WHAT HAS ATTACKED YOU

[scracha]

Hmm. Clipped a dog back in the UK on my FZ400 about 10 years ago. Managed to avoid hitting anything for the following 8 years before hitting a pheasant at Cadwell Park doing about 180Kmph. Bruised right knuckle, smashed fairing and very bemused marshall. Feathers everywhere.

So far in New Zealand nothing has attacked me.

BTW, Te Aroha is a shit place to ride a bike...it's sooooo flat.

[imdying]

DJ1 scooter hit a cat... ran off before I'd even stopped.
NS250R hit a cat... broke it's back.
NS250R bee got stuck in my inner thigh, but didn't sting thank goodness.

[Lou Girardin]

Y'know those shops that say "Goods being returned must be unopened and in original packaging and condition". And get shitty if you try to return something that's been opened and unpackaged, and isn't in original condition

So she didn't have it anymore. But she did have the box it came in.

[sAsLEX]

LOL.... poor bloody bat, bats are so cool with there leather jackets and all. Pitty they cant fly for shit hence the bad landing it made through ya helmet..... man that must of put the shits up ya.

Doh.... now ya done it LMAO

bats can fly clean through a running cooling fan so must of been on a suicide run

edit: closest calls have been hawks, was going nippon which is further round than 180, down next to the "airport" in St Arnaud and one decided to nearly remove my head swear it brushed my back as I lay on the tank.

[Oscar]

On the KB ride from Tuakua that XTZ organised, I totalled a Hawk.
Smashed me feckin' headlight...feathers all over the place!

[Cookie]

Is that what happened to my duck?!!!

Well done for staying on. I would have needed a change of undies that is for sure!

Welcome to KB duck killer!

[cowboyz]

done a cow.

Oops. might rephrase that. Some bods in the deep south might misunderstand...


Hit a cow on with my bike once. Once is enough. It was only last year and neither the bike or the cow survived.

Had a bee fly inside my helmet once. The visor was a little up and the bee managed to make the gap. Having a bee buzzing around in your helment is enough to put the shits up ya.

[SLight]

Had a few hits over the years. The first when I was 13. Me and a mate bunking school, cruzing on the old mans DT175 round the streets, hit a Bichon Freize thing. Turned round to see the vicious little barstard 2 metres in mid air, land and run back into its gate. #2 Ridding through the Lindis pass one morning a mate and I were tring to get through a mob of a 1000 ewes being mustered by a cocky in a Robinson chopper. Got through the most of them then started speed up when a front marker poped up onto the road from the grass. Tony leant back and hauled on the bars of the Commando and went straight over the top of the sheep. Beautifull. I bought that bike of him soon after and was dragging a souped up fully enclosed microlight down the Pareora gorge road at 90 mph (he was in the paddock beside me). At the end of the straight I sat up to take the corner... when SMACK a fat ol black bird whammed right into the headlight of the Norton instantly blinding my vision. So first thing ya do is open up the visor. Splat! into my face goes this birds guts leg feathers you name it. Even got some inthe gob! Luckily my mate had a batch close by. So went there and rinsed out me mouth and washed the gut and crap of the face dry reaching the whole time!!

Shocker!

[T.W.R]

Collected a few rabbits at speed, they make awesome speed bumps.
Had a magpie actually flying into the front wheel once, turned it into instant confetti & made a shit of a mess over the header pipes.
Had a sheep jump down a 3ft bank & do a tumble in front of me up around the summit rd.

Had mates get nailed by a suicide bomber sparrow, it hit the riders left shoulder which happened to be the shoulder the pillion was looking over & collected him right on the visor, splitting it in two & 2 days later the rider had a bruise like a shotgun bruise from the initial impact.

Had a mate almost killed by a possum, it fell out of a tree & collected him whilst banked over mid corner. The possum hit the fairing smashing the screen & the left side blade & mirror & almost peeled him of the bike. It happened so fast he didn't know what had hit him till he went back & saw the possum lying dead on the road impaled on the broken piece of screen.

[PaddyFZ1]

There was an German Shepard that used to run down its drive and wait for us in the middle of the road for us. Used to scare the shit out of me. Funnily enough it stopped doing it after it had a close encounter with my brothers size 12 steel cap at about 70km/h

[Patrick]

My new stripey bandit actually got a mynah the other day.
Has anyone managed to get a weasel?(Hard to hit)

Followed a mate out on SH45 when two of them ran out in front of him... one cut just inches in front and kept on going to the other side (to see the chicken I suppose...) the other spun around and went back the way it came from... the second one was the fast bugger, spun around at full sprint on a 5c piece and lost no pace whatsoever. Hard to hit alright!

[Patrick]

Yep - done that.

3 drunks croww the road (two lanes going the same way... center line etc in town - New Plymouth).MDU

Outside the Mill I bet...seen em run out of the Mill, straight out onto the road without even looking. Most dont even look. How someone hasn't been killed there, I dunno. Heaps of hits and close calls as far as I know, even a chick caught on the cameras going up and over the bonnet and roof of an oncoming car, but so pissed she didn't even get a mark.

[Kornholio]

while travelling at a speed that I'm not going to admit to here.

Why not, you're not in Kansas now Dorothy

I seem to have trouble with werewolves late at night...the bastards are going to get me sooner or later....Thank god I haven't got a Honda or I'd be fucked by now........

[nadroj]

On a Pie-n-Pint ride in the Okato area I cut the apex only to see a chook jump out & hit the side of my front wheel. Inline4 & a few others got thoroughly feathered behind me.

[Dafe]

I was riding down the edge of a runway on a pushbike in Darwin,
when a freakin snake came flying out of the grass. It missed me and hit the bike frame, thank god! Put the shits up me!