Originally Posted by
eja_ bottecchia
What? Dogs are different in your neck of the woods? Are they bigger, fiercer, tougher than farm dogs where I live?
Is Lake Lanier still in Georgia? If so, then I have ridden on your backroads and no, I haven’t been bothered by your dogs.
What? Your post states you’ve never been bothered by a dog while riding. So how would you know anything about farm dogs in your area?
Or was the implication that being chased by dogs doesn’t bother you? Reading it now I’m not clear.
Dog incidents, like flat tires, are not evenly distributed among the riding population. I had a serious dog attack my first three months riding as an adult, then I never saw a chasing dog for four+ years and now I get a aggressive dog every couple rides or so since I ride gravel way out in the country.
Last ride I did in Carroll County GA I got chased by 27 dogs total. 7 of which were aggressive enough that they tried to bite my shoes while I was still pedaling. Rural Georgia has a ton of kept strays and wild dogs, something that has to be experienced to be believed. Lake Lanier ain’t been rural for a couple decades, that was my main riding area from 2012-2013 and I never had a chasing dog in almost a thousand hours of riding around there.