Had been reading this thread a few weeks ago, hearing all the stories of people seeing snakes, and thinking how lucky I was to have never seen one in six years of riding......then came the weekend.
I was doing the Chocolate Foot 4hr race down in Nowra, final lap, about 1km into the track. About 2m in front of me I noticed a stick moving across the track.....hold on, that's not a stick....bloody red belly black snake. I managed to bunny hop over its tail, scream to the guy behind me that there was a snake on the track and then continued on my merry way. The adrenalin hit made me feel like superman for about 2 mins, then I quickly came down and felt like crap again haha. I was thankful it was my last lap.....after that encounter every damn stick looked like a bloody snake.