Horses are rubish

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

At what price of petrol would you consider a horse?

I reckon £5 / litre

I said a similar thing about quitting cigarettes, but am still smoking

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Originally Posted by SupaSonic

I used to live for those moments.......be up at around 4am nearly peeing myself with excitement...*sigh, ahhhh those were the good ol days!

PS prefer eventing now, much more adrenaline fuelled, you think bike riding has some 'sh*t yerself moments', try doing it on something with a brain.....lol

I have to admit, being used to a bike leaning round corners is a useful trait when riding my horse at the moment...

... he's an ex-harness racer so is only used to trotting (pacing to be exact) and going in a relatively straight line.

Re-schooling him to trot on a diagonal is easy - getting him used to the concept of bending to go round a corner... not so easy. First time be barralled round leaning over almost as far as I would have on the bike! Good job the school has a nice soft surface - just in case!
He's slowly getting used to it, but man we've had some 'heart in mouth' moments.
Also now he's found he's allowed to canter of course he wants to do that all the time.



As for them being on the roads... hell, every horse I've ever known has been insured, so it's a step better than many (but not all) cyclists.

I love horse riding, and that's all I have to say.

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[timwilky]

Hitch a decent trailer behind them and they can quite easily pull about 10 drunks between pubs on a crawl and no licence loss. Although you can be fined for being drunk in charge, but the drink/drive limits don't apply. So how do you define drunk.

Don't let the horse have more than a couple of pints either or he will not pull you up the hill. Lazy good for nothing thing

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I like horses. Sometimes their owners / riders are twits, but hores themselves are nice animals. I've ridden a couple of horses before, and I was dead nervous and didnt like going too fast, but it was a great experiance to be taking a ride on something thats actually alive and stuff.

So don't kill them, look after them. Without the humble horse our great nation couldn't have developed

Matt

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by SupaSonic

No you cant....its not a motorvehicle or mechanically propelled vehicle....
See, even more advantages to horses, plus if you pass out they always know their way home....in fact I can see this catching on! lol

see the Licensing Act 1872, which says being drunk in charge of a horse, cow or steam engine incurs a £200 fine and possibly jail for up to 51 weeks.

Originally Posted by timwilky

see the Licensing Act 1872, which says being drunk in charge of a horse, cow or steam engine incurs a £200 fine and possibly jail for up to 51 weeks.

better get me a camel then