Yikes
My My My bikerhen you sure do have interesting rides. Golf Balls, Trucks, Snakes. LRRH will seem dull after all this.
Im pleased to hear you were ok. No advice from me I would have freaked.
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05-26-2006, 11:00 AM #1
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The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
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05-26-2006, 11:38 AM #2
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I'd have treated taht snake as a railroad track and aimed for perpendicularity and a little bit of hop and getting over as fast as I could. If it were parallel, though, I'd have dodged it.
More likely, I'd have just FREAKED... you did great!!!
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05-26-2006, 11:44 AM #3
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glad you and the snake are ok
my vote would be c but I'm just glad it wasn't b.
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05-26-2006, 12:32 PM #4
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WOW!
I THINK I would've bunny-hopped the snake........ Just an instinctual reaction combined with fear of getting hit by the truck. When things happen that fast, it's hard to know for sure. I HOPE that's what I'd have done. Such a relief that you made it okay!!!
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05-28-2006, 06:58 PM #5
I ain't a chick any more!
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I'm really not a wild and crazy cyclist, I am a careful rider. But who would have thought there would be a snake slithering along the shoulder? The underpass is narrow, but not more than 25 ft long. So if you go fast enough you can beat car and trucks through. I go through this coming and going every day so I have it pretty well figured out. I usually slow down if there is something big coming too fast behind me but . . . not if I think I can beat them.
I was just sailing that day, with the wind at my back.
The snake was all over the shoulder, I don't think it wanted to be there either. It looked fairly big around, maybe over two inches? I have issues with stomping on bug! I could never run over a snake.
The shying thing is VERY horse like! I trade in my horses for a bike. I though I was done with that sort of behavior.
I'll tell you one thing, I will always be looking for that snake now! bikerHen
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