Dog mess

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I rode through dog mess once, was on my wheels, frame, my top and my face, I used all my water cleaning my face.
Uncomfortable 20 mile ride back to car, then 30min drive home to jump in shower. Then wash bike. :angry::boxing:
Yeuch, yeuch and double yeuch.

I'm not sure if that or cow poo is worse. At least dog poo washes off but cow poo sets harder than concrete.
 

Cyclopathic

Veteran
Location
Leicester.
What about horse owners who never clean up after their horse !
Had a few incidents of MASSIVE piles of horse crap on a local shared footpath. It's an urban area but the path runs out into the countryside and riders do come down from time to time and seem happy to leave great piles of muck. Had this conversation on another forum (from which I am now banned) and the reaction from most horse riders was totally indignant. They excused it by saying horse cr@p was not as nasty as dod muck and that it would be too inconvenient to have to get down and shovel it up.
I'd be happy enough if they just got it off the path and into the undergrowth but they all seemed to think that this was totally unreasonable of me.
 

Cyclopathic

Veteran
Location
Leicester.
The local dog owners around here like to pick up the poo and bag it so it isn't on a disused road and throw it over the hedge into the allotment where kids play and people are dealing with food . I'm looking forward to catching one of them so I can go past on my bike and slap a bag of **** around their head as I pass :laugh:
Why go to all the trouble of bagging the stuff and then not take it to a bin. The nasty part of the job is already done. Honestly, some people need a bag of cr@p upside the head.
 

Cyclopathic

Veteran
Location
Leicester.
Also it really grinds my gears when people come to have their bike fixed and there is cr@p on the tyres and I have to get the hot soapy water and scrubbing brush on it before I can start working.
 

raleighnut

Legendary Member
Back when the 'rag and bone man' had a horse and cart I used to get sent out with bucket and shovel with "don't come back til you've got some" ringing in my ears every time Mum heard him nearby, bloody miles I had to follow it sometimes.
 
After riding home from work some years back, sat at the kitchen table reading the local rag I kept getting an overpowering waft of dog sh*te, so I took my shoes off, no poo there, called my three girls into the kitchen, asked them if they could smell dog poo, they couldn't, made them take their shoes off, no poo there! But the stench was getting stronger.
By now, feeling a bit nauseous I went upstairs to shower & shave, whereupon the sickening source was discovered,................ somehow on my ride home I'd managed to get a small piece of dog shite stuck up my right nostril!!! I must have ridden over a dog egg, flicking some up onto my gear change levers, then onto my gloves and finally into my nose while launching a "snot rocket" !
Took me ages to get rid of the stench, after snorting aramis, gargling with TCP etc.
 

John the Monkey

Frivolous Cyclist
Location
Crewe
I never get dog dumps(touch wood)on my tyres because i cycle on the road. Road cycling might have its dangers,but canal paths,shared cycle lanes,pavements etc have the dog crap problem.
You might, if you use on road lanes - there's a dog owner (or owners) who choose one of the on road lanes on my route as Rover's toilet.

(Slightly better than the lady I saw park in one to allow her child to take an al fresco dump in it, although not by much).

Maybe it's a trenchant commentary on the state of UK cycle infrastructure provision.
 

Mark White

Active Member
A neighbour's dog (as yet unidentified) has taken to crapping in front of my gate every day. I came back from a ride the other day to realise I'd picked up a lump on the heel of my MTB shoes on the way out. Cue much scraping and cleaning with baby wipes, plus the glad realisation that it wasn't on the cleats as that could have been much worse...
 

KEEF

Veteran
Location
BURNOPFIELD
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Saluki

World class procrastinator
A couple of years ago we went for a ride on the Cloud Trail near to us. When we go back to the car and loaded the bikes a woman arrive to walk her dog. It laid an egg and she walked off leaving it for other walkers and riders. We made a comment to her that it needed to be be picked up but she ignored us. I just hop she trod in it, or someone elses just before getting into her car.
Quite a few years ago a friend told me that his son came back in from a ride on his MTB. He was wearing a hoody. When he took it of a barkers egg dropped from the hood. Not having mudguards, it seemed, that he'd flicked it up from the back wheel and caught it in his hood. Another reason for mudguards :becool:.
We had something similar near to us. We told the woman that her dog had toileted and she told us to 'effing pick it up our effing selves' and then called us a pair of c-words. Hubster did pick the poo - with a bag- and then smeared the poo on all her car door handles including the boot handle. We then carried on with our dog walk.

We always pick up any poo that our dog deposits unless the little JRT disappears into her favorite patch of waist high stinging nettles. That can stay where it lands! A few local flats have been built and new tenants have moved in. We have noticed the amount of unpicked poo has grown of late. When we moved here you rarely saw any but now there is loads and loads. The HA has sent letters out to everyone in the area as there have been so many complaints about it. We even found some poo on our garden hardstanding yesterday. What sort of people let their dogs poo beyond someone else's garden boundary?

Poo bag hanging has just started here, over the last few weeks. There are a fair few bins around but not once you get to the fields that have a permissive walking area on them. You are then expected to carry the poo bags round and deposit them in the bin on Green Lane. It's not that difficult for people, surely.
 

NorvernRob

Veteran
Location
Sheffield
The odd dog mess is nothing....a few weeks ago my mate and I rode on a single track through Axe Edge moor,. A farmer had been muck spreading and it was strewn all over the track for about 400m, luckily though it was pretty dry.

However, it poured with rain about an hour later, we went back the same direction and had to ride through 400m of what I can only describe as slurry. It was flicking up all over the place, running down my legs and covering everything with a stinking sludge. Even my water bottle was caked in it and all I could smell all the way back to Bakewell was sh*te!
 
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