Horses

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Baby Trek wrote:

I am both evils...horse rider and road bike rider! Unfortunately you get jumped up sh*ts in all walks of life who feel that everyone around them should be able to mind read.
Horses are a pain in the bum too...they are the single most flighty and unreliable animal I have ever come across...so as a horse rider you have no real way of knowing how they will react to a certain situation.
I myself...a horse rider...approach other horse riders slowly when on my bike, I slow down and attempt to shout 'coming up behind on a bike'...sometimes it works and sometimes the horse jumps in the air. Not a lot anyone can do about that really.
The difficulty is in the person's attitude to it all...same as car drivers with cyclists, walkers with horse riders, horse riders with cyclists etc etc.
The way I see it, you are on a bike, you whizz past and make the horse jump about for 2 seconds and then you are gone...ordeal over and back to normal...not a major worry really. We really should have more tolerance for each others passions in this country!

^Sensible^



I call out 'On the right', or something similar, then pass slowly when I can see its clear ahead. Sometimes the horse is still spooked but if you have announced yourself then most riders appreciate you have done everything you could. If a person has ridden horses for any length of time they must know that the horse has a mind of its own and is unpredictable.

I wonder what horses and riders think of motorcycles. They bother me! Completely silent until they fly by a 70mph making an racket but by the time you are aware of them they are gone and it's silent again a few seconds later.