Horses are rubish

Originally Posted by gid

How come his thread has now turned into a "I love horse" thread?

Are you all bonkers?

Yup mad as a box of frogs me

[Wideboy]

dey is good eatin!!!

Where is my frogs, ah they is in there box.

[yorkie_chris]

Heres one for you, went for a bit of a spin on Wednesday night, there's a long hill which, having good visibility all the way down a bit of a dip, then up the hill, I took sensibly, at full throttle.

Halfway up the hill, some lass on a horse appears over the brow of the hill coming the other way, so I slowed right down, pulled the clutch in and took a position as close to the kerb as I could. Coasted past her at maybe 20mph. Just in time to see her mouthing "******" at me.

Next time I see her I'm tazzing it past her on the rev limiter.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Heres one for you, went for a bit of a spin on Wednesday night, there's a long hill which, having good visibility all the way down a bit of a dip, then up the hill, I took sensibly, at full throttle.

Halfway up the hill, some lass on a horse appears over the brow of the hill coming the other way, so I slowed right down, pulled the clutch in and took a position as close to the kerb as I could. Coasted past her at maybe 20mph. Just in time to see her mouthing "******" at me.

Next time I see her I'm tazzing it past her on the rev limiter.

Reminds me of that silly mare on the AR.
Horse on back legs,Finger wagging numpty ......
Of course it was all our fault,even though we were stopped

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Next time I see her I'm tazzing it past her on the rev limiter.

lol done that


a few years back when i had a crosser, there was about 6 of us on enduros and crossers,we all stopped and let them pass (they were on some sort of fox hunt), but one of them still had a go at us, shouting an and swearing.

when our paths crossed later in the day, stop we did'nt........... nor did we slow down

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by gid

Reminds me of that silly mare on the AR.

By the time I got to her she was fine, horse was on the verge I put my hand up to acknowledge her and she smiled back at me.

When we reccied the route on the thursday before on the AR we came round a corner a bit further down that leg to find two horses, one hrose was out in the road and running about everywhere. So we stopped, engines off. I flicked my visor up and we sat quitely and didnt move and waited for the rider to sort the horse out, Which she did, both riders thanked us as they walked the horses past us. Then once they were a 10 metres or so we fired up and off we went.


I spoked a horse on my pushbike and I said sorry to the rider and she said "dont worry not your fault"

I did have a different experience when a hunt jumped out onto the main trunk road between Yeovil and Dorchester a few years ago, no looking, no giving way just jumped out straight in the road in front of alot of cars doing 70mph or maybe more. The hunt riders werent very happy, neither was anybody in the queue. I got a mouthfull, I gave as good as I got back. They were a local hunt they knew the road they were goiing to be coming out onto would be busy, did they show any consideration for their own lives or the lives of their animals no they didnt...

Some people are just ignorant and rude. I would suspect that the problem isnt the horses its the minority of riders who exhibit the stupid behaviour.

Horses are un-predicatable beasts but if you bear that in mind I dont see why they and other road users cant exist in the same road space.

Originally Posted by alpinestarhero

but it was a great experiance to be taking a ride on something thats actually alive and stuff.



Matt

that could get you in so much trouble lol

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

Horses are un-predicatable beasts but if you bear that in mind I dont see why they and other road users cant exist in the same road space.

A rider should be certain they are in control of their vehicle.

I wouldn't ride after 12 pints, a horse rider shouldn't ride a twitchy horse. Getting hoofed in the head is going to hurt, as is being knocked off by a vehicle not legally bound to be insured AFAIK.

Originally Posted by DanAbnormal

In this day and age horses have no place on the road. Yes, horses have been round for donkeys (ha!) but that doesn't make them safe today. It's like saying stoning is a great punishment, it still doesn't have a place in our modern society. I have nothing agaisnt horses but leave them be in a field somewhere. I'm sure they would be much happier. Motor vehicles are not dangerous, the users are. Horses are inherently dangerous as you never can really tell what they may do in a given a situation. I've been pootling around some country roads doing less than the speed limit and there is a horse round a blind bend in the middle of the road goign mad. Being that I was riding sensibly I had plenty of time to stop but still very dangerous. And I also got an earful for being on the road that I pay tax for by the horse rider.

Whatever!!!!!!!!!!!1