Has anyone ever hit a possum or rabbit with their bike?

[superman]

I haven't heard anything about motorbikes hitting any small animals in NZ. I know when I drive home at night I pass on average about 3 possums and 3 rabbits.

Just a bit worried about the incident that could occur if I hit one. :shit:

Anyone had any close calls or actually collided with an animal?

[Pascal]

Just a bit worried about the incident that could occur if I hit one.

You're faster than a speeding bullet, more powerfull than a locomotive and can leap buildings in a single bound and you're worried about hitting a rabbit?

I'm sure there was a thread or a blog post discussing hitting various types of livestock with some videos, etc. Can't be arsed finding it now though as it's one hand on the keyboard and the other scoffing some curry.

[avgas]

Hit a goose once.
Was not pleasant. Thankfully lowish speed (40kph).
Bastard was trying to attack the bike.

[superman]

Hit a goose once.
Was not pleasant. Thankfully lowish speed (40kph).
Bastard was trying to attack the bike.

Yes, I notice whenever I get near trees that have magpies nesting they will try and attack within their area. No matter how big, or how fast you are moving.

Did some model flying near one and it came up to the plane and started swooping at the wings! They have super courage.

[orsem]

Had a close call with a hare last week on the bike, was only millimetres from colliding. :shit:Have been hit by a blackbird that obviously wasn't looking where he was going and flew straight into the bars then hit me on the chest. Felt like someone threw a brick at me:angry:

[dogsnbikes]

It does happen,I use too live in a area where rabbits and co were the norm on the road...

..and I learnt very quick too keep my line,don't break I have the right of way..


just remember don't panic or brake, keep your line,once you hit something with your front wheel it tends to splatter and open up if your braking your start sliding on that splattered guts and blood of what ever you just ran over .................

[superman]

It does happen,I use too live in a area where rabbits and co were the norm on the road...

..and I learnt very quick too keep my line,don't break I have the right of way..


just remember don't panic or brake, keep your line,once you hit something with your front wheel it tends to splatter and open up if your braking your start sliding on that splattered guts and blood of what ever you just ran over .................

Bull bar attachment for front of bike? :P Just plough straight through them.

[saxet]

Rabbits don't seem to upset the bike much but I hit a possum mid corner once, it was a bit like hitting a rock. Made the bike buck and weave for a second or so.

[ckai]

I hit a rabbit on the mighty Hyobag just 3 months fresh into riding. It was a the start of the corner so a slight lean. I started slowing down a bit before because I saw it sitting in the middle of the other lane. Then it started being all erratic so I speed up hoping I'd get past before it did something stupid and as I got close I straightened the bike a bit more from the lean (luckily I had room to do it).

I didn't even have time to flinch because the dickhead run right in front of wheel front wheel with about 1 m to go. I thought I had clipped it but my wife told me (following on her bike) that I got it pretty descent...took it's head clean off.

I think the lucky thing for me was actually speeding up and it being the dumb bugger running in front of me. I didn't have a chance to do anything stupid like tense up and I already had made up my mind to speed up. I would have hit it at 100km/h.

Recently (about 2 months back on the Daytona), the possum I hit had already been taken out by the car in front and since I was building up to pass I was following close. Again didn't have time to really thing about it just instinctively got my ass off the seat. Dunno if that was a good thing but it was like riding over a speed hump.

So the moral of the story is, if you're straight and relaxed you can take out small vermin 'til the cows come home :) NEVER tense up. It'll end in tears. And don't look at the bloody thing as you approach. There eyes get you in a trance and you do stupid things like aim for them. Trees and other fixed object put you in the same trance ;)

[superman]

I hit a rabbit on the mighty Hyobag just 3 months fresh into riding. It was a the start of the corner so a slight lean. I started slowing down a bit before because I saw it sitting in the middle of the other lane. Then it started being all erratic so I speed up hoping I'd get past before it did something stupid and as I got close I straightened the bike a bit more from the lean (luckily I had room to do it).

I didn't even have time to flinch because the dickhead run right in front of wheel front wheel with about 1 m to go. I thought I had clipped it but my wife told me (following on her bike) that I got it pretty descent...took it's head clean off.

I think the lucky thing for me was actually speeding up and it being the dumb bugger running in front of me. I didn't have a chance to do anything stupid like tense up and I already had made up my mind to speed up. I would have hit it at 100km/h.

Recently (about 2 months back on the Daytona), the possum I hit had already been taken out by the car in front and since I was building up to pass I was following close. Again didn't have time to really thing about it just instinctively got my ass off the seat. Dunno if that was a good thing but it was like riding over a speed hump.

So the moral of the story is, if you're straight and relaxed you can take out small vermin 'til the cows come home :) NEVER tense up. It'll end in tears. And don't look at the bloody thing as you approach. There eyes get you in a trance and you do stupid things like aim for them. Trees and other fixed object put you in the same trance ;)

Yes target fixation already had a bit of fun with me at my basic handling skills course. "Man that chick's not bad looking... does she need some help... maybe she needs help..." nearly hit her right there and then. Luckily I don't think the instructors eyes were on me at that point.

Will have to remember for when I ride past a gaggle of girls on my soon to arrive ninja to just stop and chat. Not ride and stare :yes:

[Juzz976]

It does happen,I use too live in a area where rabbits and co were the norm on the road...

..and I learnt very quick too keep my line,don't break I have the right of way..


just remember don't panic or brake, keep your line,once you hit something with your front wheel it tends to splatter and open up if your braking your start sliding on that splattered guts and blood of what ever you just ran over .................

+1 I hit an opossum on the FZR250 last year.:gob:
Long sweeping left corner had the throttle fairly wide open, hate to think what would have happened if I was braking.:shit::facepalm:

Plowed straight through the thing like goin over a small judder bar, no worries just scary as hell.

[cowboyz]

hit serveral rabbits.. they dont do much.. they just splatter. quite alot of birds.. they are worse esp if you dont see them till the last min.

one cow. THAT is NOT recommended! Hurts lots and bike stops SUPER fast (you dont).

overall.. with any vehicle.. advice is the same.. Dont swerve or brake for animals. If they got a death wish then grant it.

[ckai]

Will have to remember for when I ride past a gaggle of girls on my soon to arrive ninja to just stop and chat. Not ride and stare :yes:

You are learning young grasshopper.

[kevfromcoro]

Nearly sconed a kangaroo. a few weeks ago....

Think i ran over his tail.

Ran straight out in front of me,,,,

Stupid things they are... just like sheep.

Never know which way they are going to go............

[steve_t]

one cow. THAT is NOT recommended! Hurts lots and bike stops SUPER fast (you dont).


Is that where the name came from?

[slofox]

Mmmm...yea, I've hit plenty of livestock. Never a possum though - yet anyway.

Rabbits aren't really a problem. Ran over a dog years ago - it chased me every time I went out. One day it chased from the front and I "accidentally" ran over it. It didn't die. But it stopped chasing me after that...

Have hit plenty birds...the little ones just go "POOF!" and disappear in a cloud of feathers. I have had a few close encounters with Harriers. Not hit one but have been close enough to count individual feathers in the wings...had one little bird hit my shoulder at high speed once. Hurt a bit. Prolly (definitely) hurt the bird more.

Hit a spur winged plover not long ago - a glancing blow off the fairing. Fairing was OK. Bird was fucked.

Biggest I hit was a sheep. Dumb-arsed thing just wouldn't veer off and I scraped past it with a glancing blow. Bent the brake pedal right back on itself. Dunno what happened to the sheep. By the time I looked it had buggered off so I guess it survived.

Ya gotta watch out for them varmints on the road yessiree.

[superman]

Rabbits aren't really a problem. Ran over a dog years ago - it chased me every time I went out. One day it chased from the front and I "accidentally" ran over it. It didn't die. But it stopped chasing me after that...


Good stuff, I got dickhead dirt bikers who hoon up and down my road doing wheelies with nothing but tshirt and shorts on. I often "accidentally" place large rocks on the road (SARCASM) and sit with a deck chair next to the road with a camera.

They usually bugger off pretty fast unfortunately, I don't know how I'm ever going to get some good footage to send to "Destroyed In Seconds"

[cowboyz]

actually.. ironically enough......

I got the name cowboyz because I spent the majority of my career sharemilking. We moved to town when our youngest turned 5 and after leaving the cows behind.... 6 months later one jumped out at me in the middle of the night and cleaned up my bike and me. I think they missed me?

[aprilia_RS250]

Will have to remember for when I ride past a gaggle of girls on my soon to arrive ninja to just stop and chat. Not ride and stare :yes:

Yes you rather hit that than a possum eh? Good on ya:yeah:

[cowboyz]

Good stuff, I got dickhead dirt bikers who hoon up and down my road doing wheelies with nothing but tshirt and shorts on. I often "accidentally" place large rocks on the road and sit with a deck chair next to the road with a camera.

They usually bugger off pretty fast unfortunately, I don't know how I'm ever going to get some good footage to send to "Destroyed In Seconds"

thats not fucking mint. What a wanker. Im sure if you just asked them nicely to move along then they will.. or you could just pull your fucking head in.

[spajohn]

Anyone had any close calls or actually collided with an animal?

I got off a late night Interislander and was riding to a camp site a bit north of Kaikoura. Country side road around midnight, so not much light, when all of a sudden what seemed like a dozen rabbits must have got a fright from the bike and started running across in front of my path. I wasn't going too fast but with the poor visibility and so many of the little buggers didn't have any more time than to make sure I was upright and hit him squarely, then brake and come to a stop.

Certainly gave quite a bump, and bit of a squish, so the bike wobbled a bit. If I had any lean I reckon I would have been off.

End result - the bike survived, the bunny didn't.

[superman]

thats not fucking mint. What a wanker. Im sure if you just asked them nicely to move along then they will.. or you could just pull your fucking head in.

If you can stand hearing bikes and the good old doppler effect constantly for up to an hour then kudos to you. They're the neighbours, I'm half way up the hill they hoon up and down on. They live at the top, I can't tell them to move on because they'll see it as their right since they live there.

I can say the first few months it happened I just stood by my gate staring disapprovingly, but I don't think little 16 year olds really think about courtesy that much.

They don't do it very often anymore, I think I heard one of them shit their pants when a logging truck cut the corner at the bottom of the hill nearly hitting him. My ACC pays for those helmetless, gearless retards so they should stay in their many acres of paddock where the unregistered dirt bikes should be!

[Pascal]

My ACC pays for those helmetless, gearless retards so they should stay in their many acres of paddock where the unregistered dirt bikes should be!

It will pay even more when you have deliberately caused them to crash and they have to be scraped off the road.

Call their parents. Call the police. Discuss it like a mature adult.

Putting shit in the road so they fall? Not entirely cool, mate.

[superman]

It will pay even more when you have deliberately caused them to crash and they have to be scraped off the road.

Call their parents. Call the police. Discuss it like a mature adult.

Putting shit in the road so they fall? Not entirely cool, mate.

I don't put stuff in the road so they fall! Maybe I should have put a (sarcasm) bracket next to the big rocks on the road post...

However the deck chair and camera, aren't sarcastic. Driving at 100km/h doing a wheely is quite impressive to see.

[NighthawkNZ]

Has anyone ever hit a possum or rabbit on their bike?

Yes... :blink: :blink:

Dodged the odd sheep, and cattle an have had a bird strike or 2 as well, dodged mad drivers, camper vans, falling sky rockets, granny on a sunday drive on thursdays, skylab, UFO's and other bikers...

I am doing well to be alive...

[yungatart]

Wow! You have wealthy rabbits and possums in Clevedon.
Ours just walk, hop or run!
Never seen one on a bike....

[BuzzardNZ]

1) fended off ( read kicked ) a huge rottie running straight for me. Luckily it came for me at the side, so booted the fucker in the head as I sped past. Big dogs don't seem to like loud v-twins and 4 stroke single dirt bikes :angry:

2) sea gull in the face.

3) large bumblebee in the eye at 80ks

[martybabe]

Of course the 'don't brake or swerve' rule doesn't always work...In this case the "Get off and run for your life' rule would suit you better methinks

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[martybabe]

Nearly sconed a kangaroo. a few weeks ago....

Think i ran over his tail.

Ran straight out in front of me,,,,

Stupid things they are... just like sheep.

Never know which way they are going to go............

Lucky escape Kev, them giant wabbits take no prisoners.

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[PrincessBandit]

Hit a small rabbit just out of Matamata in almost nil visibility due to fog. It magically appeared to the front left of my front wheel and in the split second it took to remind myself not to try and avoid it.....splat. Front wheel flicked but relaxed hands (they were frozen in a relaxed grip as opposed to frozen death grip) meant it righted itself.

I felt awful as it is my first and only road kill on the bike.

[tri boy]

Smaller than sheep.
No worries, just bowl the fecker.
Sheep. I don't change lines. (Hit one this month gone, all Dinos fault):innocent:
Bigger than a sheep. 50/50 your gunna feel pain whether you swerve, and hit/fall onto something else.
Animals give a little, posts and barriers don't.
MHO

[Jantar]

Plenty of rabbits to hit here in Central Otago. At present I'm averaging around 2 hits per week, mostly on our driveway. I don't try to avoid them - in fact if it looks like I'm going to miss I try to kick them like a rugby ball. Bike at 80 kmh and a good swift kick sends them flying.

Rabbits here are a pest. Quite apart from the ones I hit on the bike, our cats kill around 2 every day, and I shoot 1 or 2 per week.

[boman]

I have hit a possum. At 100kph. Thankfully I was travelling in a straight line. It felt like running over a brick on the road.
Turned around to see what I hit, and the fucker was getting up. Solid little bastards.

:gob:

[Genie]

not had the pleasure as of yet and rather hope i don't. I struggle with the guilt from killing 3.5 million sandflies, 2 million bees and various other flying critters. :gob:

[Owl]

I've been fairly lucky with animals on the road and any possums I've hit, were already flat.

Actually, I think I've hit more debris from cowboyz 9:shutup:

[superman]

Plenty of rabbits to hit here in Central Otago. At present I'm averaging around 2 hits per week, mostly on our driveway. I don't try to avoid them - in fact if it looks like I'm going to miss I try to kick them like a rugby ball. Bike at 80 kmh and a good swift kick sends them flying.

Rabbits here are a pest. Quite apart from the ones I hit on the bike, our cats kill around 2 every day, and I shoot 1 or 2 per week.

Yeah rabbits are bastards digging up everywhere. Try to hit them dead on in my car, they are ony little. But if I half injure one on my bike I'd feel really bad, and then I'd have to go back and stomp on it so it doesn't have to suffer. Which just really is never a joy to do. Least the hawks'll be happy in the morning :yes:

I remember my brother came across a half dead sheep in the middle of the road with his friend in the car, brother just got out of the car and smacked a few times in the head with a tyre iron and dragged it into the ditch. Needless to say friend from 20km away in Manukau was terrified. Got to love living on the outskirts of Auckland. Still close enough to the city yet completely different mindset.

[EJK]

I never hit one cause I can stop from 60kph in 2 meters.

[Gremlin]

Hit, collected or kicked just about everything from rabbit size down, ground hugging or flying, dead or alive. Funniest was a duck at 10-20kph. I couldn't believe it would keep waddling out into the road, kept slowing down, still thinking it would get out the way. It didn't. Mate who was pillion (his bike) thought we would bin, and gave me heaps of shit. Chest armour has been great at protecting me from birdstrikes.

Worst was a wabbit I collected with my foot/peg except I was already badly sunburnt. That hurt like a real bastard it did, and my mate behind even said the fucker was still alive.

[Ghost_Bullet]

I bounced over a rabbit in the dark one night... sure had me hopping mad I could not find it for a cook up on the BBQ.
Another time a Duck struck me mirror stem and flew into me helmet, that was a thump.
Hence I try and stay well away from Duck-Cat-eee's, they're just like some crazed wild animal on the road.
Last week had a small bird strick me knee, hurt a bit, but by the smear of inards, me guessing the bird hurt more...R.I.P

[LBD]

Doing my bit for the ecology...riding up to Dawson falls...possums everywhere, stunned in the headlights.

Me thinks I better not run one of them over incase I loose control....but may be a good swift size 10 steel cap at 60kph would be fine........:facepalm:

:shit::shit::shit:

I probably would have been better hitting the wee beastie with the front tire because they are a little on the nuggety side....

I ended up with my right foot wrapped over the back of my left shoulder weaving all over the road....

[Toaster]

I haven't heard anything about motorbikes hitting any small animals in NZ. I know when I drive home at night I pass on average about 3 possums and 3 rabbits.

Just a bit worried about the incident that could occur if I hit one. :shit:

Anyone had any close calls or actually collided with an animal?


On motorcycles:
1 x rabbit,

1 x stoat,

3 x possums,

1 x sheep - missed it but high sided myself into hospital,

Nearly a cow.

Several birds to the face.... and not the good kind.

As for in the car.... dozens of possums - lost count.

[Toaster]

not had the pleasure as of yet and rather hope i don't. I struggle with the guilt from killing 3.5 million sandflies, 2 million bees and various other flying critters. :gob:
Great way to get ones daily protein!

[gijoe1313]

Was riding with Gremlin in the SI on a tour, one night, I was leading a friend (Angel) in her car from Wanaka to Alexandra - taking the devil's staircase naturally. All was well dropping her off there (she was to meet up with Jantar).

The trip back was eventful. At 3am, the roads were swarming with wascally wabbits, initially I slowed down to give the buggers a chance to get out of my way, but fuggit - would be daylight before I got back to Wanaka and a warm bed.

So I rode to the conditions and sped up ... I managed to work out the perfect speed to ensure that I clove the beasties in twain whilst not upsetting the impellation of my forward velocity.

I think the rabbits were basically being vapourised by my hurtling machine!:innocent:

I lost count after the second dozen of wabbits I despatched. There actually came a point when I started to smell something nice roasting!

It wasn't until the morning when I woke up and looked over my Big Ol'Hornet to see a mass of cooked meat and fur and blood coating the entirety of my bike's lower apparatus!

Took a wee while to clean the headers and other bits free of wascally wabbit remains!

[archie-no2]

I had a wasp get sucked into my helmet the other day, set a new world record for fastest stop and removal of helmet. Ironically 30m down the road a few days later i collected a bumble bee with my eye about 3 seconds after opening my visor

[jim.cox]

Anyone had any close calls or actually collided with
an animal?

I've hit a flock of small birds - very very messy with blood and feathers all over the bike

I've also hit a possum - doing about 185 or so, the front wheel colapsed and I slid a very long way - lucky to walk away from that one

[White trash]

I ate a worm once. And I've eaten a live Cricket, that was some funny shit.

[avgas]

I never hit one cause I can stop from 60kph in 2 meters.
Shit your a fast walker bro

[sugilite]

Came round a corner to see two possums humping, they did not ask for a threesome, but they got one.

[sugilite]

Oh, I should mention, if you have no choice but to hit an animal, try and be on the gas (cows might be a bit big though) I came over a rise once to see a sheep right in front side on to me, So I dropped a gear hit the gas and aimed at it's flanks, it got punched straight off the road, I stayed on the bike. Sheep was history.

[slofox]

not had the pleasure as of yet and rather hope i don't. I struggle with the guilt from killing 3.5 million sandflies, 2 million bees and various other flying critters. :gob:

Only 3.5 million sandflies? You can't have been trying hard enough. Either that or you don't live in a swamp basin...

[Blinkwing]

one cow. THAT is NOT recommended! Hurts lots and bike stops SUPER fast (you dont).

A classmate hit a cow at 100km/hr a few years ago.

I think my exact words when he told me were, "out of all the things you could have hit, you hit a cow?"

[ellipsis]

.....everyday occurrence from a few weeks back round the lake....bad enough during the day ,but after dark.....you wouldnt see a critter in front of you if it had flouros on....ride by memory....

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[Smokin]

I had a weka run across the road in front of me only to turn around and run back again, feeding himself through the front spokes of the dirt bike doing 100 kph. The mess it made and the stench of it cooked onto my motor will stay with me forever :sick:.
I had no idea there were that many feathers on a bird :shit:.

[specter]

i took a duck to the head once at 140....
hurt it more than it hurt me though, lucky i didnt come off to think about it

[kiwi cowboy]

Good stuff, I got dickhead dirt bikers who hoon up and down my road doing wheelies with nothing but tshirt and shorts on. I often "accidentally" place large rocks on the road (SARCASM) and sit with a deck chair next to the road with a camera.

They usually bugger off pretty fast unfortunately, I don't know how I'm ever going to get some good footage to send to "Destroyed In Seconds"

Had a dog chase me every time i rode past a farmers gate on the way from the farm i worked on once.
Would slow down till past it then take off and it would chase me.
Anyway one day i got past it and crused away just fast enough fot it to keep up behind for about 2 kms up the road then i spun round and chased it with my wheel about a meter behind it all the way back with me screeming at it to get home.
dog last seen hiding under the car in there garage as i spun round in the drive.
Never saw it again.

[kiwi cowboy]

I never hit one cause I can stop from 60kph in 2 meters.

I've seen this post before from a dickhead named skidmark.
Are you related?.

[ellipsis]

...intersected the landing path off a duck coming in to settle on a pond i was passing...saw it broadside my front disc, then it came back into my neck , under my helmet....dunno what happened to duck but i was extremely lucky to get out of a drive on a bit of grass and tree type obstacles with nothing more than heart palpitations and heavy breathing...and a two smokes stop...

[DarkLord]

A mate of mine had a pukeko run into his rear wheel on his Bandit 1200. Nothing happened to the bike - pukeko exploded in a cloud of feathers and blood.

I nearly hit my neighbours small yappy dog on several occasions which kept on running out onto the road at me until I went and had a polite word with the neighbour. When I say polite, I mean that I gave them enough hot air to heat their house for the next year. Never saw the dog again after that.... :innocent:

[Mudfart]

i mowed down a nocturnal bird we get in these parts.
its a big bird and was on the road, it spread its wings and was squauking at me, but thats no good, it should have flown away.
i squished it and carried on. its mate wasnt impressed, but the entire family that lives in the area seems to have learned.

[_Shrek_]

I was pillion when my old man hit a dog bout 30 years ago I had the soft landing :laugh: bike was rideable bit knocked around, pissed us off to see the dog limp away
have hit a hare, pluva & a duck with the beamer no druma's but the duck & hare stunck pretty bad :sick:

[rwh]

30m down the road a few days later

And I thought I was slow :)

Richard

[pearlygirl]

collided with a magpie once it was doing about 10k I was doing 100, needless to say I survived it didnt :yes:

[gatch]

Hit a cat doing about 60, a rabbit doing 120 and also a bunch of birds at 100 and something.

Fastest fuckin animals I've ever seen !

One of the birds was mooshed over my jacket. The cat ran off, some of the rabbit ended up in the radiator shroud..

Didn't enjoy any of them.

[vifferman]

Anyone had any close calls or actually collided with an animal?
Why yes.
I've collided with four (4!!) animals: a brain-dead cyclist, a brain-dead pedestrian, and two brain-dead car drivers. Actually, that's not strictly correct; I didn't actually hit the latter two, just their motorvehicles. But they deserved a jolly good hitting. :angry:
A word of warning: people make for very bad steering and braking when they're under your front wheel. :shit:

[varminter]

I'd try to stay away from possums, tough little bastards. Clouted one with 3 foot of pipe once, it just hobbled off. Shoot them in the head or they wander off to die, they can take a fair bit of lead, I'd hate to hit one.

[Shadowjack]

Had a pheasant rip into my right shoulder last year, heavy little bastards - after I slowed down , I turned around to look for dinner. Nope, must have made it to the roadside scrub.

[Autech]

Hit a Rabbit about a year ago, was nicely lent over on one of my fav corners coming back from my Aunty's house, when out of the darkness loomed this Rabbit...
So I thought to myself, "If I give it a bit more of a lean I'll miss that fucker"... I didn't realise that this particular Rabbit had had a big row with its missus and was well set on killing itself. So the suicidal Bunny ran into the path of my front tire. I stayed on the gas and had a few wobbly moments but managed to keep both wheels pointing downwards. Wish I hadn't lent in further as I would have missed it, so yeah, don't avoid them.
Also glanced a possum once while heading in a straight line, that was a pretty close call cause because that Possum was HUGE!

Had a Bee sting me, not good when you're allergic to them, luckily I wasn't far from a chemist so shot in for some drugs.

[superman]

Why yes.
I've collided with four (4!!) animals: a brain-dead cyclist, a brain-dead pedestrian, and two brain-dead car drivers. Actually, that's not strictly correct; I didn't actually hit the latter two, just their motorvehicles. But they deserved a jolly good hitting. :angry:
A word of warning: people make for very bad steering and braking when they're under your front wheel. :shit:

Oooo stories! I love stories... got links to threads on these??? If not feel free to post them on here :yes:

[LBD]

Had a pheasant rip

Should that not be a "pleasent trip" ...you pheasant plucker

[allycatz]

Had a few near misses with dogs on my scooter. *55'ed an enormous emo looking highland cow/bull thing on the Paekakariki Hill this morning wandering over the Road...

[superman]

Collected a rabbit tonight with my ninja, front shuddered a bit (was probably going about 80km/h just going into a corner) but nothing too major. Don't fancy a hare though! They're as big as fuckin lambs!

[darkone]

Collected a rabbit at about 80k, it darted out from the left and I kept looking straight ahead where I wanted to go expecting to feel a thump as the front wheel hit. Felt a solid thump on my right boot instead, somehow the little bugger had managed to split the gap behind the front wheel and just when he thought he was home free, copped a size 9. No idea how he got on after that but there was a fair amount of rabbit fur stuck under the toe slider.

My flatmate managed to collect a roo doing about 70k on an unsealed stretch of road at a place ironically enough called Kangaroo Valley. Almost totaled his cbr600rr as the bike slid then flipped into a ditch.
As someone else had already killed it his only excuse was that it blended in with the colour of the road surface :facepalm:

[racefactory]

Riding a ZXR400 from Whakatane to Auckland at 1 in the morning in a big fuck off rain storm...

...hit a big white sewer rat at 100kph and lost the front wheel for a second, saw the whites of his eyes in sheer terror, won't forget it.

[marty]

Ran over a ferret yesterday. YUSSS!

Hit numerous birds, rabbits, rats with tyres and fairings, and a possum with my boot.

Avoided this already-dead one, could have ended in tears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEi9QBmgthM

[Shadows]

Ran over a large dog once at 60k, just like a big speed bump it was. Serves it right for tearing out of somebody's driveway and trying to bite. It bit a well timed steel cap size ten boot instead, and when it went down it's momentum carried it under my back wheel. It was far from happy about that and I bet it won't try it again.

[racefactory]

Ran over a large dog once at 60k, just like a big speed bump it was. Serves it right for tearing out of somebody's driveway and trying to bite. It bit a well timed steel cap size ten boot instead, and when it went down it's momentum carried it under my back wheel. It was far from happy about that and I bet it won't try it again.


Shit was it Ok after that? And I don't mean your bike.

[Shadows]

Shit was it Ok after that? And I don't mean your bike.

Well I doubt it would have died. Judging by the neighbourhood it was in I'd say it's life was more in danger from being thrown in an umu one weekend.

[Bonez]

Blind wolfhounds are fun. Not recommended though.

[jafar]

Possum ran out from the side on the road straight in front of me , danced to the left then danced to the right, then as he was going to the left again I got him. :woohoo:

I've lost count of wabbits & birds, enough to feed an army I'd think:whocares:

Until you can get a minor bird your just a beginner:innocent:

[carver]

yes, and i have hit geese, run over a rabbit lengthwise once too

[ellipsis]

...we once followed an elephant on a semi-trailer out of Lyttelton, on it,s way to Hagley Park in Chch..my mate was following far too close. to get a look...the elephant raised its tail and my mate got hit with what seemed like 40 or 50 litres of elephant piss...fuckin nearly knocked him off his bike...he was soaked from head to foot and smelt fuckin horrible to..stuffed up the start of a day out riding, for him..

[Grumph]

Did'ja tell him to harden up Neil ?

[ellipsis]

...I didnt go near him for a couple of days...he cleaned up his Tiger but his gear was fairly unapproachable...I just bit my lip ...

[Geeen]

Until you can get a minor bird your just a beginner:innocent:

First bird I hit was a minor last weekend, thought it I was going to cop it in the chest, impact never came. Looked down and it had wedged its self between my headlight and forks. Impressive coz I was doing 130ish.

[superman]

First bird I hit was a minor last weekend, thought it I was going to cop it in the chest, impact never came. Looked down and it had wedged its self between my headlight and forks. Impressive coz I was doing 130ish.

Aww that poor little MYNAH. They're only stupid little things, those silly MYNAH's.

Minor? :nya:

[imdying]

...we once followed an elephant on a semi-trailer out of Lyttelton, on it,s way to Hagley Park in Chch..my mate was following far too close. to get a look...the elephant raised its tail and my mate got hit with what seemed like 40 or 50 litres of elephant piss...fuckin nearly knocked him off his bike...he was soaked from head to foot and smelt fuckin horrible to..stuffed up the start of a day out riding, for him..

LMAO

Post of the year, bling for you!

[jafar]

First bird I hit was a minor last weekend, thought it I was going to cop it in the chest, impact never came. Looked down and it had wedged its self between my headlight and forks. Impressive coz I was doing 130ish.

Are you starting @ the top & working your way down ? Beware magpies & seagulls :facepalm:

[slofox]

Ran into a Spur winged Plover at high speed once. Had a blue shoulder for a week or so. They's big bastards, them. Up close anyway.

Also ran into a sheep one foggy morning. Bent the rear brake pedal back on itself...bounced the bike sideways across the road. Didn't fall off though.

[_Shrek_]

...I didnt go near him for a couple of days...he cleaned up his Tiger but his gear was fairly unapproachable...I just bit my lip ...

:corn: so a Tiger can change it smell then :innocent:

[cave weta]

Just yesterday I passed under an oak tree and copped an acorn on my visor.
Fuck I thought I had been shot!- BANG! it rang in my ears for some time.

Years ago I had a pukeko dash into the front wheel of my 125. it just stopped dead and brought me down at about 70kph on to a gravel road- that hurt.....