Originally Posted by
tigat
Descending today at close to 50, one of the little buggers saw me coming and jumped into the road. I cut to the right to scoot by, it stopped, pivoted cartwheel style and headed back the way it came, and then did it again, just before my front wheel arrived. I chalked it up to some kind of squirrel right of passage designed to strengthen the squirrel gene pool. That, or a stupid squirrel bet.
It's like the "running of the bulls" with them, closest I can figure. Impresses the lady squirrels, perhaps.