Bird attacks

[Monsterbishi]

Have had a near-miss with a seagull before, 60kph on Brougham street(wasn't speeding - had a patrol car directly behind me!) It took off from the footpath and flew across my path, it started to tumble from the airshift as it came over the top of my fairing, I ducked enough to avoid it - cop car wasn't so lucky as it bounced off their windscreen...

[XF650]

If riding with visor up or no visor......
Potential bird strike & stones being flicked up by passing vehicles etc, are good reasons to wear safety type sunglasses.

[Monsterbishi]

UVEX Make a reasonable range of safety sunglasses, they're not too expensive from memory(I get them free from work so can't remember the exact price)

[Ocean1]

Isn't it that time of year with a lot of young birds about?

Not so's I've noticed.

I did however encounter a pukeko on the way up to Taupo last week. Bastard ambushed me from the side at well over legal avian open road velocities and hit the front rim just behind the axle, causing a moderately worrying twitch. Most of him then hit my right ankle, taking my foot completely off the peg, which really didn't help with trying to get the front end sorted out again. I also wondered at the time where they keep all the feathers and entrails when they're not distributing them all over innocent Buells.

Half an hour later a bloody thrush also did the Kamikaze bit, and got me full on the right shoulder. At least the thrush wasn't employing excessive and un-nescessary speed at the time, and he didn't have quite the build of the pukako, so the mess wasn't too bad.

Half an hour after that, (just before Taihape) I came around a corner to find a feking great hawk having lunch in the middle of the road. I thought "you gotta be joking", but he buggered off just in time.

[Kickaha]

A Magpie once gave both me and my brother a smack on the helmet when we out trailriding one day