MTBer taken out by a deer!

[Globalti]

My colleagues were talking about this video when I was in SA last week. Could it happen in Britain?


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2oymHHyV1M

 

[Rob3rt]

Mental!

 

[smokeysmoo]

Already discussed HERE, but agreed, mental!

 

[ianrauk]

8th time..

 

[Arch]

It's not a deer either......

 

[snorri]

My colleagues were talking about this video when I was in SA last week.

Did some one post it Surface Mail to them from the UK?

 

[Globalti]

Oh. I've been away for two weeks in Africa.

 

[yello]

Holy cow!

 

[mr Mag00]

nor a cow! i can supply fauna ID lesson for those who wish

 

[screenman]

A group of riders were taken out last Sunday in a cyclo-cross race in Bourne Woods by a deer. In fact I had a very close one yesterday with a Munkjack, got a lot around here.

 

[Milo]

Had a close deer call cycling near Great Charfield at night on the way home from visiting the lady in hospital. Not sure who got the biggest fright the deer or me.

 

[mr Mag00]

that guy took a huge thump, that 'lope was making a definite attack on the rider who had seen him off to the right. the helmet took a bashing too

 

[Globalti]

I bet the poor animal was unhappy about all those people blasting through its larder.

Had a not dissimilar incident a few weeks ago in a deep lane in Lancashire - two deer jumped the fence into the road ahead of us. We both locked up and stopped and a car coming the other way stopped. One deer cleared the fence but the second didn't and it tried about six times to jump each fence, bouncing frantically back and forth, hooves scrabbling on the tarmac until it finally made it over. The sheer amount of energy it expended created a huge cloud of dust, plant debris and fur and my buddy and I were spitting out deer hairs for the next half mile.

 

[Bicycle]

That is why I ALWAYS wear a helmet (on those days when I do wear a helmet).

All these zealous anti-helmet extremists conveniently forget to mention the possibility of some enaged cloven-hoofed fauna taking exception to the colour scheme of one's bicycle and kicking one in the noggin.

It is worth noting that 100% of helmetless cyclists kicked in the head by a mid-flight antelope in Surrey, Hampshire and Warwickshire failed to survive the first hour after the incident. That is a sobering statistic.

Data are currently unavailable for other counties. I have a FoIA request in.

This sort of behaviour by antelopes and their cousins just makes my blood boil.

The Government should have acted earlier.

 

[yello]

Pedestrians should wear helmets for the same reason too then

The number of wilderbeasts leaping pavements in the City of London is just as high as the bounding Hampshire antelopes.