Today I ran over...

[Eden]

A piece of poor Jack!..... Someone had been smashing jack o' lanterns in the road.... I didn't see a big old piece of poor Jack's head and ran it over. Scared me cause it was *big*.

[Librarygirl]

....a big speed bump, at speed!! Closest I've come so far to falling off my bike, hard! I totally didn't see it, even as I ran over it - both hands were jolted off the handlebars, felt like me and the bike flew about a foot into the air, but somehow I managed to regain control and ride on - phew!

[redrhodie]

Not today, but recently, some kind of wild berry that gets all over my down tube. My friend's dog thinks my bike is delicious. I caught him licking my tires.

The other day, riding up this same friend's driveway, which is covered with leaves over acorns. I was doing a comical Fred Flintstone maneuver, pedaling but going nowhere. Usually acorns are no big deal, but with the leaves over them, they became really slippery.

[RolliePollie]

Not today, but recently, some kind of wild berry that gets all over my down tube. My friend's dog thinks my bike is delicious. I caught him licking my tires.

How funny! In the past I've caught my cat licking my tires and my pedals. No clue what was on there.

[VABikerChic]

Recently, I hit (not ran over) a very large (larger than a grapefruit), crumpled piece of rusty metal. I believe the metal (unidentifiable) glob fell off a truck transporting crushed cars??? I was riding across a busy bridge in the early evening hours and I didn't see the debris until the last minute plus it resembled a leaf. I was biking pretty fast and hit the debris so hard that my bike started wobbling and swerving. Instinctively, I kicked my feet out of my power grips to try regain some sort of balance. My husband was ahead of me and had no idea what was happening. I had visions of hitting a car, hitting the concrete, or going over the wall into the river. It was the scariest moment I've had so far on a bike. I have no idea how I regained control except I had a guardian angel that day. Of course, I had a flat tire though.

[skhill]

Sunday evening, after dark, I ran through a fairly fresh pile of horse sh*t. And yeah, my dog was very interested!

There are trucks going past my house on the way to a junkyard/ metal recycling center every day, and sometimes they shed. I'm always keeping my eyes open, on bike or foot, and will stop and move things off the street.