Craziest thing on a trail yet

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    • #121001

      So my brother and I are riding off the trail yesterday when we pedal past some random guy pooping in the woods. Not a biker just some guy about 6 miles in on a trail. Very random. Thank God we road past his front and not the business end. Quite a awkward stare as we went by. Anyone else experienced this?

    • #121002

      It’s the weirdest thing. So I was out for a hike, and trying to enjoy a bit of a constitutional in the forest, and these two crazy mountain bikers go flying by. Can’t a guy get a moment’s peace?!? 😳

    • #121003

      Lol. Not my fault you were dumping on the fire break and not behind a tree! 😆

    • #121004

      Dude taking a crap in the woods? That’s tame.

      The oddest thing I’ve ever seen is a naked gay dude(nothing but sneaks and a camelback) walking down the trail that started chatting up my brother while we were taking a break. Awwwwkwaaaard.

      Day before yesterday, he(my brother, not the naked dude) got chased by a mother bear after the baby came down on the trail and started running with him on the trail and bleating. At first, he kept trying to outrun him, but but the baby just kept up with him and continued freaking out. He said he saw mom coming through the woods and she sounded like an Abrams tank, so he turned around quick like a bunny and rode like his hair were on fire and his ass was catching back towards me. At first I was touched, until I realized it was only because he knew I rode more slowly and would be the first to be eaten.

      It goes without saying that he’s an older brother.

    • #121005

      lol, yeah thats the thing about us older brothers we are just a little bit wiser from age…

      @CigarsNJeeps

    • #121006

      Well, that and you guys don’t seem to mind sacrificing your younger siblings.

    • #121007

      As a older brother I agree. You don’t have to outrun the bear, just your brother.

    • #121008

      I’m not going to lie… there has been many times I’ve had to lay the bike down and run into the forest. One day I had my pup with me. I took off into the forest to do as the bears do, and the pup ran after me. I found the perfect tree and lined up my shot… and behold… my beloved pup did the same, right next to me. It was one of my proudest days as a dog-father. 😆

    • #121009

      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/pe … finds.html

      Dogs look like owners. Dog have a similar bark to their owner’s accents. AND dogs will now pee like their owners.

    • #121010
      "JReedy" wrote

      As a older brother I agree. You don’t have to outrun the bear, just your brother.

      You all sound like my older brother! 😆

    • #121011

      Gross
      I pack toilet paper just in case on long rides. But I would probably hide a little better.

    • #121012

      😆 ->; Hey he was just becoming one with nature!

    • #121013

      A little different than the rest of the posts, but I have always found this phone hilarious.

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      It is halfway down the mountain on Hi-Dee-Hoe trail at Carvins Cove and was at one time functional (pre-cellphone). For all I know it still may work.

    • #121014

      I don’t know how you could ride by that phone without trying it. It would haunt me.

    • #121015
      "Ginny_Tory" wrote

      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/pets/10185080/Not-only-do-dogs-look-like-their-owners-they-can-imitate-them-too-research-finds.html

      Dogs look like owners. Dog have a similar bark to their owner’s accents. AND dogs will now pee like their owners.

      Just to lend an assist to your mental image… the dog and I weren’t peeing together. 😆

    • #121016
      "schwim" wrote

      I don’t know how you could ride by that phone without trying it. It would haunt me.

      Haha. It is high up, I think you would have to jar it lose with a stick to use it.

      Ever make it to Roanoke we will ride that trail and try out the phone. "Is your refrigerator running- down a mountain?" 😆

    • #121017

      That’s awesome. I’ve only been down that trail a couple of times, but don’t recall seeing the phone. I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled next time I make it back out there.

    • #121018

      Pretty funny about the # 2 guy – I’ve done the same, though yeah, I did my best to NOT be visible! Hey, you’re a few hours into exercise, eating a lot of natural foods with proteins and fiber… gotta pack a little bit of TP!

    • #121019
      "Fitch" wrote

      Hey, you’re a few hours into exercise, eating a lot of natural foods with proteins and fiber… gotta pack a little bit of TP!

      You bet, nature calls! I was unprepared the first time it happened to me on a ride and have never ridden without TP since.

      Running is another issue entirely–nowhere to stash supplies! Fortunately I’ve identified several public restrooms along my main jogging routes. 😀

      This wasn’t on a trail but it happened on my way home from a ride a couple weeks ago. I was riding home (alone) after my regular Tuesday night MTB ride around 11pm and some kids were filming what appeared to be an amateur movie on a public street underneath an overpass. There were two girls sitting across the street watching and as I rode by, I saw three young guys who looked out of place walking up behind the girls. About 100 feet past the girls, I turn left onto another street and hear POP! Gunshot.

      There was a car on the street I had just turned onto and I saw him throw his car into reverse. My curiosity got the better of me and I turned around to ask the guy in the car what just happened. We debated whether the gunshot was part of the movie being filmed; meanwhile, one of the guys filming approaches the car and asks us to call 911–the girls across the street were robbed of their cell phones and car keys.

      Apparently the guys walked up, fired the gun into the air, then pointed it at the girls and demanded their stuff. It was all over in just a few seconds and I wished I had gotten a better look at the guys (I had VERY bright lights on my helmet and bike). Oh well, just another summer night in the ATL. 😀

    • #121020
      Craziest thing on a trail yet?

      Mmm? That is a easy one……

      That would be me!!!!! 😄 😄 😄

    • #121021
      "jeff" wrote

      [quote="Fitch":3ts3i01m]Hey, you’re a few hours into exercise, eating a lot of natural foods with proteins and fiber… gotta pack a little bit of TP!

      You bet, nature calls! I was unprepared the first time it happened to me on a ride and have never ridden without TP since.

      Running is another issue entirely–nowhere to stash supplies! Fortunately I’ve identified several public restrooms along my main jogging routes. 😀

      This wasn’t on a trail but it happened on my way home from a ride a couple weeks ago. I was riding home (alone) after my regular Tuesday night MTB ride around 11pm and some kids were filming what appeared to be an amateur movie on a public street underneath an overpass. There were two girls sitting across the street watching and as I rode by, I saw three young guys who looked out of place walking up behind the girls. About 100 feet past the girls, I turn left onto another street and hear POP! Gunshot.

      There was a car on the street I had just turned onto and I saw him throw his car into reverse. My curiosity got the better of me and I turned around to ask the guy in the car what just happened. We debated whether the gunshot was part of the movie being filmed; meanwhile, one of the guys filming approaches the car and asks us to call 911–the girls across the street were robbed of their cell phones and car keys.

      Apparently the guys walked up, fired the gun into the air, then pointed it at the girls and demanded their stuff. It was all over in just a few seconds and I wished I had gotten a better look at the guys (I had VERY bright lights on my helmet and bike). Oh well, just another summer night in the ATL. 😀[/quote:3ts3i01m]

      Crazy!! Stuff like this is why I don’t want to live in anything resembling a big city. Of course, it could happen anywhere, but I just feel like big cities breed bad apples.

    • #121022

      The strangest thing I ever witnessed wasn’t on the trail itself but in the parking lot of a somewhat-local trail. The particular trail is inside a park. This park is known for being a spot where creepy old men meet up with other creepy old men and do creepy old men things together in the woods.

      I had just pulled into the parking lot and gotten out of the car when a creepy old man pulled up next to me in his pickup truck. I had forgotten about the stories and thought nothing of it when he propped open his door and stayed seated in the truck, turned slightly towards my direction. I unloaded the bike from the roof rack and my riding gear from the trunk…feeling the glare of the geezer the whole time. When I jump on the bike to hit the trail I had to roll past him. “what the hell is he shaking?” I thought as I rode by. As I got closer…”Oh…that’s his weiner” This nasty ass geezer was floggin the dolphin right there in the open. I yelled some profanity at him and rode off into the woods, nervous to come back to horny harry giving himself a handshake in the parking lot but he was gone when I got back. And that’s the last time I rode those trails…luckily, they weren’t that fun anyway.

    • #121023
      "mtbgreg1" wrote

      Crazy!! Stuff like this is why I don’t want to live in anything resembling a big city. Of course, it could happen anywhere, but I just feel like big cities breed bad apples.

      ++++++1 😉

    • #121024
      "jtorlando25" wrote

      This park is known for being a spot where creepy old men meet up with other creepy old men and do creepy old men things together in the woods.

      Fantastic… 😆

    • #121025
      "jtorlando25" wrote

      The strangest thing I ever witnessed wasn’t on the trail itself but in the parking lot of a somewhat-local trail. The particular trail is inside a park. This park is known for being a spot where creepy old men meet up with other creepy old men and do creepy old men things together in the woods.

      I had just pulled into the parking lot and gotten out of the car when a creepy old man pulled up next to me in his pickup truck. I had forgotten about the stories and thought nothing of it when he propped open his door and stayed seated in the truck, turned slightly towards my direction. I unloaded the bike from the roof rack and my riding gear from the trunk…feeling the glare of the geezer the whole time. When I jump on the bike to hit the trail I had to roll past him. “what the hell is he shaking?” I thought as I rode by. As I got closer…”Oh…that’s his weiner” This nasty ass geezer was floggin the dolphin right there in the open. I yelled some profanity at him and rode off into the woods, nervous to come back to horny harry giving himself a handshake in the parking lot but he was gone when I got back. And that’s the last time I rode those trails…luckily, they weren’t that fun anyway.

      Should have gotten his license plate and called the cops…

    • #121026

      If we’re just talking about weird things we find on the trails in general and not strange individuals we meet…
      Then this would be mine:
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      I think I saw other parts sort of scattered down the hill side. As if someone just smashed up a toilet and rolls the parts down the hill and hung up the seat.

    • #121027

      The new #1 on my list of strangest things I’e seen on the trails…: Mountain Biking Penguin

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      Trump that?

    • #121028

      Wow, that’s awesome! Did someone just decide to don a blue penguin suit and go riding or was it part of some kind of get-together?

      I’d totally rock that thing while riding the trails, but I’d more than likely kill myself and I bet that suit isn’t quite as warm-fuzzy when it’s at the bottom of a ravine with blood seeping from it.

    • #121029
      "schwim" wrote

      Wow, that’s awesome! Did someone just decide to don a blue penguin suit and go riding or was it part of some kind of get-together?

      I’d totally rock that thing while riding the trails, but I’d more than likely kill myself and I bet that suit isn’t quite as warm-fuzzy when it’s at the bottom of a ravine with blood seeping from it.

      Wow, way to keep it light hearted there, schwim. 😛

      She, the gender of the rider – I don’t know the gender of the Penguin, and two guys with GoPros were filming the Penguin, their business mascot, mountain biking and other sporty stuff for a commercial. They just rolled up next to me. I had to get a photo, it was just too good.

      But if you like riding around wearing funny things, come to Penn State. 😛
      We have Happy Thursday rides. Just a gathering of cyclists that ride around campus and town wearing funny things screaming "HAPPY THURSDAY!" to everyone they pass. I think you’d enjoy that. 😀
      I think at some point one of the people that did the Happy Thursday rides always wore a gorilla suit or something of that nature.

    • #121030
      "Ginny_Tory" wrote

      [quote="schwim":qy4q8rhy]Wow, that’s awesome! Did someone just decide to don a blue penguin suit and go riding or was it part of some kind of get-together?

      I’d totally rock that thing while riding the trails, but I’d more than likely kill myself and I bet that suit isn’t quite as warm-fuzzy when it’s at the bottom of a ravine with blood seeping from it.

      Wow, way to keep it light hearted there, schwim. 😛

      She, the gender of the rider – I don’t know the gender of the Penguin, and two guys with GoPros were filming the Penguin, their business mascot, mountain biking and other sporty stuff for a commercial. They just rolled up next to me. I had to get a photo, it was just too good.

      But if you like riding around wearing funny things, come to Penn State. 😛
      We have Happy Thursday rides. Just a gathering of cyclists that ride around campus and town wearing funny things screaming "HAPPY THURSDAY!" to everyone they pass. I think you’d enjoy that. 😀
      I think at some point one of the people that did the Happy Thursday rides always wore a gorilla suit or something of that nature.[/quote:qy4q8rhy]
      Penguin on a trail, that must have been hilarious! Not sure what costume I’d pick if I tried that? Sure wouldn’t be a deer costume!

    • #121031
      "gar29" wrote

      Penguin on a trail, that must have been hilarious! Not sure what costume I’d pick if I tried that? Sure wouldn’t be a deer costume!

      It’d be funny if someone dressed as a tree. Then it’d confuse the hell out of the other riders looking from a distance seeing the trees move on them.

      Really, any get up would make other riders do a double take and crash into a tree though. Why not a deer though? Get a whole ‘herd’ of people to dress as deer. And rush at some riders. I think that’d scare the crap out of them…as if deer bolting across the track ahead wasn’t scary enough sometimes, imagine a herd of ‘deer’ riding mountain bikes at riders…HA! They’ve evolved…

      (Ironically for me, a few guys from the Penn State Cycling team actually call me Penguin, cause I am about the size of an emperor penguin…)

    • #121032
      "Ginny_Tory" wrote

      [quote="gar29":3nm7iy4t]
      Penguin on a trail, that must have been hilarious! Not sure what costume I’d pick if I tried that? Sure wouldn’t be a deer costume!

      It’d be funny if someone dressed as a tree. Then it’d confuse the hell out of the other riders looking from a distance seeing the trees move on them.

      Really, any get up would make other riders do a double take and crash into a tree though. Why not a deer though? Get a whole ‘herd’ of people to dress as deer. And rush at some riders. I think that’d scare the crap out of them…as if deer bolting across the track ahead wasn’t scary enough sometimes, imagine a herd of ‘deer’ riding mountain bikes at riders…HA! They’ve evolved…

      (Ironically for me, a few guys from the Penn State Cycling team actually call me Penguin, cause I am about the size of an emperor penguin…)[/quote:3nm7iy4t]

      Not a deer, because riding through the woods at the speed a deer wood run wearing a deer costume is a great recipe for getting shot by a hunter…

    • #121033
      "mtbgreg1" wrote

      [quote="Ginny_Tory":3ujpf1hy][quote="gar29":3ujpf1hy]
      Penguin on a trail, that must have been hilarious! Not sure what costume I’d pick if I tried that? Sure wouldn’t be a deer costume!

      It’d be funny if someone dressed as a tree. Then it’d confuse the hell out of the other riders looking from a distance seeing the trees move on them.

      Really, any get up would make other riders do a double take and crash into a tree though. Why not a deer though? Get a whole ‘herd’ of people to dress as deer. And rush at some riders. I think that’d scare the crap out of them…as if deer bolting across the track ahead wasn’t scary enough sometimes, imagine a herd of ‘deer’ riding mountain bikes at riders…HA! They’ve evolved…

      (Ironically for me, a few guys from the Penn State Cycling team actually call me Penguin, cause I am about the size of an emperor penguin…)[/quote:3ujpf1hy]

      Not a deer, because riding through the woods at the speed a deer wood run wearing a deer costume is a great recipe for getting shot by a hunter…[/quote:3ujpf1hy]
      Too true! Or eaten by a mountain lion! Just don’t be the slowest in the herd, right??? 😆

    • #121034
      "gar29" wrote

      [quote="mtbgreg1":20fvujw3]

      Not a deer, because riding through the woods at the speed a deer wood run wearing a deer costume is a great recipe for getting shot by a hunter…

      Too true! Or eaten by a mountain lion! Just don’t be the slowest in the herd, right??? 😆[/quote:20fvujw3]

      Oh…fair point.

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