Squirrell Racing

[exbfb]

Forgot to add this earlier.
Heading back this morning, squirrell on the path in front of me.
Instead of running of to the side, the wee beggar started racing along in front of me.
At this point a woman (she was definitely a woman, this was no mere slip of a girl) came jogging along in the opposite direction.
She nearly peed her pants laughing at the sight of a guy on a bike racing a squirrell.
It was a grey, they must be faster than reds.

 

[Globalti]

Squirrels and rabbits run along ahead of you because their eyes are in the sides of their heads.

 

[exbfb]

Squirrels and rabbits run along ahead of you because their eyes are in the sides of their heads.

In light of the above then, that makes it a SMIDSY does it not ?

Mods, can this be moved to Commuting for the reasons above ?

 

[fossyant]

Dangerous..........

Ouch

 

[Hacienda71]

Mate of mine hit a squirrel at 30 ended up having plates put in his jaw and writing of the front end of his bike.

 

[exbfb]

Mate of mine hit a squirrel at 30 ended up having plates put in his jaw and writing of the front end of his bike.

Ah ok, I didn't know such things could happen.

I think I might have been doing a bit under 12mph at the time on a rough path, so I would imagine the risk would be a bit less for myself.

 

[gaz]

 

[Holdsworth]

I had a short race with a fox the other week, it was rather amusing in it's own way even though I probably scared the bejesus out if it.

Heading east down this road and I spotted it calmly coming out that driveway and heading the same way as me but on the south side of the road. I had a tailwind and was pedaling rather sedately, the bike didn't make much noise evidently as it didn't notice until I came alongside it and it could see me directly. I would've though it could hear me a mile off as the road is top-dressed with that fine gravelly stuff. Anyway as soon I came past it, it bolted away and I managed to accelerate up to like 23mph and stay with it until it darted into the hedge 50-100 yards from the drive.

Seconds after I scared another poor unwitting animal, a squirrel this time. It was scurrying about in some undergrowth under the telegraph pole a little further down. It saw scurried a little way up, stopped, dropped back down and looked like it had a heart attack.

 

[JDP]

I wonder how many points you get for scalping a squirrel....?

www.itsnotarace.org

 

[GrasB]

Heading east down this road and I spotted it calmly coming out that driveway and heading the same way as me but on the south side of the road. I had a tailwind and was pedaling rather sedately, the bike didn't make much noise evidently as it didn't notice until I came alongside it and it could see me directly. I would've though it could hear me a mile off as the road is top-dressed with that fine gravelly stuff. Anyway as soon I came past it, it bolted away and I managed to accelerate up to like 23mph and stay with it until it darted into the hedge 50-100 yards from the drive.

I once had a formation of foxes running behind me down this road (heading in the direction the camera is facing) one winters morning. The look on a peds face when I past was priceless however I was rather concerned about coming off the bike at about 20mph on a patch of black ice.