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Pat Clancy
Joined: 13 Jan 2004
Posts: 1353
Location: Manchester, CT7/1/13 10:50 AM |
Walking the dog
I think I'll go watch the TdF peloton go by with my little dog Napoleon. Leash? I don't need no stinkin' leash.
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Smunderdog
Joined: 13 Jan 2004
Posts: 611
Location: Indianapolis, IN7/1/13 11:09 AM |
Seriously. How can people be so....
Never mind. :)
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19099
Location: PDX7/1/13 1:37 PM |
That was very close to a pelo-pile-up, whew!
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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6897
Location: Maine7/1/13 1:43 PM |
been there
I'd like to say that is really stupid, but...
Back in the early '80s I strolled down to watch the Old Port Criterium in Portland with my dog Peaches, whom I never put on a leash. After the sprint finish, she uncharacteristically decided to check out something on the other side of the street. Except...there was a dropped rider coming in and, well, fortunately he missed her.
With the Dalmatians I have now I wouldn't come near a race, leashed or otherwise...
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19099
Location: PDX7/1/13 2:01 PM |
My greyhound could get out there and out sprint them, if he wasn't such a dumb shit that is. ;) My last one would run the wrong way probably. They kicked him out of racing after 7 races... Now the other one I had to put down in 2011 with 140 races under him collar my has a chance... ;)
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Nick Payne
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 2626
Location: Canberra, Australia7/2/13 2:29 AM |
I once ran over a dog about half way through an Audax 1000. Luckily, a small one. Three of us were riding through a small town at about 10pm, having already covered about 400km for the day, and a Dachshund came bolting out of a yard and between me and the rider in front. My front wheel went over the dog and twisted sideways, and I thought "I'm going to hit the deck here". However, my rear wheel then went over the dog and everything somehow straightened up, and I just continued on. How, I don't know. The dog's barks changed to yelps, and it continued on across the road into some bushes and wasn't seen again. The rider who was a few yards behind me was laughing so much that he could barely ride - said he had never seen anything like it.
The pro cyclist Joaquim Agostinho died in 1984 after colliding with a dog and hitting his head whilst leading the Tour of the Algarve.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19099
Location: PDX7/2/13 10:20 AM |
The dog Jim Montgomery hit certainly caused his demise ultimately. I always think of Jim with a dog crash post.
"everything somehow straightened up"
As an old moto-crosser I can tell you that used to happen 9/10 of the almosts. You are not down until... well you aren't up. ;)
I blasted through a dip section after playing sprint with a friend the other day. When I got light out of the dip I got a good wobble as I was too forward. Practically a nose wheelie pretty much. It was an almost magnitude 5 almost probably. But, yeah... Those magnitude 9.5 ones every 5-10 years leave you wondering how you manged to stay on for sure.
I remember many a flapping like a flag hanging onto the bars MX almosts. ;O
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