What if a sparrow...

[avgas]

Seagull just about took my head off. My neck hurt for weeks. Its creepy watching a visor deform also. Bloody things flex like rubber.

[GrayWolf]

Hit a Blackbird on my RD250 eons ago, smacked me right on the shoulder at 70mph... that bloody hurt even through a leather jacket and left a damn good bruise.

[ellipsis]

...a woodpigeon hit me just above the visor, bloody nearly broke my neck, was only doing 70-80 k's...a turkey flew up the road at fence height in front of my truck once, it was ok until it turned and flew straight into my grill...it didn't die but it was pretty fucked...my son who was about 8 or 9 was giggling like it was the funniest thing to ever happen...I made him kill it and we ate it cooked in a hangi a few weeks later..bloody lovely it was too...wouldn't want to get hit by one on my bike though...

[Tigadee]

Hit a Blackbird on my RD250 eons ago, smacked me right on the shoulder at 70mph... that bloody hurt even through a leather jacket and left a damn good bruise.

That's a bloody good jacket! What was it?! I'm gonna get one!

[Coldrider]

That's a bloody good jacket! What was it?! I'm gonna get one!

That would have to have been a 'forcefield' like on 'lost in space'.

[Kornholio]

Years ago when i was young and silly I had a sparrow hit the fairing blade on my 89 GSXR at 230kph and blew a near perfect triangle out of the plastic.... There was absolutely no sign of the bird... Seen the little fucker comin at me from the right and knew he was gonna hit all slow motion like... Couldn't find one feather or a drop of blood and guts... I may have sent him to a parallel universe :/

[Ender EnZed]

You would hardly even know it, nor would the sparrow. The difference is that you would continue on your way, but the sparrow wouldn't.

+1

Years ago when i was young and silly I had a sparrow hit the fairing blade on my 89 GSXR at 230kph and blew a near perfect triangle out of the plastic

That's because Suzukis are made of chocolate. Even a 25+ year old Honda fairing can take on a sparrow at >200 with nothing more than a wee blood smear. It could've been a bumbe bee at 100 .

[hellokitty]

I was hit by something (a stone?) on my tinted visor, and it "crazed". It stayed in 1 piece but it was full of tiny cracks inside which then made a rainbow effect which reflected off the inside of the visor. Incredible annoying especially when I was 2 hours from home.

[Maha]

Bird V Visor thread from 05'.....http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ht=bird+strike

[FJRider]

I was hit by something (a stone?) on my tinted visor, and it "crazed". It stayed in 1 piece but it was full of tiny cracks inside which then made a rainbow effect which reflected off the inside of the visor. Incredible annoying especially when I was 2 hours from home.

It would have been more annoying if it had gone through the visor. Just be glad it didn't hit your knee-cap ... it bloody hurts ...

[SMOKEU]

Not quite bird related, but I once had a bee inside my helmet, sitting right next to my cheek on the helmet padding. I stopped pretty quickly. Luckily it didn't sting me.

[Bassmatt]

Again not bird related but I once had wasp in my jacket. It must have been inside it when I put it on. All the way home, which luckily wasnt far, the little bastard was stinging me in my shoulder. I couldn't work out what the hell was going on and kept trying to adjust my jacket which didnt help. By the time I got home I had decided that I must have done something to injure my shoulder. It was only when I took my jacket off and he fell out that I realised what was going on.

[GSF]

Collected what I think was a starling with my helmet, dead-on in centre of visor. Just came out of a bend somewhere out the back of SH16 doing about 120 - felt like a punch in the face, had blood and feathers all over my helmet and splattered on my jacket as well. Very lucky I had the bike upright 'cause my hand came off the throttle. Pretty brickshitting experience.

Dude in a ute had to chuck me some old rags out of the tray to clean the blood off 'cause I couldn't see shit!

[stoo]

On my last bike I collected a hawk at 100k's. It hit me in the chest so it was more terrifying than painful.
It did leave a bunch of hawk shit and some spermy yellow stuff that I assumed was a prematurely ejected egg all over my jacket. Average times...

[ducatilover]

Magpie vs. me = broken sternum.

Not telling how fast I was going.