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Made me 'jump'!
Bet he wasn't wearing hi-viz. 🙂
Edit: Original thread title was better with no spoilers.. I was waiting for him to hit the white line and go down...
Needs to tighten his stem bolts a bit more.
Was waiting for it. Still jumped up in seat and made the missus look up! 😯
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@martin 😉
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hit the back of my Giro helmet, which probably saved me from serious brain injury.
aaaaaannnndddddddd..... GO!
That's what you get for riding in the gutter 😉
That's what you get for riding in the gutter
Not to mention the wrong side of the road.
It's the sound that's just quite disturbing...
I have no ideer how that happened..
Just caught my iPad when I jumped. 😯
Oh deer....
I don't startle easily but that made me jump too!
Wow made me jump too.
He'd have been able to stop with discs...
It's as though he was stuck in a rut.
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A similar thing nearly happened to me in the summer when I was out on my road bike. A roe doe ran out on the other side of the road to me and crossed in front at a safe distance, such that I saw it, did not need to adjust my speed and could admire a beautiful animal close up. However it then ran along the ditch/hedge line on my side of the road looking to get into the field. Unfortunately, it could not, and so decided to cut back across the road close in front of me. It was one of those situations where you resign yourself to the fact that you are going to crash and start wondering how much it's going to hurt. I slammed on my (non disc) brakes and somehow avoided the deer. I did skid and flat spot the rear tyre, though. It was exciting.
Well that was unlucky wasn't it
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Blimey! Poor chap didn't stand a chance.
Horrible as the sound of the crash is, it's his agonised moan from the ground
that gets me.
Bet he wasn't wearing hi-viz.
This may be true, but you CAN hear his bell as the bars hit the deck.
for a second on a night ride I thought that was about to happen, me and a young deer both airborne, missed by a couple of seconds...
😯 that is all other than 😯 again
Spoke to a friend near San Francisco who regularly rides into the city with the guy in the film. He survived with cuts and bruises. The groans he says came from the deer.
The groans he says came from the deer.
I had the debate with the missus - I reckoned the deer, she the rider. It was a tad throaty for a human.
I was expecting it for some reason, probably due to the amount of times it happens and gets broadcast on the internet. But, you only get slated when you claim things like that on this forum so...yeah, scared the **** out of me. Think I even did a little bit of arse wee.
So it was venison for tea then?
Happened to one of the riders in the Strathclyde Park CX race this year too.
I've had close encounters with deer on two occasions, once in the dark in Glenelg and once when two deer jumped into the road in front of me then panicked and couldn't jump the opposite fence. In 30 seconds of frantic scrabbling they expended so much energy that we rode on through a big cloud of dust, debris and deer hair, which we were spitting out of our mouths for a couple of minutes afterwards.
I'm waiting for it to happen here in the Ribble Valley, I saw a deer that had just been hit by a car right in Whalley, the road cycling centre of the RV.
My GF nearly got run over by a stag on the first MTB ride I took her on.
Up until nearly being flattened by said beasty, she wasn't really enjoying it. It was only after that she was like 'I want to do that again!'
I hit an owl, twice! Few years back, winter night MTB up a forest on my own, descending a trail and a small speckle owl flew out into my helmet light/face. A week later, same trail, but maybe 30m further up it, I was just thinking, 'oh yeah thats where that little owl popped out on me' rahghghghh feathers, face, claws, Oh yup, that was a different owl!
No idea what the second owl was, but certainly larger than the first
"No idea what the second owl was, but certainly larger than the first "
It was the little ones big brother!
In the new forest, seems it's the 2nd or 3rd deer that gets you. The first always runs for it with plenty of space, then a gap just long enough for you to relax a bit, then the ninja leaps out to bag its prey (sadly, often a car 🙁 )
Just showed my daughter this after dinner. She fell off her chair 🙂
The noise of the bell sounding on impact disturbed me greatly, like an air raid siren going off, impending doom..
Has his stem separated from his steerer? 😯