No one’s immune to squirrel vs. bike collisions
No one’s immune to squirrel vs. bike collisions by Gene Bisbee at 11:01AM (PST) on February 5, 2008 | Permanent Link | Cosmos
Riding the Green Belt Trail is positively scary with suicidal squirrels.–Corrie
When I rode my bicycle out in the Central Valley of California, I always had to keep my eyes open for ground squirrels.
Those big, fat suckers would hang out in the shade of a haystack at a roadside dairyfarm, then kick up a small cloud of dust as they scampered across the road. It was always the squirrel’s agility, not my bike handling skills, that averted disaster.
A 61-year-old wasn’t so lucky. In spite of four transAmerica bike trips, Anthony Ricupero lost his first squirrel vs. bike tangle last weekend on a club ride near Greenwich, Conn.