sorry guys, here r the pics,went a bit wrong somewhere.


hitching up ice & wolfy



hitching up chenka(collie x) & suka (leaders)



finish of 3 or 4 mile run!



cooling off
ready to go home

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GREAT pics!!!

Wow!!! i want to try this! How did you get into it?

i do to

but i think i would scare myself s**tless

Yay, I'm going to get to. I had a go at a demo we were doing agility at last year, cos a friend has huskys (and collies) and competes them. She asked last night if I fancied running the other rig at this years demo so her husband can do the commentary.
I'm dead excited
mexicanwave

all 3 of my collies do that, they love it! i havent got a training rig so mine run with a mountain bike. agility directions come in handy, especially when touching 18 mph and heading towards a river! i'll have to get some pics, trouble is, i need someone else behind the camera.

That's why I want to run Jo's collies rather than some of the huskys. I've run the collies at agility and if I can stop Rogi when he's going full pelt towards the see-saw I can stop him with a rig behind him. I couldn't remember what the left and right commands were last time so I resorted to agility commands and shouted DOWN at the top of my voice when I wanted to stop. I'm told there isn't a stop command? Is that true?

well my stop command goes something like aaarrrggghhhh shhhhhhhhh*t and that works quite well but i cant speak for others. the 'right' and 'back' commands are very helpful thats for sure.

sometimes you dont actually want a stop command though - one day through the woods i was heading downhill towards a very, very narrow wooden bridge (I would've breathed in if id been walking across, let alone on a bike...) and it was a bit like playing chicken; if id had a stop or some sort of slow down command, they would have stopped ON the actual bridge and...TIMMMMBBERRR! :blink: whereas as i had no choice but to keep going i took a deep breath, yelled GO GO GO and hit it at about 20 mph. it was only as i flew on along the path on the other side i realised my hands were gripping the handle bars so tightly they hurt!

and doya know, i swear i heard H's voice coming out from underneath the bridge, saying something like trip trap... :ph43r: <_< ROFL

I wondered why they listened ok to me when I don't know what I'm doing :D
I'm told that my language is atrocious.

rigs are brilliant fun, I used to have one and it was great fun cruising along on it on the cycle lanes, the looks we used to get from passing cars etc were funny :lol:

It looks great fun. How do you get into it, and where do you get a rig from? I am getting a northern inuit x gsd in a few weeks, if it turns out to be more northern inuit i might have a go - and with all my collies of course.

ohhh are you? i fancy a northern inuit!!!!

HI all , i started running my dogs with a rig when wolfys breeder let me run wolfy with her dogs when she trained in the forest for racing her huskies. I slowly introduced my collies to it , they loved it went crazy to run after 2nd run. to stop or try to get them to stop the way to do this is to shout or say WHOA to the dogs which will slow them down once they hear it enough ,i would put the brakes on as i said this also. when i walk the oldies now if i say WHOA they stop for me!!!!!!!!!!!!mishka my young sibe runs attached to a springer next to my bike . in a tracking harness. If u visit the SIBERIAN HUSKY CLUB OF GREAT BRITAIN they have second hand rigs occasionally on there in LATEST ITEMS FOR SALE or look at their LINKS section running dogs with a rig or bike i find is good fun & my 4 dogs have got up to 20 mph sometimes. ;) :lol:

i do really fancy it

but would deff cr*p myself

It's great fun and you don't have to go fast :)

You do if 3 out of 4 your dogs are agility dogs who don’t think they’ve done enough agility that day. You don’t get a choice then

I think Maya would be great at it, It might burn off some extra energy. But i'm not quite sure i trust attatching wheels to her. ROFL