PTSD - Post Traumatic Squirrel Damage

[dtrides]

Damn Kamikaze Squirrels!
Glad you are basically ok after your "close encounter of the wrong kind".
My best squirrel story is the one where one got a bit too close and I launched him (or her) off my back tire like a mortar round at Hyper Girl who was just behind me . She said she had to take evasive action so not to have squirrel burger before we got to our lunch stop.
DT

 

[EastBayDave]

Glad you got off ok! If you ever go East over Mt. Hamilton, & past The Junction East toward Patterson & I-5, be prepared for "suicidal squirrels" as you go thru Eastern Frank Raines park as there they try for you!

It must be some thing of passing into puberty for squirrels, w/the trip to man-squirrel-hood is only gained by running under vehicles tires. I must have killed half a dozen there; they are ALWAYS there. Darting across the road, sometimes stopping to look, as you bear down @ 70mph.

Cleaning squirrel guts from bottom of bike is no fun. Also dodging flying dead animals from your partners back tire isn't either. Duck! Duck! Yuck.

Fun!

 

[LittleBigGirl]

Squirrel just wanted to hitch a ride with you.... It was all,

 

[STefani]

He just wanted a ride, man!

 

[pepesm]

I think that squirrel voted Trump and has a very strong NIMBY vibes.

 

[T100]

Been following sckegos' wasp to the throat thread, sorry to hear it's lingering. Though I've had my share of insect injuries, last week was a different treat...

Finished work early, just enough daylight to ride back roads and skip traffic - Stevens Canyon Rd., Redwood Gulch, 9 to home. It was dusky deer time and I've had some close encounters with them back there, so I was minding speed and scanning. On cue, as I turned right at Mt. Eden, there was a doe.

Swear she shook her head and whispered "Get Out", but I kept rolling, vigilant. I'll admit, I was kinda spooked, questioning my choices, looking for animals and that creepy IT clown...gets gloomy back there. I got to Redwood Gulch, rolled left and up the hill, still scanning for deer when something hits my upper right arm - fallen branch? rock thrown by a clown? It's a fucking squirrel, now painfully clamped to my arm with claws, teeth and crazy bushy tail whipping around. I got my feet down, held the clutch, screamed in my helmet, and wound the throttle as I flapped the fuck out of my arm trying to shake the little bugger off. Finally, it released and rolled into the bushes. If that clown was there, he was definitely smilin'...

Seriously adrenalized, I got home and to the ER for a tetanus shot and antibiotics. My arm's bruised and scuffed, but thankfully, no bite punctures through the jacket, didn't dump the bike or end up in the creek. Most likely wrong place, wrong time. Freakin' squirrel - still has me on edge. Least he didn't get me in the throat...

That is a very strange incident. Squirrels don't normally act that way. Run for cover is their normal M.O. Even if he jumped out of a tree and happened to land on you...they flee.

No leather protection? I assume that you went to the ER because, he broke your skin somewhere with teeth or claw?

 

[EastBayDave]

That is a very strange incident. Squirrels don't normally act that way. Run for cover is their normal M.O. Even if he jumped out of a tree and happened to land on you...they flee. SNIP

Bet me, head out to Frank Raines park on Del Puerto. Take a run on the East side of the park a couple times (both directions.)

I swear to gawd they jump out & STOP, & wait for you to get close before darting to one side or the other. Most of the time you miss, but not always....got a few meself there before...

Like I say, a manhood test or something...?

 

[EastBayDave]

Great stuff folks, and ya East Bay Dave, they're suicidal there. Just never had em come from above...
But I'm ready for next time. Definitely ATGATT, considering some equipment upgrades - back off bishes!!

Oh I love that squirrel helmet!

That front tire on that bike is pure silliness....like it actually works.