Comments on: Surreal Moments http://www.fatcyclist.com/2007/10/03/surreal-moments/ It's like reality TV. Except it's real. And there's no TV. Fri, 04 Mar 2022 03:21:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Angie http://www.fatcyclist.com/2007/10/03/surreal-moments/comment-page-3/#comment-514120 Angie Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:05:19 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2007/10/03/surreal-moments/#comment-514120 When I was training for a mt bike race at Bear Creek Ski Resort in Macungie, PA, I ran over the same opossum 3 times. I was coming up a long fire road climb on my mt bike. It was out in the open where they cut a swatch through the forest to put the ski lifts. I was crossing this open area with a slight uphill, diagonal direction. As I was climbing in a very easy gear, I suddenly saw a baby opossum barreling down the mountain toward me. He had been surprised from his hiding spot by my husband who slightly ahead of me. So this opossum comes running down the hill on a collision course with me! He intended to cross in front of me, but he must have misjudged my speed. (I go so fast up long hills, NOT!) I got to him before he could cross my front wheel. He hit the side of my front wheel and bounced back up the hill about a foot. This turned my wheel downhill and my bike, of course followed the new trajectory. Meanwhile, the opossum saw that he could run between my two wheels and tried to do so. Only my new trajectory caused him to hit the back of my front wheel as he tried to pass under me. This turned my front wheel back uphill again. This new change in trajectory caused him the hit the front of my back wheel as he tried once again to pass under my bike. All this time, I was shrieking and trying to avoid him while avoiding falling. I managed to unclip my feet and I kept trying to keep them in the air so he wouldn't freak out and bite my shin. All this took place in the time it took to roll to a stop on the uphill climb. The little opossum finally got free of me and raced down the mountain, making little opossum noises all the way. I stopped shrieking and told my husband all that had transpired while his back was turned. It sounded too far fetched to believe, but he had seen the opossum when it got scared out of its hiding spot. The moral of the story is: If you don't want an accident with an opossum, don't go so fast uphill! When I was training for a mt bike race at Bear Creek Ski Resort in Macungie, PA, I ran over the same opossum 3 times. I was coming up a long fire road climb on my mt bike. It was out in the open where they cut a swatch through the forest to put the ski lifts. I was crossing this open area with a slight uphill, diagonal direction. As I was climbing in a very easy gear, I suddenly saw a baby opossum barreling down the mountain toward me. He had been surprised from his hiding spot by my husband who slightly ahead of me. So this opossum comes running down the hill on a collision course with me! He intended to cross in front of me, but he must have misjudged my speed. (I go so fast up long hills, NOT!) I got to him before he could cross my front wheel. He hit the side of my front wheel and bounced back up the hill about a foot. This turned my wheel downhill and my bike, of course followed the new trajectory. Meanwhile, the opossum saw that he could run between my two wheels and tried to do so. Only my new trajectory caused him to hit the back of my front wheel as he tried to pass under me. This turned my front wheel back uphill again. This new change in trajectory caused him the hit the front of my back wheel as he tried once again to pass under my bike. All this time, I was shrieking and trying to avoid him while avoiding falling. I managed to unclip my feet and I kept trying to keep them in the air so he wouldn’t freak out and bite my shin. All this took place in the time it took to roll to a stop on the uphill climb. The little opossum finally got free of me and raced down the mountain, making little opossum noises all the way. I stopped shrieking and told my husband all that had transpired while his back was turned. It sounded too far fetched to believe, but he had seen the opossum when it got scared out of its hiding spot. The moral of the story is: If you don’t want an accident with an opossum, don’t go so fast uphill!

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