First Encounter with Wildlife

[R3sp4wN]

I work graveyaard shift and am constantly riding at 6 am, when the deer like to come out and play. It was a bit ironic that today I was thinking about 'what if a deer ran out in front of me' and within a few minutes, I saw a small doe on the left shoulder. I rolled off the throttle a bit and turned off my high-beams. It was a relief when she got startled and ran back into the woods rather than into my path of travel.

The only other animals that I have encountered were dogs, and they scare the "pee" out of me. Always running straight at my bike from out of nowhere. Anyone had a run it with deer or other large animals?
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[the_sandman_454]

I work graveyaard shift and am constantly riding at 6 am, when the deer like to come out and play. It was a bit ironic that today I was thinking about 'what if a deer ran out in front of me' and within a few minutes, I saw a small doe on the left shoulder. I rolled off the throttle a bit and turned off my high-beams. It was a relief when she got startled and ran back into the woods rather than into my path of travel.

The only other animals that I have encountered were dogs, and they scare the "pee" out of me. Always running straight at my bike from out of nowhere. Anyone had a run it with deer or other large animals?

Yes, I encountered a deer. Road bordered closely by woods on both sides of the road towards dusk but still light enough to see without headlights. The deer ran out close enough in front of me that I had time to register it being there and start to hit the brakes. I had been riding about 45, I think I slowed down a few mph before impact.

It resulted in a totalled bike and a broken collarbone which I'm still recovering from.

I had a thread about it, if you want a more detailed account. Subject line had "deer" in it, and it was posted from my account obviously.

I would suggest slowing down quite a bit in an area you've seen deer in. I had always thought 45 would be slow enough, but when one unexpectedly charges out of the woods, it's hard to avoid sometimes.

[sathyan]

Thank god i have not encountered any other wildlife than a dog and a snake .the snake just passed by leaving no harm for me.
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[Theweapon52]

http://www.600rr.net/vb/showthread.php?t=108176

That is effing disgusting.... Anyways, all the wildlife i have encountered have been at a relatively safe distance and in broad day light (knock on wood). I try to avoid riding at dawn and dusk because as you said they like to come out and play around then.

[Brackstone]

For me with deer I never flash my headlights, I've seen to many of them freeze in place. I always honk my horn.

I think the loud noises makes them think "Predator" where as the lights make them go "WTF?!"

[gsJack]

Many, many deer encounters, 2 very close calls, but no contacts yet. Got my broken collarbone from contact with a kid in a S-10. We seem to have more deer than people here in NE Ohio on a warm summer evening about sundown. A friend of mine was killed in a deer collision on his Hog a couple years ago.

[Big B]

see deer all the time while riding (they're everywhere in wisconsin). closest call was on a test drive/shakedown cruise on a brand new warrior while working for the yamaha dealership, two lil' ones and a doe ran out in front of me and stopped in the middle of the road, managed to avoid both of them, but flat-spotted the "poo poo" out of the back tire.

[ceemes]

only had one encounter with deers, luckily the sat on the side of the road. Did almost run into a black bear sitting in the middle of the road, I stopped just a head of him and we eyeballed each other, him wondering if I was edible and me wondering just how fast I can pull off a U-turn on a narrow forested one lane road.

[R3sp4wN]

Well, I hit a beaver about a month ago. My neighborhood is right next to a lake and I have to drive past the lake every day on my way to work. It was a little before 10 pm and the beaver was just walking in the middle of the street. I curved to the outside of the lane because a car was coming and felt a brief impact. I held on tight and tightened my grib and slowed to check the condidtion of my bike. I am really happy that I hit it with my crashbar and not the tire itself. The beaver flew up and hit the bottom on my foot (which was on a peg on the crashbar.) My foot was numb for the rest of my ride to work; I had no damage to my bike other than having to reposition the peg, which was nothing more than loosening the bold and rotating the peg back into place.

[Chuck_theHammer]

Many, many deer encounters, 2 very close calls, but no contacts yet. Got my broken collarbone from contact with a kid in a S-10. We seem to have more deer than people here in NE Ohio on a warm summer evening about sundown. A friend of mine was killed in a deer collision on his Hog a couple years ago.

Sorry to hear about your friend,
on I271 and route 303 my friend hit a deer on his BMW and then his body hit the second deer. He died also.

BUT you can come up on a deer in the afternoon. riding down a street that is shaded on both sides of the street by trees, happened to me several times the past 2 years.