Floored and flayed by needlessly leadless

[Markymark]

Millennium Hand and Shrimp

Happy with the rest of the insults but this?????

 

[alicat]

And then to add insult to injury a whole load of cyclechatters jumped to conclusions.

I'd pick 3. The other rider passing must have put the icing on the cake.

Hope you can put the whole thing behind you soon.

 

[ufkacbln]

Dog walkers (and dogs) are creatures of habit... they will be back, and all you need is patience

 

[screenman]

To be fair there are some nice friendly dogs out there, the one's that when you stop with your bare legs showing on a nice warm day like to jump up at you, whilst all the time the owner is telling you how pleased to mutt is too see you. Nothing as soothing as dog claws scraping on bare skin, and slobber, that is not a nice thing to have dripping off you legs as you pedal away, how do you get it off? wipe with back of gloves, let it dry, just another one of lifes minor problems.

 

[Randomnerd]

This is in part why I posted Alicat: the chemist I called in to tended very carefully to the extremities in need; the LBS lads rallied round to lend me a lock while I took care of the chores I was running, my key being AWOL post-poochathon; the shop girls at my local cajoled and laughed and put me back on the home run in better spirits. Somehow I knew when I came on here, there would be vitriol and accusation before cameraderie.

And I knew that when I sat in the path watching The Giant Suit dissolve into the horizon. It's a Dog Eat Araya Rim world.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

IMHO Dogs should not be off the leash on paths.

Yes cyclists should go slowly around peds and dogs but unleashed is out of control unless the dog is very well trained which is rare..

I dislike mutts but...

Not being under direct control is not the same as being out of control.

 

[ufkacbln]

I dislike mutts but...

Not being under direct control is not the same as being out of control.

There was an area in Portsmouth where after a couple of accidents there was a compulsory "dogs on leads" and a ban on the extending leads

 

[nickyboy]

This is a bit like the "Lorry in London" thread recently

Whenever I see a risk to myself (be it a lorry with us both heading to a pinch point or a dog on a shared use path) the first thing I do is slow down. Nowhere in the OPs post does it mention anything about slowing down. In fact, as @Markymark says, there is at least the suggestion that the OP was going quite fast

Sure, it's not nice getting knocked off, and I hope the OP isn't too badly hurt. But....shared use paths....see something that may be a risk.....slow down

 

[Fab Foodie]

IMHO Dogs should not be off the leash on paths.

Yes cyclists should go slowly around peds and dogs but unleashed is out of control unless the dog is very well trained which is rare..

Depends where the shared paths are, some cut through parks and open spaces etc. where dogs should be allowed to run free.

Dogs, children, cats, whatever....SHARED is the operative word here.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Somehow I knew when I came on here, there would be vitriol and accusation before cameraderie.

That's twice in one day you knew something might happen and decided to take the wrong course of action.

 

[Crackle]

Can I just say, I love the title.

 

[screenman]

Depends where the shared paths are, some cut through parks and open spaces etc. where dogs should be allowed to run free.

Dogs, children, cats, whatever....SHARED is the operative word here.

Some dogs running free is fine, but some maybe not so. Dogs and small children are not aways a good mix.

 

[oldfatfool]

On the other hand regardless of the environment how does the cyclist know the loose dogvis friendly and not after a chunk of leg? Advice read on here previously is to ride like fark to get away from loose dogs or does this only apply when touring or in foreign countries or when no owner is about to say " ooo fido as never done that before he just wanted to play/never seen a bike before/ you scared him" I am a dog person but can still appreciate the dangers regardless of breed or location.

 

[Pale Rider]

Depends where the shared paths are, some cut through parks and open spaces etc. where dogs should be allowed to run free.

'Should be allowed to run free' is just the opinion of the owner.

In any public location, a dog should be under control at all times.

This is most easily achieved with the dog being on a lead.

Very, very, few unleashed dogs are truly under control.

 

[lazybloke]

If I'm on a shared path I slow right down for blind bends, mutts and people (less or cyclists). This avoids foreseeable incidents.

Most (but sadly not all) are grateful and courteous in return.