Always wondered what it would be like to come off my bike wearing SPD shoes and last night I found out.
Coming home though Cricklewood, I was passing the sorting office when I just caught a glimpse of something moving fast in my peripheral vision. An instant before it went under my front wheel and screamed MEAAAAH! I recognised it as a ginger cat.
The next thing I knew, I was on my arse, looking at the oncoming traffic. A postman stopped the cars, picked my bike up and helped me off the road. He asked me some questions and made sure I was OK (Thanks mate!). My bike was unscratched and I must have landed on my right knee cos that was scrapped and bruised. My right calf was tight too. Nothing major and I made it home.
The suicidal moggie ran off as quick as it appeared - minus a life I guess - into some bushes. He must have taked quite a hit. I was doing 13-14mph and I weigh 12 and a half stone, plus bike. Ouch!
Whole thing was feakish

glad your alright, kinda fell bad for the cat (silly vegans)

like the user name .

Me-owch.

some one is funny this morning...

You lucky bastard I can never manage to hit the bloody things I always miss...:(

Never hit a cat but had a pigeon attempt to fly thru my front wheeel once.

Found myself on my back, bike on top of me, my legs covered in blood and gore, checked myself for injuries then noticed the feathers!

ha, yeah i thought about the cat straight away as well...

glad you're ok. i hope i never hit an animal!

had one fly into my face as i was locking up once, left a cut on my head, would hate to hit one moving

I ran my own cat over on my bike once. He seemed none the worse for the experience.

Also had a pigeon go through my front wheel during a time trial years ago. That was very messy.

I had a pigeon go through my front wheel too. Well not so much through it. It sort of flew into it, bounced off, ruffled it feathers and flew off. It was pretty funny. I was going very slowly along the Thames path at the time so no injuries.

nearly wiped out because of a pigeon last week, ran straight over it, luckily i had quite a good hold on the bars otherwise i would have come off, was like running over a tennis ball.

I hit a dog once. Riding down the road normal, a little shitty dog ran out, right between my wheels. I looked down and could see it rolling over and over in time with my wheels. Then the owner yelled at me for going so fast. The dog was okay, should be glad I was a bike not a bus.

back when i used to drive my nabour had these tiny shitty dogs that would run under the car as it backed up, being vegan is a pain in the arse some times.

Ran over a duck once in st James park (duck was ok minus a few tail feathers)

ha i did the exact same thing when i was possibly 8/9
we live on a hill, so would race down the pavement on each side, more fun as you bounced around
one day a cat ran straight out, front wheel over it, but it legged before back one,
almost went over the bars and ended up having both (shit) brakes on with my arse on the top tube
obv i didnt have spds though ha and it frightened me

dog has to be worse though :S
and pigeons in wheels ... messy !!

cats are kind of dumb but worth more points than flying rats but not as much as a duck. the cat i hit ran off and never left as much as a phone number or i would sue! i think he is ok

I once had a squirrel race me: it ran just in front of my bike, practically under my front wheel. about 60m down, it turned its head looked at me, and dashed off under a parked car.. I think it may even have smiled at me. and yes, I was sober

Me vs. Goose in Hyde Park (on an road bike hence the QR wheel) wing very intertwined in the spokes.



Once free it waddled off and flew away. I hate waterfowl.

I ran over a toad when I was a kid trying to ride my bike (Raleigh Boxer) along the kerb stone. Only saw it as it went under my wheels (I was concentrating on the kerb stone) - never looked back to see the mess but it was pretty buttock clenchingly awful - enough for me to be able to recall it like it was yesterday!

Oh and on the Oz ride, almost came a cropper with a herd (correct collective noun?) of deer in RP in the pitch black. Anyone who was there can vouch it was a pretty intense situation when they crossed the road right in front of us when we were going full tilt.

I was in a road race in Hampshire in 1992 when a couple of deer ran into the bunch. Utter carnage ensued and at least two riders were hospitalised. Nasty.

so nearly happened on the australia day night ride

anyone run something down and then eat it ?

I might have been tempted with that duck

I've done this a couple of times. The first time it was raining heavily and I had my head down. Looked up for a moment and saw the sillouhette of a huge stag about 4ft away. I had to swerve out of the way to avoid it. Very scary.

I managed to hit a dog a few weeks back, I was riding through a park on the way to work and this stupid black labrador decided to run along side me on my left, then another dog came into the park on my right and the stupid mutt ran straight across the front of me hitting my front wheel and sending me to the floor. no real damage done and the owner was quite apologetic

Can we rename this thread 'When Animals Attack'?

what were you doing riding in the park?

you ought to be arrested and locked up

and forced to buy dog biscuits for that poor dog for life

Really that has nothing to with being vegan or even vegetarian, it is just not being a git.

i really wanted to run them over, one of the rat dogs even bit me once...

not nearly as bad as the pitbul that bit me, at the most awkward of times