John B. wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 07:50:01 -0700, Joerg
wrote:

On 2017-08-22 18:23, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:36:14 -0700, Joerg
wrote:

On 2017-08-22 11:25, Duane wrote:
On 22/08/2017 2:07 PM, Joerg wrote:
On 2017-08-21 22:54, James wrote:
On 22/08/17 13:34, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:01:01 +1000, James
wrote:

On my 66km ride today, along the edge of the road I saw a python
maybe 2
metres long, a bearded dragon lizard, an echidna and several
wallabies.

One of the wallabies made me nervous that it was about to dart across
the road at me. I braked a little in anticipation, but it turned and
headed away from the road instead.

But no mountain lions ?

No. No broken chains fixed with rock and nail either. My rim brakes
worked fine too, and I didn't rip any big holes, or little holes in my
tyres.

Boringly event free!


Come here and ride the trails. The only thing that concerns me a bit
are rattlesnakes. Lately I encountered three. One I accidentally ran
over with the MTB, the other two I evaded. A big one was daring me
which is unusual behavior. The sneaky part is that many are no longer
in the habit of rattling to announce "intent to pounce".


You aren't seriously telling a guy from Australia that it's more
dangerous to ride in California because of the snakes are you? lol


I know they've got far more venomous snakes there but AFAIK not rattlers
lying around almost in an ambush position. It's a real problem on some
trails here. One of the risks is that you might lose part of a leg to
necrosis (requiring amputation).

Good Lord! Yet another danger our intrepid mountain biker defies.

The facts are that there are between 7,000 and 8,000 reptile bites
annually in the U.S. of which 7 - 12 result in death.
http://www.reptileknowledge.com/how-...-rattlesnakes/


As with bicycle accidents many people make the mistake of only looking
at deaths and ignoring all the cases where "life-altering" aftermath
occurs (in this case amputation due to necrosis).

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...lf-leg-n309101

Yes. And that is one of the ~7,000 people in the U.S. that get bitten
by snakes annually. Given that there are some 45,000 bicycle accidents
reported annually it is obvious that bicycles are just Soooo much more
dangerious that they probably ought to be outlawed. After all a
hundred people die in bicycle crashes for every one that dies due to
snake bite.
http://www.pedbikeinfo.org/data/factsheet_crash.cfm

But far more important! Some 450 people die annually from falling out
of bed every year. think of it! 64 people die from falling out of bed
for every death by snake bite.
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Cheers,

John B.

They're obviously falling out of bed into a snake pit.