[Illisezek]

I used to ride my bike on cycle paths a lot when I was at uni and had a couple of bad encounters with dogs.

The worst one was when I was on my MTB, I went off the side of the cycle path to try and find some nice off road bits. One of the bits I road down lead to the end of someone's back garden, when I realised this I turned round straight away and rode back. Then I heard this barking behind me and this dog chasing after me. I got up onto the cycle path and accelerated up to 25-30mph+ before the dog backed off! It was right along side me until I got up to some considerable speed.

The other one was on one of those shared cycle/pedestrian paths. It was very busy and this dog was off the lead and ran out on front of me, had to slam on the brakes and nearly ran it over!

I don't really like dogs very much....! Some of their owners are bloody stupid as well.