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Going to visit some friends last night in the next town over. Went to pass a car, all of a sudden I get hit in the chest up towards my right shoulder! I glance down, and see this white and grey mass kinda under my chinbar. It was only for a second, and it kinda knocked me back (but, not off)my bike. Pulled over laughed my ass off for some unexplainable reason, went back and found a good size seagull dead in the middle of the road. Never had it happen to me before. I watched it happen to a guy riding ahead of me a few years ago. I suspect this doesn't happen too often. Sometimes rides get exiting for all sorts of reasons. After approx. 34 yrs of riding off and on you'd think that this wouldn't supprise me. Sometimes certain riding situations still do. Anyone else got an oddball experience while riding?
I do. But first, how fast were you going? ......I ran over a raccoon the other night going 50 mph. And, I stayed on the bike didn't wreck, wobble or anything. I got off to check and he was straight up dead. Felt awful about it :-\
I had a pheasant fly up out of the ditch into my shin once back when I was riding a 94 FZR600R. Was going somewhere in the neighborhood of 120 and the impact knocked me over into the oncoming lane (thank God it was empty!). The bird hit more on my side plastic than my leg, but still left a bruise from the top of my boot to damn near my knee.
My favorite bird story is 2nd hand for you all. One of my buddies was riding his Harley on a back roads highway in western Iowa. He had a turkey land right in his lap as it flew up out of the ditch. Said it just sat down fairly softly in his lap, but the surprise of it damn near made him lose it! Really wish I'd have been able to see his face when it happened!!!
Had another buddy have a turkey go THROUGH the windshield of his Ford Ranger...that bird tore some shit up!
I do. But first, how fast were you going? ......I ran over a raccoon the other night going 50 mph. And, I stayed on the bike didn't wreck, wobble or anything. I got off to check and he was straight up dead. Felt awful about it :-\
I was hit by a bat this past year. We have so many deer around here that I am already a little skiddish at night- but a bat? C'mon, man. Little clump hit right on my shin. Gross.
I killed a bird last weekend. He flew out of the trees and I could see him flailing about trying to avoid me but he couldn't do it and ended up hitting my mirror. I couldn't do anything to avoid him since I was in full lean in a corner. Really didn't think I hurt him too much since the mirror didn't even move, but I went back to check on him and he was dead. Felt bad for him.
Years ago I made contact with a hawk that I never saw at about 60 mph. The hawk hit the left handlebar and my left-of-sternum chest. It wrenched the handlebars out of my hands and pulled three ribs loose from my breastbone before exploding into a cloud of feathers. The resulting crash separated, tore the rotator cuff of, and dislocated my left shoulder and abraided the rest of me into ribbons. I was unconcious for about 15 minutes till the meat wagon got there!! The Dr. in the ER laughed and told me I'd have been better if the ribs had been broken and handed me a handful of pain pills for the next few days and sent me home!!! He didn't even give me an x-ray to see if there was anything else broken!!! I guess he had a thing for motorcyclists.
I set up like concrete for about a week and over the next three months (due to the ribs) learned how to sneeze without breathing in and how to cough like a sorta wheeze. After a three hour surgery to repair the rotator cuff I was promised two weeks of excrutiating pain popularly known as rehabilitation therapy by Nurse Ratchet.
Always wear full face helmets, gloves and hard boots. Heavy denum is the minimum clothing and full leathers is best. God only knows what I'd have come out looking like if I'd just been wearing a t-shirt and half-lid helmet. I am walking proof that two solid objects can not occupy the same space at the same time no matter how hard you slam them into each other. One will displace the other somewhat and I can assure you that it isn't a plesant experience for either!!
A friend of mine had a bird fly into his front wheel. The spokes chewed it up pretty good and he had blood, guts and feathers all over his clothes and helmet.
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A friend of mine had a bird fly into his front wheel. The spokes chewed it up pretty good and he had blood, guts and feathers all over his clothes and helmet.
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My bro took out a Brown Heron with his R1 at around a buck sixty and climbing. All he could do was put his chin on the tank and say "This is gonna hurt".
Besides the windscreen, it also cracked the upper fairing, scratched the tank, and sheared the pivot mechanism on the right side of his helmet. And of course all the requisite blood and feathers.
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