WHAT HAS ATTACKED YOU

[NecroNom]

Riding into Paeroa the other day from Te Aroha just before the LSZ doing 120ish when i get a brown flash from the side of the road smack fair into the front of my helmet. In shock for a split second (I didnt come off) then look down and theres a duck sitting on my tank all limp. Naturally all i do is knock it off the GSF's tank and carry on. But bugger me it was one of the most unexpected things ever. So yeah what has anyone else been "ATTACKED" by in that sense. Maybe a sheep, cow, octapuss????

[Rainbow Wizard]

doing 120ish when i get a brown flash from the side of the road smack fair into the front of my helmet. I look down and theres a duck sitting on my tank all limp.
A smart man would have kept it for dinner. I thought a duck had hit the leading edge of my van roof one dark night until I realised ducks don't leave black rubber streaks when they hit. From the amount of dead truck rubber I see on the road I figure it could be dead duck for a biker if he was dealt one of those at 100k or more.

[dangerous]

Welcome to KB man, ummmm proberly a pukeko (*sp) I was testing out a BMW R1100s at the time, saw the dumbass bird on the side of the rd but figgered they cant fly anyhow so kept up the speed..... well bugger me if this thing dident haul ass into the air and sail straight into that huge tank/fairing panel on the 1100s what a bloody noise..... was thinking how do I explain this to the shop.... anyway looked in the mirror expecting to see plastic for miles, but all I saw was the dumbass bird rolling down the road.... a dog ran out of the bushes grabed it then dissapaired.

Now I reckon the dog set me up aye,like they are a pretected bird, the dogs owner whould have given it instructions too never, ever kill a pukeko or he would hang the dog by its nuts........ so the dog figgered let the ginga on the bike killl the bird and then once its on the deck.... hell its anyones :shifty:

BTW...... no damage at all to the bike :niceone:

[spudchucka]

I've had three very close calls with animals. First was a deer on a country road in the middle of the night, narowly avoided hitting it.

Second was a large parrot, (not sure what exact type but it was Cockatoo sized) in Townsville, (Aussie) that hit me on the shoulder while travelling at a speed that I'm not going to admit to here. Bloody thing nearly knocked me clean off the bike.

Third was a dead Aussie, (a Wombat) in the middle of a left hander while fanging it to work in the early AM, (about 0500). I hit the bloody thing while cranked over and got partially airborne followed by big time tank slappers and almost through a fence on the opposite side of the road.

Each incident was a major sphyncter, (sp) puckering experience that I'll never forget.

[MikeL]

Doesn't the law require you to stop if you hit an animal and make an effort to inform its owner? Presumably this would apply to a pet duck but not a wild one...???

[dangerous]

large parrot, a Wombat
Speaking bout Aussie, I was told when riding over there avoid running over snakes cos they can wrap themselves round the bike wheel and pull ya down (just a mussel reaction of the snake)
So I was always on the look out for them..... well one day I came blasting down a country rd and spotted something on the rd.... by the time I relised what it was I was about to hit it, bastard thing took the hole road up.... anyway I sucked the seat up my ass and ploughed over it, started breathing a wee bit further up the rd...... and relised that the snake was already dead, thanks to the truck up ahead. :cool:

[Aiolos]

This one hurt. (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=9144)

Ooof.
My knee is almost healed now.

[inlinefour]

Bloody thing attached itself to by gumboot and would not get off. Ended up kicking my gumboot off at 100km/h and the possum got a good dose of road rash and eventually I got my gumboot back with minimal blood on it. :sick:

[Sniper]

Does a child on a bicycle that doesnt give way count?

[sels1]

Does a child on a bicycle that doesnt give way count?

Or a pedestrian that steps off the footpath in front of you?
Riding my little trailbike to college one morning (yes it was a year or two ago) a mate of mine walking suddenly steps off the footpath and walks right out in front of me. For a few secs I thought he was playing chicken, as some of my college mates often did. Then I realised he was looking looking the other way and genuinely hadnt seen me. Crap! So I make a big swerve for the other side of the road to dodge him. About this time he woke up and realised I was coming and made a dive for the other side of the road....same place I was going! Whammo! two of us sliding down the road in our college uniform grey shorts - best dose of gravel I ever had! We both got the day off school, and the bike was still rideable.

[Krusti]

Doesn't the law require you to stop if you hit an animal and make an effort to inform its owner? Presumably this would apply to a pet duck but not a wild one...???

Yeah...stop and yell....I KILLED YA FECKEN DUCK...ride off....:ride: Covers every one GOD included!..:msn-wink:

[Oakie]

Narrowly avoided the odd dog but the biggest 'animal' fright I ever got was a big bumblebee right in the middle of the visor at about 80k. Man what a noise!

[bugjuice]

spank isn't here to gloat over this, but he hit some sort of bird at a bit of a pace..
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=9102

as for me personally, I almost got taken out last weekend by a hawk/eagle that took off from the side of the road and across my path while hooning along the 22.. I think the bird had a sphyncter moment..
Else it's just bugs. All the time, bugs bugs bugs

[Ixion]

Apart from the Ubiquitous Dog, the only thing that I have been attacked by on the bike was a Disapproving Mum, many years ago. She disapproved of the hour at which I returned her daughter, and the condition she (the daughter) was returned in.

[bugjuice]

Apart from the Ubiquitous Dog, the only thing that I have been attacked by on the bike was a Disapproving Mum, many years ago. She disapproved of the hour at which I returned her daughter, and the condition she (the daughter) was returned in.
lamo.. good on ya :niceone:

[Ixion]

lamo.. good on ya :niceone:

Actually, it was all to the good. Her Mum's disapproval of me was more successsful than all my importunities in getting her to discard her inhibitions ( amongst other items) :2thumbsup

[Madmax]

Had a sparrow inbed its self in my radiator,
did not realize until i stopped at some lights,
buy this time the bird had started to cook, :sick:
people thought i was quit mad sitting on the
side of the road plucking feathers and bits out my bike
like some werd magic trick.
:confused:

[Joni]

I was actually "attacked" by a small dog as I stopped at the intersection near his house... nope did not hit him... :sweatdrop

Little bugger sure could bite. :D

[ghost]

Northbound on southern motorway many moons ago, at pace, 2am, walking human shape in my lane flashes past, took a while for brain to comprehend that someone would actually cross the motorway on foot and the mess it would have been if I'd been two feet to the left.

P.s ("at pace" please insert 100kmh officer)

[FROSTY]

The scareyes /worst experience i've had was when I first started riding.
I was following a truck and a gust of wind lifted a sheet of roofing iron up off the back.I ducked down as it came flying at me -It bounced off my lid and packrack before hitting the ground behind me.
I stopped shaking about a week later.

[thehollowmen]

Two 14 y/o schoolgirls who thought I was big and macho on my GN250

uh..

yeah had one hell of a time getting away from them

[Pixie]

The ones I love are:
Women pushing puschairs-the ones that push the kid out from between two parked cars,and while the kid is three feet out in the lane, in traffic,stop to see if anything is coming-sometimes you get to see the look of terror on the kid's face.
I was following my brother to the castrol six hour,every dead possum he passed the passage would stir up all the blow flies(why do they call them"Blow"flies) and I'd have the benefit of running through the cloud of the buggers.
I was in the car,when a pheasant just missed getting nailed as it flew across my path,but it wasn't so lucky ,it hit an oncoming car which launched it back at my windsheild at head level.Having gained in excess of 100 km/h velocity,when it hit my windshield at a closing velocity of over 220 km/h it turn into a feather bomb. Surprisingly the glass didn't break.

[Mr Skid]

I've narrowly escaped certain death at the hands of an agressive gumboot on SH22.

[bugjuice]

Two 14 y/o schoolgirls who thought I was big and macho on my GN250

uh..

yeah had one hell of a time getting away from them
you can go straight to jail for that.. and you don't pass go and don't collect $200

[flyin]

i've come across a few rabbits and possums that have attemted running the same way as me.... away??? amusing as it may seem it is not good practice to assist them with ones boot....... FARKIN sore foot and kinda dodge......

[Big Dave]

I had this in a Kiwi Rider a few years ago now.
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Unique hazzards

It was ideal. Temperature just right for riding in leather, cloudless, hint of a tail wind, I'd been in the saddle all morning and just reached that point where you become 'one' with the machine, you're so in tune that the handling has become automatic, you're feeling and steering with your whole body, totally immersed in the experience. Harmony.

There were seven of us cutting an arc west of the Great Divide headed from Newcastle to a rally North of Brisbane. Crossing the Plains West of Tamworth on wide sweeping well-made road carrying little traffic. Craig had the front; the pace was brisk and comfortable. I was sitting 'One in, one back' and having about as good a party as you can have - in a helmet.

We crested a rise and suddenly Craig swerved - violently. It was a brilliant, quick and almost successful manoeuvre. He missed 'all but' the last 4 inches of an enormous Brown Snake that had been sunning itself, rather inconsiderately, across the racing line.

By the time I flashed past a split second later, the thing was about 3 feet in the air, turning itself in knots, striking at anything and everything, including itself, and extremely errr….angry.

I set a personal best for ' longest distance travelled whilst using one 'F' word' and if Can-Can dancing on a motorcycle ever becomes popular - say you read about it here first! I'm sure it's the only time I've had my riding boots above my helmet while riding (except for that incident on the Bultaco when I was 14.)

The previous long distance profanity whilst leg lifting record was set in Tasmania, Co-pilot and I on the Tasman Highway, over the Tasman Bridge, crossing the Tasman Peninsula as we rode towards Tasman's Arch with the Tasman sea on our left. (Note no Wh shounds!).

We were running through some fine Tasmanian rain forest - the sort that would remind a Kiwi a little of the colour of home, when out of the corner of my eye there is a black and white something coming out of the ferny undergrowth - first thought without fixing vision was that it was a small Border Collie or something - what's a dog doing way out here??? But no.... sh*******tttt! It's a Tasmanian Devil, chasing us like a dog and having a real good go. Not sure what would have been funnier, the sight of us both synchronised leg lifting or the looks on our faces and eyes like saucers when we stopped and took helmets off and said 'DID YOU SEE THAT!!!!!’

Roos, Emus, Wombats, even Tassie Devils all act like big, stupid, launching ramps in the glare of the best quartz halogens. If you are across the ditch and touring after dark in the bush - exercise extreme caution at all times. Better still, find a Pub and settle in for the night.

I’m happy to say that apart from a few Queen Street evangelists nothing in New Zealand has attacked me yet. I have had words with a sheep dog on a flat top that obviously didn’t understand the finer points of lane splitting but we sorted that out after we reached the end of his tether.

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I hit a dove at about 120kph flush on the cheek in an open face helmet since I wrote that lot too. Broke my Ray Bans and killed it instantly. I was unhurt apart from 'tearing up' a bit - from the impact not cause i was upset about the bird either thank you!

[Pixie]

My new stripey bandit actually got a mynah the other day.
Has anyone managed to get a weasel?(Hard to hit)

[Motu]

I was actually "attacked" by a small dog as I stopped at the intersection near his house... nope did not hit him... :sweatdrop

Little bugger sure could bite. :D
One day when visiting a certain person in South Auckland it came time to leave,but he was busy with customers - I thought bugger it,started my bike,my girlfriend got on the back,I put the bike into gear...and then a doberman clamped his jaws on my ankle with no intention of letting go.His owner finaly came out and said...''oh,I haven't said you can go yet have I?'' No one left the property without permission and the dog knew that when the bike went into gear they were going.

[ManDownUnder]

Or a pedestrian that steps off the footpath in front of you?


Yep - done that.

3 drunks croww the road (two lanes going the same way... center line etc in town - New Plymouth).

2 run right across, one stops on the centre line so keep trundling along. The guys looks up (and you can see the booze fogged brain SLOWLY work it out)..

"My friends made - I can too". So he runs!

oopsie - turns out he was wrong and I hit his leg (the rest of him had fortunatley passed in front of me)... and I knocked it out from under him.

not good...

anyhoo - that's my sad sack story
MDU

[ktulu]

Not on a bike but I was driving a tractor with a big 9metre rack putting some hay into rows and this lamb bolts our from its hiding place in the long grass on the edge of the paddock right in to my two big rotors spinning at a fair old rate.

By the time I make it out to offer my assitance it was pretty messed up, poor little thing, felt pretty bad after that.

[ManDownUnder]

Not on a bike but I was driving a tractor with a big 9metre rack putting some hay into rows and this lamb bolts our from its hiding place in the long grass on the edge of the paddock right in to my two big rotors spinning at a fair old rate.

By the time I make it out to offer my assitance it was pretty messed up, poor little thing, felt pretty bad after that.

hate it when things like that happen. Injury to the innocent... for some reason I feel more sorry for the lamb than I would if I hit a bird (although I feel obliged to put birds out of their misry too if I can... )

MDU

[zooter]

Border collies seem genetically predisposed to attacking wheels.
Birds seem to delight in flying between my wheels but no duck issues yet thankfully. Maybe the ducks everyone seems to have problems with have the will without the flying skills to pull it off?
I once ran over a possum on my wee 50cc scoot ( headlight on the blink, no way I'd run one over deliberately on 5"rims! ) It got up and ran away into the darkness with singed hair and bruises.

[T.I.E]

i was hit by fire works whilst riding up mt eden on the night. little bastards i was sitting on a F@*$en petrol tank.
could find them but really really wish i could.

[thehollowmen]

you can go straight to jail for that.. and you don't pass go and don't collect $200
Hence the reason for leaving a black mark on the road and getting away from them as fast as I could..

[gamgee]

Narrowly avoided the odd dog but the biggest 'animal' fright I ever got was a big bumblebee right in the middle of the visor at about 80k. Man what a noise!

mine was similar, cruising along at about 70, i had this big as bee fly into my neck 'THWACK' i actually heard it hit! then to make matters worse it fell down the front of my jacket, straight down onto my chest, 'i'm thinking oh shit, this is gonna hurt' so i can feel the stupid thing crawling around, start shaking my top to try and get it out, it falls down to stomach area and i feel it go absolutely mental, then the inevitable, a nice big bee sting, right on the side of my stomach, so i had a nice big red mark on my throat where it hit, and another one where it stung me!

[dangerous]

mine was similar, cruising along at about 70, i had this big as bee fly into my neck
LOL.... the funniest thing I saw once was a mate on his BB1, we were south of Nelson heading to Chch and there were bees every were.... well my mate then, only wore jeans. Anyway we rode through aswam of the things, he was up frount and had bees hit him in the chest his reaction was to lift his ass of the seat (fuk knows why) so the bees fell on to his seat..... he then sat back down..... LOL sudenly he look right out of control all over the rd.... next min he just stoped right in the middle of the rd jumped off droped his jeans and ran around in circles.
I was laughing so hard I nearly ran the dumbass over, I pulled up after passing him and fell of the bike as I was in stiches laughing.
The poor bastard was not able to sit down for a week he had that many stings on his ass. :2thumbsup

[nodrog]

i have had a dirty great big ditch attack me once for no reason at all!!

[Ixion]

i have had a dirty great big ditch attack me once for no reason at all!!
Yeah I had that happen too. Nothing to do with bikes though, she was wild because she ------ uh, oh - ditch. Uh yeah, forget I spoke, OK. ... Ditch, ditch, I gotta start reading these things more carefully.

[sAsLEX]

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=4426

[betti]

two creature incidents in t'uk, first one on my ancient rd200 yam, rabbit at side of road decides to set off just as I'm passin it, straight into the front wheel, rabbit bits and blood everywhere, bugger to clean!!
Second one riding along minding my own business visor half open on a gsx 250, all of a sudden, whack!. Pull up sharpish, look in mirror on bike, a bleedin bat, wedged between visor and helmet , bat blood all down me face, had me worrying for days about rabies!!!.
Tha bat one confused the hell out of me, cos I thought they had really efficient sonar that helped em catch food and stuff!.
Mebbe this one had his switched off! :niceone:

[idb]

A hawk - operated by a snake....
Yeah I know....I did leave plenty of time for someone else to say it :spudwhat:

[Pixie]

One day when visiting a certain person in South Auckland it came time to leave,but he was busy with customers - I thought bugger it,started my bike,my girlfriend got on the back,I put the bike into gear...and then a doberman clamped his jaws on my ankle with no intention of letting go.His owner finaly came out and said...''oh,I haven't said you can go yet have I?'' No one left the property without permission and the dog knew that when the bike went into gear they were going.
Hilarious!Sounds like a well trained dog.Do people wishing to leave have to show the dog a document signed by the boss to the effect that leaving was approved?

[dangerous]

look in mirror on bike, a bleedin bat, wedged between visor and helmet , bat blood all down me face, had me worrying for days about rabies!!!.
Tha bat one confused the hell out of me, cos I thought they had really efficient sonar that helped em catch food and stuff!.
Mebbe this one had his switched off! :niceone:
LOL.... poor bloody bat, bats are so cool with there leather jackets and all. Pitty they cant fly for shit hence the bad landing it made through ya helmet..... man that must of put the shits up ya.

A hawk - operated by a snake....
Doh.... now ya done it LMAO

[Skyryder]

Apart from the Ubiquitous Dog, the only thing that I have been attacked by on the bike was a Disapproving Mum, many years ago. She disapproved of the hour at which I returned her daughter, and the condition she (the daughter) was returned in.

Now that sounds like an interesting story. The condition of the daughter bit.

Skyryder

[Ixion]

Now that sounds like an interesting story. The condition of the daughter bit.

Skyryder

Y'know those shops that say "Goods being returned must be unopened and in original packaging and condition". And get shitty if you try to return something that's been opened and unpackaged, and isn't in original condition

Well, her Mum worked on the same principle.

And that's all I'm saying.

Exept that it was always interesting the effect that a blast on the pillion of a big black British twin had on chicks. Something to do with the vibrations I reckon.

[scracha]

Hmm. Clipped a dog back in the UK on my FZ400 about 10 years ago. Managed to avoid hitting anything for the following 8 years before hitting a pheasant at Cadwell Park doing about 180Kmph. Bruised right knuckle, smashed fairing and very bemused marshall. Feathers everywhere.

So far in New Zealand nothing has attacked me.

BTW, Te Aroha is a shit place to ride a bike...it's sooooo flat.

[imdying]

DJ1 scooter hit a cat... ran off before I'd even stopped.
NS250R hit a cat... broke it's back.
NS250R bee got stuck in my inner thigh, but didn't sting thank goodness.

[Lou Girardin]

Y'know those shops that say "Goods being returned must be unopened and in original packaging and condition". And get shitty if you try to return something that's been opened and unpackaged, and isn't in original condition



So she didn't have it anymore. But she did have the box it came in.

[sAsLEX]

LOL.... poor bloody bat, bats are so cool with there leather jackets and all. Pitty they cant fly for shit hence the bad landing it made through ya helmet..... man that must of put the shits up ya.

Doh.... now ya done it LMAO

bats can fly clean through a running cooling fan so must of been on a suicide run

edit: closest calls have been hawks, was going nippon which is further round than 180, down next to the "airport" in St Arnaud and one decided to nearly remove my head swear it brushed my back as I lay on the tank.

[Oscar]

On the KB ride from Tuakua that XTZ organised, I totalled a Hawk.
Smashed me feckin' headlight...feathers all over the place!

[Cookie]

Is that what happened to my duck?!!!

Well done for staying on. I would have needed a change of undies that is for sure! :laugh:

Welcome to KB duck killer!

[cowboyz]

done a cow.

Oops. might rephrase that. Some bods in the deep south might misunderstand...


Hit a cow on with my bike once. Once is enough. It was only last year and neither the bike or the cow survived.

Had a bee fly inside my helmet once. The visor was a little up and the bee managed to make the gap. Having a bee buzzing around in your helment is enough to put the shits up ya.

[SLight]

Had a few hits over the years. The first when I was 13. Me and a mate bunking school, cruzing on the old mans DT175 round the streets, hit a Bichon Freize thing. Turned round to see the vicious little barstard 2 metres in mid air, land and run back into its gate. #2 Ridding through the Lindis pass one morning a mate and I were tring to get through a mob of a 1000 ewes being mustered by a cocky in a Robinson chopper. Got through the most of them then started speed up when a front marker poped up onto the road from the grass. Tony leant back and hauled on the bars of the Commando and went straight over the top of the sheep. Beautifull. I bought that bike of him soon after and was dragging a souped up fully enclosed microlight down the Pareora gorge road at 90 mph (he was in the paddock beside me). At the end of the straight I sat up to take the corner... when SMACK a fat ol black bird whammed right into the headlight of the Norton instantly blinding my vision. So first thing ya do is open up the visor. Splat! into my face goes this birds guts leg feathers you name it. Even got some inthe gob! Luckily my mate had a batch close by. So went there and rinsed out me mouth and washed the gut and crap of the face dry reaching the whole time!!

Shocker!

[T.W.R]

Collected a few rabbits at speed, they make awesome speed bumps.
Had a magpie actually flying into the front wheel once, turned it into instant confetti & made a shit of a mess over the header pipes.
Had a sheep jump down a 3ft bank & do a tumble in front of me up around the summit rd.

Had mates get nailed by a suicide bomber sparrow, it hit the riders left shoulder which happened to be the shoulder the pillion was looking over & collected him right on the visor, splitting it in two & 2 days later the rider had a bruise like a shotgun bruise from the initial impact.

Had a mate almost killed by a possum, it fell out of a tree & collected him whilst banked over mid corner. The possum hit the fairing smashing the screen & the left side blade & mirror & almost peeled him of the bike. It happened so fast he didn't know what had hit him till he went back & saw the possum lying dead on the road impaled on the broken piece of screen.

[PaddyFZ1]

There was an German Shepard that used to run down its drive and wait for us in the middle of the road for us. Used to scare the shit out of me. Funnily enough it stopped doing it after it had a close encounter with my brothers size 12 steel cap at about 70km/h

[Patrick]

My new stripey bandit actually got a mynah the other day.
Has anyone managed to get a weasel?(Hard to hit)

Followed a mate out on SH45 when two of them ran out in front of him... one cut just inches in front and kept on going to the other side (to see the chicken I suppose...) the other spun around and went back the way it came from... the second one was the fast bugger, spun around at full sprint on a 5c piece and lost no pace whatsoever. Hard to hit alright!

[Patrick]

Yep - done that.

3 drunks croww the road (two lanes going the same way... center line etc in town - New Plymouth).MDU

Outside the Mill I bet...seen em run out of the Mill, straight out onto the road without even looking. Most dont even look. How someone hasn't been killed there, I dunno. Heaps of hits and close calls as far as I know, even a chick caught on the cameras going up and over the bonnet and roof of an oncoming car, but so pissed she didn't even get a mark.

[Kornholio]

while travelling at a speed that I'm not going to admit to here.

Why not, you're not in Kansas now Dorothy :nya:

I seem to have trouble with werewolves late at night...the bastards are going to get me sooner or later....Thank god I haven't got a Honda or I'd be fucked by now........ :doobey:

[nadroj]

On a Pie-n-Pint ride in the Okato area I cut the apex only to see a chook jump out & hit the side of my front wheel. Inline4 & a few others got thoroughly feathered behind me.

[Dafe]

I was riding down the edge of a runway on a pushbike in Darwin,
when a freakin snake came flying out of the grass. It missed me and hit the bike frame, thank god! Put the shits up me!

[SPman]

Hmmmmm...dog (survived), cat (didn't), sparow (ditto), Pukeko (he was fucked as well),and last weekend, after ambling down the road home at 90k, looking for errant roos and not seeing any, thought, fuck it and wicked up the 900, when, holy shit, a roo bounded out of the undergrowth and across the road right in front of me, cleared him by a metre or two......Needless to say, I ambled home for the remainder, eyes even more alert.....

[Colapop]

Just a pig. At 120kph. Mmmm pork.

[mdb]

Where did it come from and how did it manage to stay on your tank?

[Kornholio]

Just a pig. At 120kph. Mmmm pork.

Sliced and diced :scooter:

[Colapop]

Where did it come from and how did it manage to stay on your tank?
5:30am coming back from Lake Ferry in low fog, just light. Driving the old man's work van (bullbars - real ones). Caught the f*cker square on the side of the head - just about took it off! Long grass on the side of the road made sure of a soft landing for the carcass. Don't care where ot came from just know where it went - my gut.

The only thing that ever attacked me on a bike was one of our bulls when I was 10. Bastard hit me from the side and cracked two of my ribs and smashed up my Kawasaki G7T.

[Goblin]

When I had a little TS125 I used to always ride home for lunch. This particular day I had my sister on the back and on the way back to work I saw my old school mates walking down the road so I waved out instead of watching where I was going. At that moment a big black labrador wandered out onto the road and we rode straight over it. If it weren't for my big sister(she's much bigger than me) on the back I would have canned off for sure.
I have run over a possum on my old GSXR400 and a huge hare on my current bike. Dont know how I kept it upright both times as they were in mid-corner.
Have been hit by birds at speed and had several bee stings.

[dangerous]

Just a pig. At 120kph. Mmmm pork.
Damn... 20 demerit points and a couple a hundie $$ :wait: Ohhhhh.... wrong sorta pig

[Colapop]

*assumed speed only* Actual speed may not have been that which has been posted. Speed verification pending authentication of actual calibrated speedometer reading. All rights reserved. Copyright 2006

[Brett]

I have been hit several times in the last few weeks, mostly really hard and in the good ol' petrol tank!...by the fuel price increases...fockers.

I have not yet cleaned anything up with myself or the bike, did come round a corner in whitford nice and low at night only to have a rabbit run right in front of me. Grabbed a handfull of right (no go) and just managed to avoid the fool.

Had an absolute pearler in the cage,

Was heading to Mt Ruapehu for some snow boarding with my brother and two cousins.
Heading down a straight length of road at about 110kph (Nissan 200sx modded) and went past a farmer working on a fence. As I was approaching i saw he had a dog on the back of the ute.
SOmehow or other, i will never understand how, the little prick managed to jump off, run AROUND the ute and out into the road all in the time it took me to cover about something aorund 20/30m.
I caught it outa my peripheral vision, lead the car right in a semi feint while decelerating as the stupid mutt decided to try bite my wheel, got around the dog, and was now using both sides of the road (already checked for oncoming vehicles) and had semi lost the back end due to gravel on the side of the road. Felt it going and started to feather the throttle, kept it semi-drifting into a striaght line before commenting that the dog must have some shorter whiskers.
MMMmm...DRIFT.

I sincerely hope that i dont clean an animal up on the bike...or my head.

[kickingzebra]

Best I ever heard was a mate, riding in Oz, had a kangaroo jump onto the harley with him (You have to be a bit thick to jump on a harley, and kangaroos are as ozzie as it comes)

Worst I ever had was some little busstids on the back of a ute throw a brick at me, on the fxr. Hit me clean in the chest, and I nearly assed it, winded, and really angry, but too stuffed to do anything about it!!

Otherwise Missed a bunny by like 2 centimetres from my left peg at 200 odd, missed a dog by a hairs breadth at 2 am on the way from wanganui to marton, at stupid speeds again, on a right hander, downhill. This bloody dog just pops up...