I've had a couple close encounters with bears on my old dirt bike, it was a quiet 4 stroke and they wouldn't hear me coming until I was right on top of them. One time I came over a hill and a big lazy bear was sitting in the middle of the trail. I stopped about 15 feet away, he looked at me, I looked at him, and he slowly got up and ambled off the road. I also rode within a couple feet of a cub once, I was going pretty fast and didn't realize what it was until I was past it. I fear cougars much more than bears.
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