ChiliDog

In ONE day on a ride during May, I saw: 3 nuns in full-length, white habits riding along the road, veils flapping in the wind & then a guy riding along pulling a rowboat about half an hour later. Too much strangeness in one day!

Mad Dog JR

I saw a pair or headphones hanging from a branch the otherday on one of my rides. It was kinda odd being out in the woods, maybe some one had them on there backpack/camelback and they got snaged? And today a friend of mine found a brand new tube still in the box lying off the trail...score!

khuon

I sometimes see "tubes" lying about on the trail too. However, they weren't bicycle tubes and they weren't new in the box. I'd surmise that someone did score in that case.

Mad Dog JR

LOL... but thats wrong ?

ZackJones

On the ride today I found a DVD of Janet Jackson's movie "Poetic Justice" on the side of the road. Donna and I stopped and I put it in my pocket and completed the rest of our ride.

Zack

MeHT

On one night ride a bat was flying along with me for about 10 seconds. Then it backed off, but after about a minute I've seen it flying above me again. That was kinda eerie.

ChipRGW

I had a dove, which had been sitting in a puddle on the side of the road, take flight as I approached. It flew in the same direction as I was riding, staying very low. I guess it misjudged my speed as I got closer and closer until it was only a few inches from the front wheel. I called out to the bird to speed up or move over. Instead it moved UP, right in front of my face. We rode that way for about a block, before it finally flew off. Very cool. Fortunately it didn't cr@p on me.

Portent

The strangest thing i have seen while riding is a mid-forties man walking his bike down a hill. I was riding uphill but pulled over to see if everything was alright. He said everything was fine so I went on my way, but I just couldn't understand why anyone would walk a bike down a hill. Granted its not as strange as the goat loving woman but I've only been riding for seven months.

MikeR

I remember a poem from grade school recess:
Little birdie in the sky,
What’s that you dropped in my eye?
I don’t mind. I don’t cry.
I’m just glad cows don’t fly.


Who said that I aint got culture?

SpiderMike

Ironic thing - the top peice or the Tab that you tear off of those Power GEL packets. The side that says "Please don't Litter" face up on the trial.

What I am tired of...riding around the neighborhood and kids ask if I race.

Favorite is the looks on the driver's faces when I am passing them through a school zone.


Ride On!

Jeepbikerun

About two years ago I saw a horse give birth to a colt. It was an early morning ride and the sun was just cresting over the field she was in. Beautiful!

cyclezealot

When I have been riding out in the desert whether California or Nevada, I have been told and noticed that trees out there are decorated with shoes tied together and thrown over branches of trees. Thousands of shoes. How do they get the shoes up that high off of the ground?
I guess it is sort of a Christmas tree thing? Decorating trees with shoes.? Looked weird. Never would have thought of doing such as a gag. Does this happen often in deserts throughout the world.?

gonesh9

I don't know about deserts, but in Eugene there are thousands of shoes tied together and thrown over power lines and tree limbs all over town.

Maybe there was some sort of New Age ceremony or something in the desert where people had to leave their shoes up in the tree or something???

TheRCF

I normally only ride in normal daylight, but recently I went out early in the morning. It was about 40 minutes before sunrise so it wasn't super dark, but pretty dim.

As I was riding on one section of road where I know there has been a lot of tiny pieces of glass, my headlight and the car headlights would hit these little pieces of glass and they would flash like a strobe light on a camera. It was weird because not only were there these neat little flashes, but there were a huge number of them.

Add a little disco music and it would fit right in!

Bob (2 flatless miles and counting)

poupou

Had some small bird fly out of the bush once and enter my front wheel - sqwark ssssshh-BANG-tusssssssh! Feathers EVERY where.

I've been attacked by magpies out on Raglan devi. They swooped awful low and hit me but didn't draw blood. (this was long before helmets came onto the scene) Protecting their brood I expect. The sound of beating wings coming ever closer is one I'll never forget.



About three days out from Kashgar en route to Islamabad we came across a man waiting patiently for a bus, on a bridge. We hadn't seen any house or accommodation or life! of any sort WHATSOEVER for two hours previously nor any for an hour after.

On the same trip but a day or so later (near Karakul lake) we came across a family selling trinkets in front of their house @ 3500m and in a howling gale. We bought some naan and the wind ripped the ten yuan note out of my hand. The youngest kid is probably still chasing it.

In a road race we were joined by a thoroughbred racehorse for about three miles.

In Holland it is not uncommon to see the whole family take to their bikes to go on vacation. In front the 10yr old on a bmx, then Dad with son behind visor affixed to handlebars and another child in rear seat followed by a trailor with baby and gear. Mum follows with panniers front and rear.

When the helmet law came in, I bought a helmet for my mum. My dad, who scoffed at compulsory helmet use, brought the salad to that night's dinnertable in it.

In NZ the driver is on the right. So you can imagine a Great Dane coming down the road sitting in the passenger seat of a '68 mustang. Next to its 70-year-old five foot tall owner

The road is hard but so am I

psycholist

Once I was cruising down a gravel road next to a cowpasture and was looking out across this beautiful green field of spring fescue when I was amazed to see something bright yellow and roughly the size of a banana fall staight out of the sky and land about 100 feet out in the grass. I stopped and stared at the spot, telling myself that bananas don't drop out of the sky in the middle of nowhere. (Coke bottles and aborigines!! The GODS MUST BE CRAZY) Knowing I could not just ride away and finish my life never knowing what the thing was, I laid my bike down and, keeping my gaze on that spot in the field, went to investigate.
I still don't know what it was...my ass got in the way crawling under the hotwire fence and it blasted a giant red mark onto my left buttcheek right through my sweaty (water and electricity...wow) spandex. Surely scared some cows, couldn't find the dang spot again. I'll never know.

You tell me!! :confused:

bluesref

Snip....
I don't know about deserts, but in Eugene there are thousands of shoes tied together and thrown over power lines and tree limbs all over town.
....Snip

Would seem like urban advertising.

hillyman

caroljm36

Not really weird--but I wish WalMart would change the color of their bags from blue to green or brown. I always see one hanging in a shrub or tree somewhere. Stick out like sore thumbs. Maybe on my next long recovery ride, I'll make a point of stopping and pulling them out.

Dazza

lol good stuff.

I was honestly crying with laughter at that mate, cheers!

Weird thing i saw - A german/austrian guy who had travelled 1999kms to where i met him, from dublin, to dublin.In two weeks

I saw a rabbit get ran over by a mercedes, its head actually exploded, and there was a loud POP, Brains flew all over the road.

scary thing, i was going downhill *road* at 45mph, round a blind corner, i overtook a car in front of me, into the path of an oncoming car, swerved and missed it, put went straight into a pot hole, im just damn lucky i dont weigh 250lbs or my Fir rims woulda been toast

I would have searched for days, things like that must be solved.

PS. Audioslave rule