Sean Moore
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| 10/10/2008 10:56 AM |
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I've crashed into a fair number of things (trees, rocks, other bikers, squirrels, hang-gliders [ok, maybe not a hang-glider])... but a Black Bear? Yikes!
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/09/10/news/top/news01.txt
And yes, I do realize that this occured in Montana, on a road bike, and that this is a KY mtn bike forum... but still. |
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dilbert
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| 10/10/2008 11:08 AM |
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| I have run into HUGE black snakes, snapping turtles, dodged multiple birds, dogs, cats, squirells etc. I almost slammed a deer at the begining of the season, but this is crazy... |
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Rowbear
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| 10/10/2008 11:53 AM |
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| my buddy ran over an armadillo while ridding some trails in the N'awlings area. I thought that was a pretty stranger critter to hit while on the mtb. Hitting a bear would be exciting in a real scary way. |
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PR
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| 10/10/2008 12:17 PM |
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Three black bears spent about two weeks running around my house year before last.
It made my woman high strung.
As a general rule of thumb, the two hardest things to get a wheel on are squirrels and meth freaks. The freaks are the human equivalent of a squirrel. You can ride down here all your life and never get on more than one or two. |
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PR
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| 10/10/2008 12:20 PM |
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My wife would be outside around the edge of dark, and come inside complaining that something was really snorting, and moving stuff in the woods behind our house......I'd go outside and listen. Sure enough, I could hear stuff going on. I thought it was deer rutting.
Duh! |
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scopes monkey
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| 10/10/2008 5:31 PM |
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Posted By PR on 10/10/2008 12:17 PM
Three black bears spent about two weeks running around my house year before last.
Didn't they get tired? |
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the weak link
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| 10/10/2008 5:35 PM |
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| I ran into a Democratic operative at Waverly a short while back. |
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scopes monkey
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| 10/10/2008 5:52 PM |
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| I hit a squirrel once on the Wilderness Loop. It made a crunchy sound under my tires. I went back to put him out of his misery but he scurried off. Given that I'm a leftist liberal I probably could not have brought myself to do it anyway. |
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the weak link
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| 10/10/2008 6:03 PM |
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Posted By scopes monkey on 10/10/2008 5:52 PM
I hit a squirrel once on the Wilderness Loop. It made a crunchy sound under my tires. I went back to put him out of his misery but he scurried off. Given that I'm a leftist liberal I probably could not have brought myself to do it anyway.
Palin would have grabbed a gun and shot the sucker dead right then and there.
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Wallace
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| 10/10/2008 11:55 PM |
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I ran over a tree hugging Lib by accident one time.
When I hit im a green slime flew every where.
Then a little bug crawled out of his body, jumped into some sort of space craft, and flew of into space.
As he flew away I heard "Obama is our leader and we will take this planet filthy human". |
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Rowbear
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| 10/10/2008 11:59 PM |
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Posted By Wallace on 10/10/2008 11:55 PM cralled
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Wallace
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| 10/11/2008 12:14 AM |
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I hope your not going to U of K we wouldn't want to tarnish their image.
Man does it smell like a summers eve in here?
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