Originally Posted by
RH Clark
I ran completely over a dog once. I was on my Surly LHT and the dog was relatively small, around 30 lbs. but I felt both wheels go over. Apparently, the dog was fine, or at least got up and ran off like he was.
Crashes do happen, and I've had a few. Speedy recovery to the OP.
I was riding with my head down once, looked up and suddenly saw a cat 10 feet in front of me. Ran the thing clean over with both wheels. Turned out to be a road kill cat corpse that was already dead, thank god...
I also once saw a guy run over a 7 year old kid. The kid had dashed out of a gate next to the road and then somehow fallen, I guess he fell trying to dodge the cyclist. The cyclist didn't have time to stop and ran over one of the kid's legs with both wheels. It was agreed that the cyclist was not at fault.