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True Dough

(17,304 posts) Mon May 8, 2017, 08:28 PM May 2017

Dear cyclists, you've entered bear country!

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Dear cyclists, you've entered bear country! (Original Post) True Dough May 2017 OP

Looks more like a "Get off my hill!" charge to me. hunter May 2017 #1

Lucky he was peddling up a steep hill. Used to hate getting chased by a big Hoyt May 2017 #2

Two words. Throck May 2017 #3

Jesus, why the hell did they stop? Tobin S. May 2017 #4

Bears can outrun a cyclist... 2naSalit May 2017 #5

The bear headed downhill to cut them off on the switchback csziggy May 2017 #6

hunter

(38,311 posts)

1. Looks more like a "Get off my hill!" charge to me.

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Mon May 8, 2017, 08:44 PM

May 2017

Dogs do the same thing.

And maybe she had cubs nearby.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

2. Lucky he was peddling up a steep hill. Used to hate getting chased by a big

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Mon May 8, 2017, 09:21 PM

May 2017

farm dog, or two. They like to run into front wheel and scare the heck out of someone in Spandex. A squirt from water bottle usually worked, but I don't know about a ticked off bear.

Throck

(2,520 posts)

3. Two words.

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Mon May 8, 2017, 09:30 PM

May 2017

Brown underwear.

Tobin S.

(10,418 posts)

4. Jesus, why the hell did they stop?

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Mon May 8, 2017, 09:42 PM

May 2017

I'd be putting it into warp drive.

2naSalit

(86,608 posts)

5. Bears can outrun a cyclist...

Reply to Tobin S. (Reply #4)

Mon May 8, 2017, 10:19 PM

May 2017

They should have bear spray when riding in bear habitat. One good squirt will stop a charging bear in its tracks.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

6. The bear headed downhill to cut them off on the switchback

Reply to Tobin S. (Reply #4)

Mon May 8, 2017, 10:22 PM

May 2017

That is a theory from one of the YouTube comments.

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