JTred

This thread was really popular and fun for a while on Ford Truck World's forum and Thumpertalk's forum, so I thought I'd give it a try here. What is the scariest, strangest, or funniest thing you've ever seen while biking?




P.S. The rules aren't strict, they also extend to hiking, dirtbikes, quads, horseback riding etc.

Dannihilator

Copperhead snake.

TheLostVertex

I was riding through a dense mangroovve trail by a series of lates, i came into a small opening that was about a 6 foot shoreline. There i meet a 6 foot alligator about 2 feet from where I stopped on the shore line. I wouldnt have stopped if i knew it was right there.

Luke52

Well, not really FINDING something, but still creepy..

I had a dream that I was riding down a trail, and there was a car wreck up ahead and body parts spread all over the place.

Few weeks later I was on a ride, and had a massive deja vu, the track I was riding down was VERY similar to the one in the my dream, so I got a tad spooked

bikinfool

Dead guy, committed suicide with a pill overdose by the looks of it sometime the night before. He found a nice place just off the trail with a nice view (of San Pablo Bay, we were in China Camp State Park). We thought we we were going to have to end the ride (it was towards the beginning of the ride on the first climb) but some hikers came down the hill and said they'd go to the ranger station. They couldn't have made it down by the time we heard all the sirens converging from below as we continued climbing, though, so guess several had the experience that morning....

Dannihilator

A 1926 ford.

markhr

When cycling in a thunderstorm very close lightning strikes give a preceding weird prickly sensation as your hair stands on end and then, during/after the strike, deafen, temporarily blind and leave a green after effect in your vision like millions of fairy lights from reflecting off the Mica in Granite boulders.

Yeah, that was scary.

pOrk

I broadsided a small deer at Crystal Ridge last fall, I laughed my ass off. Nothing much more exciting then that happens around here, cept for the people I ride with cause I crash all the time.

longbeachgary

There's a small bridge that connects Coyote Creek and the San Gabriel River bike paths. As I'm approaching the bridge, I found out why it's called Coyote Creek - a coyote is coming off the bridge as I'm about 10-15 feet from getting on. Got my heart rate up....

michaeldmanthey

Black Bear on gravel road of Tiger Mountain in Issaquah, WA. I never want to find a dead person on a ride.

pinkrobe

Scariest
- I came around a corner [climbing] and 30m ahead is a big brown rock. As I ride 10m closer, I see that the big brown rock is eating berries, has little round ears and has turned to look at me. **** - grizzly. I did a 180 and big-ringed it all the way back to the trailhead.

Most annoying
- I was riding up a nice bit o' tight singletrack in a local park with 5 friends, and spot a big something coming down the trail toward us. It was what looked to be a 12-year old girl in full dressage gear on the back of one of the biggest horses I had ever seen. She seemed to be having a hard time controlling it and looked scared. She didn't stop, so we all had to bail into the shrubbery [trail tread was only 12" wide, full width of the trail was about 4']. No apologies, no thank-yous and her ride had left some steaming goodies for us about 100' further up the climb.

dminor 

Tucked back in the woods? GPS coordinates??

Scariest encounter:
Bombing down a logging road behind my place - - rounded a corner and met a young bull moose right in my path.

junkyard

Came around a corner and wound up face to face with Gastro. I haven't ridden outdoors since.

Dannihilator

Was in NH and you wouldn't want it, half of it was missing.

CCrew

Funniest? Wife and I took a trip up to PA, to a trail known as "Pike to Bike". It's a section of the original PA Turnpike near Breezewood that's abandoned and has several cool tunnels on it.

We're at the end of one of the tunnels when a guy comes riding out of the tunnel - no big deal, right? Well, it was a middle aged fat guy, and he was buck naked. Rode by us without a care in the world.

dminor 

That may not be a problem, depending on the half: I have two pre-'26 cowls, 3 or 4 doors, a pair of turtle-deck quarters and some odds 'n ends. Of course being in NH, what's left probably has fatal rot. But if it was part of a C-cab, I'd be all over it.

CCrew

I thought he was talking about the moose

sirtigersalot

half an elk ("hmm i wonder what ate that")

my friend works at one of those haunted forest deals in october, we rode through it one day, it was quite ammusing and made for funny pictures

Lebowski

one time i thought i saw a human skeleton but it was just from a cow

my old man found a dead guy, who blew his brains out, in the woods about a mile from where i ride.

Yotsko

Creepy - While on my dirtbike back in high school, my buddy and I stopped on a 3-way intersection on a logging road to remember the way back. While we were stopped, three overall-with-no-shirt clad rednecks road out of the woods on four-wheelers, circled around us twice, then took off back into the woods. We were probably close to either their "crop" or a meth lab. You can find all kinds of wierd **** back in woods of the NW.

Dannihilator

Come June it will be 4 years since I was last in New Hampshire, so I don't even know if it's still there even.

M_S

I ran two feet by a rattlesnake, which rattled...right as I passed. Also had one cross 4 feet in front of me while hiking.

I also got 2 flats on that ride...bad mojo.

Trekbikedude

saw a hooker giving head to some nerdy dude.

mcoine

Not strange or scary.. but interesting. Last summer while riding in Ashland, Oregon I rode past Jen Moss.. a woman who rides her bike around Ashland topless all the time. yes.. she was topless and wearing a short skirt made of grass or something.. and flip flops.


https://news.aol.ca/article/Woman-Pla...July-4/261771/

cdry

Don't post here alot, but had to add to this.

Southwest suburbs of Chicago. Riding off of some main trails came across a boulder that was engraved telling me that below me was buried the world first nuclear reactor. Went on to describe the whole University of Chicago Fermi lab splitting the atom etc. This was about 10 miles from the current Argon National Labs. There were also a number of small pipes coming out of the ground. This marker is pretty well hidden.