Bird strike at over 240kph

[SpankMe]

On the way to Paeroa the SV got hit by a suicidal bird.

:Police: Honest officer, I wasn’t speeding, it was the bird that was doing over 240kph. :whistle: Must’ve picked up speed in a dive.

Hate to think what it would have done if it hit my visor.

[Coyote]

I'm surprised the windscreen withstood that hit. Go SV :yeah:

[MSTRS]

How to tenderise a sparrow (???)
first - get your timing right

[Jonty]

On the way to Paeroa the SV got hit by a suicidal bird.

:Police: Honest officer, I wasn’t speeding, it was the bird that was doing over 240kph. :whistle: Must’ve picked up speed in a dive.

Hate to think what it would have done if it hit my visor.

Obviously the bird hadn't had a "V" today, probably thought it could go straight through

[Coyote]

Safe to assume it's dead?

[Hitcher]

The dreaded exocet starling...

[Jonty]

I would hazard a guess that disintergrated would be a better term

[bugjuice]

wow, lucky in a way. I've seen birds hitting bikes at slower and doing a lot of damage in the process. I've seen them take out headlights, farings etc, no idea what would have happened if it had been your helmet or body.. I'd bad enough with bugs and stones hitting you body, let alone small furry animals!

[Riff Raff]

Bloody kamakazi birdies.... I had some playing chicken with my bike today, the little bastards!


I'm surprised the windscreen withstood that hit. Go SV :yeah:
Yay for SV's :banana:

[crashe]

I saw the poor wee bird's feathers on the helmet...

May it RIP......

To the type of breed of bird... well its very hard to say...
all that was left was feathers on the helmet..

SpankMe is very lucky indeed.

[ManDownUnder]

What a payload...

It was obviously a gutsy bird to take you on - you can tell... it'as guts is still all over your bike!

Which reminds me of a joke -

What's the last thing to go through a bees mind when it hits your windscreen at 80kph?

It ARSE Ta da! :shake:
(ok - it's not the best... but under the circumstances)

Good luck with the insurance claim dude... assuming there is one.
MDU

[Ms Piggy]

Ouch! That bird will have a sore head! I've heard of people being hit by birds on their shoulders etc & end up with huge brusies or bloody noses from birds flying into their face.

I killed a couple on my travels. :thud:

[bugjuice]

May it RIP......
Rest In Pieces.. lots of pieces
poor thing

Just thinking, if that had been my bike (and a few other models for that matter), it'd have been the airscoop - that could be interesting..

[jrandom]

Ouch! That bird will have a sore head!

I think that bird is past sore heads.

In fact, I rather suspect that it is no more. It has ceased to be. It has expired, and gone to meet its maker. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It's metabolic processes are now history. It's off the twig. It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off this mortal coil, it's run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible.

It is, in fact, an ex-sparrow.

[Hitcher]

What's the last thing to go through a bee's mind when it hits your windscreen at 80kph?

Its STING Ta da!
For the entomologists amongst us...

Not one for the BDOTGNZA.

[outlawtorn]

SpankMe you are very lucky, I've got a mate of a mate in South Africa who had a bird hit his helmet while they were winding it down to Durban, he was doing roughly 200 kph and the bird hit him so hard that they had to cut the helmt off his head and rebuild his face using some weird mesh and loads of plastic surgery.

[Riff Raff]

I think that bird is past sore heads.
In fact, I rather suspect that it is no more. It has ceased to be. It has expired, and gone to meet its maker. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It's metabolic processes are now history. It's off the twig. It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off this mortal coil, it's run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible.
It is, in fact, an ex-sparrow.
I wondered how long it would be before someone did the parrot sketch.... trust it to be you, Mr Random :shake:

[ManDownUnder]

I wondered how long it would be before someone did the parrot sketch.... trust it to be you, Mr Random :shake:

Bloody impressive though... the scary part is that when I was reading it, I could even hear the voices...

... my meds must be wearing off...

[wari]

BErds are people too yaknow ... :cry:

[ManDownUnder]

For the entomologists amongst us...

Not one for the BDOTGNZA.

Oh I LOVE that comeback... touche - yet again.

[vifferman]

Just lucky it wasn't an African swallow.

Carrying a couple of coconuts... :eek:

Even if it was something small weighing say 50g, when you calculate the energy dissipated when it hit, that's a fair force to bear the brunt of...

[crashe]

Just wait until Sparrow_34 spots this thread.......lol
He is of the sparrow variety........lol




PT. Sorry Sparrow. :spudwave:

[MSTRS]

I think that bird is past sore heads.

In fact, I rather suspect that it is no more. It has ceased to be. It has expired, and gone to meet its maker. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It's metabolic processes are now history. It's off the twig. It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off this mortal coil, it's run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible.

It is, in fact, an ex-sparrow.
For the purists 'episcopal'
oh. and 'He's f...ing snuffed it'

[jrandom]

For the purists 'episcopal'

I'd have to listen again, I think.


oh. and 'He's f...ing snuffed it'

Only on the 'Live at Drury Lane' CD, though. I'm positive that that line wasn't in the original Flying Circus episode.

[MacD]

I wonder if it was one of these (http://www.miranda-shorebird.org.nz/shorebirds.html)?


BIRDS: The Miranda Coast is the most important wintering ground for Wrybill Plover Anarhynchus frontalis. This endemic is unique among birds in having a bill curved to the side. The estimated total species population is only 5300, up to 40% of which flock to Miranda at the end of the breeding season.

Population 5299 and counting!? :whistle:

[Hitcher]

For the purists 'episcopal'
Never! Always invisible, sometimes pronounced "invisibule".

oh. and 'He's f...ing snuffed it'
Only in the Live at Drury Lane recording.

[Sniper]

Spank Me 1
Bird 0

Well done SpankMe :lol:

[Sniper]

SpankMe you are very lucky, I've got a mate of a mate in South Africa who had a bird hit his helmet while they were winding it down to Durban, he was doing roughly 200 kph and the bird hit him so hard that they had to cut the helmt off his head and rebuild his face using some weird mesh and loads of plastic surgery.

I heard about that, not too pleasent I believe. :spudwhat:

[MSTRS]

Only on the 'Live at Drury Lane' CD, though. I'm positive that that line wasn't in the original Flying Circus episode.
You are of course 100% correct. In those days on TV even the word 'bugger' was severely frowned upon by those dedicated to our moral wellbeing.

[TonyB]

wow, lucky in a way. I've seen birds hitting bikes at slower and doing a lot of damage in the process. I've seen them take out headlights, farings etc, no idea what would have happened if it had been your helmet or body.. I'd bad enough with bugs and stones hitting you body, let alone small furry animals!
A Sparrow hitting your shoulder at 180k feels like a good solid punch.
I wonder what a bumble bee feels like with an open face? They sure make a hell of a CRACK when they hit the visor...

[MSTRS]

[/color]
Never! Always invisible, sometimes pronounced "invisibule".


My earhorn always picked up 'episcopal' off the Live at....recording. But I won't argue the point

[zeRax]

the bird certainly aint no chicken... hohoahoaeheaho

[Wolf]

I wonder what a bumble bee feels like with an open face? They sure make a hell of a CRACK when they hit the visor...

Depends on whether they sting you or not - at 100km/h they hurt like hell and then the poison starts spreading - I wound up on the side of the road (after the hardest braking I'd done in ages) with the helmet off, dry-retching into the bushes. Wear full-face helmets these days...

And even then, a bumble bee can give your head a jolt at speed - never mind what a bird would do to you!

[Posh Tourer :P]

My earhorn always picked up 'episcopal' off the Live at....recording. But I won't argue the point

Agree with them lot re "invisibule"..... It also makes sense as that is an established phrase.

BUT. I always thought, earlier on, it was "vis-a-vis the metabolic processes, 'e's 'ad 'is lot"

[crashe]

Bee's stinging while riding hurt like crazy...

I have now been stung on both wrist's on different rides..
and both times they hurt...
Both times I was traveling at speed when it happened.

I have been hit in the face by decent size insects, moths included riding along with the visor up.... and fark they gave me a shock.... they actually hurt.

I sure dont want to be stung on the face.

Many birds swoop etc just in front of the bike on many occassions....
But I dont want to have to hit a bird, like Spankme did either.

[Rainbow Wizard]

Sing it baby...
I aint miSV-avian, SaVing all my luff for you. :banana:

[Coyote]

Depends on whether they sting you or not - at 100km/h they hurt like hell and then the poison starts spreading - I wound up on the side of the road (after the hardest braking I'd done in ages) with the helmet off, dry-retching into the bushes. Wear full-face helmets these days...

And even then, a bumble bee can give your head a jolt at speed - never mind what a bird would do to you!
I was going back home from Cryhavocs house, and I had absent mindedly left my visor up, Smack goes a big black fly between the eyes :pinch:

[Skyryder]

Now if it had been a lazeee bird that had 'pinged' you it would still be alive.

Skyryder

[Monsterbishi]

I copped a bumble bee right between the eyes once, was only doing 50k's and it rung my bell but good, had to stop and profess my dissatisfaction aloud for a minute before continuing on...

Managed to avoid a birdstrike a couple of months back, had just gone into 2nd and had opened up the throttle when a seagull came straight at me, I only just managed to wedge my helmet against the gauge cluster/tank and the hapless gull was sent spinning over the top of me as it got caught in the dead air above me. - Made funnier by the cop that was tailing me almost wearing the gull in it's windscreen :>

[sAsLEX]

I was going NIPPON once, have a look at your speedo and you will understand 90s honda riders, along a long and lonely road when all of a sudden there shined a shiny "hawk" in the grass on the side of the road.......

Anyways he took off as they do so slow and labouriously right where my head was tucked half under the screen, just ducked under him by laying head sideways on the tank but that would of hurt alot. 4 or so kgs at about 2ms into about a 9 kg head doing NIPPON!

[avgas]

yeh, had a sparrow smack into the visor once at 140 (just about blowing off my head).
Cool thing was the visor didnt break, it warped in, touched my face, warped back out, chucked the bird off and went back to its normal position.
Was like something out of the 60's
like friggn plexiglass

[MacD]

Cool thing was the visor didnt break, it warped in, touched my face, warped back out, chucked the bird off and went back to its normal position.


Have a look at the attached video. It shows a 500g projectile with a 1mm point hitting a polycarbonate lens after dropping 1.8m. Makes you thankful for polycarbonate visors! :raghead:

[speedpro]

Visor up cruising through Napier and got a bee jammed into helmet next to right eye. It was swollen shut before I went 50km with another 50k to go. Got another one on the throat and that got dodgy breathing later in the night. Had a bird hit the helmet and leave a streak of guts and feathers on one side of the visor and down the side, plus a sore neck. Some other feathery thing hit my knee and exploded. I was goin' kinda fast and geez did it hurt, nearly ripped my leg off, talk about groin strain. Plus rode through a bee swarm at Pukekohe once, luckily I saw it and managed to duck down behind the instruments before I hit. There must have been 100 dead/dying bees s-p-r-e-a-d all over me and the bike - yuk!

I don't think I've hit that much shit in the car. . . . . .

[Skunk]

I've hit a bird with my helment once. Big bang, visor flipped open and head snapped back. Cool.

Not.

Wife was behind me and saw one thing go in front of me and two things come off!

[thehollowmen]

Plus rode through a bee swarm at Pukekohe once, luckily I saw it and managed to duck down behind the instruments before I hit. There must have been 100 dead/dying bees s-p-r-e-a-d all over me and the bike - yuk!

I don't think I've hit that much shit in the car. . . . . .


Summer in the south island, driving through cantabury at night with lights on full beam... The car can look like you've been in a rally and it is all insect.... moths mostly... I'd hate to do that on a bike cause you'd stink by the end of it

[thehollowmen]

Have a look at the attached video. It shows a 500g projectile with a 1mm point hitting a polycarbonate lens after dropping 1.8m. Makes you thankful for polycarbonate visors! :raghead:
That's a bit dodgey, as it recoils a shard of plastic comes off on the inside...

As much as it would save my skull, a big chunk of plastic flying around inside the helmet ain't helpful either...

[NordieBoy]

A Sparrow hitting your shoulder at 180k feels like a good solid punch.
I wonder what a bumble bee feels like with an open face? They sure make a hell of a CRACK when they hit the visor...

A swarm of bees at 120kph - a lot of sticky patches all over the leather jacket.
A bumble bee at 110 hit me dead centre on my lower lip.
I was sure I was missing some teeth after that one - it hurt!
A small branch falling from a tree onto the peak of the MX helmet at 50kph - a hellofa bang that echoed through the helmet - brown pants moment and I wasn't even riding off road.
Wasp bite on cheek at 110kph - thought it was a stone until it bit me at the start of 5km of no stopping zone.

Hmmm.
All but the first were with the MX helmet... :confused:

[MacD]

That's a bit dodgey, as it recoils a shard of plastic comes off on the inside...

As much as it would save my skull, a big chunk of plastic flying around inside the helmet ain't helpful either...

It's not that big, the point of the projectile is only 1mm in size.

Anyhow compare that to what happens to a standard plastic resin lens! :buggerd:

[Stevo]

I hit a hawk at only 120, but it whacked the clutch lever into my knuckles which bloody hurt for a bit. Mrs told me I was lucky cos apparently at Phillip Island a few years ago a rider hit a seagull on the other side, and ummmm it wasn't pretty having his front brake suddenly brab like that.

got blood all over the left side of the bike and my pants too. Like war paint lol lol

[Big Dave]

I hit a dove or small pidgeon - at 90deg - flush on the left cheek and raybans - in my open face - at about 100kph near Clevedon.
almost bought a tear to the eye, nothin more - but it did make me stop for 30 seconds - bird was well farked.
dd

[750Y]

holy shit! i had one hit the front wheel at similar speed & it got minced by the rotor/spokes. just an observation.. 750y is parked very close to the sv, i hope there's no funny business going on...

[Sensei]

Have had some good strucks over the years . Hit around 6 sparrows out of about 15 that flow straight across in front of me out on a back road just on dusk . Still had 2 suck in the front of bike & 1 resting on the top of my back pack . Stupid f--ken birds
SENSEI

[Madmax]

have hit two of the whinged buggers, one got stuck in my rad
the smell was unreal,
collected a road side marker in the anthree gorge
(hit my arm on it) thank god for leathers
(dont ask how) had a big tank slapper
the guy on the harley said why did you round me
(no answer) :sweatdrop

[idb]

Yeah I reckon that you'd have to look out for those Hawks travelling at 240ks.
Got Hawked at 121ks once.
Didn't hurt the bike but stung the pocket.

[Sniper]

I found this the other day, looks like it can be painful to both parties

[bugjuice]

I found this the other day, looks like it can be painful to both parties
that's the pic I've been looking for, for years. I saw it yonks ago and remembered it. I started looking again when I first read this thread but gave up.. I'm a slack ass, I know..
ouch

[250learna]

I found this the other day, looks like it can be painful to both parties
poor bird/ bike owner

[Coyote]

I found this the other day, looks like it can be painful to both parties
Man, that would suck, flying into a headlight like that

Poor Bird

[Coldkiwi]

you're a lucky man spank! Glad a few feathers and a bit of a scratch was all you picked up.

Bugjuice, you make a good point about the airscoops on some bikes being rather effective birdscoops, I guess thats why me suzuki's got mesh on the intakes :)

[Eurodave]

In fact, I rather suspect that it is no more. It has ceased to be. It has expired, and gone to meet its maker. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It's metabolic processes are now history. It's off the twig. It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off this mortal coil, it's run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible.

It is, in fact, an ex-parrot

To finish off the above quote in the words of one John Cleese.... "EEE'S F@#KIN SNUFFED IT!!"

[Gremlin]

In fact, I rather suspect that it is no more. It has ceased to be. It has expired, and gone to meet its maker. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It's metabolic processes are now history. It's off the twig. It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off this mortal coil, it's run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible.

It is, in fact, an ex-parrot

To finish off the above quote in the words of one John Cleese.... "EEE'S F@#KIN SNUFFED IT!!"
I'm sorry, but I didn't quite seem to get what you were trying to say :D

[John]

Baha thats worth a few reps, that owl thats abit of an odd'n to happen during the day or was it a photograph of the result in the morning I think that would tramatise me if that happened to me!

[NordieBoy]

A swarm of bees at 120kph - a lot of sticky patches all over the leather jacket.
A bumble bee at 110 hit me dead centre on my lower lip.
I was sure I was missing some teeth after that one - it hurt!
A small branch falling from a tree onto the peak of the MX helmet at 50kph - a hellofa bang that echoed through the helmet - brown pants moment and I wasn't even riding off road.
Wasp bite on cheek at 110kph - thought it was a stone until it bit me at the start of 5km of no stopping zone.

Hmmm.
All but the first were with the MX helmet... :confused:

Another wasp at 110kph visor up a bit with the fullface helmet and it got me dead on the right temple.
I tried to scrape it out of the helmet with my finger but I think I just pushed it into the helmets ear cavity :no:
Some people came out of their house to look when they heard a big single drop down through the gears and stop from 110kph in about 3.2m :niceone: Good brakes.
Wasp was dead and it was its corpse bumping against my ear that I felt :sweatdrop

Lucky I'm not allergic.

[Pixie]

I found this the other day, looks like it can be painful to both parties
Fuggin Owl

[bugjuice]

Looks like Spank got away lightly - this is a cars version of the same thing at most likely the same speed.....

[Ixion]

In fact, I rather suspect that it is no more. It has ceased to be. It has expired, and gone to meet its maker. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It's metabolic processes are now history. It's off the twig. It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off this mortal coil, it's run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible.

It is, in fact, an ex-parrot

To finish off the above quote in the words of one John Cleese.... "EEE'S F@#KIN SNUFFED IT!!"

So ah, wot y're saying is , 'es a bit off his food taday, that right ?

[DingDong]

i got hit by a bird at 120kph... felt like a softball bat to the sholder and almost twisted me off the bike.
Not nice... and crap on my jacket too.

[Bonez]

Spank Me 1
Bird 0

Well done SpankMe :lol:He better not let the birds cuzzies find out about it.....................

[Beemer]

Thankfully I've never hit a bird - although I nearly ran down an old bird who stepped off the footpath in front of me once...

The other half hit a hare on the 1000 miler once, it snapped his gear lever in half. Being the kind of bloke he is, he repaired it with an Allen key and some cable ties and carried on!

Worst hit I had was a swarm of bees that I rode into just as I'd turned onto the Opiki Road over the railway lines - so I wasn't travelling very fast. They all landed on me and proceeded to crawl over my jacket while I was thinking "don't go inside the helmet you bastards!" They started sliding off once I picked up a bit of speed!

[NordieBoy]

Another wasp at 110kph visor up a bit with the fullface helmet and it got me dead on the right temple.
I tried to scrape it out of the helmet with my finger but I think I just pushed it into the helmets ear cavity :no:
Some people came out of their house to look when they heard a big single drop down through the gears and stop from 110kph in about 3.2m :niceone: Good brakes.
Wasp was dead and it was its corpse bumping against my ear that I felt :sweatdrop

Lucky I'm not allergic.

Latest one was a small bird smack in the middle of the visor at 120kph.
Man it was LOUD!
Didn't feel anything as it was so small but my ears were ringing for a while.

[eliot-ness]

The other half hit a hare on the 1000 miler once, it snapped his gear lever in half. Being the kind of bloke he is, he repaired it with an Allen key and some cable ties and carried on!

Didn't he have any hair restorer???????????

Got a wasp inside my shirt once. Wobbled down the road beating the shit out of my chest trying to squash the little bastard. I got some very strange looks from pedestrians when I stopped, pulled my jacket off and ripped my shirt open. Seven bloody stings before I got it. Always ride with the zip to the top now.

[Biff]

The last time I hit a bird, about three weeks ago, I saw something out of the corner of my eye, it hit me on the hand then my chest. At first I thought it was a stone until I got home and noticed bird $hit and gunk over my jacket. It bloody hurt.

[Lou Girardin]

A few years ago, I was driving the cage from Rotovegas to Taupo. I had 6 bird strikes going through the forest, I was getting seriously paranoid about kamikaze feathery things after that lot. Maggies make a spectacular cloud of feathers when you hit one at 140 k's though.

[vifferman]

I was driving to Wellington one day, in our Fiat 132, and took the Western Access road. Somewhere out the back of beyond, I was going down a smallish hill at about 75 mph, when I saw a hawk snacking on some road kill. It took off, but achieved only windscreen height before it hit the top middle of the windscreen. I was sure it was going right through, and ducked just before it hit with a loud bang. Ah.. so the windscreen's laminated.

I immediately looked in the rear view mirror, expecting to see a cloud of feathers with a bird tumbling through the middle of it, but couldn't see anything.
"What happened to the hawk?"
My wife replied, "It just flew off!"
Must've been pretty wrecked though.

[mikey]

hows the bird holding up spank?

[ManDownUnder]

hows the bird holding up spank?

It was buried about 8 months ago - along with this thread.

[CPB]

It was buried about 8 months ago - along with this thread.

:rofl: this is happening heaps at the mo!

[mikey]

thought my post was quite funny. better than any shit ive read on here today. well apart from my own shit

[Maha]

thought my post was quite funny. better than any shit ive read on here today. well apart from my own shit
Yea you go Mikey............:brick: and speaking of shit, that shit on Spanks lid looks like the returns of a rather large feed from Burger King......:puke:

[CPB]

thought my post was quite funny. better than any shit ive read on here today. well apart from my own shit

you know what thought, thought...no one thinks of winter, when the grass is green...

[betti]

got smacked in the eye by a bat (no not baseball or cricket) while in the Uk, hit between a half open visor and face, blood everywhere, most of it the bat's , got checked out for rabies after that one! (eek). Also had a rabbit leap through the front wheel on my mighty kwaka ar80 as a young un, bugger to clean, minced bunny everywhere!.

[Katman]

Alright, I'll play Devil's Advocate.

If Skidmark or Zeroindex had posted this thread they'd have been shot down in flames.

Six pages and not one person asking "what the fuck were you doing at 240 km/h on a public road and then coming on here and telling us all about it".

The double standards on this site sometimes beggar belief.

[breakaway]

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[skidMark]

On the way to Paeroa the SV got hit by a suicidal bird.

:Police: Honest officer, I wasn’t speeding, it was the bird that was doing over 240kph. :whistle: Must’ve picked up speed in a dive.

Hate to think what it would have done if it hit my visor.

said bird did not happen to have black make up around it's eyes and a fringe covering one eye did it?

[skidMark]

Alright, I'll play Devil's Advocate.

If Skidmark or Zeroindex had posted this thread they'd have been shot down in flames.

Six pages and not one person asking "what the fuck were you doing at 240 km/h on a public road and then coming on here and telling us all about it".

The double standards on this site sometimes beggar belief.

Suprise cockfag!

[Mekk]

Alright, I'll play Devil's Advocate.

This thread is ancient, regardless of what the original post says.

Perhaps the world has gotten softer in 2 years?

[merv]

Perhaps the world has gotten softer in 2 years?

Definitely has when you can't find the latest Boobs on Bikes pics on a thread on this site.

[Virago]

Looking at Katman's post history, it appears that he has appointed himself as "site troll", and is shit-stirring his way around the site.:tugger:

We probably all remember him from school - he was the kid who wouldn't join in, but would stand on the sideline and try to disrupt other's fun.

He comes and goes - if we just ignore him he'll get bored and go away.:zzzz:

[Boob Johnson]

Alright, I'll play Devil's Advocate.

If Skidmark or Zeroindex had posted this thread they'd have been shot down in flames.

Six pages and not one person asking "what the fuck were you doing at 240 km/h on a public road and then coming on here and telling us all about it".

The double standards on this site sometimes beggar belief.ban this clown already!


117 posts of nothing but shit stirring :spanking:


Everybody opens the throttle up now and again in carefully chosen places, some people open it up all the time, do stupid things continuously & are forever getting into trouble, (ie ZeroIndex) obviously Spankme isn't one of those otherwise people would of said something. If your not a well known idiot then your not going to get treated like one, if he posted up this kind of thing on a regular basis that would change I would imagine.



Now seriously is this shit stirrer going to get the ban stick, everyone of his 117 posts is nothing short a waste of space

[James Deuce]

Definitely has when you can't find the latest Boobs on Bikes pics on a thread on this site.

Server crashed the day it was on. Most people have the attention span of a gnat these days, so the people that went and took photos have probably forgotten that they even own a camera by now.

Getting banned from KB is more difficult to achieve than being arrested for Drunk & Disorderly behaviour.

[merv]

Thanks for that Jim, I was in Sydney most of the week and missed the server crash so I wasn't suffering any extra KB withdrawal. I am suffering bike withdrawal though and must get out there again shortly.

[mbazza]

Wow, and here's me worrying about the Magpie dive bombing me as I went for a walk yesterday! Now I've got to worry about them when I'm on the scoot! Cheers. :wari:

[jafar]

Alright, I'll play Devil's Advocate.

If Skidmark or Zeroindex had posted this thread they'd have been shot down in flames.

Six pages and not one person asking "what the fuck were you doing at 240 km/h on a public road and then coming on here and telling us all about it".

The double standards on this site sometimes beggar belief.

The thread flaming crashe was a prime example of this.
Only double standards ??? i'm sure there are more than just 2 :devil2:


ban this clown already!


117 posts of nothing but shit stirring :spanking:


Everybody opens the throttle up now and again in carefully chosen places, some people open it up all the time, do stupid things continuously & are forever getting into trouble, (ie ZeroIndex) obviously Spankme isn't one of those otherwise people would of said something. If your not a well known idiot then your not going to get treated like one, if he posted up this kind of thing on a regular basis that would change I would imagine.



Now seriously is this shit stirrer going to get the ban stick, everyone of his 117 posts is nothing short a waste of space

As it happens he does actually have a VALID POINT:2guns:

[sunhuntin]

A Sparrow hitting your shoulder at 180k feels like a good solid punch.
I wonder what a bumble bee feels like with an open face? They sure make a hell of a CRACK when they hit the visor...

im not too sure on bees... dont think ive had one yet. but large flies... hmmm. you dont really feel it. the small sandflys you feel, specially when riding through a cloud of them. those hurt like buggery. the larger the bug, the less it hurts.
i kinda get a delayed reaction when something hits me. all my senses sorta go mute [my hearing is most noticible. i go almost deaf for a second when impact happens] and then by the time thats over, the pain is as well. never actually feel it.
i find a cold burst of rain hurts more, cos it numbs the skin.

mind you... i have had a bee hit my knee at over 100k... damn near jumped off the back of the bike, lol. same for stones.

i think bees crack when they hit the visor cos the visor is solid. a human face is rather less solid, so nothing to really crack it. [though, at speed, it all feels the same i guess!]

[Katman]

As it happens he does actually have a VALID POINT:2guns:

Clearly you should never let a valid point get in the way of one's personal prejudices.:msn-wink:

[jafar]

Clearly you should never let a valid point get in the way of one's personal prejudices.:msn-wink:

Or resort to the truth to win an argument :shit:

[EJK]

BOOM!!!! HEADSHOT! lol

[Katman]

Trouble is EJKDDORAI, if it had been a headshot, things would more than likely have been a completely different story - probably followed by another 'Biker Down' thread.

[EJK]

Ah,well... yeah.....
i was just referring to the bird lol