Naked hobo
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I had a drunk driver in a 1980’s Cadillac on the bike path outside DCA about 10pm this summer. FOrtunately he was doing about 1 mph…
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I saw a big boy like that a few months ago. I was riding gravel in the Texas countryside and saw it a long way away. It was standing on all 4 legs just walking down the road and I thought it was a dog or something. I was shocked when I got up to it and it was a massive snapper!
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Many moons ago I used to live near and mtb over Cannock Chase.
Night rides were just starting and I invested in a cat eye stadium. The chase was also infamous for dogging which was mainly around the car parks but not exclusively unfortunately So a few “interesting” sights there.
We were on a night ride when we saw some lights over the other side of the valley so we cycled over to see what was going on. We found a very young police office on watch with police tape and a tent. Human remains had been discovered. Later on I got dropped on a hill and it’s the only time I’ve been spooked.
And when you ride at night a deers eyes are red which can be disconcerting in the pitch black and two red eyes are seemingly looking at you.
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Somebody named Puck Futin.
Oh, wait…
Since this has been resurrected,
Riding down near the bottom of Columbine on the LT100 course (not during the race). Came around a bend, and a couple were…engaged…bent over the open bed of his truck. Right next to the road. Middle of the day on a Saturday in Leadville.
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A woman with her horse. Except the woman had her pants around her ankles and she was in the middle of a half squat…pooping at the base of a huge tree, in a relatively populated area.
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This couple. Triathletes doing a road event and you can tell them a mile away - I’ve not seen a more mismatching sock game before of since.
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Don’t be that guy that laughs at other people because they’re doing it differently than you. That’s fucking lame.
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This one was more tragic. I was just at the first few miles of the Davis double century a few years ago when I saw a body on the road coming up the turn. I later learned that a cyclist got hit by a truck and died. He was just ahead of me too but not too far off. Makes you think about life sometimes.
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If it was ‘15 or ‘16 that was a guy from Team Coconuts. Tragic. Some of those guys ride on Wed night in EG. I rode with sone Coconuts for a couple hours up to Middletown on the ‘17 Davis Double.
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On a lighter note, on the bike path today, there was a mama goose (or maybe a duck?) and a bunch of cute goslings (ducklings?) behind her. They were waddling in a peloton, drafting off the mama.
I still said ‘on your left’ as I carefully passed them.
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In the middle of a pace line on a bike path one morning, I managed to run over a squirrel that ran out in front of us (it survived, somehow). Thank god it didn’t go into my spokes, as we all would have gone down. On a ride a few weeks later, I saw someone run over a non-poisonous snake (same bike path). The same summer, me and some buddies were cresting the top of a shallow rise on a country road when a chicken burst out of the brush and fluttered toward us, hitting/bouncing off of my buddy’s helmet as we started the descent. It was a somewhat eventful summer…
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/u/finncox23 What have you done to the animal kingdom such that they’re sending a sequence of assassins after you?
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Mountain biking in Tucson a little over a month ago I had a run in with the trail boss.
And by “run in” I mean that I ran him over about 4 inches behind his head. By the time I saw him it was too late to stop.
And by “trail boss” I mean a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake.
My heart rate just returned to normal last week.
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Is this the one you hit? He looks very thin. I’m surprised your weight didn’t hurt him.
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Yep. That’s the one I hit. I thought I killed him at first. And then he started rattling. I’m from the Midwest … not used to this type of wildlife.
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So why not post a pic of one in the wild instead of a beautiful animal that’s been ruthlessly slaughtered by some grinning low-life? What a horrible photo 
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