Horseing around.
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Sheepsteeth, what has got into you recently?? Of course you cannot go wherever you wish, that is reserved for illegals :shock: , you, dear sir, are covered by a myriad of rules and regulations regarding your enjoyment of the countryside!!!
Of course, there's always the option of moving to Scotland, where the freedom to roam act pretty much achieved what you wish for.
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ive heard they have some pretty good riding up there too?0
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I stop let them past and eye up the totty riding it
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Hmmm I ride both - horse and bike, selection of.....
More years than I care to think in the horse industry and having my pay eaten by the furry blighters lead me to the following general conclusion:
Horses are large stupid flight animals with steel toe caps which are dangerous at both ends sadly sometimes ridden by braying fools and/ or dosy types. Therefore, I tend to pass wide and slow or stop to let them pass me - hooves being entangled with my wheels or vice versa is not a nice thought. Also, if you're on a road bike with campag stop or pedal v. slowly pass, that lovely whirring freeweel noise is often regarded as multo scary.
Being hit with a crop??? you could always yank the thing out of their hands and toss it over the hedge, chances are they're too damn incompetent to keep the horse going without it - you'll be doing the horse a favour and almost certainly giving them a miserable ride home, what is not to like?
While we're on I'd like to thank everyone who has ever stopped to let me and my frankly nutty horse go by - apologies, he just doesn't like bikes, bangs, traffic, ducks, pigs etc, etc, etc him and all my years of experience and coaxing lead me to believe that he is to stunt horsing what I am to nuclear science :oops:0 -
all the horse riders i've passed (hundreds?) on the island have been really nice. i always slow down and give them as much room as i can with a smile and a hello. only once did a horse go a little bonkers but settled down once i stopped, with the rider apologising to me.
sounds like the horse riders you're meeting are a bit weird?0 -
hang on, you were hit with a crop? for free?
Some people pay for that stuff.
Maybe it was a form of thank you? :shock:0 -
Generally slow down a bit and try not to free wheel too much as the Hopes might startle them
Always good to check out the ladies riding them too
Did once see a Huntsman in full regailer out on boxing day, riding up a bit of fast downwards trail near me, he looked at us in utter disgust, but then again that was probably just him.
The riders do seem to have a rather bad habit of putting bloody great big logs across trails round here, too big to jump/hop over in teh typically muddy under wheel conditions :!:0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:hang on, you were hit with a crop? for free?
Some people pay for that stuff.
Maybe it was a form of thank you? :shock:
*cough* Max Mosely *cough*"Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling." ~James E. Starrs0
