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Old 12-30-2014, 07:41 PM
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Owl attack!!!
Ok, this counts as the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me on a bike:

My work buddy and I are pedalling home at dusk and are about 6 blocks from our office in a residential area when I feel this weird sensation. I duck and a freaking OWL swoops down and clatters his talons on the top of my buddie's helmet!!!!!!

I scream and Jay swerves and it flys away with no injuries by any party. It all happened in a split second but I saw everything so perfectly.

It was amazing! We stopped and went over to the tree where he was sitting and checked him out and he checked us out too.

Happy New Year! That has to be good karma in some culture ?!?!
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Old 12-30-2014, 07:43 PM
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Was your pal wearing a Davy Crockett Coonskin-look Helmet? Did a squeaky pedal sound like a mouse? There must be a reason for this attack.
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Old 12-30-2014, 07:49 PM
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Owls are cool Definitely good luck.
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Old 12-30-2014, 07:50 PM
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I've not experienced that with an owl, but around here, it is normal with red tailed Hawks. Their talons just bounce off a helmet. I would hate to experance it without.

By normal, I'm guessing I, or someone I am with, gets hit about once a season.
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Old 12-30-2014, 07:54 PM
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It may have been trying to deliver mail to you.

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Old 12-30-2014, 08:11 PM
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That's good luck...in Haiti.
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Old 12-30-2014, 08:13 PM
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Thread drift... A couple of days ago my grand daughter sent a picture of her in an owl hat on a landing at the top of their stairs. She's five. When I talked to her the next day, I told her we have owls outside our home in AZ that call every night. She told me that it is her, she flies to AZ from MI every night to call outside my window.

A tear came to my eye.
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Old 12-30-2014, 08:18 PM
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Crazy. A hawk did this to me this past summer while biking some single track. I was alone so my only proof was talon marks on my helmet.
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Old 12-30-2014, 08:18 PM
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Thread drift... A couple of days ago my grand daughter sent a picture of her in an owl hat on a landing at the top of their stairs. She's five. When I talked to her the next day, I told her we have owls outside our home in AZ that call every night. She told me that it is her, she flies to AZ from MI every night to call outside my window.

A tear came to my eye.
It is a late entry, but it could be the best thread drift of 2014.

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Crazy. A hawk did this to me this past summer while biking some single track. I was alone so my only proof was talon marks on my helmet.
did you see him coming, seems like they usually swoop in behind. All the sudden you hear the clatter on your helmet.
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Old 12-30-2014, 08:22 PM
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That will teach you to dangle dead mice from your stem.
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Old 12-30-2014, 08:24 PM
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It was amazing! We stopped and went over to the tree where he was sitting and checked him out and he checked us out too.
Almost certainly a nest in the area. Seems late in the year though.

Knuckled repeatedly over several days leaving campus as a gradual student in the 80s. Late hours at the keypunch (j/k, barely). The university response was cruel. Clearly, the owl had to go.
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Old 12-30-2014, 08:35 PM
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Meh...this is a ploy by GoPro to make you kinda wished you have one of these to capture that perfect moment....you know GEICO has that lizard, AFLAC has the duck...GoPro uses the owl.

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Old 12-30-2014, 08:45 PM
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did you see him coming, seems like they usually swoop in behind. All the sudden you hear the clatter on your helmet.
Yep, he came from behind. It felt like I had hit a low hanging tree branch but that section of trail was in a prairie with no trees. I saw him fly away. Cant imagine what an owl would feel like. Like others had said, all the more reason to wear a helmet.
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Old 12-30-2014, 09:18 PM
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Yeah, so what?
You really think we give a hoot?

(Sorry. Just couldn't resist! )

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Old 12-30-2014, 10:00 PM
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Needs a dash cam. Now I see what that red rear bike light with an integrated video cam is for.

The explanation is simple. Allan Kim's savory rice cakes. You never know what kind of road kill the OP used for his last batch, and of course the owl goes after them. He just missed with all the reflective trim on the kit.

(Best answer of all time will be the drift about owls and the daughter. We need more of that.)
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