Do you avoid road kill,cow muck and the like?

[Sittingduck]

I would imagine that virtually every cyclist would do their level best to avoid such nasties. Anybody riding through road kill is a moron.

 

[Kiwiavenger]

I had to avoid some road kill the other day! Was a dead badger over 1/3 of the lane! I need to re fit my mudguards as it's sillage time so lots of crap on the roads

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[Banjo]

yes apparently some folk still embarrass themselves by "wearing them"!

I cant fit any mudguards on my road bike.I did run with crud roadracers for a while but the clearance was too tight for even those to be successful. I have them on the hybrid I use for commuting. I am amazed how seldom I have to clean the chain on the hybrid compared to almost every time on the road bike.

My next roadbike will have clearance for mudguards ,may take them off on the odd occassion we have good weather

 

[Accy cyclist]

I cant fit any mudguards on my road bike.I did run with crud roadracers for a while but the clearance was too tight for even those to be successful. I have them on the hybrid I use for commuting. I am amazed how seldom I have to clean the chain on the hybrid compared to almost every time on the road bike.

My next roadbike will have clearance for mudguards ,may take them off on the odd occassion we have good weather

I'm only joking about mudguards being "embarrassing". They're a good thing to have and sometimes i wish i had them, but if the road bike Stazi caught me i'd be in serious trouble!!

 

[snorri]

but if the road bike Stazi caught me i'd be in serious trouble!!

There are times in life when we must stand up and be counted. Are you a man or a mouse?

 

[Accy cyclist]

A mouse!!! I have enough problems standing up to the "fluorescent is so dated" brigade whilst i wear my dayglo oranges and lemons, without wanting to upset the mudguard haters as well!

 

[Ian H]

I'm only joking about mudguards being "embarrassing". They're a good thing to have and sometimes i wish i had them, but if the road bike Stazi caught me i'd be in serious trouble!!

The ones who laugh at mudguards are not the ones who know much about cycling. Virtually every clued-up clubman has a properly equipped winter bike.

 

[Globalti]

It won't be long before you'll be able to build yourself a nice tidy winter bike / tourer based on a crosser and equipped with mudguards and hydraulic discs... bring it on!

 

[mr Mag00]

a squashed dead cow? where do you ride?

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

Last year I did a bike maintenance day at a local school and it seemed as though the majority of kids had ridden through something on their way to school. It wasn't dead birds or cow muck; it was canine-related and decidedly unpleasant. Needless to say we wore surgical gloves all day!

Boakt! Yet another good reason for keeping cyclists off the pavement.

I try and avoid going through anything unpleasant although I think I might have accidentally picked up a bit of horse muck as I went through Hyde Park last night.

 

[middleagecyclist]

yes apparently some folk still embarrass themselves by "wearing them"!

Nothing wrong with mudgaurds on the right bike - such as my all weather commuter/tourer. No good for my MTB and they spoil the looks of my RB. I will be getting some on the Audax bike when I take the plunge. Don't be so mudguardist!

 

[Sandra6]

I ran over a dead bird yesterday, bleurgh. I just didn't see it in time.
Ordinarily I would avoid riding through anything unpleasant, but sometimes, on country lanes, it's unavoidable.

 

[jayonabike]

I'm forever swerving around dead stuff, must still pick up the scent though, whenever I walk indoors with the bike after a ride my dog always has a good sniff of the tyres.

 

[stewie griffin]

If road kill isn't too mashed up I stop & move it to the nearest place it'll deteriorate without causing a problem, maybe just me but I feel sorry for stuff that ends its life being mashed by car & truck tyres.
I've moved lots of little birds, a hedgehog & once a large dog that was probably going to cause an accident had it been left, it'd likely only been hit once or twice so was pretty much intact, lifted by it's paws it was about as much as I could lift at arms length, laid it on the side of the pavement where the owner (old dog with collar) would most probably find it & know what happened to it rather than it bing mashed all over the road.
I hate seeing dead stuff on the road, & I don't like moving the carcasses but it just seems like the right thing to do.

 

[Alan Frame]

Recently felt something rubbery attached to my forehead and found that , somehow, a rather large slug had been slung up by my front wheel and got me in a loving embrace !