Jono L said:Found a new one on the way home from Kinglake on the Greensborough bypass
-The Squashed turkey sprint!
Bleve said:On Mar 20, 7:05 pm, gplama <gplama.2nq...@no-
mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> wrote:
> Jono L Wrote:
>
> > Found a new one on the way home from Kinglake on the Greensborough
> > bypass
>
> > -The Squashed turkey sprint!
>
> hahaha, triple points for rareness!!!!
>
> Jawwoo and I spotted a ghost wombat about 2kms out of Warragul.. and it
> has a red eye. Rabid albino ghost wombat points up for grabs during the
> Baw Baw Classic!!!
>
We saw two wombats in Westerfolds tonight (trying out the new HID ..
halogens are obsolete .. and how ...). One did two fast passes in
front of me, and the other ambled along the bridge over the yarra
while we suggested that it get a move on. No ghosts .. these were
real!
Bean Long said:jazmo wrote:
> I saw two kangaroos while going up Clintons Rd (BR route) a few weeks
> back. They were hopping along the road for a while about 50 metres in
> front of me. Beautiful.
Roos all the bloody time here and a very dangerous thing to have around
on those decents down Stromlo and Ainslie and occasionally by the side
of the track at the crits. Apart from that our training ride the other
morning almost came unstuck when a huge rat ran between me and the rider
in front. Eeek!
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During my time in Vancouver the problem was deer and bears. Climbing up Mt Seymour and Cypress the reigning fear among cyclists was to come across a bear in the ditch adjacent to the road as you were climbing (12k's at 7.5%) at around 15-20 kph. If the bear freaked and decided to go you, there was no way of out riding them. Didnt happen often but often enough to worry about it.warrwych said:A friend was brought down on the weekend, on the 1/20, when the rider in front met a possum, and came down, with my friend getting caught up in the possum rally.
Snakes of course, a perennial summer hazard. Funny to watch a racing bunch veer suddenly to avoid a snake on the road, heralded by the call of "SNAKE!"
And those DUMB & SLOW!!!! rock pigeons on the bike path......
A fox sighting at Sandown a few weeks back, crossing the back straight in between bunches.
In my case, I would give gravity a try. I can't outrun anything up hill, but my mass might stand me in good stead in a down hill sprint if I was attempting to escape an angry bear.byron27 said:During my time in Vancouver the problem was deer and bears. Climbing up Mt Seymour and Cypress the reigning fear among cyclists was to come across a bear in the ditch adjacent to the road as you were climbing (12k's at 7.5%) at around 15-20 kph. If the bear freaked and decided to go you, there was no way of out riding them.
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