Fellow star city cyclist Shane is always complaining about near misses with rabbits on Lincoln bike trails on facebook.
Since I don't ride fast and since he's already spooked them all off the trails I guess I've never had to contend with bagging a bunny out of season, until today's ride back from Bennet. I was headed N.W. On the Billy Wolff Trail South of Old Cheney Rd when a rabbit on the left side of the trail decided to run beside me, then dart from left to right in front of me.
I grabbed a couple of handfuls of break and just missed the little demon. I left a couple of skid marks, one on the trail, and the other...
Count yourself lucky. My brother in law ran over a skunk coming donw the Holmes Lake dam a couple weeks back. Talk about smelly!
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