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Bikes v Wildlife?

twintorque

twintorque

Joined Sep 2009
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Exeter, Devon
Hi all, just wondering if any of you lot have had any near misses or worse, accidents involving animals whilst riding? I was on a country lane doing 50-60 on a straight section late one night on my sv650 when something came out in front of me. No time to brake or swerve, didnt even see what it was. Clip ons gave a mighty jerk, bike wobbled everywhere, but stayed upright. All i heard was a thud and a howling... stopped bike, walked back and there it was- a badger out cold, a clean blow from my left fork leg, right on its head. If it had been a second earlier he would have been under my wheel, certainly making me come off. Really hope thats the last time any wildlife decides to get up close and personal with my bike!
 
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Hi all, just wondering if any of you lot have had any near misses or worse, accidents involving animals whilst riding? I was on a country lane doing 50-60 on a straight section late one night on my sv650 when something came out in front of me. No time to brake or swerve, didnt even see what it was. Clip ons gave a mighty jerk, bike wobbled everywhere, but stayed upright. All i heard was a thud and a howling... stopped bike, walked back and there it was- a badger out cold, a clean blow from my left fork leg, right on its head. If it had been a second earlier he would have been under my wheel, certainly making me come off. Really hope thats the last time any wildlife decides to get up close and personal with my bike!
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Rupe, as you know, horses don't like the ape. remember when we were out? but more recently i prepared to slow down as horses were ahead. as i went back one gear i inadvertently but instinctively blipped the throttle as i was almost level with them which of course let out a huge bark from the akrapovic:rant(stupid of me i know, but i did chuckle to myself:banana), the horse at the back absolutely shat himself, jumped onto the 2 feet high grass bank on the side of the road with some poor bugger on the back. not sure if the person fell off. they must have thought i was a right :jack. and to be fair to them , i was!
 
Hit several birds - none have "vapourised" like the one Marco Melandri hit at Phillip Island last week.
Also hit a sheep once, that was scary. Saw it running out of the heather on the North York Moors right into my path. Couldnt avoid hitting it (mainly due to ****** Yamaha brakes of that vintage) but managed to only hit the back end of it which sent it cartwheeling off the road and down a bank. Filled my pants!!:eek:
 
I ran over someones cat on my bandit late at night, ran clean over its middle killed stone dead with a canny thud. Also had a horse go a bit mental in a local village as i passed it on my Mille going in the opposite direction, didnt hang around to see the outcome.
 
Once had a near miss with a pheasant in Greeba, it stood in the middle of the road saw me then could'nt decide which way to run... luckily it went the opposite way that i went..
 
yesterday i got a lift to pick up my RSV from Southern Cross... my friend wears a open face helmet... had his visor up... as we were going along a low flying pigeon came straight at us... he tilted his head down luckily... so it bounced off his visor... i had my full face helmet visor down which the pigeon then bounced off mine... we both went '******* hell' & just laughed... luckily he tilted his head though... if it had hit his face... we would of both probably come off as we were doing 30 in busy traffic !! :eek:
 
hit a pheasant with the left fork/mudguard at 50ish, shat pants, didn't stop.
had loads of near misses with flying birds.
obliterated a bird in an old astra on the A1 a few years ago. it broke the front foglight
 
One evening I was rideing minding me own buisness when I saw a pigeon comeing towards me I ducked it swerved (the wrong way)and It hit my hand I was doing about 60 at the time when I got home a little shaken the birds feathers were inbeded in my glove and I later found out i'd broken my hand:)
 
aye, just missed dog on dual carriageway last month, then last week hit a pheasant at 80 smashing my front headlight ,front fairings, ram air ducts and infill panels on me gsxr. not happy.
 
Hit a pigeon at a tonne on my gsxr600 a few years ago :eek: Was taking a blast, saw these 2 pigeons on the road ahead, the fflew off but right at the last sec one of em came back around. It followed the airflow over the front of the bike (thankfully as it would have completely destroyed the bike) and hit me straight in the face. I kid you no the pigeon exploded! It cracked my helmet clean through, bent the visor back underneath the lip of the helmet and bent my brand new oakleys underneath!
My hands came right off the bars and it nearly sent me off the back of the bike. Regained control and pulled up, set the bike on its stand and the literally fel on my arse, it was like a punch off tyson and I had no balance at all! Was picking bits of pigeon guts and feathers out of my bike and leathers for months after! :puke
 
Lucky escape there TinMan! Makes you think though doesn't it- could be a bird, deer, sheep, cow (or even elephant as my mate found out whilst riding a hired zx9r in thailand, would have certainly hurt!!) or anything else. When you're pushing on and some foolish animal panics and comes into your path, its all but impossible to avoid.
 
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I was on an FZ750 and ran a badger over. Luckily I was going dead straight and only doing about 40. Went clean across it's back so hardly felt a thing! Bike didn't even wobble.
 
Yeah, I just watched it coming towards knowing there was bugger all I could do :eek:, was almost like slow motion but couldnt move! I was really lucky there wasnt a corner coming up. Some car I had just overaken must have seen it but didnt stop the gits! Probably a bit pissed I went flying past em at warp speed 9 and that I deserved it. :jack
Was in a group once when all of a sudden the guys infront hit the anchors, couldnt understand why untilI saw a stag standing on the side of the road, that would of hurt!

The pigeon gave me a black eye, cut lip and bleeding nose, stag, well, dont wanna think about it, although it cant be any worse than the lampost at 60mph and the several cars I've had encounters with! I got legs worse than Barry Sheene me! :pirate I seem to attract things bigger and harder than me, though I'm slowly transforming my bone skeleton into a titanium one, then we'll see whose laughing!! :nana
 
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Hit a sheep a few years back on a gs500. Was prob doing about 60-70, sheep ran right infront of me and hit it side on. The bike went down and I somehow held on and slid a good 20m along the road ontop of the bike. Did break my sternum on the handlebars tho :-(

The first car that came by happened to have a woman shepherd in it, something very wrong about seeing a woman straddle a kicking sheep and snap its neck!!
 
had a pheasant hit the side of front wheel at about 90 brake disc cut it in half had a bit of a wobble but stayed on it
spent next 2 hours taking fairings off to remove half cooked pheasant blood and guts every where all through fairings and round engine even on to swingarm linkage
 
Mate of mine had a pheasant fly out in front of him once,trouble was they both jinked the same way!! Went thru his 748 screen and hit him in the shoulder area,as near as the investigators could make out his bike cartwheeled several times and totally destroyed itself.

He was quite badly smashed up as well,but at least when healed he got some form of compensation as well an insurance payout and got himself a 1098s Tricolure instead.

Every time I see a pheasant in the road now my ring starts puckering,there tend to be quite a lot of them roaming round here in the summer, large badger populations as well.
 
I've hit a pigeon at around 100 last year. It came flying out of a hedge when I saw it. Grabbed a handfull of front brake but it dissappeared below the front fairing. Looked in my mirror as my brother was following behind and all i could see was a cloud of feathers. :lol

I pulled over to inspect the damage and found that the stupid little fooooker had flown straight into the front wheel, got diced big stylee and I found bits of guts cooking on my radiator and downpipes:puke

Could have been so much worse.

A mate of mine hit a cow, came round a corner and all the traffic was stationary. He took to the grass and was doing quite well until the Friesian walked straight into his path. Broke his collar bone and obliterated his blade. He flew over the top and the cow went rolling along the side of the road landing on top of him. Lucky boy as it could have been worse. The cow scrabbled to its trots and walked off:jack I call him milkshake now so he can never live it down
 
Hit a pidgeon at 130 on the chin of skid-lid and when got to work i noticed i was red from neck to knees. Also a deer at 70mph, hit me on the arm and girl friend(pillion) on her thigh but kept RSV upright. BLOODY CLUANIE! :pirate Phew!!!!
 
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