Today I was on my usual bike route when I decided to go off on a side road. I have gone off on this road a few times, it has a decent hill and there's a nice view of some land. I usually go about a mile down and back.

This is a country road, with maybe 2-3 houses at the end before I usually turn around because it turns into gravel. As the first house approached, I noticed a pack of 4-5 dogs that were on the side of the house. When the dogs were aware of my presence they started running towards the road. I had a tree blocking my view of the front of this house but I was hoping that there was a fence of some kind. Turns out that there wasn't, and the front dog was maybe 2-3 inches away from my bike as I swerved over to my right to avoid hit by it. I went down the road a ways and tried to turn around, sneakily passing the dogs but this time they were more quick on the defensive and were right there waiting for me so I had to panic brake and turn around. This caused me to go down a rough gravel road for 2 miles before I found the local highway.

Were these dogs gonna attack me? Who knows, but I wasn't willing to find out. They were acting very aggressively and I didn't want to take any chances. Have you guys ever had incidents with dogs while out on a ride?