Dogs

Got chased by a dog today, and honestly came way to close to getting caught. I was going up hill, and it was coming across the hill, and down towards me. by the time it reached me i was passing it so it had to turn up hill. i had to turn right to avoid it, on to the wrong side of the road. this is where it almost caught me its teath where at my heels, maybe 4 inches away when my leg was at the back of my stroke. a van came towards me, and cared the dog off, but that was way to close for my comfort.
the dog was a big (tall) skinny short haired one.

i've been bitten by a dog before not something i would like to repeat

any one else have bike v. dog stories

Aren't you a vegan? Would be kind of ironic if you ended up being eaten by something else. I mean, not only would it fucking hurt, and possibly kill you, but it would just be against all your principles.

Perhaps you should have dismounted, calmly explained to the dog that meat - including your legs - is murder, and invited him to change his carnivorous ways?

lol

When we were kids in Australia. One of our friends was getting chased on his bmx by a Rottweiler. As he got closer he got the wobbles and fell off and broke is wrist clean in half. I still remember him holding his hand on, like it was yesterday.

"It's like this Fido my old mate."

Shark on a lead.

Or Rancor from return of the Jedi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancor

I have no dog chase stories but my next door neighbour in america used to eat tinned dog food as his staple diet.

true story.

I ate boiled dog in Korea.

got chased in victoria park last year, fucking scary, wouldn't want that to happen in traffic. The dog was quite slow so I got away easy. Right afterwards I meet another guy on a bike and tell him to watch out for the dog, he goes "what dog?", introduce dog - visualize man pedaling like mad

I turned around to get home, seeing the dog owners sitting on a park bench smiling while the dog was still chasing the other guy.

you need the dog whisperer!
"live in the now!"

Kick it in the chops

I have read about problems with dogs especially pitbuls in America, the best solution people seem to have is ammonia or pepper spray and spray it at the dog.

Sound quite scary, I love dogs but if they are the big aggressive type and and decide they don't like you there is not alot you can do then that scare that fuck out of me.

i got chased by loads of fuck off huge mountain dogs in Bulgaria last summer. And when one starts the rest seem to join in. very scary.

Richard Ballatine in his awesome book from the 70s has a brilliant section on dogs. He evidently is more of a cat-person. Its in a bit where he deals briefly with hazards of the road for cyclists. Then he hads a section on dogs thats PAGES long. He starts by saying the English may be offended by what he's about to tell: How To Kill A Dog. He mentions the famous grab front legs and separate the ribcage. Then he goes on to say the BEST way is to ram your forearm down its throat - 'better your arm gets bitten than your throat' - and subsequently choke it to death. Nice.

i got chased by this hoorific animal......

mister k you need the dog whisperer!
"live in the now!"

You need to watch episode 1406 of South Park 'Tsst'. Novel approach to disciplining children :D Get it at http://allsp.com

http://www.wikihow.com/Handle-a-Dog-Attack
http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/traffic/dogs.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0dzMp61G5w

if you got chased by my dog, you'd love it

here he was as a pup
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I run into dogs all the time when out off road riding and for some reason the owner always thinks your going to run their dog over and shouts at you to not do so. Why on earth you would ever want to run a dog over is beoned me. If it was my dog I would hold the dog and allow the cyclist to pass but that seems to much trouble for people and they would just rather shout at you for being there.

The best story dog related was that me and a friend were hammering down an track and I was in front and he was trying to keep up. I went around a corner and a dog was stood right in the middle of the track. I slammed my brakes on and stopped in time whereas my mate behind was concentrating to much on keeping up than watching what was happening and couldn't stop. He went flying over the handle bars and rolled through the biggest patch of stinging nettles you have ever seen!! It was the summer and he was in shorts and a T and he was covered in head to toe in nettle rash. Apparently he didn't sleep for days cos of the itching!!

The dog just sat and watched it all happen and then continued up the track and the owner came around the next corner wondering why my mate was rolling around in stinging nettles.

One benefit of carrying a pump in your jersey pocket is the mutt-whacking possibilities.

I love my dog. He's a big fuck off English Mastiff. 12 stone of pure Dog. He does have an annoying fascination with bicycle wheels though.

@ gabes - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

several years ago my dad used to get chased every day on his bike commute to work by a small fox terrier-type dog (pretty harmless but yappy and irritating).

one day my dad was riding past on his tandem (with no back passenger) and the stupid mutt didn't realise the bike had a longer wheelbase, and it ran straight under the back wheel.

it learnt its lesson.