Bird strike at over 240kph

[MSTRS:Me]

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Never! Always invisible, sometimes pronounced "invisibule".

My earhorn always picked up 'episcopal' off the Live at....recording. But I won't argue the point

[zeRax]

the bird certainly aint no chicken... hohoahoaeheaho

[Wolf]

I wonder what a bumble bee feels like with an open face? They sure make a hell of a CRACK when they hit the visor...

Depends on whether they sting you or not - at 100km/h they hurt like hell and then the poison starts spreading - I wound up on the side of the road (after the hardest braking I'd done in ages) with the helmet off, dry-retching into the bushes. Wear full-face helmets these days...

And even then, a bumble bee can give your head a jolt at speed - never mind what a bird would do to you!

[Posh Tourer :P]

My earhorn always picked up 'episcopal' off the Live at....recording. But I won't argue the point

Agree with them lot re "invisibule"..... It also makes sense as that is an established phrase.

BUT. I always thought, earlier on, it was "vis-a-vis the metabolic processes, 'e's 'ad 'is lot"

[crashe]

Bee's stinging while riding hurt like crazy...

I have now been stung on both wrist's on different rides..
and both times they hurt...
Both times I was traveling at speed when it happened.

I have been hit in the face by decent size insects, moths included riding along with the visor up.... and fark they gave me a shock.... they actually hurt.

I sure dont want to be stung on the face.

Many birds swoop etc just in front of the bike on many occassions....
But I dont want to have to hit a bird, like Spankme did either.

[Rainbow Wizard]

Sing it baby...
I aint miSV-avian, SaVing all my luff for you.

[Coyote]

Depends on whether they sting you or not - at 100km/h they hurt like hell and then the poison starts spreading - I wound up on the side of the road (after the hardest braking I'd done in ages) with the helmet off, dry-retching into the bushes. Wear full-face helmets these days...

And even then, a bumble bee can give your head a jolt at speed - never mind what a bird would do to you!

I was going back home from Cryhavocs house, and I had absent mindedly left my visor up, Smack goes a big black fly between the eyes

[Skyryder]

Now if it had been a lazeee bird that had 'pinged' you it would still be alive.

Skyryder

[Monsterbishi]

I copped a bumble bee right between the eyes once, was only doing 50k's and it rung my bell but good, had to stop and profess my dissatisfaction aloud for a minute before continuing on...

Managed to avoid a birdstrike a couple of months back, had just gone into 2nd and had opened up the throttle when a seagull came straight at me, I only just managed to wedge my helmet against the gauge cluster/tank and the hapless gull was sent spinning over the top of me as it got caught in the dead air above me. - Made funnier by the cop that was tailing me almost wearing the gull in it's windscreen :>

[sAsLEX]

I was going NIPPON once, have a look at your speedo and you will understand 90s honda riders, along a long and lonely road when all of a sudden there shined a shiny "hawk" in the grass on the side of the road.......

Anyways he took off as they do so slow and labouriously right where my head was tucked half under the screen, just ducked under him by laying head sideways on the tank but that would of hurt alot. 4 or so kgs at about 2ms into about a 9 kg head doing NIPPON!

[avgas]

yeh, had a sparrow smack into the visor once at 140 (just about blowing off my head).
Cool thing was the visor didnt break, it warped in, touched my face, warped back out, chucked the bird off and went back to its normal position.
Was like something out of the 60's
like friggn plexiglass

[MacD]

Cool thing was the visor didnt break, it warped in, touched my face, warped back out, chucked the bird off and went back to its normal position.

Have a look at the attached video. It shows a 500g projectile with a 1mm point hitting a polycarbonate lens after dropping 1.8m. Makes you thankful for polycarbonate visors! :raghead:

[speedpro]

Visor up cruising through Napier and got a bee jammed into helmet next to right eye. It was swollen shut before I went 50km with another 50k to go. Got another one on the throat and that got dodgy breathing later in the night. Had a bird hit the helmet and leave a streak of guts and feathers on one side of the visor and down the side, plus a sore neck. Some other feathery thing hit my knee and exploded. I was goin' kinda fast and geez did it hurt, nearly ripped my leg off, talk about groin strain. Plus rode through a bee swarm at Pukekohe once, luckily I saw it and managed to duck down behind the instruments before I hit. There must have been 100 dead/dying bees s-p-r-e-a-d all over me and the bike - yuk!

I don't think I've hit that much shit in the car. . . . . .

[Skunk]

I've hit a bird with my helment once. Big bang, visor flipped open and head snapped back. Cool.

Not.

Wife was behind me and saw one thing go in front of me and two things come off!

[thehollowmen]

Plus rode through a bee swarm at Pukekohe once, luckily I saw it and managed to duck down behind the instruments before I hit. There must have been 100 dead/dying bees s-p-r-e-a-d all over me and the bike - yuk!

I don't think I've hit that much shit in the car. . . . . .

Summer in the south island, driving through cantabury at night with lights on full beam... The car can look like you've been in a rally and it is all insect.... moths mostly... I'd hate to do that on a bike cause you'd stink by the end of it