A new bird on the club ride?
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
You missed the Lama's !
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Almost as fast as the dog that chased me and a clubmate up Birtles Hill in Cheshire. I have never ridden so fast in 42 x 19.....
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I thought the beginning was a bit strange, why did the cyclist with the camera slow right down? It was almost like he was waiting for the ostridge to be released?
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Probably doing/thinking what my mate did. Stop or go for it ! My mate stopped, then had to ride past - far worse than gunning it.
jefmcg
Guru
There's an ostrich running behind him, and he has a bar mounted camera? Of course he slows up, he wants to get on film.
I wonder what the ostrich is up to? It might just enjoy running with strangely graceful non predators on lovely evening? Cats, dogs and horses run for the sake of it on occasions, why not ostriches?
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To me the way the rider passes the rider with the camera looks like he's leading the bird onto the road.
That's what I thought.
jefmcg
Guru
Yeah, it could be fleeing, it could be chasing, it could be running for the sake of it, it could happen to be going the same way and like the smooth road rather than the dubious heath. I don't know enough about ostrich arse expressions to be able to tell which one it is 
jefmcg
Guru
When I saw this earlier I googled to find out how dangerous ostriches are. Came up with this http://listverse.com/2013/01/03/top-10-birds-most-likely-to-kill-you/
Can't argue with putting cassowaries number one, you don't mess with those f*ckers. Ostriches came in at number 2. Australian magpies were 3. They can be very aggressive in the breeding season, but the only way they would kill a person would be to drive them under the wheels of a car. I've once needed antibiotics because of an Australian magpie, but that was because the neighbours cat decided I should be feeding him, not the birds and bit me giving a nasty puncture wound that required 2 courses of antibiotics and a tetanus shot (thank you google. I didn't know how to spell "tetnas")
@Shut Up Legs what do you think? are magpies the 3rd most dangerous bird in the world?
Can't argue with putting cassowaries number one, you don't mess with those f*ckers. Ostriches came in at number 2. Australian magpies were 3. They can be very aggressive in the breeding season, but the only way they would kill a person would be to drive them under the wheels of a car. I've once needed antibiotics because of an Australian magpie, but that was because the neighbours cat decided I should be feeding him, not the birds and bit me giving a nasty puncture wound that required 2 courses of antibiotics and a tetanus shot (thank you google. I didn't know how to spell "tetnas")
@Shut Up Legs what do you think? are magpies the 3rd most dangerous bird in the world?
Accy cyclist
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AndyRM
XOXO
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- North Shields
I broke a clavicle and a scapula after a bicycle based accident with a goose.
I'd not take on an ostrich!
I'd not take on an ostrich!
