Strangest thing to happen on a ride???

BoredHousewife

I just went for a little solo mission on my bike (escape the missus) and after about 3 miles and some pathetic stair drops i started to hear a strange noise in the distance so peddled off to investigate. As i got near it became clear this was a bassline from some good sounding music...i scrambled up a steep hill and emerged squinting from the bushes (bike in tow) into the middle of a small festival.....strangely enough right next to a group of friends with a plentiful supply of beer. and that was the past 3 hours of my life.

So this got me thinking......What's the strangest thing to happen to you on a ride??

Chissy

Myself and a mate were riding back across dartmoor, we could hear some sort of music from a distance, when we got close enough to see where it was coming from we saw some bloke sat in the middle of the moors on his own with a full set of drums bashing the hell out of them, lmao

steelo

Cycling last night with 6 others, we just stopped for a breather at a gate along a track. As we were having a laugh about one of the guys loose rear cassette, all of a sudden about 50 yards away up a grass bank, a guy (topless) and 2 women (clothed) stood up looking very red-faced! We all laughed, got on our bikes and continued our ride!

Red Lemon

steelo wrote:

a guy (topless) and 2 women (clothed) stood up looking very red-faced!

If only it was the other way...

steelo

That was my thought as well. It was a very strange moment for all of us that experienced the event! I think bizarre is probably the best word to describe it.

JohnnyTheFox

Probably a few weeks ago, went for a ride up to the local moor/forest with a track. Along the quiet country roads just before the trailhead I see theres a car with a guy getting stuff out the boot.

I think oh right a runner getting ready to go out. As I round the corner I start to realise something, he's sort of hopping about on one foot and wearing some weird brownish tight trousers... wait a minute... there no trousers! There are no trousers! By now it was too late to bail out or stop, a little startled by my presnce he promptly put some shorts back on and excused himself as I rode on staring very much at the trees on the other side of the road... and had a little laugh to myself.

Anonymous

Mine isn't wuite as random as some of those.
Strangest thing I've had happen is when a squirrel jumped out from a hedgerow, clean through my front wheel and out the other side. then jumped straight back into the hedgerow.
I felt an impact as though it had been sliced up by the spokes, but it seems it was okay.

The strangest thing though was that a few days later in MBUK, there was a picture of a squirrel caught in someone else's braky calliper.

Squirrels are turning against bikers, I tell you!

JohnnyTheFox

There either suicidal or just out to get us. They always jump out the bushes but not straight for me, they run along side and try overtake but then cut across you.

ddoogie

We have found a burnt our Micra in the middle of a forest, on one of our favourite sections of singletrack before. I still can't figure out how it got there!

hamboman

While walking in Snowden, my friend struggled to the top of Tryffen to find 30 guys in full tuxes drinking champagne. It was a stag do on top of one of the steepest mountains in th UK. Weird.

Anonymous

I keep telling my dad that his choirs (he belongs to three) should walk up snowdon in summer, blending in with the tourists, and then randomly burst out into song at various points, just to amuse and confuse tourists!
"Man, I went to Wales, and you know, it's true what they say about it being full of joneses that sing!"

lego

A real Mongoose :shock: (not the bikes). I followed it along a track on Devils Dyke (last year) for about 20 feet. There was no way it was a ferret or big bunny etc....
No-one believes me though. :?

joshleb

BoredHousewife wrote:

I just went for a little solo mission on my bike (escape the missus) and after about 3 miles and some pathetic stair drops i started to hear a strange noise in the distance so peddled off to investigate. As i got near it became clear this was a bassline from some good sounding music...i scrambled up a steep hill and emerged squinting from the bushes (bike in tow) into the middle of a small festival.....strangely enough right next to a group of friends with a plentiful supply of beer. and that was the past 3 hours of my life.

So this got me thinking......What's the strangest thing to happen to you on a ride??

Shows you how good your friends are, when they didnt even invite you.

My weirdest was cycling on a cliffpath, then suddenly 7 of my teachers from my school cycled past me, all in skin tight clothes, not a nice sight.

BoredHousewife

I hadn't actually thought about that, guess you're right. Although i have developed a bit of a rep for not coming out anymore, gf and all that. Thats where the idea for the name came from. And i did snub them on 7-7-7

Chissy

yeehaamcgee wrote... Strangest thing I've had happen is when a squirrel jumped out from a hedgerow, clean through my front wheel and out the other side. then jumped straight back into the hedgerow.

Obviously it`s not just me and my mates, these squirrels are out to get us , not me personally, but my mate every time we decide to ride our mountain bikes through our local trail, these pesky squirrels try to take us out, suicide squirrels

wwjjtt

there is a burnt-out car on whites at afan which is in a random place, how it got there is anyone's guess-it has for sale on it but i assume there's been no offers?

i was riding when i was younger and i was in a carpark somewhere taking a break, when a hiker walked past-would have been normal except for the fact that he was wearing just walking boots and a back pack! people are strange!

BoardinBob

wwjjtt wrote:

there is a burnt-out car on whites at afan which is in a random place, how it got there is anyone's guess-it has for sale on it but i assume there's been no offers?

i was riding when i was younger and i was in a carpark somewhere taking a break, when a hiker walked past-would have been normal except for the fact that he was wearing just walking boots and a back pack! people are strange!

That'll be the Naked Rambler

http://www.nakedwalk.org/

(link might not be worksafe )

Big n Daft

Like this one perhaps?



Thats done some damage for a small rodent....Imagine if cows didnt like bikes??? :shock:

BnD

Anonymous

There was a guy I know who ran through a sheep on his motorbike (GSXR-1000) and pretty much cut it in half.
When one of his mates who was some way behind, caught up with him and saw him sat at the side of the road, with blood and guts everywhere, he assumed he'd fallen off - badly.

There wasn't any damage on the bike at all (remarkably) and he was totally unhurt (physically!). He'd stopped at the side of the road and was crying because of what he'd done to the poor sheep, He couldn't cope with what had just happened! Totally traumatised and covered in sheep giblets from head to toe

P-Jay

wwjjtt wrote:

there is a burnt-out car on whites at afan which is in a random place, how it got there is anyone's guess-it has for sale on it but i assume there's been no offers?

There's a Granada which must have been Helicoptered into a section of Skyline called Granada (and why not). Sadly there's also a burnt out car near the top of the climb on White's level that's a new and far less cool addition.

P-Jay

We were riding a few years back when my mate in the lead had a Hawk or Eagle or something (not an expert on Birds or prey) fly out some bushes right in front of him, the section was so tight it had to fly along the track for a bit so he got a great view.

I've seen Deer at Afan and had a Robin land on my bars in the car park.

Oh and once a good mate of mine was riding in the middle of nowhere in a nature reserve / park near where we live. Had some kinda technical issue, chain slipped off or flat or something like that and just lost it and started swearing like a trooper. C**ting, Bass-tard-do, F**king pile of crap, only to turn around and see a nice little old lady sitting on a bench right behind him with a very unimpressed look on her face.

fumps

THis is not a riding story but random anyway.

I once was in a wooded area with some mates just messing about & being lads when i went to find a quiet spot to pee, so naturally i went to a small stream and after about ten seconds i heard a voice say "Hello" i looked accross at a woman squatted accross from me peeing with a big smile on her face like nothing was wrong.

I could'nt turn away as me mates was waiting for me so i was just there being Willy watched by some random woman while she pee'd.

I felt slighty soiled

schmako

Fort Bill yesterday, managed to warp my chain 180 degrees on the DH course. I'm glad I only came off with that and one puncture from 6 runs. My mate wasn't so lucky, managed to smash his rear shifter display bit, snapped the gear cable on his Patriot (which involves 30 minutes of messing around trying to get the cable through the swingarm :? ) So a bit of carnage there anyway.

xc-andy

not the wierdest but one of the best experiences i have had is finding a group of about 7 roe deer in a clearing in a local wood. They didnt start , but observed me , carried on feeding and just walked calmy to a safe distance.
I followed them through woods for about a mile before they ran off down into a small valley and buggered off. ace
much better than the time i flattened a barn owl with my honda civic.

creatures rock

passout

Interrupted a druid (or equivalent) festival in the Mendips once. Didn't hang around.

Markmjh

When i used to live in milton keynes i used to ride in Woburn a lot. On one ride through we turned into an open area to find about 50 romans and barbarians fighting!!!!!!!!!!!
Worst part was they all stopped and looked at us like we were weird???????????

Bunnyman 5.5

WHAT have the Romans ever done for us?..... :twisted:

passout

Reminds me I once, years ago, interrupted some Knights in a glade near Nottingham. They were very friendly. I still didn't hang around though.

ddraver

yeah the reconstruction people are always good for a laugh........as are the people who strip off with no one around, just befoer you come round the corner....how come they re never fit women...EVER!!

limbsy

Markmjh wrote:

When i used to live in milton keynes i used to ride in Woburn a lot. On one ride through we turned into an open area to find about 50 romans and barbarians fighting!!!!!!!!!!!
Worst part was they all stopped and looked at us like we were weird???????????

Hahaha! are the trails around there any good, what are they like?... my g/f lives up there may have to have a venture with the bike.

TomR

Markmjh wrote:

When i used to live in milton keynes i used to ride in Woburn a lot. On one ride through we turned into an open area to find about 50 romans and barbarians fighting!!!!!!!!!!!
Worst part was they all stopped and looked at us like we were weird???????????

Haha brilliant