Cav's secret revealed !!!

[djb1971]

Yes, you too can be just like Cav.

Pick a nice hill with a mild/steep gradient.
Ride this hill at night between 11.00-12.00
Ensure it's a narrow country lane approx. 8ft wide.

Now the tricky bit...........

Sneak up on a large badger.
Let the badger turn around on you growling, hissing and snapping.
Now let the badger run you up the hill trying to grab your shoes.


**** me they can't half run when angry I developed a nice turn of speed to evade.... just


I see them most nights but they normally scurry through the hedgerow. No wonder they're always belly up on the roads if they do that to cars!!!

 

[Fnaar]

I guess you could say it was 'badgering' you!

 

[djb1971]

 

[ianrauk]

I've only ever seen a dead one

 

[ChrisKH]

I've seen a fully grown badger appear out of the mist chasing downhill after two yorkie dogs belonging to my then g/f.

 

[Landslide]

Great training partners aren't they? Just ask Greg Lemond!

 

[fossyant]

Alsations are quite good too - 42 x 19 at nearly 25 mph up hill....argh.....

 

[colly]

Yes, you too can be just like Cav.

Pick a nice hill with a mild/steep gradient.
Ride this hill at night between 11.00-12.00
Ensure it's a narrow country lane approx. 8ft wide.

Now the tricky bit...........

Sneak up on a large badger.
Let the badger turn around on you growling, hissing and snapping.
Now let the badger run you up the hill trying to grab your shoes.


**** me they can't half run when angry I developed a nice turn of speed to evade.... just


I see them most nights but they normally scurry through the hedgerow. No wonder they're always belly up on the roads if they do that to cars!!!

I second that. I have suprised a badger (that's not a euphemism) and had to make a dash for safety.

Dear God I nearly s*** myself. Talk about an angry bastard.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

going up a steep hill on a club run, there was a dog i could see bothering those ahead of me. as i was in no fit state to put in a turn of speed or even unclip to kick the thing away, i gave it a feline sounding growl.

it ran away

 

[Dayvo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger#Behavior

"Badgers can run or gallop at up to 25–30 km per hour for short periods of time."

"Scandinavian custom is to put eggshells or styrofoam in one's boots when walking through badger territory, as badgers are believed to bite down until they can hear a crunch."

 

[rich p]

Hold the front page!!

"Vikings scared of badgers"

 

[yello]

Thankfully, I only get confronted by ragondin and deer! Ragondin look like a cross between beavers and rats... and they are surprisingly big, up to a metre in length and weighing in at 7 or 8 kilo!

 

[rich p]

Thankfully, I only get confronted by ragondin and deer! Ragondin look like a cross between beavers and rats... and they are surprisingly big, up to a metre in length and weighing in at 7 or 8 kilo!

That's not a ragondin, Yello, it's a ratoncera

 

[Dave5N]

Very good, Landslide. Lost on this lot.

And no disrespect to Dayvo or the OP, but I reckon Cav's going at twice Badger-speed.

 

[vernon]

Thankfully, I only get confronted by ragondin and deer! Ragondin look like a cross between beavers and rats... and they are surprisingly big, up to a metre in length and weighing in at 7 or 8 kilo!

Looks like a coypu to me.

Saw my first dead one in The Carmargue the year before last. The excitement/novelty wore off after spotting my tenth dead one ina about fifteen kilometeres.

For a truly fearsome adversary, try the honey badger