[HoarseMann]

Very nearly caused a toad to croak this morning and there seems to be a lot more debris on the roads too. So it got me thinking – what’s the weirdest thing you’ve had to swerve to avoid?

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[pockstone]

Nearly taken out by a badger

Nearly taken out by a badger that tumbled down a bank during the darkest depths of the Dunwich Dynamo. Swooped upon by a Red Kite outside Otley.

The most upsetting was when a stoat with a mouse in its mouth ran out of a wall on the back road to Bolton Abbey. I slowed and swerved to pass behind it, only for the stoat to do a quick U-turn right under my wheel. My karmic angst was only partly alleviated by seeing the mouse make a dash for life, and the security of the opposite wall.

[Dicklexic]

A fresh steaming turd!

A fresh steaming turd!

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[oceandweller]

Tortoise. On a lovely MTB

Tortoise. On a lovely MTB trail through dense bush near Greyton in SA. Rang my bell but it didn’t seem in a hurry to scuttle out of the way , had to stop & lift it off the very narrow track…

[OldRidgeback]

The noise it made was a sort

The noise it made was a sort of slapping sound as it slithered as fast as it could after me. Cobras are quicker than you’d think over a short distance. Spitting cobras are particularly worrying as they spit venom at your eyes and bllind you temporarily. Before this happened I’d been in hospital with malaria and someone there was being treated for a cobra bite, so I was very well aware o what could happen. While spitting cobras aren’t the most deadly snakes in West Africa, a bite causes skin necrosis. The guy I saw had been bittten in the ankle and all the skin around the affected area had died, so the bone was exposed. I saw him being wheeled in for surgery. 

All that flashed through my mind as that thing reared up.

[AlsoSomniloquism]

I heard it pursuiing me for a

I heard it pursuiing me for a short distance

Sure the hissing wasn’t a slow puncture?

[wycombewheeler]

Owl

Owl

although it was more duck to avoid than swerve

[Kapelmuur]

A flock of penguins and a

A flock of penguins and a camel in the road at Great Budworth (Cheshire).   

The TV series ‘Our Zoo’ was being filmed there.

[Dnnnnnn]

An ambling badger.
An ambling badger.

[Tom_77]

Escaped Pig:

Escaped Pig:

 

[don simon fbpe]

Wild boar.

Wild boar.

[Hirsute]

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[Welsh boy]

I didn’t have to swerve but I

I didn’t have to swerve but I had to duck when I surprised a buzzard on a grass verge one morning, it saw me and took off in my direction when I was about 2 metres away. Maybe I should have swerved once when a seagull hit the headlight on my motor bike, I don’t know who was the most surprised (probably the gull in that split second before it spread itself over a very large area). 

[HoarseMann]

You’re right! Thankfully

You’re right!  Thankfully managed to avoid a coming together and a reminder that it’s safer to ride in the primary position.

[OldRidgeback]

I had to swerve around a

I had to swerve around a spitting cobra once when I was living in West Africa.

I only realised it was a cobra when it reared up and I could see its hood. How I managed to swerve around it on the narrow pathway I was riding along, I still don’t know. I was wearing flip flops and cut-off denim shorts, not exactly the most protective clothing. It was very annoyed and I heard it pursuiing me for a short distance.

Believe it or not, it is a true story.

[AlsoSomniloquism]

Surely you meant two toads to

Surely you meant two toads to croak? At least they would have died on a high.

Not weird as such as was country side. My first ever Sportive in Worcester. I was doing the 30miler on an hybrid and was out on my own as not many were doing the short one. As i was coming to the bottom of a descent off the Malverns, a small pheasant came out of the bushes well ahead of me. Then a second and both went to the left so I moved to the right. The third suddenly came out right in front of me and I locked up both wheels and started to come around on the back end before they all ran back in to the hedge. 

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