Horse Dung

Secteur

Huge great big steaming piles of horse dung, all over the lanes where I live.

There's an equestrian centre nearby and it's common to see horses from there on the local roads.

Why dont they have to clean up after themselves - the roads are a bloody mess locally.

They want the respect of drivers by wearing their faux-police "POLITE notice" high vis bibs, but leave crap everywhere!

Sussed out

I got shat on by a bird once... . I blame the RSPB, pigeon racers, trees and the sea.
Plus, insects in my mouth... What's all that about! And rain, why so wet!

Chill out mate, avoid them like you avoid potholes, cars, stones, gravel etc.

alihisgreat

Sussed out wrote:

I got shat on by a bird once... . I blame the RSPB, pigeon racers, trees and the sea.
Plus, insects in my mouth... What's all that about! And rain, why so wet!

Chill out mate, avoid them like you avoid potholes, cars, stones, gravel etc.

what would you think if they regularly did a big dump on the road outside your house?

Anonymous

clean it up. It doesn't smell.

Simmotino

ALIHISGREAT wrote:

what would you think if they regularly did a big dump on the road outside your house?

Shovel.
Bucket.

Better if I can get it whilst it's still warm, but I often miss them passing, so have to make do with cold most of the time.

Sussed out

ALIHISGREAT wrote:

Sussed out wrote:

I got shat on by a bird once... . I blame the RSPB, pigeon racers, trees and the sea.
Plus, insects in my mouth... What's all that about! And rain, why so wet!

Chill out mate, avoid them like you avoid potholes, cars, stones, gravel etc.

what would you think if they regularly did a big dump on the road outside your house?

I'd be annoyed if a horse regularly shat ON me outside my house.

Defyand

What a load of old horse sh!t

thefd

Simmotino wrote:

ALIHISGREAT wrote:

what would you think if they regularly did a big dump on the road outside your house?

Shovel.
Bucket.

Better if I can get it whilst it's still warm, but I often miss them passing, so have to make do with cold most of the time.

That must be some size of saddle bag you have. Plus stopping every 10 meters to clean it up must make your ride really long and really slow!!

ilm_zero7

Secteur wrote:

Huge great big steaming piles of horse dung, all over the lanes where I live.

bag it - white van it to Surrey and flog it for £20 a bag to bankers and stockbrokers - a gem...... but then they probably have their own production facility in the paddock behind the house

bianchimoon

Horse crap is fine, loads round here, livens up some uneventful rides having something to dodge round.
Cow Cr*p thats the danger, a friend was recently in hospital with quiet bad gut poisoning, in the end doctors speculated because of the type of bacteria, that it was probably through riding on wet country roads and some cow crap had found its way onto his drinks bottle.

Simmotino

TheFD wrote:

Simmotino wrote:

ALIHISGREAT wrote:

what would you think if they regularly did a big dump on the road outside your house?

Shovel.
Bucket.

Better if I can get it whilst it's still warm, but I often miss them passing, so have to make do with cold most of the time.

That must be some size of saddle bag you have. Plus stopping every 10 meters to clean it up must make your ride really long and really slow!!

My driveway isn't that long that I have to ride down it.

coopsman1

Personally I hate the fact that horses can use the cycle tracks here in Bristol. I do my best to avoid them but as we all know, there is a lot of crap that comes out of that animal.

To top it off it just sits there untill it rains and then I cycle home knowing what is being sprayed all over me. Not exactly the most pleasant experience and I honestly feel horse riders should be responsible for cleaning up after their animal.

After all a dog owner is responsible and can be fined if caught.

What's the difference excluding the amount of crap produced?

ilm_zero7

bianchimoon wrote:

Horse crap is fine, loads round here, livens up some uneventful rides having something to dodge round.
Cow Cr*p thats the danger, a friend was recently in hospital with quiet bad gut poisoning, in the end doctors speculated because of the type of bacteria, that it was probably through riding on wet country roads and some cow crap had found its way onto his drinks bottle.

Interesting comment. In the gulf you have to watch out for irrigation water as it is TSE - treated sewage effluent - its not nice when your group ride goes through a puddle of that and back wheel spray flicks up onto your face. Motivation to sit on the front more if you ever needed any!

slowondefy2

Why can't you just cycle round it and get on with your ride?

coopsman1 wrote:

After all a dog owner is responsible and can be fined if caught.
What's the difference excluding the amount of crap produced?

Huge difference from a human health point of view.

Twelly

coopsman1 wrote:

Personally I hate the fact that horses can use the cycle tracks here in Bristol.

I'm coming to Bristol. I HAVE to see a horse riding a bike.

P.S. This thread is stupid

bails87

slowondefy2 wrote:

Why can't you just cycle round it and get on with your ride?

coopsman1 wrote:

After all a dog owner is responsible and can be fined if caught.
What's the difference excluding the amount of crap produced?

Huge difference from a human health point of view.

Yep, dog muck can contain parasites that cause blindness in humans. Horse muck is pretty harmless.

coopsman1

slowondefy2 wrote:

Why can't you just cycle round it and get on with your ride?

coopsman1 wrote:

After all a dog owner is responsible and can be fined if caught.
What's the difference excluding the amount of crap produced?

Huge difference from a human health point of view.

Why don't you get glasses and read the post before trying to sound like a smart arse.

Back on topic...I was expecting people to mock my opinion but hey ho.

Using your guys logic you would gladly stick horse crap on your face as opossed to dog crap. Well, I know their are a lot of sick fetishes out there.....but each to their own.

bails87

coopsman1 wrote:

Using your guys logic you would gladly stick horse crap on your face as opossed to dog crap. Well, I know their are a lot of sick fetishes out there.....but each to their own.

I'd rather have neither. But the only person who would rather dog poo over horse poo wiuld be someone who wanted to go blind! :?

slowondefy2

coopsman1 wrote:

slowondefy2 wrote:

Why can't you just cycle round it and get on with your ride?

coopsman1 wrote:

After all a dog owner is responsible and can be fined if caught.
What's the difference excluding the amount of crap produced?

Huge difference from a human health point of view.

Why don't you get glasses and read the post before trying to sound like a smart ars*.

Back on topic...I was expecting people to mock my opinion but hey ho.

Using your guys logic you would gladly stick horse crap on your face as opossed to dog crap. Well, I know their are a lot of sick fetishes out there.....but each to their own.

I'm not mocking anyone, the first part of my comment was to the OP not you - that's why I put it above your quote.

To answer your question: yes, I would very much prefer to have a face full of horse crap than dog. Horse crap is a little unpleasant but otherwise harmless, whereas dog crap can potentially be pretty nasty, as well as being very unpleasant. Not sure what the fetish comment has to do with anything - you gave me an either/or option - but I would rather not having any crap on my face, ta :?

Horse crap is just one of those things. It's no big deal.

But as a suggestion to the OP, it may be worth reporting it to the County Council if it is a particular problem outside the equestrian centre. Farmers regularly get told to clean up the roads after themselves.

MichaelW

I have to go and buy my horse crap for cold, hard cash, 50p a bag, then bag it up, lash it to the back of my bike and cycle home. My tomatoes, courgettes and beans are starting to crop.

Wily-Quixote

Of course we had it tough....

I regularly ride my road bike over dairy farm roads... After the cows pass to the milking shed invariably there is a 10m wide green slick of shit on the road. Wear glasses close mouth.

uneasyonwheels

in the old days there was great competition in the tenements of Duddingston outside Edinburgh. It was great stuff for the roses and first out with the shovel got the best rose blooms.

jrduquemin

Put it this way, if you had a wheel sucker, you wouldn't have one for long after riding through some horse sh!t :-)

BelgianBeerGeek

My commute/riding is all on rural roads, with horse dung, mousse de vache from dairy farms, roadkill splattered everywhere etc. Just get mudguards. Simple.

scott_w1987

MichaelW wrote:

I have to go and buy my horse crap for cold, hard cash, 50p a bag, then bag it up, lash it to the back of my bike and cycle home. My tomatoes, courgettes and beans are starting to crop.

You're lucky! The weather has been horse sh1t for growing anything this year.

P_Tucker

coopsman1 wrote:

slowondefy2 wrote:

Why can't you just cycle round it and get on with your ride?

coopsman1 wrote:

After all a dog owner is responsible and can be fined if caught.
What's the difference excluding the amount of crap produced?

Huge difference from a human health point of view.

Why don't you get glasses and read the post before trying to sound like a smart ars*.

Back on topic...I was expecting people to mock my opinion but hey ho.

Using your guys logic you would gladly stick horse crap on your face as opossed to dog crap. Well, I know their are a lot of sick fetishes out there.....but each to their own.

You have not taken that well at all

Kingy 123

Plenty of horse and sheep shit round the lanes ,when i get back home it looks like my bikes got the shits.

mamba80

Piles of Horse Shitte are grt for practicing bunny hopping, which in turn is grt for avoiding a pot hole.....soooooo horse riders are actually doing you and i a favour be grateful.