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Submitted by JayShupe on Thu, 2010-09-02 02:12.

Tonight I was coming downhill to a blind curve (about 25 mph), looked up with a car coming towards me and a deer in my lane. Car ends up off his side of the road, the deer goes back and forth until he gets out of the road. I lock up the brakes, fish tail quite abit but keep upright until the deer gets out the way. With the sun going down sooner, and us riding in more the twilight, be very carfeful of the deer and make your self visible to cars.

Ride Safe


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Glad you're safe, Jay.

Submitted by Dan Oldham on Tue, 2010-09-07 02:31.

Glad you're safe, Jay. Rachel and I have been riding the C&O Canal and had a semi-close encounter with a deer. It was about 100 feet away, but still enough to startle us. We've had a few close encounters with birds, too!

Stay safe!


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Deer

Submitted by Jock on Thu, 2010-09-02 13:55.

Glad you are safe and sound. I try to do group rides but even then stay alert. Deer can be deadly.

-Jacques


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thanks

Submitted by tommoslener on Thu, 2010-09-02 11:37.

Jay
glad to hear that you ended up ok. yes deer will be out in force thru out the fall.
tom


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Thanks for the reminder and

Submitted by jhughes on Thu, 2010-09-02 11:09.

Thanks for the reminder and I'm glad to hear you're all right!

Josh Hughes
Level: B
Treasurer
Panhandle Pedalers Cycling Club


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Yes, happy it turned out ok!

Submitted by cmorrison on Thu, 2010-09-02 12:16.

Sounds like quite a scary situation and happy that everyone is still in one piece! My friend Colleen and I went for a ride last night and also had a doe run out in front of us. Luckily we were on flat ground and coming to a stop sign at Leetown Rd, so going slow enough to avoid hitting her. Pretty amazing to see the flash of red-brown and hear the hooves hitting the pavement right in front of you! 'tis the season, and we should all stay alert around woods and corn fields.

Cheryl Morrison
Secretary
Panhandle Pedalers Cycling Club


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Yeah, as a long-time motorcyclist...

Submitted by SWriverstone on Thu, 2010-09-02 13:47.

...I can tell you that I'm a LOT more afraid of deer than other cars! The good/bad thing is they're generally most active during what we call the "Deer Witching Hour" which is the last hour of daylight before sunset...but of course that's when we usually ride! I try to avoid motorcycling through deer country just before sunset, which stinks because it's a beautiful time to ride.

Scott


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