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 2010-08-23 12:02 PM in reply to: #3058259 |
Pro  5361   |  Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw...TriAya - 2010-08-23 6:11 AM Wow, where do I start? The lady-of-the-night who may or may not have been of apparent gender (and was perhaps mistaken about mine, who knows?) running after my BIKE propositioning me. Oh, I used to run and ride on Venice Beach, so name it -- woman in a meat bikini, dark oiled bodybuilders in gold thongs eating fire, this guy who used to ride a tricycle built with car tyres riding in a Speedo with a parrot on his handlebars, Chinese acrobats, really any performer imaginable ... Oh yes, the dead stuffed (real) monkeys on top of the two-storey-high bamboo poles with windmills on the top that moan in the wind, and cut to moan even more ... you win. |
| 2010-08-23 12:22 PM in reply to: #3057475 |
Extreme Veteran 1112  Las Vegas | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... Need I say more? http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/gliderdave/?action=view¤t=2212010021.jpg Edited by SWIM2LIVE 2010-08-23 12:24 PM |
| 2010-08-23 12:28 PM in reply to: #3058259 |
Master 1932 Savannah, | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... TriAya - 2010-08-23 9:11 AM Wow, where do I start? The lady-of-the-night who may or may not have been of apparent gender (and was perhaps mistaken about mine, who knows?) running after my BIKE propositioning me. Oh, I used to run and ride on Venice Beach, so name it -- woman in a meat bikini, dark oiled bodybuilders in gold thongs eating fire, this guy who used to ride a tricycle built with car tyres riding in a Speedo with a parrot on his handlebars, Chinese acrobats, really any performer imaginable ... Oh yes, the dead stuffed (real) monkeys on top of the two-storey-high bamboo poles with windmills on the top that moan in the wind, and cut to moan even more ... The monkey thing is just going to give me nightmares....aaaagh! Had a bike collision with a live armadillo. Saw a bear on Sat on my bike. Saw false eyelashes on a run in key west....... Weirdest NON training sight? Saw a white girl with cornrows, barefoot, in a black satin nascar jacket sucking on a giant pickle. At Walmart. Shudder. |
| 2010-08-23 12:30 PM in reply to: #3059050 |
Melon Presser 52116 | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... morey000 - 2010-08-24 1:02 AM TriAya - 2010-08-23 6:11 AM Wow, where do I start? The lady-of-the-night who may or may not have been of apparent gender (and was perhaps mistaken about mine, who knows?) running after my BIKE propositioning me. Oh, I used to run and ride on Venice Beach, so name it -- woman in a meat bikini, dark oiled bodybuilders in gold thongs eating fire, this guy who used to ride a tricycle built with car tyres riding in a Speedo with a parrot on his handlebars, Chinese acrobats, really any performer imaginable ... Oh yes, the dead stuffed (real) monkeys on top of the two-storey-high bamboo poles with windmills on the top that moan in the wind, and cut to moan even more ... you win. Big fish little pond. I just happen to have lived in some really weird places. I had a friend who was chased by penguins during an ultramarathon on Antarctica ... |
| 2010-08-23 12:32 PM in reply to: #3059102 |
Regular 101 KDEN | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... SWIM2LIVE - 2010-08-23 11:22 AM Need I say more? http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/gliderdave/?action=view¤t=2212010021.jpg Nothing strange about that! Did you stop in?  |
| 2010-08-23 3:34 PM in reply to: #3057475 |
Expert 1183 Fort Wayne, IN | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... |
| 2010-08-23 5:55 PM in reply to: #3057475 |
Member 319 Seattle, WA | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... In a race I saw a guy wearing an aero helmet with no aero bars. Why bother?While training I once saw an, ahem, adult toy shaped like a part of the male anatomy on the side of the road. Really glad I never found out WHY it was there! |
| 2010-08-25 8:37 PM in reply to: #3059836 |
Master 1929 Midlothian, VA | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... Yesterday I'm out in the farm country and I'm constantly scanning the sides of the road looking for dogs. I did see one dog out at the side of the road. He watched me go buy without chasing, but I think he started barking AFTER I passed. That however was not the fun part. At one point I see something up ahead and wonder, "Is that a dog? Kinda big for a dog. And pale too." It was a PIG. Just rooting around at the side of the road in a ditch. Didn't see or hear me coming. As I passed, it looked up, JUMPED up in the air backwards, almost fell over, and hit the ground running back in the direction I came from. If I laughed any harder I'd have fallen off my bike! -eric |
| 2010-08-25 10:00 PM in reply to: #3057475 |
Expert 2547 The Woodlands, TX | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... #1. Once I was in a group ride of about 30. In front of us a few deer crossed the road but left one behind. the last deer started running to cross right as we passed and turned with us so as not to get hit. He ended up smack dab in the middle of the pack running along with us. After about 30 yards in the pace line he rolled to the left and crossed the street. Never seen anything like it and figured about 10 of us were about to crash. No one did. #2 riding across a bridge over a river I saw a piece of wood on the shoulder, pointed it out and everyone moved to the left to avoid. As we passed I looked down to inspect it further to realize it was an ENORMOUS rubber dild0. Laughed so hard I almost got dropped. |
| 2010-08-25 10:30 PM in reply to: #3057475 |
Veteran 259 Austin, TX | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... Had a fawn run and slip and fall on the road about 10 ft in front of me on the bike. It recovered and took off as fast as it could. Fox and possum on the run the next morning. It was a weekend full of fauna sightings. |
| 2010-08-26 12:09 AM in reply to: #3057475 |
Veteran 143 | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... 1) Finishing up a ride near my home I saw two people walking what appeared to be BIG dogs. When I got closer I realized that they were not dogs at all, but Miniture Horses! These little guys were like the size of Great Danes. 2) Momma deer and fawn in a industrial area. I stopped and watched them for a little while unitl they took off. 3) Elton John on a Vespa in London with papparatzi and fans all around. That was pretty funny seeing a super celebrity on a Vespa in downtown London |
| 2010-08-26 6:29 AM in reply to: #3057475 |
| Extreme Veteran 320 Chelsea, MI | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... A 5" crawfish walking down the side of a dirt road in Michigan. Saw him again 45 min later on the way back. It had gone a couple of hundred yards. still following the edge of the road. Questions entering my mind... How did it get there? Where was it going? |
| 2010-08-26 6:58 AM in reply to: #3057475 |
| 88 | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... Just last night while riding my buddy and I saw an enormous fish laying in the grass on the side of the road. There is not a body of water anywhere nearby. This fish was huge, probably 20 lbs or larger and fully intact. It had not started smelling fishy yet so it could not have been there long in the 90+ degree heat. My best guess is that it maybe flopped out of someone's cooler in the back of their truck???? |
| 2010-08-26 8:19 AM in reply to: #3064556 |
Extreme Veteran 360 Jacksonville, FL | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... SpeedAgent - 2010-08-26 7:58 AM Just last night while riding my buddy and I saw an enormous fish laying in the grass on the side of the road. There is not a body of water anywhere nearby. This fish was huge, probably 20 lbs or larger and fully intact. It had not started smelling fishy yet so it could not have been there long in the 90+ degree heat. My best guess is that it maybe flopped out of someone's cooler in the back of their truck???? Not knowing where you live...perhaps it was dropped by a bird of prey? Here in Florida we have eagles, hawks and ospreys. All too often they try to snag a fish that ends up being too big for them and they drop them. |
| 2010-08-26 9:32 AM in reply to: #3057475 |
| Deep in the Heart of Texas | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... There is one spot on my regular ride which I have named the walking stick graveyard. Once I saw what had to be 40-50 large walking sticks on the shoulder of the road, mostly dead. This was within a 30 yard stretch of road. I have never seen that many again, but always see at least a couple at the same spot. Those bugs are freaky looking. |
| 2010-08-26 11:38 AM in reply to: #3057475 |
Extreme Veteran 398 Denver | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... crabs from the size of a quarter up to about 8 inches across, peacocks all the time, raccoons and possums, manatee, small and huge stingrays....lots of wildlife around here. back in colorado I used to run a trail that went by a fox den, every morning the little babies would come out and watch me run by, very cute. on that trail I also saw plenty of deer and antelope...and twice a bald eagle. |
| 2010-08-26 12:18 PM in reply to: #3057475 |
Expert 1461 Sarnia, Ontario | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... I saw 5 bucks on the bottom of the lake a few weeks ago. Last OWS I saw a fish, first time I saw one at the beach, think it was a Walleye, dont know what he was doing that close to shore but I guess he had nothing better to do. I almost hit a deer a few months ago on the bike. I have see cyotes, possoms, racoons, foxes, turtles, snakes, frogs, pretty much any wild animal we have in south westers ontario xcept a bear, havent seen on eof them while SBR yet. |
| 2010-08-26 2:30 PM in reply to: #3059129 |
Member 23 Columbus, OH | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... Had a bike collision with a live armadillo. Saw a bear on Sat on my bike. Saw false eyelashes on a run in key west....... What was the bear doing on your bike? And how long of a run were the false eyelashes out for? |
| 2010-08-26 2:36 PM in reply to: #3065762 |
Master 1932 Savannah, | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... mberries - 2010-08-26 3:30 PM Had a bike collision with a live armadillo. Saw a bear on Sat on my bike. Saw false eyelashes on a run in key west....... What was the bear doing on your bike? And how long of a run were the false eyelashes out for? Hey, hands off my dangling participles! |
 2010-08-26 2:52 PM in reply to: #3057475 |
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| 105 | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... Bike riding I've been chased by many things but the most unusual was an Alligator (about 12ft long). |
| 2010-08-26 3:08 PM in reply to: #3065841 |
| Champion 6503 NOVA - Ironic for an Endurance Athlete | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... melbel1038 - 2010-08-26 2:52 PM Two weeks ago I had a homeless guy drafting off me. He was wearing camo pants, a black shirt and hiking boots. His bike was a road-ish bike (ok I really don't know what it was, but it wasn't the typical homeless guy bike), he had like 4 bags on the back. He WAS wearing a helmet. He was going slow and I went around him. Thought I was well past him and five minutes later I glanced back and he was right on my wheel. I was probably going 17mph or so. Freaked me out. We stopped at a stop light, I turned around to say hi and when it turned green I floored it (ok whatever the pedaling equivalent to flooring it is LOLOL). It was beyond creepy. I have had two people tell me they saw him since that happened so I know I'm not crazy at least. I still can't figure out what the deal was. Was he mad that I went around him? Does he entertain himself by freaking out cyclists on that road? Redlined it. Cranked it. He probably wasn't homeless. Just a guy traveling on a bike with all of his possessions attached. Sigh! A man can dream, can't he? |
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| 2010-08-26 3:41 PM in reply to: #3057475 |
| Expert 1203 | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... Mountain biking through one of the local parks there was a trail runner coming towards me. He was wearing only a fishing cap, running shoes and a big smile. |
| 2010-08-27 8:34 AM in reply to: #3057475 |
| Extreme Veteran 395 Philly Outsider | Subject: RE: What's the strangest thing you ever saw... I was going along the recreational path on the Mosel River in Germany and had to move off to allow a convoy of trucks to pass! http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs292.snc4/40923_1571050762595_1425270652 |
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