Bicyclist Runs Into Bear
By: Web Producer
Updated: June 26, 2008
Bicyclist Has Close Encounter Of Bruising Kind With Black Bear
(Boulder, CO) -- A Colorado bicyclist was riding downhill accompanied by his nephew at about 45-miles-per-hour near Boulder Tuesday when he ran into a bear.
KUSA television quotes 53-year-old Tim Egan as saying he saw a blur and thought "big dog." Then, just as he was hitting the animal Egan says he saw a gigantic bear head with huge teeth.
The bear was apparently as surprised to see Egan as Egan was to see him with the rider saying, quote, "it was almost like a cartoon when we collided." The rider and bike were thrown through the air Egan remembers thinking "Im alive, but the bears still here." It was indeed.
The nephew says after the collision the animal raised up onto its back legs then stood there for a few moments.
Eventually the big black bear sauntered into the woods, apparently uninjured.
A badly bruised but otherwise healthy Egan says hes happy his nephew was riding behind him and saw the incident or nobody would have believed him.
(Copyright 2008 by Newsroom Solutions)
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