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We asked you the weirdest things you've seen while out riding ... here's 13 of our favourites

From camels to elephants and raves to bagpipers ... as well as an Audi driver indicating (yeah, right)

Last week on Facebook, we asked you what the strangest thing you’d ever seen on a bike was. We were hoping for some weird and wonderful responses, and wow, did we get them – around 150 in all. Here’s our favourite dozen.

Animals, as you’d expect, featured a lot. No word on whether this guy had spotted a black bin bag dangling from a tree branch shortly before hand.

There are eccentric aristocrats, and then there’s Lady Chichester, who trained one of her camels to perform dressage. Seriously.

Meanwhile, in the Ni Forest …

Pictures Or It Didn’t Happen. This one, coincidentally, got far more likes than any other post.

It’s not clear whether the two are connected, but we’d like to think so.

That time after the Referendum when an EU trade delegation got rumbled on their way to a secret meeting with Nissan ...

Hark, when the night is falling, Hear, hear the pipes are calling, Loudly and proudly calling down through the glen …

The leader of the Tour de France wears the yellow jersey, but the yellow morph suit is a new one on us.

Next time you hear a commentator on a bike race talk about riders being sacrificed, spare a thought for how badly this encounter could have turned out …

A few of you spotted couples, well, coupling … bonus points for the Caribbean island location here.

The verb “to chug” is something we’d normally associate more with beer … but we think we know what he means.

This has to be every cyclist’s worst nightmare. Hopefully John bought a Lottery ticket afterwards.

And on a similar theme … we’ve no idea who Danny Winnie is, but he sounds like one very lucky lad …

Read all the replies here.

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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CyclingInBeastMode | 4 years ago
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I saw a BMW indicating, that freaked me out!

oh ffs, holy thread revival, why are these old threads in the what's hot links!

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The _Kaner | 7 years ago
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Yay!

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