What have you hit?

**rebyl** · 26th February 2010, 19:40

Took out a Turkey Gobbler at 130kmph on a ST1100, hit it smack with the front wheel...thank God, poor thing exploded like it had had a grenade shoved up it's bum, 3 guys on bike behind got covered in shit, guts and feathers and nearly fell off from laughing so hard...me I just simply crapped my pants and continued on...we were on the first leg of the Rusty Nuts 1000 miler ride, also the normal stuff like bees, birds and one truck last weekend in Greymouth when the Dick head cut me off, very low speed impact, no damage to Ultra Classic but somehow bent his front bumper and drivers step and knocked off a bit of plastic....seriously....and not one single scratch on the Harley.....go figure...Harleys must be tough...LOL

**rebyl** · 26th February 2010, 19:42

Also remember about Target Fixation...if you see it and concentrate on it, you will hit it, look away and you may miss it........and if you don't you will only feel the initial crunch....grin

**Oscar** · 26th February 2010, 20:13

I was run over by my own Brother.
Does that count for him?

My chain came off and jammed my back wheel when we were racing - he hit me under the armpit with his front wheel doing about 50km/h and somersaulted over me.
I broke five ribs and had an unusual knobblie shaped imprint for a while...

**Muppet** · 26th February 2010, 21:44

Was riding home on Rossall Street in Christchurch one night, in pouring rain on my '91 CBR600F. Saw what I thought was a cat run across the road up ahead of me. It stopped in the middle of my lane turned and stared at me. I thought a) Fuck that's a big cat! b) No matter whether I go left or right the fucker will move in front of me c) It's going to end in tears. I was right. I went to the left, the fucker (a Possum) went in front of me and I ran it over with both wheels at about 40 km/h. I looked in my mirrors to see the little shit run away, WTF?? Got home and thought 'gee I'm glad my bike wasn't damaged' (wrong!) Checked bike over in the morning and hey presto $700 worth of damage! Luckily Casbolts did a dodgy repair on a previous insurance job on the plastics by getting a poorly trained chimpanzee to bog up the damage, because I had to go to a plastic welder to have the whole thing pulled to bits and done properly. The owener of the business (Cnr St Asaph and Barbadoes) said if one of his boys had bogged up a fairing like Casbolts he'd sack 'em!!! Lesson learnt, I go to Pit Lane and or Sportzone now, but I digress....................

**What?** · 27th February 2010, 07:58

Originally Posted by Ixion

Perhaps I should have added that I was riding on a beach at the time?

And ruin a good story?????

Aside from bunnies, possums and rats, the most fun was a swarm of cicadas. Potentially the least fun was a beetle. Maybe because it was a Volkswagen...

**Blackbird** · 27th February 2010, 09:04

Originally Posted by Smifffy

The most memorable on a bike for me was a number of years ago, when I was just pootling around, nice sunny day, visor up, and had a wee piece of grit flick up and hit me in the face, a little hard, but gave it a wipe with my glove, HTFU and kept riding for the day. That night it still felt a bit sore so checked in the mirror to see if it had left a mark or something. Turns out the wee bit of grit was actually a bee, and what was left of the stinger was still firmly embedded, having spent the afternoon pumping it's full contents into my cheek. Overnight my face swelled up massivley, on Monday morning everyone at work thought I had gotten the serious bash at a concert that was on over the weekend (that concert was notorious for a massive brawl).

Same for me

Got stung between the eyebrows in Taupo. By the time I got back to Tokoroa, my eyes were almost shut with the swelling. Had to go to the hospital and have an injection of anti-histamine and it was a couple of days before I could see properly.

Also hit a cow when I was a student in the UK

Was coming back from varsity on my Tiger 100 with a mate. I was only a few miles from home and this cow comes out of a gateway in a country lane right in front of me. Managed to half slide the bike before impact - I went under the cow with the bike and my mate somehow ended up on its back! I was more worried about getting stepped on as hooves were going everywhere. Lucky to get away with a torn jacket and scrapes to my crashbars.

**Oakie** · 27th February 2010, 09:59

Bumblebee right in the middle of the visor at speed. BANG! Arhhh. Who turned out then lights?!
Also a long streak of seagull poo in the face on Monday of this week. Watch out for the story when I get time to write it.

**george formby** · 27th February 2010, 17:09

Originally Posted by hmmmnz

i hit a deer when i was living in scotland, and a pedestrian when he stepped out on the road whilst talking on his cell phone

x 2 and a badger.

**roadracingoldfart** · 27th February 2010, 19:35

Dogs , Cats , Possums , Sheep , almost a horse (that would have hurt) .
A sparrow into the open visor as i turned back round from looking behind - smack , shit everywhere and a huge cut across the top of the nose. A seagull got me on the right shoulder at 100 kmh and the force swept my arm round to get a massively painfull impact with the pack frame and cracked a bone in my hand - result , really sore right hand and shoulder about 150 kms away from home.
The most dangerous was when i had to take evasive action to avoid a bloody bus in Wellington city pulling out on me while on a trailbike. It was either go under the front wheel of the bus or straight into the large skip bin parked on the footpath to the right. I woke up with all these people looking at me over the top of the bin and my bike standing upright as it was wedged into the taper those bins have. I still dont know why all that broken concrete didnt even give me a scratch but managed to knock me out for a min or two. I still dont like bus drivers as that mother didnt even stop or hessitate according to winesses.

Paul.

**Creeping Death** · 27th February 2010, 20:31

I've munted a cat on my mountain bike going downhill,it kept running alongside my front wheel then for some unknown reason turned right.

How dumb are cats?

**taff1954** · 27th February 2010, 20:37

Thin air - and it bloody hurt. Riding home from work in the UK at 6 am in the dead of winter, on a road with no street lights. Some scum bag had pulled out a manhole cover in the middle of the road. I didn't see it until it was way too late and planted the front wheel of the CB250 right into the space where the cover should have been. I wasn't going too fast and got away with bruising and a headache, but it cost me a wheel, forks, helmet and jacket. Cops found the cover, but not the idiot that pulled it out.

**roogazza** · 28th February 2010, 06:59

Hit a large Hawk on the Hutt side of the Piecock Hill at what must have been at least 120k. I ducked, but he dived too and buried himself under my headlight. Huge bird, Bones and shit sticking out everywhere,I felt real bad about that. G.

**CRF119** · 28th February 2010, 22:03

Some good stories in there! Seems most people have been lucky with what they have hit

**Herman Jelmet** · 1st March 2010, 13:33

Three possums- all on gravel, was surprised at how little I felt in the way of speedhump, a rat, numerous sparrows, a blackbird,pheasant ( tried to find it so I could eat it, couldn't find it ) dug a stinking fly blown sparrow out from under the headlight on the weekend. Have been hit in the head, torso legs.And have had numerous opportunites-- at the moment, it is on a daily basis, to take out multiple turkeys, but, I think this is a very bad idea as I have seen what they do to cars.