WTF! Ran over a chipmunk!

[snowsprite]

Has this ever happened to any of you?

I was riding down a hill at a nice clip on this nice wooded road I like to ride on after work. All of a sudden this not-so-small chipmunk runs out and *right under* my wheel! :::bump bump::: I go...

I screamed "OH SHIT!" Poor little guy kept on running...and I felt horrible. I hope I didn't kill the little bugger, maybe just gave him a bad backache or sumthin. He did seem to be running w/out a problem...

I've ridden my bike a long time and in a lot of places, but never had a critter run right under the wheel like that. It was, uh, a bit un-nerving to say the least.

Anyone ever run over something bigger? I ran over this kid named Gary Pellini when I was 10 years old and managed to stay on my bike. Oh and he managed to survive too... despite the fact he screamed like a little girl.

Anyway, what a trip that was! (and I still feel bad for the little thing...for Gary, not-so-much)

Sprite

[cincystar]

my dad hit a racoon head on during one of his 5am morning commutes, he actually got road rash super bad on both his hands and had to keep them all bandaged up for a week or two. It was actually pretty funny how that I think about it. Who hits a racoon?

[bklyn]

The poor thing! He is in the chipmunk hospital on life support right now.
The whole chipmunk family surrounds his wee bed saying prayers, while his weird cousin Stanley is on the Acorn Gravity Research forums asking for + vibes.

[rideit]

I have run over:
Chipmunks
Rattlesnakes
Squirrels
chicken
dog
baby sheep

and:

baby alpaca!!!

[Crinkle]

damn, rideit has a plow on the front of his bike

i have hit a:
squirrel
rabbit
cat
dog
many prairie dogs
rattlesnakes
and both my brothers, who didn't scream like girls

[mntlion]

+++++++ vibes to the chipmunk +++++++

how do you guys hit so many things?

I have elk, deer and bears in banff, they suck to hit

[altagirl]

I actually had a chipmunk calmly WALK between my wheels last weekend while I was climbing puke hill. Lovely testament to how freaking slow I was climbing. I couldn't even scare him into a jog.

I've bunnyhopped baby armadillos before. And snakes.

The only thing I've run into are grouse. Damn things fly right out of the bushes and into my handlebars. It's like getting clobbered with a chicken. And then the one got stuck in my brake levers and was flapping around squawking for a minute while I was trying to figure out how to stop with a bird in my brakes. Beautiful. It flew away afterwards, so apparantly we just freaked each other out.

[Tap]

WHERE IS THAT PICTURE OF THE SQUIRREL SLICED IN HALF BY THE ROTOR AND HALFWAY INSIDE TEH CALIPER??

NICE ONE, SPRITE.


(I JUST WANT TO SAY.........VARMIT POONTANG)

[BeanDip4All]

I have run over an upper side princess jaywalking 72nd and mad while gabbing on her pink swarskey encrusted cell phone, but i considered it a community service.

[Benny Profane]

The poor thing! He is in the chipmunk hospital on life support right now.
The whole chipmunk family surrounds his wee bed saying prayers, while his weird cousin Stanley is on the Acorn Gravity Research forums asking for + vibes.

No, I think Stanley will sneak into Sprite's bedroom tonight and avenge his brother's maiming.

scratchascratchascratchsccratcha.....keep your toes under the covers.........

[deepsquat]

Top of my list: a crow.

[zion zig zag]

I hit a squirrel one time and it just flopped around in the trail after. I had to pick him up and snap his neck to put him out of his misery.

[brice618]

I had a squirrel dive into my spokes once. it was a small squirrel so it went for a ride in the spokes for a little bit until I could stop the bike. Squirrel jumped out after i stopped and slowly wobbled away, I watched him for a minute and he was fine, it scared the crap out of me but was really funny too.

[MarsB]

I once had a squirrel jump into the mag wheel of my Huffy, take two spins and jump out the other side.

A few years ago I rolled over a mole while riding the DH course at Wisp. He kind of squished lengthwise, then kept running.

[altachic]

Ran over a snake on the Quarry last year while trying to follow Mr. Altagirl, that was way gross...

Also, like AG, a chipmunk ran between my tires on puke hill, only I bet I was going way slower than AG so he had time to just hang out.

[bigsugar]

I ran into a turkey on my singlespeed back in April. Seriously. A turkey. Who does that?

[kidwoo]

I have run over:
Chipmunks
Rattlesnakes
Squirrels
chicken
dog
baby sheep

and:

baby alpaca!!!

damn, rideit has a plow on the front of his bike

i have hit a:
squirrel
rabbit
cat
dog
many prairie dogs
rattlesnakes
and both my brothers, who didn't scream like girls

You guys need to learn how to ride. For the sake of the woodland animals' survival, you guys need to learn how to ride.

I'm an avowed friend of the little furrys and have plowed myself into bushes and trees to aviod them.

I did however run over my buddy's jack russel a few years ago. She was hiding between two doubles. I unweighted as much as I could and head checked the next lip. She got scratched but was fine.

Hope your little friend's okay sprite. Running away is a good sign.

[Telenater]

2 Ground Squirrels (double thumped)
at least 5 ground squirrels bounced off of the spokes on a front wheel. 20 inch wheel with 40 spokes.
1 Ca King snake
1 Baby Rattle snake
1 tarantula
1 school bus

[beast]

wasn't me.

[train07]

Shit, never hit anything before and I think I've put some miles on, then along comes Sprite, bagging her first chipmunk within the first few months of road riding. I'm feeling un-gnar.

Spritely, you should outfit your bike with those silent whistles. Ya know, the little torpedo looking things that get attached to cars to let deer know they best not step into the road. Get the special chipmunk version, paint them pink, put @ a dozen on, and you be styln..




man, that squirrel in disc brake is gross

[Flexon Phil]

The poor thing! He is in the chipmunk hospital on life support right now.
The whole chipmunk family surrounds his wee bed saying prayers, while his weird cousin Stanley is on the Acorn Gravity Research forums asking for + vibes.

It was prolly Stanley who dared him to run in front of you.

[gravitylover]

I ran into a turkey on my singlespeed back in April. Seriously. A turkey. Who does that?

A couple of years ago during a night ride I came around a corner flying and this dumb bird froze in my lights. Damn thing chased me half a mile up the hill squawking and flapping and screaming. The guys behind me all fell over laughing and me, the non-climber dude, screamed up that hill in the big ring freaked out. I didn't even know that turkeys that big could run that fast.

[Andy_B]

It will be ok Sprite.

I've hit the following:
Deer , well she hit me.
Cats
Dogs
Chipmunks (even more that have hit the spokes and bounced back)
Squirrels
Rabbits
Snakes
Porcupine
Great Blue Heron
Turkey
Great Horned Owl (that buzzed me on a night lap)

[scarlet begonias]

This is a horribly MORBID post. The squirrel in the disc brakes just ruined my day. I think I might sit here in tears all day. Boo.

+++VIBES+++ for Sprite's squirrel, and +++VIBES+++ for the dead squirrel in the brakes, all the animals that have been hit, and all the animals that will be hit in the future.

[icanseeformiles(andmiles)]

You guys need to learn how to ride. For the sake of the woodland animals' survival, you guys need to learn how to ride...

'round here, if you swerved to miss a prairie dog, you'd run over 15 of the little rat bastards trying to miss one, put your wheels in a prairie dog hole...then they'd have to shoot you.