Black bears can reach top speeds of 35 mph and if that’s hard to believe check out the accompanying footage showing a bear sprinting after a mountain biker in Whitefish, Montana.
The widely shared footage, captured from a ski lift, shows the bear in a determined pursuit to catch or simply chase the mountain biker from its territory.
The bear even attempts to cut the biker off by charging through brush on the switchback trail. But the mountain biker outlasted the bear and rode to safety.
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“He was just fine,” Josh Smith, owner of the Montana Knife Co., told For The Win Outdoors.
Smith said the incident occurred a couple of years ago but his company’s footage was shared for the first time Monday.