12 Responses to “Lying in Wait”

• AdamM says:
  

  Eeek! Is any tire able to resist such an attack?

  Posted on 4.26.10 at 8:31 pm
• David says:
  

  I don’t know, but my relatively new Schwalbe Marathon Supremes have seen me through 500 miles of rough road without a flat so far. Fingers crossed…

  Posted on 4.26.10 at 9:46 pm
• Doug R. says:
  

  I run stop flats and Mr. tuffies liners! GRRRR! Bad Stickers!

  Posted on 4.26.10 at 11:02 pm
• Harry H says:
  

  Cursed goat head.

  Posted on 4.26.10 at 11:21 pm
• Joe says:
  

  Its plants like those that make me glad I live and ride on the east coast. ouch

  Posted on 4.27.10 at 5:02 am
• RDW says:
  

  What the hell is that thing? It’s obviously stalking your bike. Reminds me of Day of the Triffids for some reason. Great pic.

  Posted on 4.27.10 at 5:33 am
• Alan says:
  

  We’ll need a botanist to chime in. Around here, we colloquially call any nasty little stickers that can penetrate a tire “goatheads”. I know that’s not technically correct, but that’s the common name among my bike riding friends.

  Alan

  Posted on 4.27.10 at 5:59 am
• Joe says:
  

  Tribulus terrestris, in the family Zygophyllaceae. I think

  Posted on 4.27.10 at 6:44 am
• Derek says:
  

  I’m glad we don’t have them around here.

  Posted on 4.27.10 at 7:06 am
• Eddie says:
  

  I see a budding Little Shop of Horrors!

  Posted on 4.27.10 at 5:44 pm
• Joe says:
  

  Glad we don’t have them here too. But being in south central PA, we have rocks on the trails that look like that. More like razor blades then rocks.

  Posted on 4.27.10 at 6:43 pm
• beth h says:
  

  I can’t say I’ve ever seen anything quite like that growing in Portland. Maybe it rains too much here. But WOW! Some of those stickers are LONG.

  Posted on 4.29.10 at 3:58 pm