[joe9090]

I give up. Have a look through some of the comments for this piece of clickbait:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10229533/Abusive-cyclists-plague-New-Forest-park-rangers-try-conduct-ancient-pony-tradition.html

Or rather don’t, if you want to maintain any optimisim in the world…

Honesty, I pity the UK population if this is what we have come to. 

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[Eton Rifle]

Garage at Large wrote:

Garage at Large wrote:

More proof as I’ve said all along that abusive, self-entitled cyclists endanger every other cyclist in the country.

Instead of enabling this behaviour and putting these idiots up on a pedestal, it’s time to start calling them out publicly, as I do.

How long before one of these disgraceful men (and they are always men I’m afraid) takes a 140db horn to the New Forest with the intention of causing mayhem? Instead of publicising these things we should be campaigning for them to be removed from the market.

Oh do fuck off with your made-up bullshit. You really are the most tedious troll on this site.

[IanMSpencer]

Seriously, they graze the

Seriously, they graze the tarmac. It probably explains why they all look so miserable. There’s obviously more nutrition in that stuff that sprays in our faces than we realise.

[wycombewheeler]

wycombewheeler wrote:

IanMSpencer wrote:

Again referencing the GridIron, one of the treats were the horses, cows sheep and pigs who think that roads are perfectly acceptable places to sleep, graze, .

Tarmac eating livestock, pretty hardcore

man y hands or (hooves or mouths) make light work

[hawkinspeter]

wycombewheeler wrote:

IanMSpencer wrote:

Again referencing the GridIron, one of the treats were the horses, cows sheep and pigs who think that roads are perfectly acceptable places to sleep, graze, .

Tarmac eating livestock, pretty hardcore

They’d have to eat a lot of tarmac to get through to the hardcore

[hawkinspeter]

chrisonatrike wrote:

Fundamentally horses are nervous creatures not evolved for carrying other species on their backs.

That explains the long face, then

[wycombewheeler]

IanMSpencer wrote:

IanMSpencer wrote:

Again referencing the GridIron, one of the treats were the horses, cows sheep and pigs who think that roads are perfectly acceptable places to sleep, graze, .

Tarmac eating livestock, pretty hardcore

[peted76]

The ‘ponies’ in the new

The ‘ponies’ in the new forest which this article refers to (as horses) are ‘a bit different’ to usual ponies, horses, sheep, cattle etc.. they are left to wander the forest and villages within the forest with impunity, they are used to dealing with  people, cars, cyclists and honestly don’t get spooked easily. The article seems like a biased twisted take on reality and does nothing but stir up discontent towards cyclists. 

The new forest generally, whilst being one of my favourite places in the UK to ride a bike is also one of the worst places to ride, I guess becuase so many people want to around there for leisure and the whole area is seasonal that the locals view cyclists simply as a nuicance. It also does not help that the roads can be narrow and aren’t very well kept by the local authorities.

[IanMSpencer]

Again referencing the
Again referencing the GridIron, one of the treats were the horses, cows sheep and pigs who think that roads are perfectly acceptable places to sleep, graze, exercise the gene pool or discuss the latest goings on between Peppa and George.

This comes as a great advantage when the 4×4 behind that has been harassing you for the previous 400 yards comes to a grinding halt while you pass by the noses of the dozy beasts who care not one jot and can’t differentiate between a tourist and a local.

I’d not risk the other end though.

[BBB]

Hit them where it hurts.

Hit them where it hurts.

Stop Funding Hate

 

[wtjs]

I’m pretty sure there isn’t

I’m pretty sure there isn’t one pony in that whole forest which would be spooked by a cyclist

I’m certainly not about to read the hyper-junk press article, and I agree with your sentiment, but I’m not sure about the facts. I don’t know about horses in the New Forest, but I do know about sheep in enclosed fields in North Lancashire. I almost invariably say ‘Hello, sheep’ to sheep (it’s all this solo cycling!) so they ought to be used to one cyclist at least- however I was following a sedately driven vehicle the other day and the sheep in the field ignored it but as soon as I appeared from behind a dense hedge they all stampeded across the field away from me.

[Hirsute]

vroom, vroom !

vroom, vroom !

[Steve K]

They’ll all be off to Peppa

They’ll all be off to Peppa Pig World now, so it’ll be ok.

[chrisonabike]

wycombewheeler wrote:

Meanwhile the horses which the horsists choose to ride on the roads can react in extreme and unpredictable ways. Do they not spend enough time on the roads, or do they breed them/train them to be more skittish?

Fundamentally horses are nervous creatures not evolved for carrying other species on their backs.

 

[Pyro Tim]

I have been guilty of calling

I have been guilty of calling out Findas at the horses, much like I call out mint sauce to errant sheep, and horse raddish to cows. Horses in the New Forest aren’t bothered by cyclists. The twats in SUVs and other cars are though. At pinch points, if you are half way through, they will drive at you at over 40 and do not slow down, you have to dive off to avoid being hit. Most of the speeding motorists in the Forest are locals. It should be lovely riding in the New Forest, but it simply isn’t because of the entitled motorists, some of who are probably the same people doing the round up. Don’t get me started on the illegal parking during the peak season

[wycombewheeler]

yep, horses and ponies loose

yep, horses and ponies loose on the new forest and dartmoor, couldn’t care less about cars and bikes.

Meanwhile the horses which the horsists choose to ride on the roads can react in extreme and unpredictable ways. Do they not spend enough time on the roads, or do they breed them/train them to be more skittish?

[Author]

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