Horse Rage

I've just got in after doing some training in Richmond Park where I got into a scrap with a fucking horse rider! I was getting nicely warmed up on gentle hill, hitting about 30 (thousand) miles an hour when I notice a lady on a horse approaching the road I'm on. She wasn't on a path and the horse was just ambling along. "She'll probably just stop for 2 seconds and let me go" I thought. But no! Straight into my path causing me to have to swerve around the back of the horse. Not cool. Then she started shouting at me in a plummy voice that I should always give way to horses, its in the highway code (which is true). But still some form of communication before she rode directly across my path from nowhere would have been nice..."This horse has brakless" perhaps. Then I avoided a squirrel by an inch. Beware of richmond park folks its a fucking jungle out there!

So just wondering if anyone else has had an 'altercation' with a horse? Its a first for me.

shame the horse didn't spook and drop her on the road. I ride myself and get so p****d off with snotty horsey people who think they own the road and don't say thank you to other road users who give way to them. it gives everyone on a horse else a bad name.

did the horse not say anything?

equine manners these days are appalling...

should have crashed into the cow.

This is how they treat horses in Feltham - different mindset in this part of West London...

"A pensioner in West London has been arrested on suspicion of having sex with a horse.
The horse-sex incident reportedly took place in a field beside a dual carriageway, the A30 near Feltham in Middlesex.
A motorist alerted police after spotting the man, who is in his sixties, doing rude things with the horse near the road on Friday."

Horse rider vs M&J seafood van, now that would be an epic battle up there with polar bear vs tiger, or shark vs crocodile

I've just got in after doing some training in Richmond Park where I got into a scrap with a fucking horse rider! I was getting nicely warmed up on gentle hill, hitting about 30 (thousand) miles an hour when I notice a lady on a horse approaching the road I'm on. She wasn't on a path and the horse was just ambling along. "She'll probably just stop for 2 seconds and let me go" I thought. But no! Straight into my path causing me to have to swerve around the back of the horse. Not cool. Then she started shouting at me in a plummy voice that I should always give way to horses, its in the highway code (which is true). But still some form of communication before she rode directly across my path from nowhere would have been nice..."This horse has brakless" perhaps. Then I avoided a squirrel by an inch. Beware of richmond park folks its a fucking jungle out there!

So just wondering if anyone else has had an 'altercation' with a horse? Its a first for me.

You acted like a fucking prick to be honest.

I've just got in after doing some training in Richmond Park where I got into a scrap with a fucking horse rider! I was getting nicely warmed up on gentle hill, hitting about 30 (thousand) miles an hour when I notice a lady on a horse approaching the road I'm on. She wasn't on a path and the horse was just ambling along. "She'll probably just stop for 2 seconds and let me go" I thought.

there's your mistake, you assumed she'll stop for you and you decided to carry on cycling, instead of assuming that she's going to carry on ambling away and prepare to slow down.

Horse rider vs M&J seafood van, now that would be an epic battle up there with polar bear vs tiger, or shark vs crocodile

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090805/video/vod-amazing-footage-of-a-horse-crashing-f1a0497.html

someone confirm or deny if this is a joke thread?

I've just got in after doing some training in Richmond Park where I got into a scrap with a fucking horse rider! I was getting nicely warmed up on gentle hill, hitting about 30 (thousand) miles an hour when I notice a lady on a horse approaching

you do know that the speed limit in RP is 20 mph right… and too be fair you're being a bit of a numpty for not slowing down around horses anyway - right of way is immaterial, they get spooked too easily

now go and do 20 ascents of Test Hill you scamp.

In other news, I spotted a badger ambling down the road in RP the other night

some horses gets easily spooked. how would you feel if the bike you're riding (you, on a saddle at about 6ft high) suddenly bolts sideways? mtb'ers and roadies often slows right down when they come across horses out in the trails/lanes.

there's a big difference between a horserider and a nodder on an heavy MTB you know!

Ride one of these, a stealth bike for horse friendly areas..

Alright folks, I'm aware that I made an error! However this was not a junction, the horse was not on the road, I wasn't expecting her to cross. Next time I'll slam the brakes on. Alright?

Alright folks, I'm aware that I made an error! However this was not a junction, the horse was not on the road, I wasn't expecting her to cross. Next time I'll slam the brakes on. Alright?

Jeez. You have brakes?
Gobsmacked

Yeah, and when you do, yell "Woah there big fella"

horse for course isn't it?

Next time you think about not stopping for a horse, just say "neigh"

Ah now they start trotting them out

find out where it lives, get two milk crates to stand on and bum it until it says sorry - the horse, not the rider. Or maybe not, it's up to you, might be a bit harsh to be fair.

Ah yes, now starts the reign of (pun) terror

I rode home thinking only of horse related puns. Sad I know.

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you must be well hoofed by that Timmy.