Rider down - me

[Gunslinger]

Texas you are either very brave or slightly touched in the head . To be riding at 71 is amazing to me by itself but to get back on the bike after something like that, you're a lot tougher than I am. I think that would be the end of my riding days. I'd say you got your money's worth out of that helmet.

[NYGiantsGuy]

Deer are vermin and a hazard to anyone in any vehicle. Since Canada went stupid with the gun registry, many people stopped hunting. Now the deer are dam near swarming in these parts and we have to have yearly culls to prevent mass starvation and disease within the population.

That was a big problem about ten years ago in the american northeast. The (questionable) theory was that Bambi made people appreciate deer more, coupled with stricter hunting, so after 50-60 years, the deer were just completely overwhelming communities, walking right up to homes' doors, etc. etc. I'm all for protecting our endangered species, but only the ones that need it....people forget the food chain exists naturally, to keep all animals in check.

[gsJack]

Sunday, October 18, three days before my 71st birthday...................................

There must be something about that 70th year that's hard to get past. Back in July 03 about 3 weeks before my 71st birthday a kid in a S-10 clipped my rear end as I was turning off a highway onto a connecting road. I high sided across the street and landed on my left shoulder and rolled a few turns and got a broken collar bone. My 97 GS500 was totalled but I replaced it a month later with a 02 GS that had only 4k miles on it and it just passed 76k miles this year. Get back on the horse and ride it, odds are it won't happen again. Remember, we're like thanksgiving turkeys, the old birds are the tough ones.

[Velocity]

Best of luck on your recovery and sorry to hear about the accident.

I wonder if those high frequency deer whistles (like dog whistles I guess) people used to mount on the front of cars would work on a bike?? This is easily the 4th accident involving deer I've encountered this month and it is unnerving to hear more cases popping up.

They would probably work about as well as they do on cars, which is to say, not very well at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_horn
http://advance.uconn.edu/2002/021118/02111812.htm

[sv-wolf]

Hi Texas

Only picked up on your thread today. That sounds like quite an injury. Best wishes for a full recovery - and lots more riding.