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Just when you think you had a clear grasp of all the possible things on the road that could kill you while you’re out for a ride, this happens.
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Years a ago there was a video showing bulls (?) charging at parked motorcycles. I thought THAT was crazy. This is another level!
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Damn! I have a friend who used to ride a scooter in India. He said that wild monkeys would chase him.
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New shopping criteria: “Can it pull away from a charging bull from a dead stop?”
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On the way back to our RV site, after hitting the deer, we rode through a couple hundred buffalo on either side and across the road (in Custer State Park)... yeah, they are a LOT bigger than little Bambi.
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GTS300 Super 2015 Blue, GTS300 Super 2023 Beige
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Holidaying in Cape Town back in 1961, on a ride down to Cape Point on my GS150 I rode through the middle of a pack of baboons. I was very nervous, thinking that one might jump onto the back of my saddle. But they were all busy climbing over stopped cars, tearing off aerials and windscreen wipers.
I think encountering that situation now, I would turn around and get out of there quickly. The bravery/audacity/stupidity of youth! NB. my avatar dates from that holiday.
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2021 GTS 300 HPE +2013 GTS 294 Polini
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The Baboons of the Wesern Cape live in close proximity with humans in wild areas.
This is a short documentary of the problem that they now pose where they have realised that tourists and residents are a source of easy food. |
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I wasn't on a 2 wheeler but we were in my wife's convertible. I insisted she put up the hard top roof when we were surrounded by buffalo in Minneopa Park in Minnesota.
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On my way home from the 2016 cannonball in Yellowstone I was stopped onthe Sports City whilr a herd of buffalo was filtering between card stopped on the road. A young male about 30' (qp meters or so) away from me clearly didn't like the sound of the Malossi exhaust. He was giving me the stink eye and occasionally pawing the ground control a good sign. I couldn't move the scooter because of stopped cars with other bison in the road between them. My escape plan should he start moving was drop the scooter and vault onto the SUV next to me. Fortunately, the rest of the herd moved on and traffic moved down I could put a car between the young bull and me before he decided to charge. A very uncomfortable 15 minutes.
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