Chased for a mile by a miniature dog! Entertaining story, thankfully concluded to a happy ending. Never chased by a miniature but have had my fair share of dog chases although only for a few hundred feet. One time in rural Delaware I was intercepted by a pair of farmdogs and then given chase. I was doing around 22mph at the time, sped up close to 30 or so and still the faster of the two caught up with me and went for my ankle. It missed, lost part of its snout and my Ksyrium SL wheel lost one of its bladed spokes. Point here is that is very difficult to outrun a real size dog, specially the large kind bred for giving chase, guarding, retrieving etc, . They typically stop when they reach the end of their home turf but if they continue the best thing to do is to stop, get off the bike and use the bike to shield against the dog. Sometimes pepper spray also helps as does the water in your water bottle. Stopping and getting off the bike to face the dog is often counterintuitive at the time but is the safest thing to do rather than risking crashing at full speed with a dog attached to your ankle.
-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
