Oddest thing happening to you while JRA

[Flinch]

No fair telling about flats, too common. What's the oddest thing that has happened to you while simply riding along? No, not on rough terrain, gotta be on 'sissy-fairy-worm' road/trail.

I'll start: Two days ago on Oregon Hwy 101, good shoulder, flat, easy peddling on my '85 Nishiki, then I noticed that peddling had no effect on forward speed. Looked down and my chain had come quietly separated at the quick connector and wrapped entirely around the small chainring. No drama, not wedged, neatly wrapped. OK, I admit I've reused the connectors for a while, one actually came from the Smithsonian Museum, but dang! Of course I had spares.

Over 50k miles in the last 12 years, no chain breaks, and in fact, none my entire riding life.

Yer tern...

[jm714]

Ive had two small birds fly through my front wheel spokes and die.

[jimoots]

Originally Posted by jm714

Ive had two small birds fly through my front wheel spokes and die.

I had a bird run into my spokes and bounce off, it didn't affect the bike's trajectory at all. Just kept riding and had a look at the spokes when I got home, couple of features but no damage.

Was really strange!

[XXtwindad]

I was mountain biking through the woods and stumbled into a nude yoga photo shoot. Had to do another loop just to make sure I saw correctly

[Louis]

Originally Posted by XXtwindad

I was mountain biking through the woods and stumbled into a nude yoga photo shoot. Had to do another loop just to make sure I saw correctly

You should have stopped to do the "Wild Thing" pose...

[camelbackkid]

Someone threw half a bushel of apples at me while I was riding Rt 2 through Grand Isle in Vermont. Knocked me clear off the bike into the ditch.

When the shock subsided I realized I was quite hungry. Sat there and ate damn near half the bag while pondering the absurdity of it all.

[Louis]

Originally Posted by camelbackkid

Someone threw half a bushel of apples at me while I was riding Rt 2 through Grand Isle in Vermont. Knocked me clear off the bike into the ditch.

Someone once threw an ear of corn at me. It landed in my ST bottle cage, which happened to be empty at the time...

[Tickdoc]

Had a bobcat jump out on me on a ride one time. He jumped out from behind a big tree. He must’ve thought I was something a lot smaller, and to me he was much bigger….scared the crap out of both of us!

[pdmtong]

This

[54ny77]

Central Park, NYC. Squirrel jumped into my front wheel while riding in a small group. It did a bunch of flips inside the wheel as it rotated, and then by some miracle launched itself out. Nobody went down (myself included). We were all cracking up. Squirrel probably had to see a chiropractor that night...

[boomforeal]

Okay so admittedly not quite JRA. We’d just passed 1000m of singletrack climbing, almost 3 hours into a pretty epic (planned) day in Pemberton, BC, when this happened:

[Louis]

Originally Posted by boomforeal

Okay so admittedly not quite JRA. We’d just passed 1000m of singletrack climbing, almost 3 hours into a pretty epic (planned) day in Pemberton, BC, when this happened:

Dude, you can't just leave us hanging like that - how'd you get home?

Also, how many miles / years did that hub have on it?

[boomforeal]

Originally Posted by Louis

Dude, you can't just leave us hanging like that - how'd you get home?

Also, how many miles / years did that hub have on it?

Ah sorry

This happened just last weekend. I pulled off my chain and coasted down the fireroad to the car - carefully. Amazingly the wheel made it all the was down intact.

I don’t know how much mileage the hub had on it. I bought the wheel off a guy only a couple of weeks ago. He’d smashed a rim and had the wheel rebuilt under warranty. I myself had just smashed a wheel casing a step down a few weeks previous. I also just rebuilt the wheel on my commuter after finding the rim full of cracks. It’s been a weird summer

[Louis]

Good thing the road back to the car was downhill!

[boomforeal]

Originally Posted by Louis

Good thing the road back to the car was downhill!

Yeah

On the plus side I got 1000m of singletrack climbing in before noon. Even without a good descent I call that a good day