Nose versus pukeko

[bucket boy]

all the safety gear and a bird decides to take a flying crash at my head .....lucky i had the viser down!!!!

[DMNTD]

Fuckin' murderer!

[R6_kid]

f00ken heck! I take it your helmet hit your nose, or did the bird manage to get around the helmet somehow?

[Waylander]

Surely not the birds fault. Poor bugger probably couldn't see due to sun glare.

[MyGSXF]

:gob: bloody hell... whadda mess!! :blink: were you wearing glasses.. & they got pushed into your nose?? :confused:

[bucket boy]

f00ken heck! I take it your helmet hit your nose, or did the bird manage to get around the helmet somehow?

killed the bloody bird then had to try and stop while not being able to see at least i didnt drop my scooter a broken nose will heal

[Cajun]

damn mate, that crazy, it happen far from home?

One down side at dusk.

[Mully]

Jog it off. And HTFU

[EroSamnin]

Holy fucking shit albatros

[Waylander]

killed the bloody bird then had to try and stop while not being able to see at least i didnt drop my scooter a broken nose will heal
Duck next time.


Then at least you can eat it.

[Steam]

The blood on your nose, that's your blood eh? And the blood on the visor is the bird's blood? Or is it all your blood? Yuk!
Hell, imagine what would have happened with an open helmet!

[Grub]

Jeez ... that looks sore! That's a good reminder to anyone who rides with the visor up (Nasty ... you see this?)

[bucket boy]

:gob: bloody hell... whadda mess!! :blink: were you wearing glasses.. & they got pushed into your nose?? :confused:

no glasses the bird timed it just right he not do that again

[bucket boy]

Jeez ... that looks sore! That's a good reminder to anyone who rides with the visor up (Nasty ... you see this?)

the visor was down

[kevfromcoro]

i copped a low flying duck a while ago..came from the side..didnt see it...
just clipped the corner of my helmet.
still spiten feathers

[bucket boy]

The blood on your nose, that's your blood eh? And the blood on the visor is the bird's blood? Or is it all your blood? Yuk!
Hell, imagine what would have happened with an open helmet!

you got it i hope he didnt have aids it was probly a she bird flying around not looking where she going

[McJim]

Hmmm. To spread a pukeko out that much you prolly weren't doing 50kph....I hit a small bird at about 140 once...at that speed I had time to see it out of the corner of my eye and flinched so it hit the side of the lid not the front. Made my ears ring a bit.

Must have been a track day? :Pokey:

[deanohit]

Jesus christ mate!
Lucky you didn't come off!

[Unit]

Great quick thinking, getting the 'at the scene, in the moment' shots for insurance purposes, and ACC etc
Did the Pukeko know it was a protected species? Fancy going getting itself killed like that, whens the funeral :bye:

[Laava]

Unlucky mate! So, purely for scientific research, how fast were you going?

[Slingshot]

Lucky it didn't break your neck.

[bucket boy]

Unlucky mate! So, purely for scientific research, how fast were you going?

my road is open speed limit i didnt know what had hit me until i stopped and saw the wasted bird. last night when i came home there was a cow on the road that i saw at last moment

[one-speed]

holly shit batman
glad you ok

[gijoe1313]

:gob: Frikk'n assassin Pukekoes, rank right up their with ninja ducks! :no:

Glad to hear you kept it upright and got some attention to that impromptu impact with a manic-depressive bird on a suicidal bender! :sick:

[babyB]

its good ta see ya head still on ya shoulders
that soo gotta hurt. thoughts with ya

[MotoGirl]

Poor Mr. Pukeko :pinch: Glad to hear your scoot stayed upright and see you've still got your bloody looks going for ya :msn-wink:

[yungatart]

Blardy suicidal birds!
Lucky you avoided the cow, though, imagine the mess that would have made.

[Mully]

imagine the mess that would have made.

Yes, the delicious BBQ-able mess......

[Kornholio]

Bummer man, Those birds are that dumb its a wonder they aren't extinct :/

[Macktheknife]

Now that is a bloody good photo!
Well done that man for taking out another hazard for the rest of us.
I am impressed you had the presence of mind to control everything after the impact, well done mate. Hope your nose heals up fast.

[TONO]

all the safety gear and a bird decides to take a flying crash at my head .....lucky i had the viser down!!!!

Why didn't ya DUCK!:gob::dodge::shit:

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[PrincessBandit]

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayte! That looks painful. I didn't even know pukekos could fly, never seen one airborne before. I'm not going to be a meanie and say HTFU, I hope you're getting some TLC for that nose.
I dread the day that anything like that happens to me cos at only 57kg it would prolly knock me clean off my bike!

[Ocean1]

Oowww dude.

But yeah, not real bright your average pukeko. I had one cross the road 50ft in front of me, then turn around and lauch itself at my front wheel. The front disc cut it in half, most of it hit my right shin and blew my foot off the peg.

Wasn't a good day for birds, that. I caught a blackbird in the chest an hour later. No damage from there, but when I came around a corner at a respectable clip later that evening and found a hawk in the middle of the road I did start to wonder wtf was going on. The hawk was a bit smarter however, missed me by a couple of metres.

[Curious_AJ]

woah... "WHEN BIRDS ATTACK!!!"


hope you're okay...

once we had a bird dive bomb the windscreen of our car when we were going back from Peitersburg to Johannesburg when I was away in december... made a HELL of a noise, luckily no cracked windscreen coz it was a rental... but i assume the poor sparrow died from a broken everything on impact... I sure do hope it did...

[skidMark]

all the safety gear and a bird decides to take a flying crash at my head .....lucky i had the viser down!!!!


Durrrr thats where there happens when you get distracted having a banjo dual while riding, a huck!.

SM




PS. owie.

PPS. OWN3D

[nodrog]

all the safety gear and a bird decides to take a flying crash at my head .....lucky i had the viser down!!!!

you should have cooked its eggs bro!!

[Mikkel]

So did the impact break your nose - or was it just blood being shot in and up through the air ducts?

Took a sparrow out with my shoulder yesterday - glad it wasn't a magpie!

[bucket boy]

So did the impact break your nose - or was it just blood being shot in and up through the air ducts?

Took a sparrow out with my shoulder yesterday - glad it wasn't a magpie!

Broke nose, blood in helmet from me. Blood on outside of helmet from bird, it splatered it good there was blood and crap on the dash and fuel tank and even blood over front of scooter and it didnt hit there first cause it wouldve
done some damage to the front i wouldve thought work that out

[Mikkel]

Broke nose, blood in helmet from me.

Bad shit. I'm sitting here thinking about whether the fit of your helmet may be a bit too loose...

[bucket boy]

Bad shit. I'm sitting here thinking about whether the fit of your helmet may be a bit too loose...

My helmet is 6 months old brought from my local shop of glen tanner,now if these guys dont no how to pick the right size for ya well. It is perfect have you ever hit a duck or pokeko in your cage, i hit one about 5 years ago and i was going about 30ks slower and when it hit my window i thought it was going to land on my lap. You get an impact right there i reckon you would move any helmet dont you think

[Mikkel]

My helmet is 6 months old brought from my local shop of glen tanner,now if these guys dont no how to pick the right size for ya well. It is perfect have you ever hit a duck or pokeko in your cage, i hit one about 5 years ago and i was going about 30ks slower and when it hit my window i thought it was going to land on my lap. You get an impact right there i reckon you would move any helmet dont you think

Well, it is a fairly large bird...

Just wondering - haven't hit anything that size myself. Not on the bike, not in the cage. Just contemplating whether it's optimal that your nose took the brunt of the impact...

Good thing your neck was strong enough!

[Jimmy B]

have you ever hit a duck or pokeko in your cage... You get an impact right there i reckon you would move any helmet dont you think

True, I reckon you got off with a fair trade, could've been much worse and says a lot for the strength of your visor. Hit one in the cage at 100 ish and pushed the airdam back about 6 inches. Helluva bang. Dont want a repeat on the bike, still better a pukeko than a goat etc.

[bucket boy]

True, I reckon you got off with a fair trade, could've been much worse and says a lot for the strength of your visor. Hit one in the cage at 100 ish and pushed the airdam back about 6 inches. Helluva bang. Dont want a repeat on the bike, still better a pukeko than a goat etc.

hell yeah i dont no how i stayed on not being able to see once impact

[Jimmy B]

hell yeah i dont no how i stayed on not being able to see once impact

Freaky feeling that. I had a pea gravel deflect through a crack in my visor and hit me in the eye, hurt like hell and the other eye started watering instantly, couldn't see, doing 120 ish getting onto the North Western Motorway from the Southern. Thought I was toast, bet you did too. :niceone:

[bucket boy]

Freaky feeling that. I had a pea gravel deflect through a crack in my visor and hit me in the eye, hurt like hell and the other eye started watering instantly, couldn't see, doing 120 ish getting onto the North Western Motorway from the Southern. Thought I was toast, bet you did too. :niceone:

If it had to happen anywhere much rather be on my own road 5k long one corner been here for 13years so no it pretty well

[Stirts]

Likely story......bet ya misses just gave you the bash for not getting her hot rod finished!!!! :msn-wink:

Glad to hear you are OK

[bucket boy]

Likely story......bet ya misses just gave you the bash for not getting her hot rod finished!!!! :msn-wink:

Glad to hear you are OK

beach hop still 8 weeks away and counting itll be done

[doc]

Bummer man, Those birds are that dumb its a wonder they aren't extinct :/

I think thats a misconception, with most of the rest of the natives going extinct, the puke seems to be doing quite well, look at the bastards on the side of the motorway.

[Unit]

Saw a Puk beside the one lane bridge on the way to Whangamata yesterday morning, little bastards are everywhere now did you stir up a nest or something Calvin? :niceone:

[ManDownUnder]

I had a nose vs Pukeko just last weekend...

That'd be a 40gn round nose... hollow point... doing about 1100ft/second...

[jim.cox]

Many many moons ago, when I was working for the Forest Service on the West Coast, one of my flatmates was growing his own.

He left the glasshouse door open one day. We came home to find a flock of Pukeko had invaded and done in most of his crop.

And man those stoned birds were hilarious to watch. Some asleep standing up in the driveway, one tried to fly - straight into the wall of the garage. You just had to laugh - it was either that or cry

[Unit]

Stoned Pukeko's, true Kiwis

[nodrog]

Stoned Pukeko's, true Kiwis

:Oi: we're hungry!

[Unit]

:Oi: we're hungry!
There's leftovers in the rubbish bin (in Whitneys room)

[Tank]

I had a nose vs Pukeko just last weekend...

That'd be a 40gn round nose... hollow point... doing about 1100ft/second...

LOVE IT ! ,<tenchar>

[Unit]

There everywhere theses days, just waiting to pounce

[Roki_nz]

Ha ha ha ha you poor bastard

Some animals just like to suicide in cars and motor bikes

When I used to drive my cage down coast road late at night in welly rabbits would always leap and suicide into my car.

[Kornholio]

I had one fly into the work ute windscreen coming from the right....Looked in the mirror to see where he went and thought where the hell did he go...a few seconds later he dropped out of the sky, lol must have gone straight up

[bucket boy]

I had one fly into the work ute windscreen coming from the right....Looked in the mirror to see where he went and thought where the hell did he go...a few seconds later he dropped out of the sky, lol must have gone straight up

did you duck

[_intense_]

dude, i have a shoei, im confused, should i feel better for having seen this? guess it saved you!


// feeling better now. cheers

[fredie]

i have read where riders have hit cows and a moose:(

[Lias]

Years ago I had a mate who had a raven tatooed on his arm, but it _really_ looked like a pukeko.. He got shit about it for years.

PS: yay for threads from the past!

[Swoop]

A good excuse to bring up the subject of open-face helmets...

Damn "blue motorway-chickens..."