙂

Their CO was a lovely blonde lass who gave me some hot chocolate and showed me her maps.

Happened upon a man taking “photo’s” 😯 of a lady.
Plus I was chased by a fox!

Yep big group of role players here (hut woods), Gandalf, Hobbits the lot, found it hilarious till I realised there was quite a few of them, and I bet even blunt swords would smart a little….

There is some sort of ‘secret garden’ quite deep into lordswood surrounded by tall bushes. Complete with plant pots, bench, table, swing and mirror. Very odd.

Nearly got wiped out by a startled stag once, they are really really big close up.

No naked men, but I did once find two middle aged blokes ‘chasing’ each other….