What have you hit while riding???

[Goblin]

....and a carrot

WTF??
Care to elaborate?

[Str8 Jacket]

And a small octopus

Really? times 10!

[Blackbird]

I have also observed the consequences of Mangell6's collision with a Wood pigeon (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae). Ouch.

Birds must be attracted to Mangell, lucky bugger. He nearly had his head removed by a Harrier Hawk on the Southern Cross. I literally didn't see any daylight between his helmet and the hawk.

[Kendog]

A flatmate of mine hit a hawk on his ZZR600 once. Bought the bike home and bits of fairing inside to clean blood, guts and feathers out of EVERYTHING! It was everywhere, what a bloody, stinking mess that all was!!
Mrs KD

[Fishy]

WTF??
Care to elaborate?

Riding through the fruit n veg dept in Pak n Save?

[Goblin]

And a small octopus

Do tell....

[James Deuce]

I kill stuff sometimes too.

My best was 4 magpies at xxxkm/hr, but boy did they get me back. I'd been through Arthur's pass and popped out the other side. You run along the river for a bit, then go inland and up a small rise. You crest the top, and Lo! There before you is a glorious straight that goes downhill, then up and seems to last forever.

I was on my RC30 and I had a small tailpack on the rear, I was tapped out in 6th, flat on the tank, when a a flock of Magpies took exception to me and and dived at me. One clipped the top of the screen and bounced off my helmet with a crash like armageddon, and I think a couple hit the tailpack, snapping one of the bungies holding it on, causing the tailpack to disappear under the seatunit and get dragged through the wheel and the small space between the swingarm and the wheel.

Thanks to a two stroke apprenticeship the clutch was in as soon as I realised the wheel had locked, but by the time I got it all together I was about half a mile up the road, my luggage had vanished into the mist caused by my exploding aerosol tyre puncture repair kit. After a moment of reflection I got off the bike to check for damage when some giggling German tourists emerged from the lingering cloud of tyre goo carrying my toilet bag and underwear, and the fragmentary remains of my tailpack and wet weather gear.

I aim for bastard magies when I see them now, and I'm pleased to say I got one a couple of months ago on the East-West access road South of the Lake Wairarapa.

[T.W.R]

WTF??
Care to elaborate?

Locally we have a number of farms that grow veges for Talley's and their all controlled by Turley's farming group from Temuka. They use trucks with 40ft open bin trailers & transport the veges through to the base in Temuka.
I managed to get caught behind one truck heading into Ashvagas & it was happily dropping carrots along the way and I managed to do the Oh fark check that out, & wack scenario

[Ixion]

Do tell....

Not at all exciting. I was riding on a beach. And small octopuses sometimes wash up amidst the sea weed and stuff. I only realised it because it got stuck between the tyre knobs.

The frog was much the same, rode through a swampy stream and up a bank which turned out to be infested with frogs. One hopped in front of me .

I think I may have taken out a few lizards along the way, too.

[XP@]

On new years eve a few years ago I managed to run over a friend who positioned himself in the middle of the road following a head on with a car. I was considerate and opted for his knees, and I made sure I wasn't braking when I went over his squishy bits.

Then, after packing him off to hospital, riding the entire east cape and heading off to wellington I managed to avoid hitting anything else. That is until P.North(ish) where I orphaned a rabbit by running over its mummy and daddy. This time I made sure I did a proper job, and went over both at full power causing the rear wheel to spin in a bump...wizzz, bump...wizz kinda way.

I have also been hit by a gsxr750 oil filter which escaped from a friends back pack, not too much damage from that though... I think the filter was still doing 100mph+ and I was doing about 130mph

[Edbear]

I saw that, but thought that some additional information may be informative, educational or even entertaining.

You mean you couldn't resist...


ps. Blackbirds are quite a heavy bike, would be messy...

[Goblin]

Thanks Ixion, maybe not really exciting but funny all the same.

T.W.R, you were lucky the truck wasn't carting swedes.

[Edbear]

T.W.R, you were lucky the truck wasn't carting swedes.

I'll say! Those Swedes are big chaps! Swedesses on the other hand are not much bigger than minors....

[Hitcher]

Blackbirds are quite a heavy bike, would be messy...

That's why I noted that I was referring to a Turdus merula, rather than a CBR1100XX.

[Goblin]

I'll say! Those Swedes are big chaps! Swedesses on the other hand are not much bigger than minors....

Swedes or turnips...take your pick.:spudflip:

ps. I prefer parsnips myself