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Had a Pheasant once trying to cross the road in our path, I waved my arm and it ran back into the hedge just in time!

Dennis27 wrote:

Rebecca wrote:I try and miss anything that crosses my path.
I have been in a truck once when the driver hit a dog.. Never will forget it!!!

And your avatar is the hamburger helper....

I just reread my post... thats not hamburger helper.... duhhh its the hamburgler right? Anyhow I'd just like to call myself out on that!

I hat a Rabbit back in the UK at night on my ZZR11, I didnt realise Id even hit it but I found its leg in the fairing, I think it was a wabbit

a parakeet flew into my windshield in a subdivision where i wasnt running 20mph.but it killed him.almost hit alligator crossing road in vicinity of Okefenokee swamp at about 2:00am one morning.

My friend hit a small bird doing like 80.... it hit his right radiator and turned in to hamburger..... no harm done to the bike, just freaked him out.

I have hit numerous squirrells, when flat tracking it on dirt roads.... and at the speeds im going, the front and back end are sliding around all over the place anyway, so something like a squirrel doesnt make much of an inpact.

A local rider had a bad day a few weeks ago... Came down too hard from a wheelie and snapped his main fairing mount, then on the way home a bird dive bombed into his helmet at triple digit speeds. Poor guy said his head hurt for three days after that!

BuzZz wrote:We have 2 main targets here. Deer and gophers. Both are so numerours as to be considered vermin.

Last friday I rode home some 400 miles and hit maybe 15 gophers. The first 2 were by accident, the rest, I was hunting.

BuzZz!!! I can't beleive you'd do such a thing!!!

Karma will get you for that Pal!

....Oh yeah....I clipped a Wallaby (small kangaroo) once in Tasmania on my Softail, he shot out of the bracken & ferns an stuff (Dirt Rd) & went for me but I managed to deflect it with my Leg/Boot which stopped it goin under my bike.

Looking in the mirror revealed him rolling along the track behind me ....I reckon he was OK.

My leg hurt for about 15 mins! Ouch!

Hmm, here ya go guys, I saw this a while back, but it still hurts.

http://www.dumpalink.com/media/937

feel bad for the guy, but should he have been going this fast I wonder? looks like the speedo is about 120... shoulda known the wee beasties would be out.

YA NOT Wrong!

Looks like the rider may have hit the brakes too hard, I can't imagine that an animal that small could flip a heavy bike like that!??