Riding Through Dog Doo

[dlhurst]

Hee, hee, this made me laugh. Last week I was biking before the sun came up and rode through a pile of horse poo. (We live in Amish country so it is everywhere.) I didn't have a chance to avoid it because I didn't see it. I did see the poop fly everywhere by the nice glare of my headlight. Yuck.

I had posted on my Facebook that there should be a "poop detection system" for the bike or at least an app for the iPhone.

[channlluv]

Well, this is pretty gross...I rode past the remains of a dead armadillo. Yes, we do have plenty of them in Texas. The live ones prove that they really are terrible seers...you can almost walk up on one. Maybe that is why they don't see a tire until....well...
Anyhow, there was a dead one on the road. I saw it in plenty of time to plan my line around it...but it was on the top bit of a really steep climb...I was out of the saddle and breathing hard....
and I sucked in a fly. Yes, a dead armadillo fly. It lodged in my throat as flies will do. I coughed and it flew back into my mouth and stuck behind my teeth, where I was able to flick it out with my tounge, but not before it wriggled around in its death (I assume) throwes and spread its germy....parts...about the interior of my mouth.
I stopped mid hill, rinsed my mouth with heed about a million times, and tried to think good thoughts of protein and natural antibodies and...well...I don't know.
It was gross. Gross, I tell you. It made me want to take up knitting. Or scrabble. Or curling.

Oh, Chris, that is just so, so...ack.


I wonder if there's a bike-sized packet of Listerine.


Roxy

[PscyclePath]

The "Rock Dodge" avoidance drill taught in the League road classes as well as a number of bicycle rodeos works as well for dog poo as it does for rocks, nails, and bits of broken glass...

http://www.seattlebiketours.org/memb...ock_dodge.html

[Geonz]

Naw, I'm not so sure. I think the poo reaches out for the tires.

Our nearby tour through Amish country has been affectionately deemed the "tour de manure."

I'm very happy that we don't have that much traffic. There's less road kill and it's easier to get around it.

[kfergos]

The "Rock Dodge" avoidance drill taught in the League road classes as well as a number of bicycle rodeos works as well for dog poo as it does for rocks, nails, and bits of broken glass...

http://www.seattlebiketours.org/memb...ock_dodge.html

This would get your front tire around it, sure, but what about the back tire? Good odds you'd still hit it and spatter poo all over your back and bike.

I still have to vote for roadkill skunk as the nastiest thing to ride through, although all the poo stories sound pretty horrible too. Thank goodness for fenders!

[smilingcat]

There is a fourth option: do a bunny hop over the poo.

still... yuuuucck!

I hope you didn't get it on your cloth. Bike can be washed off and sanitized but poo on cloth. Yeww!!! I'm sorry I'm not being helpful. It's a good thing I don't work for the sanitation system.