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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: bronsin on December 19, 2012, 09:16:32 PM
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You must have snake stories too... :eek
http://www.st-owners.com/forums/showthread.php?123738-Riding-amp-Snakebite (http://www.st-owners.com/forums/showthread.php?123738-Riding-amp-Snakebite)!
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Not much of a problem with the snakes on the road, the Drop Bears like to eat em.
:grin
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Dont know what a Drop Bear is.
But I found out!
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SSF2hvYRAyg/TvO4xZSETEI/AAAAAAAABfg/yAgU57PzN9s/s1600/Koala%252Bvs%252BDropbear.jpg&imgrefurl=http://idolthreat.blogspot.com/2011/12/message-board-poster-hall-of-fame-6.html&usg=__JuWRd0MBqfoycW3quhB8LjO4ztQ=&h=537&w=834&sz=83&hl=en&start=4&zoom=1&tbnid=AcsZny0xWaNtxM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=206&ei=TKfRUPK_N7Sw0QHQkIGABg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddrop%2Bbear%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26tbo%3Dd%26imgurl%3Dhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzh85sXJ0y1qgkncuo1_1280.jpg%26imgrefurl%3Dhttp://www.tumblr.com/tagged/drop-bears%26h%3D668%26w%3D834%26sz%3D133%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D593%26tbs%3Dsimg:CAESEgm4EC_10SvvQoiGJ3bNZN-F5Uw%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=457&vpy=167&dur=4589&hovh=180&hovw=280&tx=106&ty=200&sig=104319451909396731889&page=1&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0,i:105 (http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SSF2hvYRAyg/TvO4xZSETEI/AAAAAAAABfg/yAgU57PzN9s/s1600/Koala%252Bvs%252BDropbear.jpg&imgrefurl=http://idolthreat.blogspot.com/2011/12/message-board-poster-hall-of-fame-6.html&usg=__JuWRd0MBqfoycW3quhB8LjO4ztQ=&h=537&w=834&sz=83&hl=en&start=4&zoom=1&tbnid=AcsZny0xWaNtxM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=206&ei=TKfRUPK_N7Sw0QHQkIGABg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddrop%2Bbear%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26tbo%3Dd%26imgurl%3Dhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzh85sXJ0y1qgkncuo1_1280.jpg%26imgrefurl%3Dhttp://www.tumblr.com/tagged/drop-bears%26h%3D668%26w%3D834%26sz%3D133%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D593%26tbs%3Dsimg:CAESEgm4EC_10SvvQoiGJ3bNZN-F5Uw%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=457&vpy=167&dur=4589&hovh=180&hovw=280&tx=106&ty=200&sig=104319451909396731889&page=1&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0,i:105)
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And now you know why nothing much scares us :grin :grin :grin
Its worse in mating season
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I come of 42,000 acres in western qld, we always had the joke that only a farmer new how to invert his rear end over his head while riding a motorcycle...all you had to do was hit a snake...
One of my more interesting experiences was riding through scrub and hitting the web of a golden orb spider, lucky I was wearing an akubra, as the spider was about to inches from my face.....this was about my vision
(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd499/ozstoc/f8f7b78cbe00ee8782c8870c809705fa.jpg)
needless to say the spider andi crashed the bike, and I hopped around like a madman making sure I was not getting devoured by a spider would have been hilarious for anyone watching....
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Have not had a snake strike at a bike, but have seen them rear up for cars.
:bl11
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I thought I'd seen some good size snakes in my travels.......but this one topped the list:
(http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc462/DownUnder193/P8040347_zps68581805.jpg)
Earlier this year I was heading east on the Barkly Hwy, just out of Tennant Creek, when the vehicle ahead of me struck this snake. He kept going but I stopped because I couldn't get over the size of it! I'm a tad under 6 ft and the tail of the snake is being held about 6" above my head. I estimate it was just under 3 metres long. I identified it as a Mulga snake, also referred to as a King Brown. Apparently Mulga snakes commonly grow to this size out there! :eek Imagine hitting one of these on the ST!
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Besides drop bears you also need to be on the watch for Hoop Snakes in Australia. But acording to this web site they are also in Canada
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hoop_Snake (http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hoop_Snake)
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Have not had a snake strike at a bike, but have seen them rear up for cars.
:bl11
Heres a book for you Death in the High Grass. VArious stories about usually fatal animal attacks in Africa.
His friend was out in the bush in an open Land Rover with his wife with their baby in her lap. A green mamba began striking over and over at the mother and child. They were stopped at the time and the front tire was on the snakes tail. So it couldnt quite reach them.
All sorts of stuff like that.
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Besides drop bears you also need to be on the watch for Hoop Snakes in Australia. But acording to this web site they are also in Canada
[url]http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hoop_Snake[/url] ([url]http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hoop_Snake[/url])
That is just too good!
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Gotta watch out up here for big pythons on the road, particularly in the cooler months. The young fella and his mates were riding to Port Douglas one evening when they came across a python roughly 15 feet long and 5 inches in diameter right across the road. On of them poked it with a stick thinking it's only a python it'll be cool, apparently it got very shirty and turned on him, the young fella reckons he's never seen that guy move so fast. They eventually managed to get it to cross the road so it wasn't squashed by a car.