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  1. #1
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    Riding Through Dog Doo

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    YUCK!!!!!! My bike STINKS!!!

    Geez, what a mess! Has anyone else ever done this? I don't recommend it.

    I had three choices:

    #1 Swerve around poo and get hit by car
    #2 Swerve off road and into ditch/blackberry patch
    #3 Ride through poo

    I chose the poo. I gave my bike a full bath, but I still think it stinks. Although dog doo is one of those smells that kinda gets stuck in your nose, so maybe that's what I'm smelling. It was kinda hard to tell where the poo went, but I think there might be some lodged in my cassette. Evidently it was fresh, so it splattered pretty good. GROSS!!!

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    EEEEWWWWW! No, I've never rode through dog poo, but given your options, I guess I would have done the same thing.
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    Oh, nasty. I guess the lesser of three evils, although I think I might have taken my chances in the blackberry brambles.

    I can't stand dog poo. I sure don't envy you.

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    I'm sorry, but it made me laugh.

    I hope the stink lessens quickly.

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  5. #5
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    yes, and it's nasty. I rode through some last summer, it splashed or was flung up on my legs, as well as on my bike. I stopped and go the chunks off my legs and my bike and continued on to the trail, but when it went by the river I got off an waded in- I didn't want to smell that the whole ride.
    vickie

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    I was in South Georgia in the first two weeks of July. Farm country and our retirement home(can't wait to get out of Miami). Riding along my 20 mile farm road when I see a huge lump in the road...yup it's a dead armadillo. My choices... ride through the dead animal parts or take the left side of the road on an uphill. If a car is coming around the turn I am dead. Yup right through the armadillo. I came home and washed the bike. It's all in my head but I swear I still have animal parts in my tire. As Forest Gump would say..."It happens".

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    eeeeewwwwwww

    That reminds me again of something I posted two years ago:
    http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showp...35&postcount=3

    Gross as doo is, I think i'd rather 'ride the doo'.
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  8. #8
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    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.

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    This is hilarious...yesterday, I almost went through horse poo and was thinking "now wouldn't that make an interesting thread".
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    yeah dead raccoon would be worse than dog sh1t.
    but dog sh1t would be pretty gross I agree.
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    Yuck, what a crappy ride! Definitely the least of three evils but gross--why can't people stoop and scoop?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Silver View Post
    This is hilarious...yesterday, I almost went through horse poo and was thinking "now wouldn't that make an interesting thread".
    Heh, I did too!

    I also immediately thought "thank god I'm too lazy to take off my fenders!"
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    dead skunk is the nastiest thing I've had to ride through!

    Karen in Boise

  14. #14
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    I'm not sure if I'd prefer dog poo or road kill. I guess it would depend on where it landed and/or how much it splattered. And maybe on the exact state of the road kill. In this particular case, I'd take my poo over Lisa's putrid road kill racoon!!!

    Eeew, now I'm getting grossed out. And I'm cracking up!
    Last edited by RolliePollie; 08-02-2009 at 09:53 PM.

  15. #15
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    I was hitching (motor pacing) behind Yin’s Camry and she accidentally ran over a full-size, road-killed opossum. It made two loud thuds along with its innards that got sprayed all over me. When I got to the office, my colleagues thought that I was hit by her car.

 

 

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