So I'm riding along this stretch of lonely road near the everglades (Florida)
When I see something in the road taking up most of my lane of this 2 lane road. I slow down and stop to see a 6 foot Alligator blocking my way.
He's definetly alive, and just sunning himself. If I change lanes and try to
go in front of his snout he'll definitely bite something, me or the bike. Either way the bike and I will be down with a pissed off alligator wanting to bite something again. I can't go behind him due to steep grass ditch.

Question: Do any of you southern riders have any ideas? This time it was
just a ride. Next time I might be going somewhere and have to get thru.
This time the 'Gator won and I turned around. I didn't have any food with me to lure him off the road. I don't make a habit of carrying roadkill with me.

Quiet Bear

 

i've run across that same problem before. i just went around. gators aren't what the media makes them out to be. if you just came at it at normal driving speed in front of it he would have been scared away and turned around into the ditch.

cows on the other hand...
they don't move... and they total bikes... and they hurt like a ****...
don't ask.

 

Gators are woosies just go around them . I would have to stop and harrase it for awhile.

 

They're really quite friendly, next time stop and pet 'em

 

Bet he would have made one HELL of a SEAT!!!


JK

 

Should've poked it with a stick...

 

We have "gators" up north but they're the kind that peel off truck tires. They don't have teeth but they can sure "bite" you if you get too close.

 

That would be one hellofa seat

What you should of did, was park the bike, and jump on the gators back and seen if you could hold on for 8 seconds, I have heard it refered to as "the transplanted yankee rodeo".

But seriously, I hear they are some good eatin

 

Anything that has the clamping power of an alligator's jaw deserves to be given a very wide berth!

 

It's a pretty simple solution really: It's common knowledge that gators AND crocs can't stand the music of Clay Aiken. So if you have a sound system on your scoot then just keep a CD handy (Yea, I know it's painful to spend your hard earned $ on him) to play if you encounter one. If you don't have a sound system then bring along an MP3 player with him loaded on it and walk up to the reptile and put some headphones on it and before you know it your problem will be high tailing it the other direction. You hear that they can sprint pretty fast but you just can't grasp how fast they can run until you try this.