Unwanted Motorcycle Accessories

[gijoe1313]

I was riding back from Dorkland City tonight, passing the Otara interchange when a piece of paper flicked up from the car in front and wedged itself nicely between my front forts and the right indicator. :gob: Rode with the ferk'n thing back to Takanini and discovered it was the cover from last weeks Listener! :innocent: Yeah, I know I shoulda pulled over but I couldn't be fecked! :whocares:

So, I've heard of wet sheepskin covers, a hawk embedding itself into the side of a pannier... anyone else with odd objects/thingabobs/whatchamacallits/thinggummies/widgets/doo-dads/gee-gaws picked up in their course of travels?

[SuperDave]

I've only been fortunate to kill heaps of bugs.
Spankme wrote off a bird when it flew into his screen at 240kph on his SV.

[Mr. Peanut]

Two birds, through the front wheel. RIP... The trick is to remember how much chicken you eat... ;)

[LilSel]

Just bugs on the bike...

Took out a pigeon/dove (not sure which one it was) at high speed in the car tho... *thud into windscreen*... look in mirrors as it goes flying over the top of the car... and see feathers floating towards the groud behind. :shit:

Felt aweful afterwards...ah well circle of life... should've taken flight a second or two earlier. (still felt bad tho lol...!!)

[Mr. Peanut]

Remember the chicken Sel.

[oldrider]

Yeah, I seem to have had just about every kind of bird in the country try to drive it's self through my bloody helmet or some part of the bike.
If you are riding through the Waitaki Valley at this time of year , watch out for "ducks", they shoot up out of the ditches on the side of the road and climb fast, usually at about head height as you pass.
It's bad enough that they hit you but even a near miss is bad because they have been feeding and they shit all over you and does it bloody well stink.
The shit dries all over your bike and gear before you can get somewhere to hose it off.
We were coming home through Tarras once, doing about..100kph...er..(Mph St 1100 Honda) when we hit a couple of spur winged plovers, talk about shit and feathers, we were covered in it and stink!
We had to stop at Tarras and wash our helmets and visors because they were covered in blood, guts, shit and feathers and we couldn't see.
Yep, tis the season of our feathered friends and they are determined to ruin your day, if you are not careful. :shit: Cheers John

[Animal]

I was riding back from Dorkland City tonight, passing the Otara interchange when a piece of paper flicked up from the car in front and wedged itself nicely between my front forts and the right indicator. :gob: Rode with the ferk'n thing back to Takanini and discovered it was the cover from last weeks Listener! :innocent: Yeah, I know I shoulda pulled over but I couldn't be fecked! :whocares:

So, I've heard of wet sheepskin covers, a hawk embedding itself into the side of a pannier... anyone else with odd objects/thingabobs/whatchamacallits/thinggummies/widgets/doo-dads/gee-gaws picked up in their course of travels?
Got caned by a hare several years ago. The evil bastard thing was just lurking a couple of feet onto the tar seal, apparently waiting to ambush the next object to pass. I saw the fucker from half a km away and gently eased across into the oncoming lane (not another vehicle for miles, so no risk of becoming a hood ornament). I expected the sod to bugger off back into the bushes on the roadside when it saw or heard me, but no... it waited until I was almost in line with it and launched itself toward my half of the road. I was screwed, unable to veer further across and too late to veer back into my own lane. The bastard must've been suicidal or something, but it leapt up and hit my left fork between the guard and headlamp, then my tank, my knee and my elbow - in very quick succession. I picked up a major tank-slapper that I never recovered and destroyed the bike and several bones in my right arm a second or two later. I walked back to where I thought the fucking meadow-rat's corpse would've been but never found it, so I was cheated of any satisfaction in knowing I killed the liitle prick.

[car]

So, I've heard of wet sheepskin covers, a hawk embedding itself into the side of a pannier... anyone else with odd objects/thingabobs/whatchamacallits/thinggummies/widgets/doo-dads/gee-gaws picked up in their course of travels?

First summer after I passed my test. A squirrel. ZXR400. I had to swerve slightly.

[thehollowmen]

yep
fluttering strands of toilet paper from a toilet-papered car were breaking free and flying across the road and got stuck under my windshield and in my helmet visor'.

A bird in my helmet.

Pieces of truck tyre as it exploded in frount of me.... those things hurt and hot bits melt to the bike.

[scumdog]

Bits of plastic rubbish bag 'raincoat' that were disintergrating off the back of the rider on front - like black crows attacking.

[notme]

.....
If you are riding through the Waitaki Valley at this time of year , watch out for "ducks", they shoot up out of the ditches on the side of the road and climb fast, usually at about head height as you pass.......

Too bloody right.....:angry:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=8698&highlight=duck+clevedon

[Lord Derosso]

I hit a swarm of bees once north of Whangarei just before the turnoff to Kerikeri. Had to stop, undress and shake the little bastards out of my helment, leathers and shirt. Not one sting which was fortunate as it was mid summer , bloody hot and I tend to swell badly when bees are in that state. I have been stung whist wearing t shirts and travelling at speed on trial bikes and that really swells up badly. Have also hit a blackbird at 80kph which then landed on my tank and shook its head, glared at me and took off again. Have hit several dogs, nearly a full grown sow... that would have been real bad, but the worse thing I came across was a flock of bloody turkeys on the road on the way south of Houhora heading to Kaitaia. Had to duck real low but felt their wingbeats as I passed under them all taking off. They sort of jump.
My cousins and locals bred them then let them wander in flocks wild until Xmas time. Have had to hunt them down with the .22 and boy arethey hardto get close to. No wonder the Yanks treat them as a game bird. Cunning as. Got two with one shot once too at 100metres max accurancy range. The first through the neck, and the second took the bullet up its.. well you can quess. Couldn't work out how I had done it because they only wanted one but the cousins rang me later to explain what had happened.
Anyway, back to the point. If you are travelling on any country road in NZ, East coast, Far North or where ever, watch out for stock at all times.

[Karma]

I've headbutted a seagull in the ass once, while in full flight, so it shat on my head...

[scumdog]

I've headbutted a seagull in the ass once, while in full flight, so it shat on my head...

Well you shouldn't have been flying in full flight any way...

[Lord Derosso]

I've headbutted a seagull in the ass once, while in full flight, so it shat on my head...

Jonathon was really pissed off about that... you weasel you.

[Karma]

Wasn't my fault... I'm just riding along, I'm like "its gonna move, it's gonna move, fuck, it hasn't moved"

[Lord Derosso]

If you have read his book... you know he has to get wasted to advance to each plane. He was just using you.

[Shaun]

A German Shephards head at about 120 MPH when I was young and dumb RIP buddy

[Ixion]

Oddest thing I've ever collected on a bike was an octopus.

[WarlockNZ]

Oddest thing I've ever collected on a bike was an octopus.

Ok thats going to require an explantiation, lol, an octopus you say??? What the ??

[Street Gerbil]

I had a near miss with a port-a-loo which fell from a ute in front of me. The guy behind me wasn't so lucky... Had a close call with a skunk once.

[Mental Trousers]

Oddest thing I've ever collected on a bike was an octopus.
You win

[sunhuntin]

large numbers of bugs, a butterfly that smeared itself across my face [open faced lid, but with sunnies thankfully!]
a bee got inside the full face i borrowed off dad...took me a while to work out how to safely let it go... and another bee got wedged in the padding of my open facer...between the padding and the shell. i went to flick him out [bad idea with fingerless gloves!] and got stung for my trouble. fun riding home with a swelling finger.

for those of you who swell from bee stings, keep some honey with you..takes the swell and the pain away very fast. ive tried it 3 times and its worked 3 times.

nothing bigger than that, but have come close to collecting a rabbit, a couple of dogs, a cat and a litter of pigs. twice.

[Aiolos]

I've had the bee in the helmet a few times, mostly while riding through central otago.

I hit a sheep while riding home from the freezing works at 2am. Oh the irony.

[JimO]

i ran over a cat many years ago on a cb360,,,, got it with both wheels bumpbump

[Animal]

Oddest thing I've ever collected on a bike was an octopus.
Mate, we DESERVE an explanation on that one!

[R6_kid]

i've had a mouse, and also a bird explode on contact with my front wheel.

Also had random birds playing 'chicken' the pressure wave created at high speed.

Best one though would have to be a rabbit which ran 3/4 the way across the road as i approaced at 1xxkmh stopped 5cm short of my front wheel then high tailed back to where it appeared from. Bet he made lots of babbies that night.

[igor]

This photo was taken back in about 1985. we used to go to the 6 hour each year and this fella was always in front. Why cause he's f#*kin mad. Nah he can ride rings around most people. If ya been to Taupo in the last 50 years ya would of seen im around, a real character.

Anyway we is heading down that big straight into Cheltenham from Vinegar Hill way and i was behind him on me wire wheeler and we was doing about 140kmh. i see these two sheep upahead grazing either side of road. Of course they heard us coming. Mus of been that feckin Mike Hailwood Repilca behind me makin all those kaboom noises.

So of course old sheepy is scared so one dumb feck runs towards other dumb feck. well stevo got no way out so just stands up on the pegs and rides over the feckin thing.

All I see is sheep doin a cartwell and we carry on. Sorry to the animal lovers but we did not stop. Any way up the road I pull up next to steveo and tell im he got something stuck on the right peg area.

As u can see the front disk is a wee red and a leg of lamb is attached. We carried o and left it there for the 6 hour. Got lots of photos taken of it.


sorry for piccie quaity but this is a photo taken of a normal phot with digi camera.

[Ixion]

Ok thats going to require an explantiation, lol, an octopus you say??? What the ??

Quite simple actually. I was riding along a beach and doing the "roar through the little pools left around the point where the tide turns thing" , and found it later caught up in the ledgy bit above the swing arm A small one. They get washed up at high tide sometimes and left behind by the tide. I imagine it got jammed bewteen theknobs on the rear tyre (knobblies) and then flicked free.

[Forest]

I head-butted a seagull riding on an open-road near Dunedin. I was doing about 90km/h and the impact was pretty severe.

The poor bastard was eating something on the road. It tried to fly away from me and had just reached my head height when I hit it.

I've also collected a few possums over the years. But I tend to aim for them whenever it is safe to do so :ar15: