Warning: Animals harmed in the making of this picture

[Argos]

Just got forwarded these from my cousin. Not sure where he got them from.

Should Carbon forks come with a warning about this, too? :rolleyes:

[eddief]

the little guy might have made it through.

[weisan]

What a traumatic experience for the rider. I can lose sleep over this for weeks, if not months!

[PanTerra]

OUCH!! It does say something about those Bontrager wheels.

[Argos]

I hate to feel like I need to qualify my post, but I just want to say I don't mean to offend anyone with this. I am not posting it to be "cruel" to animals, and my sentiments are similar to Weisan.

[Dr. Doofus]

had one a them squirril tails on m'bike when I's a youngin

[slowgoing]

From now on all my wheels will have sharp, bladed spokes so this doesn't happen.

[Samster]

For both the rider and the rodent. :eek: :(

I'm sure neither knew what hit them. Hopefully, the rider is up and about trying to recall the circumstances.

Looks like the wheels held up better than the fork (or the squirrel, for that matter.)

--sam

[William]

Ode to Squirrels (http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=4989)


William ;)

[e-RICHIE]

judging from that second pic, i'd say
that guy got more tail than sinatra.

[davids]

At least it wasn't a Starbucks' napkin!

[Grant McLean]

I don't think that's a carbon fork.

Trek 1000 is entry level bike, It comes will an aluminum fork
with a cro-mo steerer. Bontrager wheels aren't stock either,
the rider should have left the 32 hole wheels on that the
bike came with, and the world would have one more squirrel...

-gee

[TimB]

I think Zap might have a comment on this too -- or he should, at least, since I was there....

[Dr. Doofus]

yo

S-Rock has a posse

mad hurtful payback

[Argos]

They've had a Carbon fork since '04, though I agree those are not listed as the stock wheels.

[Roy E. Munson]

In Pic #1, I wonder how he got the cable from the downtube between his feet?

Doofus, didn't you have a similar incident to this with a gerbil? No wait, there were no bikes involved in that one. :D

[Dr. Doofus]

Doofus, didn't you have a similar incident to this with a gerbil? No wait, there were no bikes involved in that one. :D

yo

no rodents

straight greased pig

beyotch

[weisan]

it looks to me that it is close to an instant death...and nothing "leaks" out of the package. For that matter, I am not sure if sharp blade spoke is such a good idea...it can get messy. :cool:

[Kevan]

disk wheels!

Hey...hey! Nothing's perfect!

[musgravecycles]

Kevan...

You mean like this...
;)

On a more serious note, that looks like it was MP...

[pdxbikeboy]

HELLA UNVEGAN. :crap:

was the rider ok.

[Kevan]

Zactly!

A must have when traveling sqoil country!

[vaxn8r]

That's exactly what happened to my buddy but with a cat. His Ksyrium SL spokes were squished to the side but the wheel was still ridable. It was later rebuilt. The cat lived but I doubt for long. It was a feral cat and it was well shaved and it took off a runnin' once released. There was fur everywhere, the road, my buddy, the bike. He looked like a snowman! How he got his bike down from 25 to 3 before finally endoing, I don't know. Sight to behold. Oh, his CF was fine.

[slowgoing]

it looks to me that it is close to an instant death...and nothing "leaks" out of the package. For that matter, I am not sure if sharp blade spoke is such a good idea...it can get messy. :cool:

Better for it to be rodent mess than mine.

I bet he'll never do that again.

[Grant McLean]

They've had a Carbon fork since '04, though I agree those are not listed as the stock wheels.

That bike is a 2003, and the fork is aluminum.
The red and white Trek 1000 is pictured in in the catalog,
and the 2004 has a straight blade fork.
You can see in the picture the fork is quite bent, as well as broken.
It's virtually impossible to bend carbon.

_gee

[bluesea]

Can we have a moment of silence....for the furry animal, I mean.

[d_douglas]

I second the motion - that would cause me to lose lots of sleep!

1) as an animal lover, that would scar me like nobody's business.
2) as a human being thrown to the ground and sliding on pavement, looking up to see the source of the carnage as a dead squirrel.

Bad, but unfortunate, squirrel.

Now that I recall, several years ago, I ran over a squirrel's tail, narrowly missing his body. He survived, I think.

[Fixed]

bro poor old trek forks have been takin a beatin lately. two deaths in the last month cheers :beer:

[Elefantino]

Why did the chicken cross the road? To show the squirrel how it's done.

[JohnS]

Squirrels have the worst instincts. I don't know how many times one will run across the road in front of me, be clear, and then run back into the danger area.

[Grant McLean]

Squirrels have the worst instincts. I don't know how many times one will run across the road in front of me, be clear, and then run back into the danger area.


Happens to me all the time as well.
It's like they don't even understand the difference
between a roadway and a park ! ;)

-gee

[nobrakes]

The squirrels in my neighborhood are so fat they would stop a truck. I had a bird fly through my Kseriums a few years ago...bird in on right side...fluff of feathers out left. I never felt it, but pulled over to stop due to uncontrolable laughter. Never found a body, or even blood on the spokes.

[OldDog]

Whooooweee! Toss that plump thing in the stew...goood eating! Tastes like rattler, which tastes like chicken! I hit a rabbit once, we both survived. A buddy got knocked over by a doe, broke his Trek carbon frame at the bb. Trek was nice to warranty it.

[Fixed]

Kevan...

You mean like this...
;)

On a more serious note, that looks like it was MP... bro give that cat credit he looks pretty fit to me cheers merry christmas :beer: :fight:

[Tom]

Squirrels have the worst instincts.

No, actually they have very good instincts. When a bird is stooping on them, they have a heck of a time nailing the squirrel when they squirrel is being squirrelly. Owls, especially. ("One Man's Owl", Bernd Heinrich) Owls line up on what they want to hit and come in on a line, silently, but with no real ability to change line if the prey moves. Heinrich describes his owl missing a crow in broad daylight because the crow took two steps to the side.

Squirrels haven't yet developed the instinct that if it's a wheeled vehicle just keep going in a straight line and don't brake.

[billrick]

Such a sad ending to the KS story . . .

Killer Squirrels (http://www.chainreaction.com/squirrels.htm)

Be sure to scroll to the bottom for the "jujitsu dog thing." Not squirrel-related.