http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Bat to the head en Sun, 17 May 2026 11:26:26 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123579 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 12:18:43 +0000 tammytroot 123579@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was probably a Daubenton's bat.<br /> One flew into my wife's head when we were fishing once. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123554 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:44:54 +0000 gembo 123554@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had to duck from some sparrows in the garden the other week, they are quite mental </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123545 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:15:24 +0000 sallyhinch 123545@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>eek! I've often had bats flying round and over me at dusk but never hit one or been hit by one. I think I'd have reacted the same... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123544 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:13:59 +0000 allebong 123544@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't have the patience to learn echo location so I'll let technology do it. Anyone know how to mount one of these to the bike?</p> <p><img src="http://www.perch-base.org/Glossary/Graphics/sonar-room.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123534 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:36:40 +0000 Dunny 123534@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's incredible! Going to start using this at bridges on the canal. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123514 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:39:07 +0000 Cyclingmollie 123514@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>cb: <em>"If humans ever evolve echo-location abilities"</em></p> <p>We have. <a href="http://youtu.be/vpxEmD0gu0Q">Blind man cycling using echo location</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123511 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:15:41 +0000 Dunny 123511@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I did get a soaking, I was terrified! Just not from the WoL... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123506 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:48:43 +0000 cb 123506@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I read the first line as:</p> <p><em>I just came off the canal and <strong>into</strong> the water of leith </em></p> <p>Was wondering why you weren't making much of a deal about getting a soaking...</p> <p>If humans ever evolve echo-location abilities it could resolve the bright-lights-on-the-towpath problem. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123504 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:40:17 +0000 Dunny 123504@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"When I read the topic title, I was expecting some sad tale of an assault with a baseball bat!"</em></p> <p>Once I posted it I realised it could be taken as a baseball bat attack, sorry about that!</p> <p>I knew these parts were inhabited by them, never even came close to a run in with one before though. If it wasn't a bat, it was a moth from the Jurassic era! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123497 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:07:07 +0000 Focus 123497@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When I read the topic title, I was expecting some sad tale of an assault with a baseball bat!</p> <p>I regularly see bats on the Roseburn Path and up at Juniper Green on the WoL path. I also suspect they can be attracted to the very faint whine that comes from my Tacx bar-end lights on my road bike. </p> <p>They've always been very spatially aware around me though - perhaps you were attracting insects <strong>Dunny</strong>! ;-p </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123466 Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:56:22 +0000 Dunny 123466@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I didn't. Vamps are a protected species though so I hope so! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123465 Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:49:24 +0000 Uberuce 123465@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Did you stop you check if the vampire was okay? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123463 Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:44:17 +0000 Dunny 123463@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had lights but that just brought the gravestones into view. Now that I'm home it seems daft but when it happened all I could think was cold shower, foetal position. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123462 Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:35:45 +0000 Tulyar 123462@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Collided facially with small dark furry thing when riding on unlit road back to work camp on Loch Venachar one night and espied a great amount of activity in the light available from stars - unassisted by sodium or mercury and electricity. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11028#post-123460 Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:19:26 +0000 Dunny 123460@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I just came off the canal and onto the water of leith path at the back of Asda at Chesser, passing the allotments on the right when what I'm pretty certain was a renegade bat kamikaze'd into the top of my helmet. Bear in mind I've just passed a graveyard and it's pitch dark. I have never been so terrified in my life! I got out of there fast.</p> <p>How it never heard me I don't know. I made the strangest sound when it happened, something I can only convey as 'ooWAoo'.</p> <p>This ever happened to anyone else? </p>