A B.C. cyclist is recovering after a run-in with a grizzly and two cubs that ended with the bear getting punched in the face. 

According to conservation officer Matthew Corbett, a man was riding his bike along a forested trail next to Anderson Flats Provincial Park in northwest B.C. when he surprised a female grizzly and her two cubs in a clearing. 

“The bear just immediately charged him, knocked him down,” Corbett said. 

But the man put his bike between himself and the bear, which prevented him from being hurt as the bear continued to make contact with the bike. 

And then, he did something unexpected: he punched the bear in the face. 

“He told me that he remembered hearing a story on CBC at some point where a man punched a bear in…