I was riding my BV500 on top of the San Diego Laguna Mountains this afternoon, taking a wonderful twisty ride through the forest overlooking the desert below when IT happened!
Coming out of a turn going about 70 and accelerating up to 80+, a big (and I mean BIG) mountain squirrel ran out in front of me and froze in it's tracks.
There was no time to turn - all I could do was straighten my scooter upright and hold on tight. Being my first experience with this type of thing I was concerned that I was going down as I hit it square on. Well, as you may guess since I'm at home writing this and not in the hospital I didn't crash. My new City Grips under the scooter just went "bump-thump" and on I went. I felt badly for the squirrel, but frankly was smiling for not crashing.
Anybody else had this type of thing happen and do I put a small squirrel sticker in my under seat compartment or bring some seeds up on my next ride and put them in the forest as a thanks to the remaining squirrels for not wiping out?
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