+1

I hiss at 'em too and boy do they get out of the way in a hurry. Especially the little ones.

Fenders!

When I was a kid our next door neighbor kept a pair of honkers as pets (wings were clipped). They made pretty good watchdogs, actually. Couldn't fetch worth a damn though.

hahahaha

When I used to ride the canal I carried water bottles just for the geese. If you spray them with watever liquid you put in it, they will usually get out your way and leave you alone. Also, when you get good at it you don't even have to slow down.

I wish I had a pic of my buddy with a goose pulling his shirt as he sped down the path. It was all I could do to not crash into the water as I laughed at him.

First of all, they are called "Canada Geese". It's a name, not a nationality, just like the America's Cup (named after the boat America, not the country). Second, unless maybe you're someone who only got on a bike recently to beat gasoline prices, most people who cycle are also lovers of nature. If you're riding on bikepaths where there are geese, slow down and ride around them carefully. There were many on my ride along the Rideau Canal this morning, including many chicks. I love seeing them. But don't hit them. Those things are a pretty fair size.

Did they bring any weed with them? I hear that's some primo medical grade $hit.

I'm still calling them Canadian. j/k

You know your project at work is starting to bore you when you read the entire wikipedia entry on the canada goose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Goose

Sure, but that doesn't help with the poop being slippery when wet.

Knobbies.

release a couple coyotes onto the path. Your goose problem will disappear in about 24 hours.

Then when the coyotes become a problem, release a couple gorillas onto the path.

Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

Geese in Central New York absolutely are a nuisance. They think they own the place, and they've even been expanding their influence through legislation somehow. The last straw was the signs on Onondaga Lake Parkway that read along the lines of, "Caution! Slow! Geese!" Seriously?

Sorry that's a poorly framed analogy - unless of course you are thinking that the OP is a goose and this forum is a bikepath??.........otherwise I just don't get your point.

Of course that might explain it - perhaps I just haven't taken the time to really sit back and appreciate how cunningly insightful your post was...

Great, now we have to accommodate mentally disabled geese as well?

Calling Dick Cheney

They're only Canadian if they are from Canada. In which case, they are Canadian Canada Geese.
According to experts who are supposed to know about such things, Canada Goose Poo is not a health hazard, unless you fall because of it. Dog Poo, on the other hand, is a health hazard.
Run the other way real fast if you see the VP coming to shoot geese.

Uh huh.

Well, there's no need to curse!

Ride on baby!

I bike along the I&M canal path, southwest of CHicago. I was once dive bombed twice after I had zipped past a family that had already safely exited the path for the water just before I passed. Momma was just one angry bird!! Have been chased down the trail this year. 6' wing span filling the rear view mirror is intimidating. Today encountered the same two geese and their 9 not yet flying progeny, just spread all over the trail and grazing in the grass at the side. Made all the noise I could but they just went about their business. After a ten minute wait while they waddled a few feet down the path, someone coming from the other direction, who also stopped, apparently convinced them to exit far enough for me to get by. This time only got hissed at. But seeing that they can cause mayhem and not really wanting to risk a fall (the last one resulted in a new hip), I guess I'll just wait them out.

Zombie Thread Alert! Six years sleeping.
And the danged Geese are still a major nuisance.

Haha! We send all our unwanted crap south, like geese and Justin Bieber.

Geese make great guard "dogs."

https://www.npr.org/2012/05/05/152092...ese-saved-rome

Zombie threads are fun. I got taken down by a duck once. It became startled when I rode by and it flew right . . . into . . . my . . . rear wheel. It took me down fast. I was picking out duck feathers from my campy NR RD for a while. The front wheel was so bent up from the crash that I had to pop off the front brake so that it would pass through the frame after I "trued" the wheel by slamming it into the pavement for a while. And then I still have around 10 miles to ride to get home.

Just think how bad it would be if there were still wild bison on your path. And yes they lived as far east as the Adirondacks.


Oops - there probably were wild bison in New York when this thread was new.

Six years ago? There were wild bison in New York six years ago? Or are we talking some non-standard definition of years like when people want to argue about if the Bible means "days" when it says "days"? (Haven't got a dog in the fight either way. Just looking for clarification and feeling a little sassy cuz it's my Friday.)