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Found a new one on the way home from Kinglake on the Greensborough bypass -The Squashed turkey sprint! And thanks to the guy who asked if I needed a hand with my puncture, ahh the generosity of (most) cyclists! Jono -- Jono L |
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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!!! -- gplama |
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"gplama" wrote in message
... 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!!! I saw one of those turkey thingos when riding up to Kinglake before Christmas.....it was towards the top where you go past all the ferns.....this one was alive though and legged it across the road in front of me (it was pretty early in the morning and I didn't have a single car pass me either direction for the whole climb!!). Also saw an echidna on the same trip only about 150m or so shy of the roundabout at Kinglake. Haven't seen any white wombats but I did see four black wombats in the space of 2 hours riding between Viewbank and Templestowe on the Yarra Singletrack one night late last year. The first one came barelling down the hill and crossed the track about a metre in front of me....scared the crap out of me. There were also stacks of rabbits then......not too many now since baits were put out a little while ago. My kids used to love riding along there and counting how many rabbits they saw but the count has dropped from 100+ a couple of months ago to 2 last weekend!!! Gags |
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Spied a big owl last Saturday night in Royal Park alongside the Upfield line, it was probably waiting for some poor ******* (without decent lights) to go off the steps onto Manningham St. Probably a very well-fed owl .. -- cfsmtb |
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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! |
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Bleve Wrote: 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! 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. -- jazmo |
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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! -- Bean "squeak" Remove "yourfinger" before replying |
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Bean Long Wrote: 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! -- Bean "squeak" Remove "yourfinger" before replying 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. -- warrwych |
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warrwych Wrote: 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. 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. That said i only ever came across deer which caused many sketchy moments when they freak out on the road and try to run away with hooves on the bitumen while your descending towards them at 80+. Didnt see any mooses unfortunately. -- byron27 |
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As we headed down to Cotter Xing on a training ride a couple of weeks
ago (in the dark at 6:00 am) the guy next to me told me the story of a mate in his regular bunch who did a face plant after a hare ran into his wheel. Apparently the hare had one leg severed by the spokes/forks and three other following riders hit the dust. Not something I wanted to hear coming into a dark valley at 50+ kph with little vision of what's on the side of the road! -- Bean Remove "yourfinger" before replying |
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