What have you hit while riding???

[Fishy]

Was driving to work this morning trying to score points along Ridge Road with the Pukeko's wandering around aimlessly and it made me wonder about what things people have hit on their bikes while riding...living things that is, not cars etc.

I have hit a few things over the years......

A puppy on my CBR250RR years back heading up Line Road in Glen Innes, I think this is the closest I have ever come to falling off but didn't. The little bugger must have heard me coming up the road and ran out trying to bite my front wheel by the looks of it. I think and I must have run his head/neck over. I stopped and walked back to see if it was still alive but sadly he wasn't.

I have had a mynah (bird - not someone under 16 or a person who works in a mine) hit me in the chest at about 70-80kph which hurt like hell and took the wind out of me.

I have had not one but 2 smaller birds at the same time fly sideways into my leg and hit around my shin area and killed themselves....possibly Al-Qaeda recruits.

I have hit a blackbird on my front wheel while pulling a 2up wheelstand on my old CBR900RR up Maskell St in St Heliers.

Had a few scary moments while night riding out on open roads with bloody possums and hares running across the road but haven't hit one thankfully and "Beyond" will remember where I nearly hit a bloody great big goat that ran out in front of me a couple of months ago.

The biggest thing I have ever hit though is quite a funny story (wasn't at the time but is now.... I was riding home from a mates at 2 in the morning in the pissing rain. I was heading past a party with loads of cars parked on the side of the road and a double parked taxi van, naturally I slowed down to about 30kph and went to go around the van........ as I got in line with the front of the van a HUGE (I'm talking about 150kg) Samoan woman (the taxi driver) ran straight out in front of me.... I didn't even have time to touch the brakes and before I knew it I was catapulted through the air and could hear the bike hit the deck.

As I layed on the road with 3 fingers sitting at near 90deg bent sideways at the knuckles I look up and could see that the lady wasn't hurt, infact she didn't even fall over!. This mammoth of a woman didn't even loose her balance when a 160kg bike with a rider of about 75kg hit her in the guts at about 30kph. Jez I would hate to see what her husband looked like!. King Kong maybe?

So what have you hit over the years? Got any funny stories?

[NC]

Mikey Havoc

[loosebruce]

I've hit the road a few times. Birds, a cow on the farm, my tank, my balls on my tank. haven't managed to hit another veichle or someone else yet, but im working on it.

[James Deuce]

I have had a minor hit me in the chest at about 70-80kph which hurt like hell and took the wind out of me.



I'm not surprised it hurt, most kids weigh considerably more than the average avian. You shouldn't speed around schools. How did the kid get that high? Had someone else already hit him/her?

[Fishy]

Mikey Havoc

He'd be hard to miss eh!.

[Fishy]

I'm not surprised it hurt, most kids weigh considerably more than the average avian. You shouldn't speed around schools. How did the kid get that high? Had someone else already hit him/her?

:laugh: original post to be changed to state "Bird" - the feathered sort :doobey:

[Fishy]

I a cow on the farm,

Did you learn that trick off Poo's? Holding your arm out in from like a lance then running into the back of a bull :doobey: :nya:

[NC]

Did you learn that trick off Poo's? Holding your arm out in from like a lance then running into the back of a bull :doobey: :nya:
I never knew poos was that kinky>?

[Str8 Jacket]

Ive had a large bird of some sort manage to fly through my front wheel, didnt hurt it I think as it kept flying. Ive also managed to hit a barrier pole and a grass bank, but thats another story....

[NC]

Ive had a large bird of some sort manage to fly through my front wheel, didnt hurt it I think as it kept flying. Ive also managed to hit a barrier pole and a grass bank, but thats another story....
:shutup: Ouchies!

[Str8 Jacket]

:shutup: Ouchies!

Not anymore, my knee is now permenantly numb! :blip:

[NC]

Not anymore, my knee is now permenantly numb! :blip:
That's what it wants you to think :msn-wink:

[Goblin]

I've run over a large hare, a fat possum, a big black labrador, have hit several birds(the feathered variety) and they do hurt, at speed. I learned a valuable lesson in target fixation in my teens. I was sometimes lucky enough to ride our Katana 750 to work. I always used to ride home for lunch and one day I was on my way back to work when I noticed a large rock in the middle of the road. I foolishly kept looking at it thinking to myself 'Dont hit the rock' until I hit the rock! Managed to keep the Kat upright but that taught me all about target fixation.

Fishslayer, it's a mynah, not a minor:doobey:

[madmal64]

A Pukeko decided to try to fly out of my way one day out on my old RF900. Ended up clipping it with my front wheel & it then proceeded into my radiator.
A F#@king mess.

Ran over a oppossum late one night.

[Smorg]

I hit a little elf man once down where the lillys grow. I asked him why he was so small and why he didnt grow. He slightly frowned and with his eye he looked me through and through, I'm just as big for me said he as you are big for you.

Hit a couple of seagulls to

[Str8 Jacket]

Fishslayer, it's a mynah, not a minor:doobey:

Maybe he wishes it was a "minor"... :blip:

[beyond]

Apart from the obvious, like road, vehicles etc I assume you mean living critters and such like. :)

I remember the large billy goat racing across the road in front of fishslayer. That was a real close call as we weren't mucking about either.

Couple of months back, along the Miranda road, hit a large thrush full on the visor at 130kmh. That sounded like a shotgun going off in my ear.

Years back on my Suki 250 when I was 18, I was riding between several
buses at around 25kmh on Quay street when this woman just stepped out from between them, hit my front wheel and collapsed over the handlebars and instrument panel. Carted her up the road a bit, with her hanging over the front of the bike, braked, she slid off and rolled along the ground a bit.

She got up, moaning and groaning and disappeared down a nearby alley dragging a leg. Couldn't find her by the time I parked the bike safely and got off to look for her. No damage to my bike or myself, but gave me a hell of a fright.

Wonder if she's okay?? :gob:

[onearmedbandit]

Had a school kid pull out in front of me on his pushbike, no where for me to go but over him and his bike. No damage to him, bike was a bit bent up, side of my GSXR was scratched from his bike, and I had a sore ankle from getting tangled in his bike. He was very apologetic as I reminded him how lucky he was that I was on a bike and not driving a cage or worse. Couple nights later he and his father came around and paid for the damage to my bike.

[Smorg]

haha classic!! I shouldnt be laughing but serves her right, she wont be doing that again anytime soon

[Fishy]

Years back on my Suki 250 when I was 18, I was riding between several
buses at around 25kmh on Quay street when this woman just stepped out from between them, hit my front wheel and collapsed over the handlebars and instrument panel. Carted her up the road a bit, with her hanging over the front of the bike, braked, she slid off and rolled along the ground a bit.

She got up, moaning and groaning and disappeared down a nearby alley dragging a leg. Couldn't find her by the time I parked the bike safely and got off to look for her. No damage to my bike or myself, but gave me a hell of a fright.

Wonder if she's okay?? :gob:

That would have been quite funny to see :laugh:

[Fishy]

Fishslayer, it's a mynah, not a minor:doobey:

Cheers Kel, my spelling sucks :doobey:

[Blackbird]

A cow side-on!:gob:

I was riding home from varsity in England and it came out of an open gate in a paddock with high hedges. I was only doing about 50 km/hr fortunately when it bolted into the narrow road in front of me. No time to take evasive action other to hit the brakes and start laying the bike down. Dislocated my shoulder momentarily in the impact - felt it pop out and back in again as I hit the deck. Sort of slid under the cow and was really worried about being trampled. Bike was a bit of a mess but wasn't far from home so got it trailered back. Tracked down the farmer to try and get redress for him leaving the gate open and was literally told to piss off. Spoke to the cops and they said to forget it. Just had to put it down to experience.

[Fishy]

Maybe he wishes it was a "minor"... :blip:

Ssshhhhhhhh she said she was 18 I swear :whistle:

[Hitcher]

I have had a minor (bird - not someone under 16 or a person who works in a mine)
That would be a mynah, Acridotheres tristis, a bird introduced to New Zealand from the Indian sub-continent. Mynah is Hindi for starling.

I haven't hit one of these, but I have hit a blackbird (Turdus merula) and two quail (Callipepla californica), and numerous insects of varying species and genuses.

I have also observed the consequences of Mangell6's collision with a Wood pigeon (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae). Ouch.

[Fishy]

That would be a mynah, Acridotheres tristis, a bird introduced to New Zealand from the Indian sub-continent. Mynah is Hindi for starling.


Goblin has already corrected my spelling thanks. See post #13

[Hitcher]

Goblin has already corrected my spelling thanks. See post #13
I saw that, but thought that some additional information may be informative, educational or even entertaining.

[Sniper]

I must say FS, you hitting that samoan women beats mine of hitting a kid on a bicycle.

[Motu]

I've only hit a few sparrows,nothing bigger.Most of my riding is on back roads,and I'm looking out for such things.

I did run over an observer at a trial once - he kept moving away as I came closer - but I was target steering and finaly got him,much to his annoyance....

[T.W.R]

Birds, rabbits, bugs the usual suspects, then a hunk of tree whilst riding in fog and a carrot

[Ixion]

Nothing much for years. Handful of birds of various sizes, and maybe a bunny ('twas night, I was not sure).

Then just recently on one ride, an encounter with the Dreaded Pukeko of Doom and the Kamikazi Bunny from Hell. And a moth the size of a small aircraft.

And a small octopus and a large frog.

[Goblin]

....and a carrot
WTF??:scratch:
Care to elaborate?

[Str8 Jacket]

And a small octopus

Really? times 10!

[Blackbird]

I have also observed the consequences of Mangell6's collision with a Wood pigeon (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae). Ouch.

Birds must be attracted to Mangell, lucky bugger. He nearly had his head removed by a Harrier Hawk on the Southern Cross. I literally didn't see any daylight between his helmet and the hawk.

[Kendog]

A flatmate of mine hit a hawk on his ZZR600 once. Bought the bike home and bits of fairing inside to clean blood, guts and feathers out of EVERYTHING! It was everywhere, what a bloody, stinking mess that all was!!:sick:
Mrs KD

[Fishy]

WTF??:scratch:
Care to elaborate?

Riding through the fruit n veg dept in Pak n Save?

[Goblin]

And a small octopus

:laugh: Do tell....

[James Deuce]

I kill stuff sometimes too.

My best was 4 magpies at xxxkm/hr, but boy did they get me back. I'd been through Arthur's pass and popped out the other side. You run along the river for a bit, then go inland and up a small rise. You crest the top, and Lo! There before you is a glorious straight that goes downhill, then up and seems to last forever.

I was on my RC30 and I had a small tailpack on the rear, I was tapped out in 6th, flat on the tank, when a a flock of Magpies took exception to me and and dived at me. One clipped the top of the screen and bounced off my helmet with a crash like armageddon, and I think a couple hit the tailpack, snapping one of the bungies holding it on, causing the tailpack to disappear under the seatunit and get dragged through the wheel and the small space between the swingarm and the wheel.

Thanks to a two stroke apprenticeship the clutch was in as soon as I realised the wheel had locked, but by the time I got it all together I was about half a mile up the road, my luggage had vanished into the mist caused by my exploding aerosol tyre puncture repair kit. After a moment of reflection I got off the bike to check for damage when some giggling German tourists emerged from the lingering cloud of tyre goo carrying my toilet bag and underwear, and the fragmentary remains of my tailpack and wet weather gear.

I aim for bastard magies when I see them now, and I'm pleased to say I got one a couple of months ago on the East-West access road South of the Lake Wairarapa.

[T.W.R]

WTF??:scratch:
Care to elaborate?

Locally we have a number of farms that grow veges for Talley's and their all controlled by Turley's farming group from Temuka. They use trucks with 40ft open bin trailers & transport the veges through to the base in Temuka.
I managed to get caught behind one truck heading into Ashvagas & it was happily dropping carrots along the way and I managed to do the Oh fark check that out, & wack scenario :doh:

[Ixion]

:laugh: Do tell....

Not at all exciting. I was riding on a beach. And small octopuses sometimes wash up amidst the sea weed and stuff. I only realised it because it got stuck between the tyre knobs.

The frog was much the same, rode through a swampy stream and up a bank which turned out to be infested with frogs. One hopped in front of me .

I think I may have taken out a few lizards along the way, too.

[XP@]

On new years eve a few years ago I managed to run over a friend who positioned himself in the middle of the road following a head on with a car. I was considerate and opted for his knees, and I made sure I wasn't braking when I went over his squishy bits.

Then, after packing him off to hospital, riding the entire east cape and heading off to wellington I managed to avoid hitting anything else. That is until P.North(ish) where I orphaned a rabbit by running over its mummy and daddy. This time I made sure I did a proper job, and went over both at full power causing the rear wheel to spin in a bump...wizzz, bump...wizz kinda way.

I have also been hit by a gsxr750 oil filter which escaped from a friends back pack, not too much damage from that though... I think the filter was still doing 100mph+ and I was doing about 130mph

[Edbear]

I saw that, but thought that some additional information may be informative, educational or even entertaining.





You mean you couldn't resist...:blip:


ps. Blackbirds are quite a heavy bike, would be messy...:wait:

[Goblin]

Thanks Ixion, maybe not really exciting but funny all the same.:laugh:

T.W.R, you were lucky the truck wasn't carting swedes.

[Edbear]

T.W.R, you were lucky the truck wasn't carting swedes.




I'll say! Those Swedes are big chaps! Swedesses on the other hand are not much bigger than minors....:innocent:

[Hitcher]

Blackbirds are quite a heavy bike, would be messy...
That's why I noted that I was referring to a Turdus merula, rather than a CBR1100XX.

[Goblin]

I'll say! Those Swedes are big chaps! Swedesses on the other hand are not much bigger than minors....:innocent:
:laugh: :laugh: Swedes or turnips...take your pick.:spudflip:

ps. I prefer parsnips myself:blip:

[Edbear]

That's why I noted that I was referring to a Turdus merula, rather than a CBR1100XX.




Sorry, innocent mistake...:innocent: Still messy!:rockon:

[Biohazard]

I've hit a few things in my time riding...excluding the obvious like cars...

Heres the short list:

* X1 Black & white cat, he didnt make it :bye:
* X1 Pigeon, got embedded in the down pipes of my first Fireblade :gob:
* X1 Sea Gull, put scratches down my helmet (the one on my head people !!)
* Numerous push bike couriers :blip:
* X1 Asian gentleman who ran out in front of me ...eeeek

Think thats it

[Fishy]

Not at all exciting. I was riding on a beach. And small octopuses sometimes wash up amidst the sea weed and stuff. I only realised it because it got stuck between the tyre knobs.


Haha I thought you were joking about the occy :) you get bling for hitting the most odd thing of all.

Ps: Occy's are great fun to catch especially large ones. You stick your knife inside his beak (be very carefull not to get bitten because they can do some serious damage with it) and cut his mouth open big enough so you can fit your hand in it (by now he has lost control of his beak and can no longer bite anything. You put your hand up unside his head and with your other had push the top of his head down into your hand thats inside him. Grab the top of his head with your hand thats inside him and then pull it down and out through the hole that your hand is in. You can fold them inside out and see everything!. Its really quite neat!.

I only do this to ones we intend on eating though, not for fun :) :doobey:

[SARGE]

riding my Vmax along a back road in Ohio a few decades ago.. tooling right along at warp 3 about 11 pm.. looked up and saw 2 sparkely bits in the road..as i got closer.. it turned out to be a White tail doe stretched out on the tarmac..... nothing i could do but keep it nailed..


i heard myself say..


"fuck.. this is gonna hurt.."

she heard the engine and bolted... ended up running over her rear legs... luckily.. my bung-hole had a firm grip on the seat and i managed to stay on the bike..i got stopped finally, and looked behind me but she was long gone ..


STORY #2

dad and i built a sand rail ( dune buggy) .. Lateral brakes .. the whole shooting match.. i used to drive it back in our woods .. great track.. few jumps and hairpins etc..

one of the jumps crossed over a small-ish stream.. just after a blind hairpin..i'd lock the left side brakes and crank the wheel.. nail the throttle and release the brakes and make a spectacular jump.... did this MANY times ...

all but one time i made it ..

went through the sequence.. hit the gas and looked up...


someone had dumped a REFRIGERATOR dead center of the stream...


snapped the frame in half..rolled 8 times..the wreck is still there ...

[Sparky Mark]

I ran over my girlfriend once. :shit:

It wasn't my fault as She did admit that if she hadn't suddenly lunged for the remote control, I would have safely continued through to the kitchen without incident...


:bleh:

[Biohazard]

I ran over my girlfriend once. :shit:

It wasn't my fault as She did admit that if she hadn't suddenly lunged for the remote control, I would have safely continued through to the kitchen without incident...


:bleh:
roflmao :blip:
You Win :first:

[jim.cox]

Possum - colapsed the front wheel and sent me down the raod
Starlings - at least half a dozen in a flock - man what a mess

[Switch]

:laugh: :rofl:Tehehehe very amusing :nya: shame about the puppy :bye: and the bails

[WickedOne]

Haha I thought you were joking about the occy :) you get bling for hitting the most odd thing of all.

Ps: Occy's are great fun to catch especially large ones. You stick your knife inside his beak (be very carefull not to get bitten because they can do some serious damage with it) and cut his mouth open big enough so you can fit your hand in it (by now he has lost control of his beak and can no longer bite anything. You put your hand up unside his head and with your other had push the top of his head down into your hand thats inside him. Grab the top of his head with your hand thats inside him and then pull it down and out through the hole that your hand is in. You can fold them inside out and see everything!. Its really quite neat!.

I only do this to ones we intend on eating though, not for fun :) :doobey:

Mildly concerning!!! :puke:

[WickedOne]

I ran over my girlfriend once. :shit:

It wasn't my fault as She did admit that if she hadn't suddenly lunged for the remote control, I would have safely continued through to the kitchen without incident...


:bleh:

Bravo!!!!!

[Biohazard]

Haha I thought you were joking about the occy :) you get bling for hitting the most odd thing of all.

Ps: Occy's are great fun to catch especially large ones. You stick your knife inside his beak (be very carefull not to get bitten because they can do some serious damage with it) and cut his mouth open big enough so you can fit your hand in it (by now he has lost control of his beak and can no longer bite anything. You put your hand up unside his head and with your other had push the top of his head down into your hand thats inside him. Grab the top of his head with your hand thats inside him and then pull it down and out through the hole that your hand is in. You can fold them inside out and see everything!. Its really quite neat!.

I only do this to ones we intend on eating though, not for fun :) :doobey:

Actually its extremely worrying :sick:

[vifferman]

So what have you hit over the years? Got any funny stories?
I've hit (in chronological) order:

A Mini
A cyclist
A Vauxhall Viva
Some barbed wire
A bee
A pedestrian
A BMW
An Audi
27,345,842 moths, butterflies and assorted insects
A waxeye.Talk about laugh! Ha! Ha Ha! :nono:

[diggydog]

I've HIT live things before,there was this time me & memate glen tamahori, that's lee's brother (director), will anyway were heading down to lake fairy on an old gravel road when rounded the bend , well hello here's this cow it started chargeing across my line and then it looked like it was veer a away, so slowed a little as if headed a diffrent direction and soon as i gassed it a little more throttle it came back at us. Bike damage with steering & two bodies sprawed over the gravel, cow carried on it's merry way. The owners of had spotted what happened & try anything to keep us happy, although they new they where responseable for the cow being out of the fence.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Had a fuck off fat woolly sheep pounce out from behind a tussock right in front of me as a youth...(didn't see who she was in there with though...)
Was on an RM 400 trail riding...got the front wheel over it, but the fucking thing got wedged under the frame and the back wheel didn't ride up over it.
Threw me over the bars it did.

[Fishy]

Actually its extremely worrying :sick:

Nah its really quite interesting, you can see its eyes and brain and ink sack.

Octopus is beautiful to eat too. We used to catch them quite often in rock pools on Waiheke Island and also while fishing landbased between Palm Beach and the left hand point of Onetangi at spot X. Used to get some bloody big buggers!. Stretched out the biggest one I ever got was about 4.5 foot long.

[jafa]

Possum - colapsed the front wheel and sent me down the raod
Starlings - at least half a dozen in a flock - man what a mess

So a possum collapsed your front wheel? Just out of curiosity, were you riding a small (trail?) bike at the time? I've always wondered what the hell would happen if I ran over a possum on the back roads of Coro... I've squashed a few while driving so I expect I'll have a few encounters riding the ZX12...

[Goblin]

Nah its really quite interesting, you can see its eyes and brain and ink sack.


They're very intelligent creatures too. Last time I visited Kelly Tarltons, some of the cray's had these dark circles on their backs. Found out that the octopus had been waiting until night time when no one was around, and he'd squeeze out the small gap at the top of his tank and wander over to the cray tank and feast on them, then get back into his own tank before anyone came in.

When I was a kid my dad had his boat moored at The Mt and at certian times of the year the beach would be covered in jellyfish. Us kids would find a stick each & see who could make the biggest jellyfish kebab.

[The Pastor]

I HIT YO MOTHER LAST NIGHT HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA. ha

[WickedOne]

I HIT YO MOTHER LAST NIGHT HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA. ha

You should be dead, that's like hitting a brick wall!!!!!!!:brick:

[petesmeats]

I have only hit the road, footpath, driveway (damn oil slick) and various bugs...
But I have often had dogs run out at me... I think that the pitch of my bikes exhaust must enfuriate them.

A couple of times i pulled up to lights and there has been a lady walking along with her dog and then the dog just goes nuts... Pulling on the leash and barking etc. Im amazed that the owner managed to hold on to it.

[Jantar]

Numerous possums, rabbits, hares, hedgehogs etc. One ferret, 2 cats, one dog, lots of small birds of various types, one hawk (I felt that one).

I've avoided cattle, sheep and dogs.

Generally with small animals its safer to just stick to your line, and if you hit them thats just too bad (for the animal, not the rider). Large animals should be treated as imovable objects. Avoid at all costs.

[mstriumph]

a sheep

several kangaroos [not all at once]

an owl

an african pedestrian [hit him ... then kicked him apparantly, for stepping off pavement in front of me - i don't remember]

most recent was the swarm of locusts i rode thru a month back --- ouch, that HURT!!!

[BarBender]

In the short time I have been back on a bike...

I have been hit by a bee(s) (...at least I thought it was a bee(s)...) in the visor at about 130ks. Big mess and I couldnt see anything....Luckily I was on a straight piece of road.

And I "thankfully" hit a guardrail on the coastal road between Thames and Coro Town. Might have qualified for the Olympics diving team if I hadnt...

[Lou Girardin]

I've hit over 200 k's once or twice. Scary it was.

[sunhuntin]

nothing exciting here....just large quantities on sandflies or similar....bees, flies, and sadly butterflies. [that left a mess!!] also a car, but that doesnt count....she hit me.

i hope to avoid anything bigger than that :scooter:

[Quasievil]

A Brown Snake in AUssy, A lizard thing in Aussy, A Car, another bike.
I hit on a girl or two does that count????

[roogazza]

Got a large Hawk on the Piecock a couple of months back! Hit right below the H/light with quite an impact. Thought at the time, if that had hit my head things could have been different ? G.

[Headbanger]

as far as live targets are concenered...

I was riding past a primary school (both sides of the road packed with kids) when a pussy cat sauntered out and ran across the road, a cry when up from the assembled crowd as it raced into my path, then strangely...leaped into the spokes of my front wheel and was obliterated.

A hush fell upon the crowd, somewhere in the distance a dog barked...

....and I carried onto work...

[Crasherfromwayback]

Gotta love dogs...

[Wellyman]

I went through a storm of wasps while out trail riding. they got all stuck in my body armour helmet visor, front of my helmet. I stopped quickly and dropped my bike and threw off my body armour. they didn't actually sting me luckly.
WM

[Karma]

I hit a roundabout once...

[MOTOXXX]

I hit a nice ladrover discovery and a concrete lampost....

[Smorg]

Peugot 406 that im still paying off

[Velox]

Assorted birds
Chook
Duck
Hedgehog
Possum
Cows
Sewerage truck
Taxi
Car
Etc...

:blank:

[Oakie]

I haven't hit one of these, but I have hit a blackbird (Turdus merula) and two quail (Callipepla californica), and numerous insects of varying species and genuses.

err, ... they would be genera if we're going to do the Latin thing.

Oh, and I collected a big bumblebee at speed right in the middle at of the visor many years ago. Nearly shit myself

[myvice]

Cars, bout 20-30... mirrors anyway, and a couple with lasting results!
Possums, mainly dead ones, why do they die on my lines?
Birds, bout 3 but only two major hits.
Ditches, very bad!
Trees/hedgers, when the ditchers don’t stop me.
A dog, he was ok...
My son, heh heh heh...
And my wife, not as funny, also not funny to spit them off the back of dirt bikes...
Nearly hit a cow, opted for a tree instead.
Other bikes.
Other riders after they have been hit by other bikes!
And the ground, lots, who keeps putting it there?
500,000,000,000 bugs.

[sugilite]

Various birds.
Possums, one while cranked over at max with pillion!
Rabbits, don't even feel those.
A sheep on a GSXR1100. I stayed on, the sheep was killed. (3 witnesses saw it happen, I guess I was the trail sweeper that day!)
The secret of surviving running into an animal sheep size or smaller is NEVER BE BRAKING ON IMPACT chances are you will go down if you are braking on impact.
If possible, brake 1st to scrub off speed, smash it down a gear then wrench the throttle open just before impact, works best on big powerfull bikes. I aimed for the back of the sheep and using this technique and punched it straight off the road. The bike just weaved a bit and came back under full control quite quickly Oh yeah, don't panic. :doobey:

[babyB]

bugs on my face...just a poem i like from from usa

[Badcat]

A sheep on a GSXR1100:

jesus, that must have been a sight.
was she a good rider?

[Rincewind]

My Daughters other half races Ducati's in the superstox series in the U K and last year he hit a big fat pigeon at around 160mph it put him in hospital for four days,he said he saw it take off as he layed down into the corner and the impact was just like being hit in the face with a baseball bat,it didn't break his visor though which was cool,and he didn't fall off and managed to keep control of the bike till the pain kicked in...
If I can find out how to post the photo taken when he came out of hospital I'll put it up (not a pretty sight,it broke his nose very badly)

I Killed a cat once when it ran across the road and smashed into my right foot at about 80 miles an hour,my foot was unbelievably bruised even though I was wearing leather boots.. I found pieces of cat in various parts of the bike for weeks afterwards YUK:whocares:

[FROSTY]

i was riding along one day and a big nasty chain leapt out and attacked me
The chains dead good n propper now though

[Jonny Rotten]

i hit a rabbit once on my way to port waikato in the middle of the night.
i was goin about 120 ish when it ran out in front of me..... no time to do anything to miss it.
it clipped my right fork the slammed into my foot which hurt like hell!!!
the worse part was cleaning the blood and fur off the bike........ oh and the smell of bits of fresh road kill cooking on the motor was such a pleasant smell :sick:

[sugilite]

jesus, that must have been a sight.
was she a good rider?
Na, it was a "ram" :nya:

[Marmoot]

So what have you hit over the years? Got any funny stories?

All quite well bigger than yours.
I've hit a farm, a hill, and a planet (I remember clearly, it was the 3rd in our Solar System)

[SlowHand]

Ive only hit my own bike and a few animals, but I know someone that hit a jandal, and He knows someone that hit a passionfruit.
ive got connections!

[Smokin]

I have been hit by a brick coming off a trailer, A starling straight into the bicep at 160k, I honestly thought i had been shot. A Weka feed it self through the spokes of my trail bike at 100 odd kph, damn that was messy and smelly. and one day while leaving my XR unattended while fishing, a cow decided to scratch an itch on it, pushed it over and then proceded to walk all over it.

[slimjim]

:scooter: fuck, put me gsx750 into the side of a boat, yup bike finished up against the inboard motor of the boat, huh ,i finished up in hamilton hospital, three weeks in traction,haha,:gob: :shutup: fucken army brass pulled out of the army camp just out of te rapa straights and didn't see a bike doing 100km's, my chioce either through the land drover or frideglass boat,, can't jump between the boat and landdrover, so decide to just jump off bike as we hit the boat,, yup cleared the boat no worries, it was just the rough landing about 40mtrs down the road, that fucked me up,,
however all good cause this army brass brought me a brand new gsx 750,, saved him going to court, and big fine haha,settled out of court and me with no insurance,,,so new bike and 500 bucks cash,yea,, plus 4months on acc, all good::innocent:

[terbang]

Hit by a fox terrier on an old trailie (when I was age 16) on a loose metal road, RIP the foxy and I still have evidence of embroidery on my right elbow (Also my first flying experience).
Ran into a mob of cows (about 130 Kays on an old H2 750) around the same era as the Foxy incident. RIP one cow, a nice wee stay in hospital for me and also forced into the market for a new bike..!
Took a bird (unknown kind) square in the face (100 kays+ on GSX 1100) about 8 years ago , RIP the bird (estimated by the gore on my helmet) made a hell of a bang, saw a few stars, and just about knocked me off as well.
Took in a Big seagull on # 2 engine on a BAe 146 a few years back. Didn't feel a thing but, it made a huge bang, damn near shook the thing off the wing and sprinlked bits of titanium all over the Invercargil farmland. Guess it spoilt the Gull's day as well.

[Pixie]

An Austin A40 van
A Ford Falcon
A Nissan Skyline

[jim.cox]

No, It was one of those early BMW "snowflake" cast alloy jobs. They were later subject to a recall :(

=mjc=
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[kro]

Got sparrowed at 140 on my FZR, I thought I was going to die, the pain was unreal. Hit a pedestrian, who then shoved money in my lap, hit a wing mirror on a beemer, and hit a rabbit in the forest 3 weeks ago.

[NodMan]

Do street scum window washers count (at midnight)??
had to swerve twice to get him!!
gave him a new job...hes now a sump plug inspector!!

[Madmax]

not a window washer but the eagle boys pizza eagle thing,
managed to twack him going through some lights,
spun him like a top
:innocent:

[ManDownUnder]

I've hit a variety of things over the years - and they seem to have gotten smaller over time (thank God)

My first was a Concrete truck parked on the side of the road... (I was going slow, but the truck didn't seem to notice the impact at all!)

The second was a drunk guy that ran out in front of me.

beyond that it's the usual - rocks on the road, birds, bugs...

[Edbear]

I feel rather inferior here! Some of you guys have had such incredible experiences! All I've hit are Bugs, bugs and more bugs! Biggest was a Bumble Bee - felt and sounded like a rock!:bye:

[XP@]

My first was a Concrete truck parked on the side of the road... (I was going slow, but the truck didn't seem to notice the impact at all!)
Had the exact opposite to you!
the I was stationary and the concrete truck tit me. It shortened my bike by about 1m and sent me almost vertical, and on to the bonnet of a car stationary in the other direction. a fitting, and welcome end to my gpz305. out of that came a new set of leathers, helmet and a near new RD350ypvs :-)

[Biohazard]

Had the exact opposite to you!
the I was stationary and the concrete truck tit me. It shortened my bike by about 1m and sent me almost vertical, and on to the bonnet of a car stationary in the other direction. a fitting, and welcome end to my gpz305. out of that came a new set of leathers, helmet and a near new RD350ypvs :-)

lol showing ya age there XP@ :nya: near new ypvs...damn I havent heard that for years....

Uh oh, im also showing my age by knowing the bike :shutup:

[ManDownUnder]

Had the exact opposite to you!
the I was stationary and the concrete truck tit me. It shortened my bike by about 1m and sent me almost vertical, and on to the bonnet of a car stationary in the other direction. a fitting, and welcome end to my gpz305. out of that came a new set of leathers, helmet and a near new RD350ypvs :-)

LOL - it must have been the badge mate - mine was a GPZ550 (damned good bike too)

MDU

[N4CR]

Knicked counted as hitting? Kneeslidered a few cars/trucks and busses on the fxr a few times (just running out of room :x) and on my bike a few times too. Mirrors included, closest to an actual 'hit' was when I had a little incident involving a van pulling into my lane, what a lovely scratch he had the whole way down his van. Whoops. Still a big white patch on my right (and only remaining) mirror to this day.

Hit a bird once, didn't get nailed though as it was flying same direction. Bumble bees blah blah. Usual sort of 'attacks' by insecta.

[SkOrM]

ran over 2 pukekos. i cut a ferrit in half. got hit in the helmet with a sparrow at 120kmh (thank you HJC).