Eventful ride home today.

shouldbeinbed

I hit one squirrel & gave it a good stunning, missed another by inches and had a complete Darwin moment on a sharp bend, I completely forgot to slow my pedalling or brake until the last minute, just made it.

Initialised

Got to love those suicidal squirrels

Gussio

Queue stock photo of squirrel stuck in a wheel with broken spokes

the_fuggler

I had a squirrel incident a couple of weeks ago. One dropped out of the sky about two feet in front of me having just come unattached from a Red Kite about a foot above it. Nearly needed a new pair of bibs after that...

essjaydee

Gussio wrote:

Queue stock photo of squirrel stuck in a wheel with broken spokes

Not quite but close (sorry couldn't resist :oops: )

http://nonaurban.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/suicide-squirrel1.jpg

redvee

I missed a suicidal rabbit by a hare's breadth on wednesday, not what you want when trying to get a 20mph ave for 2 miles.

SimonAH

Multiple rabbits, few cats and a.fox on the ride out this evening. None close enough to the wheels to be described as anything like a near miss, but a lot more than I see on my usual routes.

bunter

redvee wrote:

I missed a suicidal rabbit by a hare's breadth on wednesday, not what you want when trying to get a 20mph ave for 2 miles.

please, no...

EKE_38BPM

bunter wrote:

redvee wrote:

I missed a suicidal rabbit by a hare's breadth on wednesday, not what you want when trying to get a 20mph ave for 2 miles.

please, no...

This forum is full of bad puns. You're best advised to leveret go.

dhope

EKE_38BPM wrote:

bunter wrote:

redvee wrote:

I missed a suicidal rabbit by a hare's breadth on wednesday, not what you want when trying to get a 20mph ave for 2 miles.

please, no...

This forum is full of bad puns. You're best advised to leveret go.

Or pika different forum

UndercoverElephant

Had a fun commute on Thursday night, got a blowout on the front wheel when I was doing 25 on a main road, hit a drain and somersaulted over the bars. Bit of a smack on the road on my left side, elbow, shoulder and knee all a bit sore, but it could have been worse - bike was fine, but new tights required.

Sorry to rabbit on and get in the way of the puns.

popularname

Ha ha

Haven't read anything so bunny in ages

popularname

A long time ago in a galaxy far away I was a research scientist. Cycling into the lab one day, I caught up with a mate who had just run over a suicidal squirrel, stopped and gathered it up in a plastic bag to take into the lab. Two years later he published a paper that compared the DNA sequence of something or other in frogs, rabbits and, er, squirrels.

He probably got a research grant and all.

SimonAH

Hit the muntjac and don't ya come back no more no more no more no more, hit the muntjac and doncha come back no more.. 8)

Ben6899

Initialised wrote:

Got to love those suicidal squirrels

Almost as much as the suicidal cyclists...

MarcBC

xsnoopx wrote:

Hello everyone I am new to this forum. Please get well.

prj45

I rode out from work, just hit the top corner of traf square and saw some bloke seriously twatting up another bloke who was just trying to fend off the blows. Went over to break it apart, but the guy with the fists lumped me in the face. Fisty guy wrestled to the floor by two armed offices, me off to the police station to make a statement.

Whilst in the police station waiting for an ambulance to check me over I decided to unscrew the two tiny screws to try and take off the cracked cover of the indicator bit on my shifters (cracked it the day before by jamming my bike under the back of a flat bed lorry that stopped dead in front of me, twat that I am), heard a plink plink as one of the screws hit the floor, and spent the next 20 minutes trying to find it, bending over with a really sore head, which I never did.

Massive great bruise this morning on my lower jaw, can't eat properly and I each time I pull my brake levers I have to looked down and see a hole where the screw I'll never be able to replace was, my indiator windows will fill with water I'm sure.

I'm just off down the pub to see what else can happen to me this week!

EKE_38BPM

prj45 wrote:

I rode out from work, just hit the top corner of traf square and saw some bloke seriously twatting up another bloke who was just trying to fend off the blows. Went over to break it apart, but the guy with the fists lumped me in the face. Fisty guy wrestled to the floor by two armed offices, me off to the police station to make a statement.

Whilst in the police station waiting for an ambulance to check me over I decided to unscrew the two tiny screws to try and take off the cracked cover of the indicator bit on my shifters (cracked it the day before by jamming my bike under the back of a flat bed lorry that stopped dead in front of me, fool that I am), heard a plink plink as one of the screws hit the floor, and spent the next 20 minutes trying to find it, bending over with a really sore head, which I never did.

Massive great bruise this morning on my lower jaw, can't eat properly and I each time I pull my brake levers I have to looked down and see a hole where the screw I'll never be able to replace was, my indiator windows will fill with water I'm sure.

I'm just off down the pub to see what else can happen to me this week!

Ouch. I hpoe you feel better soon, but in my mind, I'm seeing this: