Biker vs Sparrow

[Atlas shrugged]

A biker is riding along a country lane, when a sparrow flies up in front of him. The biker can't do anything and hits the sparrow. As he looks in his rear view mirror, he sees the sparrow lying in the road. Being the kind of guy he is, he stops, picks up the sparrow and takes it home and puts it in a cage, still in a coma. When the sparrow wakes up the following morning, he looks through the bars of the cage and says, "Shit, I must have killed the biker".


Anyone been hit by a bird, guessing it could be bad at speed although incredibly unlucky!

I got hit by somone shrowing a apple out the car in front of me once that was no fun! :blink:

[Usarka]

Haha nice. Is he ok now?

Watch out for hawks. Big bastards, and they tend to use the road as a runway, ie staying in your path by flying along the road to get airborne.....

[The Lone Rider]

Ghost Bullet has speared a sparrow with the foot piece of his side stand.

There are photos on here under March Hare 2008 rally I believe

[dino3310]

i hit a pukeko on saterday morn:bye: lucky for me it was running and not flying. unlucky for it, as when i came back through 2hrs later a hawk was into it.

[bucket boy]

i hit a pukeko on saterday morn:bye: lucky for me it was running and not flying. unlucky for it, as when i came back through 2hrs later a hawk was into it.

I hit one of those buggers as well straight in the front of helmet broken helmet and nose he got hurt more tho

[Mom]

sparrows leave bruises when you hit them :yes:

[Quailboy]

I got hit by somone shrowing a apple out the car in front of me once that was no fun! :blink:

Totally!

Following a Toyota Congo Bonga Super Delux POS (or whatever they are) with a Island family in it. The kids finish their Brunch Bars and Grain Waves and fling the empty packets out the window at me as I'm looking along the side of the Bongo to pass!

Needless to say, I wound the bike up to 18,000rpm when I passed them, couldn't pluck the courage to flip the birdie nor was it appropriate.

Not happy when I got back home and a chip packet was caught in the radiator.

Keep NZ green

[Slyer]

I used to always try to hit birds on the road because I know they always get out of the way in time.
One time it didn't. :bye:

[klyong82]

I once was on a ride and following another biker then I saw this sparrow fly into the rear wheel of her ZZR instantly saw the head flying off then 5 seconds later the body went splat with force onto the ground. Gruesome!

[NighthawkNZ]

Anyone been hit by a bird, guessing it could be bad at speed although incredibly unlucky!

I got hit by somone shrowing a apple out the car in front of me once that was no fun! :blink:

I have hit a magpie... it hurt

[CM2005]

I've hit a pheasant, knocked my arm off the bar and bruised me up a bit..

[Meekey_Mouse]

Lol, I'm sure squid will be in this thread at some point... He was hit by a bird in the shoulder yesterday.

I've been hit on the hand by a bird... knuckles and fingers were bruised and sore for a couple of days and I had to pull out bits and pieces of it from the vents :blank: the bird exploded into a cloud of feathers, poor thing, although it was impressive!

[Hitcher]

I got killed by a bird once.

[Oscar]

Haha nice. Is he ok now?

Watch out for hawks. Big bastards, and they tend to use the road as a runway, ie staying in your path by flying along the road to get airborne.....

Yeah, I hit one once.
Feathers all over the place.
Cracked the head light on me Katombah...

[Askelon]

Had a bird hit me when I was doing about 130ish.. Big gauge down the inside of my leather pants about mid thigh.. Dont know what happened to the bird, dont care - was no mess to clean up on the harley (other than the oil it proceeded to spit everywhere about an hour later!)..

[notme]

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=8698

......And I managed to get a sparrow this weekend. Maybe he knew the duck?

[LilSel]

lol... I had a bird fly into the rear of my bike yesterday, I saw it briefly... then looked in mirror n saw it flapping around on the road, then Adie almost rode over it as she was not too far behind me!!... had a couple of other encounters as well, rugby ball, a sheep & a turkey... will post a ride report for laughs later tonight :)

[cameltoe]

I hit a sparrow trying to outrun me at 170kph last week, hit me right in the middle of the visor, bloody thankful its didnt break. I took pictures when I got home, Il post them up when I can be bothered, needless to say all that was left was a couple feathers on the handlebars and alot of blood and guts on the fule tanks and on my clothes

[boomer]

I hit a sparrow trying to outrun me at 170kph last week, hit me right in the middle of the visor, bloody thankful its didnt break. I took pictures when I got home, Il post them up when I can be bothered, needless to say all that was left was a couple feathers on the handlebars and alot of blood and guts on the fule tanks and on my clothes
on ya ninja..??!

Ai alreeet ;)

[Atlas shrugged]

All a bit gorier :shit: than I thought… I am glad I did not ask about cats and dogs!

[ckai]

Hyosung vs. what I thought was a rabbit. Scary shit when you've only been riding for about 2 weeks. Heading around a corner and slowed down since I thought the bunny was gonna do something stupid. Started to run in front of me and thought this could get interesting. Straightened the bike up, got off the brakes, made sure I wasn't choking the bars and thought what side to slide on if I came up.

Hit the bugger scare on with a bit of a wobble of the bars and then rode it out. Turned out it was a bloody big possum and I clean took off the head.

Hyosung 1. Possum 0

I thought it was a good way to learn how to hit things :eek5:

[Gubb]

Pigeon. (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=84904)

It was like hitting a basketball at 140km/h

[mister.koz]

On my black zxr250 (last bike) i had a sparrow hit the screen by the mirror and bounce of the right side of the face.

Me, the bike and the helmet weren't marked but i need fresh boxers.. kinda like being woken up with a boxing glove to the ear.


Jesus, i thought that would be a good story...

[Slyer]

I'm amazed it's this common.

[jtzzr]

Hit a bird on my bike once , needless to say she didn`t want to go out with me again.

The bird I`ve been with for a while is much quicker....

Vultures have a bigger wingspan. p/t

[DarkLord]

Haha nice. Is he ok now?

Watch out for hawks. Big bastards, and they tend to use the road as a runway, ie staying in your path by flying along the road to get airborne.....

Agreed. They are slow as anything when they take off as well. Seagulls are another one to watch out for. You'd know all about it if you hit one of those.

I nearly hit my neighbours cat going up the driveway the other day. Stupid half wit thing didn't even know I was coming until I was about 2 feet from it. It starts running one way then changes its mind and goes the other way. Had to swerve pretty quick to miss the bloody thing.

[Elysium]

Dam you guys are lucky, all I've hit is bugs, bugs, bugs and bees.

[Squid]

Yeah bugs make a mess of things, riding into a swarm of sandflies at 100mumble mumble is like a sandblaster in the face.
Hit a little finch thingy just out of Putarau yesterday, saw it fliting around so droped my shoulder to try miss it but no... WHAMO! My pillion just say me tense up then a spray of pretty feathers off my right shouder.... Then coming through Te Awamutu in the 70 zone one flew out at about eye height (visor open...) managed to miss that one though. lucky

[doc]

Turkey strike, worst part was turkey shit all over helmet and jacket.

[1 Free Man]

sparrows leave bruises when you hit them :yes:
Sure do!!! took one on at 100+ clicks three weeks ago. Arms now gone that insipid yellow colour after the black subsides.
Didn't half ferk'n hurt!!
Just happy it wasn't a seagull

[tacos]

turkeys should be used only for food... ow.

[ferriswheel]

I know a guy that caught a duck in the cheast going down the motor way

[Hadley]

I had a bird (most likely a sparrow) hit me square in the visor just last week.
Gave me a hell of a fright.
Not a scratch on the visor

[rie]

lol they have biker jokes that aren't pointed remarks at harley riders?! good find. :)

[sosman]

lol i watched a magpie do a dive bomb on a fellow rider(with chrome colour
helmet) in front of me,the magpie skimmed his helmet & broke his windscreen
& followed his bike doing sausage rolls along the ground :lol:.Then that very same day after our swim at Waingaro hot springs,the rider riding shotgun must of ran out of bullets cause he got lined up real good by the magpie which sent him doing a super-haka(crashed)over the handle bars while looking for kumara's :lol: