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Bicycle Accident
Ned Mantei wrote:
On 30-10-18 07:58, James wrote: On 30/10/18 11:39 am, Frank Krygowski wrote: When my wife, daughter and I did our coast-to-coast ride, we were on a gravel road in North Dakota when a woman driving a pickup truck stopped us. She explained that another pair of touring cyclists just ahead of us had spooked her cattle so badly they stampeded right through a barbed wire fence and up the road. Her family was herding the cows back down the gravel road, opposite the direction we were riding. She asked us to please hide ourselves behind some huge hay rolls in the adjacent pasture until they had passed by. So we took a snack break there, and after a while got to watch cowboys on horses plus another pickup truck move the herd. At least we didn't have to disassemble our bikes.* :-) Yes, I've been asked to wait for cattle being driven along the road reserve.* Some horses are particularly skittish around bicycles too. It's the owners' fault, they should themselves have used cycles (including recumbents) early on to teach their animals that bicycles aren't predators! /city lawyer ebike tourist I've seen this sort of thing only once. Going up into an out-of-the-way valley (Val Sinestra) there was a trail of cows coming down from their summer pasture (https://flic.kr/p/bH8xNB ) Surprisingly, they were led by several horses, with no humans around (https://flic.kr/p/bH8xK4 ). I moved to the side to let them pass, but left my bike close to the road. The cows avoided this strange object, but still kept going (https://flic.kr/p/bH8xT4 ). Humans appeared later in an SUV, after all the cows had passed. Where the trail ends closer to settled areas, coming down from the pasture at the end of summer ("Alpabzug") can be a sort of parade, with the cows being decked out for the celebration (https://flic.kr/p/2bqbDB9 and https://flic.kr/p/NKW6cX , or https://flic.kr/p/bHacdR ). At other times I've encountered groups of cows right on the road. Often it was easy to go around them (https://flic.kr/p/LxHLkD ), but once I had to walk right through the group. They didn't seem to care at all, and let me pass. The only unpleasant part was that they were surrounded by clouds of flies. And somehow touching: Once I was standing at the side of the road looking at a map, when a cow came over and started to lick the sweat off my arm. An unusual but not unpleasant sensation... You absolutely need to upgrade your trusted, but sodium-free Traktion King! http://myhome.iolfree.ie/~hardshell/bo/fish/tk.html Be a prepared Joerg and don't leave home without this: https://www.salz.ch/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/3906.jpg |
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