Re: Unbearable

DaveB wrote, in reference to
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10682729%255E13762,00.html

Quoted message said:

Maybe magpies aren't that much of a hazard after all.

I had always thought holding your bike over your head was a rather excessive
gesture and for show offs but a friend who did one of those organised
charity rides in the great state of Montana said no, it is something the
alert defensive cyclist needs to know in places where moose wander.

The theory goes that when confronting a moose, a bike held over your head
gives the appearance of being a bigger moose, and the humbled creature goes
elsewhere in search of sport.

Wonder if it would work with the killer geese that tried to unseat me in my
last country road race? - perhaps only the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
would work there.

best, Andrew

Andrew Price said:

DaveB wrote, in reference to
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10682729%255E13762,00.html

Quoted message said:

Maybe magpies aren't that much of a hazard after all.

I had always thought holding your bike over your head was a rather excessive
gesture and for show offs but a friend who did one of those organised
charity rides in the great state of Montana said no, it is something the
alert defensive cyclist needs to know in places where moose wander.

The theory goes that when confronting a moose, a bike held over your head
gives the appearance of being a bigger moose, and the humbled creature goes
elsewhere in search of sport.

Wonder if it would work with the killer geese that tried to unseat me in my
last country road race? - perhaps only the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
would work there.

best, Andrew

I have heard this theory from a cuzz in the US who worked on a ranch out the back of Yellowstone Park. The bears were all over his property to get away form the tourists during the day (they spend the nights scavenging the campsites and even pull doors off cars apparently if your car happens to have something yummy/meat related in it. OT but if your female and in the middle of your menstrual cycle, dont camp out. Your likely to wake up with a faceful of bear, apparently. That is if you wake up... ) and he is an avid mtber. Apparently the bluff works 50% of the time. the other 50% you get in some sprint practice

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David Springthorpe said:

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10682729%255E13762,00.html

DS

Maybe magpies aren't that much of a hazard after all.

fought of a grizzly with pepper spray !! maybe that's something we
should carry around to use on irate motorists ?

the grizzly I mean, not the pepper spray....