Ran over a pigeon last night!

Butterd2
Butterd2 Posts: 937
edited July 2010 in Commuting chat
Doing my extended training ride home last night I came across a flock of pigeons sat in the road eating something, nothing unusual, so I carried straight on and as usual they all left it to the last second then took off, all bar one that is.
Buy the time I realised he/she was not going to move it was all too late and squish (when crunch actually) one less skyrat in London.
Guess it proves all the time spent tracking down and fixing squeaks, rattles, creaks has worked, the poor little fecker never heard me coming.
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  • iPete
    iPete Posts: 6,076
    Must not laugh.








    :lol:
  • essex-commuter
    essex-commuter Posts: 2,188
    Hehe!

    I hit a poor little rabbit one morning a few years ago, well it hit me really, it ran into my back wheel which skidded me to a halt. Had to reverse my bike up to pull it out of the seat stays :cry:
  • leehellcat
    leehellcat Posts: 37
    So wrong, but so funny all at the same time ! :lol:
  • ndru
    ndru Posts: 382
    A pigeon actually flew into and bounced off my spokes this morning. Dunno what happened to him afterwards. I almost run a squirrel over - good luck they are speedy vermin :)
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,185
    I managed to wing a pigeon as it swooped a bit too low across the road - connected with the upper part of the front tyre and bounced off but managed to keep airborne - lucky.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    I had one leave it too late and bounce off the head tube as it attepted to escape. Unfortunately I don't think I killed it.
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  • Butterd2
    Butterd2 Posts: 937
    I know pigeons love a game of chicken but I had assumed that was because they always won, it would appear from the responses that they are not as good as they like to think they are.
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    squirrel1.jpg

    :wink:
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    nicklouse wrote:
    squirrel1.jpg

    :wink:

    That one's well and truly forked!
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    that off singletrack nick? :D

    headbutted a pigeon once that mis-judged my speed - it seemed fine, I was.
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  • georgee
    georgee Posts: 537
    Had a squirrel run through my front wheel last year. he did a full 360 before being thrown out again. I think a good what against the fork had snapped his spine. I was a touch disapointed my bladed spokes didn't do a good job of cutting him cleanly in two.
  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    What a bunch of evil barstads.
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Paulie W wrote:
    What a bunch of evil barstads.

    Grey squirrels? Yes, they are. Little toerags keep trying to get into my loft and they attacked a brand ne olive tree I bought last week.
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  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    Asprilla wrote:
    Paulie W wrote:
    What a bunch of evil barstads.

    Grey squirrels? Yes, they are. Little toerags keep trying to get into my loft and they attacked a brand ne olive tree I bought last week.

    A squirrel in a tree! Whatever next!
  • spasypaddy
    spasypaddy Posts: 5,180
    ive always wondered if riding over the corpse of a bird/rabbit could cause you to puncture
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  • Butterd2
    Butterd2 Posts: 937
    spasypaddy wrote:
    ive always wondered if riding over the corpse of a bird/rabbit could cause you to puncture

    Well it wasn't a corpse when my front wheel hit it but probably was by the time my back wheel did - and no p******re.

    I always thought cycling was good for the environment but it appears we leave a trail of roadkill in our wake. :oops:
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    deptfordmarmoset wrote:
    nicklouse wrote:
    squirrel1.jpg

    :wink:

    That one's well and truly forked!

    squirrelled away more like....
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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Once got a pigeon by the tail feathers - I think it probably improves the environment removing pigeons and grey squirrels - after all squirrels are just rats with a good publicist :wink:
  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    Am I the only one wondering what the hell kind of forks those are?

    They're huge!
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  • TommyEss
    TommyEss Posts: 1,855
    spasypaddy wrote:
    ive always wondered if riding over the corpse of a bird/rabbit could cause you to puncture

    Lots of sharp bony bits - I'd avoid just in case.
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Paulie W wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    Paulie W wrote:
    What a bunch of evil barstads.

    Grey squirrels? Yes, they are. Little toerags keep trying to get into my loft and they attacked a brand ne olive tree I bought last week.

    A squirrel in a tree! Whatever next!

    Actually, it was digging up the roots. Grey squirrels are vermin.

    I need an air rifle.
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Asprilla wrote:
    Paulie W wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    Paulie W wrote:
    What a bunch of evil barstads.

    Grey squirrels? Yes, they are. Little toerags keep trying to get into my loft and they attacked a brand ne olive tree I bought last week.

    A squirrel in a tree! Whatever next!

    Actually, it was digging up the roots. Grey squirrels are vermin.

    I need an air rifle.

    Grey squirrels are not a native species and have almost annihilited our native red squirrel, they need culling from time to time...
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    MonkeyMonster


    nope, it was originally posted on Pinkbike in the very early 2000's

    davis
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  • benno68
    benno68 Posts: 1,689
    Mrs Benno cycled into me last Sunday to avoid a frog :roll:

    Got me thinking about my standing in the family :D
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  • TommyEss
    TommyEss Posts: 1,855
    Benno68 wrote:
    Mrs Benno cycled into me last Sunday to avoid a frog :roll:

    Got me thinking about my standing in the family :D

    At least she didn't stop to kiss it...

    Re. Grey squirrels annihaliting the Red population - yes - t'is true - but apparently it's not because they're massive and aggressive, kicking the living daylights out of our belov'd Reds to steal their food - it's that they don't hibernate as long, so are in many respects just the early bird catching the worm

    L'il old Red wakes up, goes "Hmm.. hungry now - what the?!" and then starves and dies yadda yadda....

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  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    Headhuunter wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    Paulie W wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    Paulie W wrote:
    What a bunch of evil barstads.

    Grey squirrels? Yes, they are. Little toerags keep trying to get into my loft and they attacked a brand ne olive tree I bought last week.

    A squirrel in a tree! Whatever next!

    Actually, it was digging up the roots. Grey squirrels are vermin.

    I need an air rifle.

    Grey squirrels are not a native species and have almost annihilited our native red squirrel, they need culling from time to time...

    Unlike the Olive Tree which is of course native to the UK right!?
  • snailracer
    snailracer Posts: 968
    Humans are not native to the UK, either.
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    So, does that mean we stop that bleedin song on that annoying cartoon to,

    "Caught the Pigeon" ???
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Paulie W wrote:
    Headhuunter wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    Paulie W wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    Paulie W wrote:
    What a bunch of evil barstads.

    Grey squirrels? Yes, they are. Little toerags keep trying to get into my loft and they attacked a brand ne olive tree I bought last week.

    A squirrel in a tree! Whatever next!

    Actually, it was digging up the roots. Grey squirrels are vermin.

    I need an air rifle.

    Grey squirrels are not a native species and have almost annihilited our native red squirrel, they need culling from time to time...

    Unlike the Olive Tree which is of course native to the UK right!?

    The olive tree allows me to make excellent martinis. Squirrels have no similar uses.
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