Saw my first snake the other day while mountain biking (yes, the first one on five years of mountain biking!) - in fact I damn near ran over it.
Question: now that I'm spooked and paranoid, what protection (if any) do you other MTB'ers use against snakes - or do you just assume (as I have for five years) that you won't come across any.
I would imagine long knicks wouldn't afford much protection
I ran over a small brown snake about a year ago - didn't have time to avoid it. It was crosing the bike path. I was wearing shorts and sandals and managed to get my feet off the pedals in time. Looking down as I went over it, I noticed that it had stopped and was poised to strike.
I once bunnyhopped some pine log barriers we have here in Canberra. When I landed on the other side I just missed a brown snake it lunged for me but missed probably because it just woke up. This just behind the defence offices after coming down mount Pleasant from ADFA. Also I once thought I was going to run over a snake on the bike path as I came around a corner but I was amazed by how fast it got oput of the way. This is gererally the case, the snake is more spooked by you.
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John Henderson said:
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Saw my first snake the other day while mountain biking (yes, the first one on five years of mountain biking!) - in fact I damn near ran over it.
Question: now that I'm spooked and paranoid, what protection (if any) do you other MTB'ers use against snakes - or do you just assume (as I have for five years) that you won't come across any.
I would imagine long knicks wouldn't afford much protection
I ran over a small brown snake about a year ago - didn't have time to avoid it. It was crosing the bike path. I was wearing shorts and sandals and managed to get my feet off the pedals in time. Looking down as I went over it, I noticed that it had stopped and was poised to strike.
