Doing rides on a rabbit-infested road (and I mean, on a 20 km round trip, I could count twenty on march, forty on april and seventy on june) like I did in A'dam can be extremely adrenalin-burst-inducing. I sometimes thought of hitting one and cooking it afterwards, but then, for some reason I envisioned myself as the injured one so I didn't dare.

Maybe I should have called this tread Squirrel Hitter instead?
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Just living up to my stereotype!

The thing that I've seen is they can't make up their mind and zigzag around until the last second so their quickness doesn't help them -- it actually works against them. Although the time that I had the squirrel run inside my wheel I was going fairly slowly and it just ran straight at me. And that bike has 32 spoke wheels, so not low spoke count. Thought for sure I was going to have to pull a dead squirrel out of my wheel, but the only thing left behind were a few tufts of hair.

it's not like we are all trying to hit the squirrels I mean the cats probably would like that but I'm sure we are more worried about the varmints then we are about ourselves at that time!

They are well trained and organized. We found a vidy of one of their trainings be afraid be very afraid!
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153105751844602&pnref=story

I'd rather not hurt a squirrel either, but they're squirrelly. By definition. However, I have seen enough pictures of wrecked cyclists that I definitely worry about me when I see a squirrel running around on the road.

One of those evil little varmints is climbing a tree right outside my window as I type this. Every now and then he pauses to shake his tail. I don't know what that means, but I assume he's up to no good.

Elephants are the real danger. Hopefully, i don't see much crossing the streets here in Canada. ;)

Squirrels are nowhere near as sinister as penguins

In another thread someone asked about building a 24 spoke wheel , this thread made me think about sharpening the edges of your flat bladed spokes .

so it will slice thru a squirrel as Easily as the Guillotines of the French Revolution decapitated .

I haven't watched Wallace and Gromit is ages! But to avoid digressing, I doubt Penguins or Elephants are going to wreak havoc in Minnesota ... Unless I detour through the zoo.

ok that is awesome

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MMMMM! Squirrel
 

I saw bunnies tracks in the fresh snow this morning. :eek:

I like squirrels.

I've never hit one, but have noticed that I have more close encounters with them when riding on trails or paths, vs roads. When I do see them by the roads I usually have much more time and space to avoid 'em. Tight trails with thick vegetation on the sides are the problem, not the cute innocent little critters!

Let's guess other things people hate as well -

1) snakes
2) rain
3) sun
4) wind
5) vehicles
6) dogs
7）...

Last but not least, humans.

Solution - ride a stationary bike, or get a trainer

Well, if you go to spinning class there might be some attractive buns in front of you, so maybe your idea has merit. I'm too antisocial (and cheap) to buy a gym membership, so it wouldn't work for me. I'll just deal with weather, traffic, and animals.

That's not bunnies.........that's him...

http://onlypositive.net/image.axd?pi...g-squirrel.jpg



.....or maybe him.....




http://doubtfulnewscom.c.presscdn.co...onsquirrel.jpg

+2 on the tree rat comments. My neighbor feeds the little beasts, so they are everywhere in my neighborhood. I thin them out with my pellet *** when they start destroying too much of my yard, but haven't brought myself to where I can eat one yet (see tree rat comment).

They did a lot of damage to our house, chewing holes in the soffits, peak vents, etc to get in during the spring and fall.

Problem solvers are these precision air powered .22 and .25 pellet delivery devices, hardware cloth and sheets of aluminum for armor plating:

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/...c/147be3d6.jpg


http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/...c/00ab7ec4.jpg

A suggestion someone made in another BF squirrel thread years ago: to make sure you don't hit a squirrel in the road, aim for the squirrel. That's what they expect predators to do.

So stop confusing them. They're better at avoiding you than you are at avoiding them.

OMGosh! DON'T FEED THE SQUIRRELS AFTER MIDNIGHT! <shudder>

A Flying Squirrel!

Deer would be at the top of my hate list. It just a matter of time of time before one jumps in front of my car or bike and does some serious damage to my wallet and maybe my health.

The squirrel launcher is so mean.

I think it's too much too. I got my Dad something once for feeding the squirrels that he and the squirrels love. It's an eye hook attached to one end of a spring. The other end of the spring has a cord attached to it, and you put an ear of corn on the eye hook so it's hanging off the ground. The squirrels bounce around on it while eating the corn, and it's pretty amusing to watch.

Squirrels can have winter olympic games too.
Personally, i've always prefered figure skating over ski jumping

Die Squirrel!
 

A close relative of the gopher. Deserves a hideous death!