Bird strike at over 240kph

[Gremlin]

In fact, I rather suspect that it is no more. It has ceased to be. It has expired, and gone to meet its maker. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It's metabolic processes are now history. It's off the twig. It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off this mortal coil, it's run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible.

It is, in fact, an ex-parrot

To finish off the above quote in the words of one John Cleese.... "EEE'S F@#KIN SNUFFED IT!!"

I'm sorry, but I didn't quite seem to get what you were trying to say

[John]

Baha thats worth a few reps, that owl thats abit of an odd'n to happen during the day or was it a photograph of the result in the morning I think that would tramatise me if that happened to me!

[NordieBoy]

A swarm of bees at 120kph - a lot of sticky patches all over the leather jacket.
A bumble bee at 110 hit me dead centre on my lower lip.
I was sure I was missing some teeth after that one - it hurt!
A small branch falling from a tree onto the peak of the MX helmet at 50kph - a hellofa bang that echoed through the helmet - brown pants moment and I wasn't even riding off road.
Wasp bite on cheek at 110kph - thought it was a stone until it bit me at the start of 5km of no stopping zone.

Hmmm.
All but the first were with the MX helmet...

Another wasp at 110kph visor up a bit with the fullface helmet and it got me dead on the right temple.
I tried to scrape it out of the helmet with my finger but I think I just pushed it into the helmets ear cavity
Some people came out of their house to look when they heard a big single drop down through the gears and stop from 110kph in about 3.2m Good brakes.
Wasp was dead and it was its corpse bumping against my ear that I felt

Lucky I'm not allergic.

[Pixie]

I found this the other day, looks like it can be painful to both parties

Fuggin Owl

[bugjuice]

Looks like Spank got away lightly - this is a cars version of the same thing at most likely the same speed.....

[Ixion]

In fact, I rather suspect that it is no more. It has ceased to be. It has expired, and gone to meet its maker. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It's metabolic processes are now history. It's off the twig. It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off this mortal coil, it's run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible.

It is, in fact, an ex-parrot

To finish off the above quote in the words of one John Cleese.... "EEE'S F@#KIN SNUFFED IT!!"

So ah, wot y're saying is , 'es a bit off his food taday, that right ?

[DingDong]

i got hit by a bird at 120kph... felt like a softball bat to the sholder and almost twisted me off the bike.
Not nice... and crap on my jacket too.

[Bonez]

Spank Me 1
Bird 0

Well done SpankMe

He better not let the birds cuzzies find out about it.....................

[Beemer]

Thankfully I've never hit a bird - although I nearly ran down an old bird who stepped off the footpath in front of me once...

The other half hit a hare on the 1000 miler once, it snapped his gear lever in half. Being the kind of bloke he is, he repaired it with an Allen key and some cable ties and carried on!

Worst hit I had was a swarm of bees that I rode into just as I'd turned onto the Opiki Road over the railway lines - so I wasn't travelling very fast. They all landed on me and proceeded to crawl over my jacket while I was thinking "don't go inside the helmet you bastards!" They started sliding off once I picked up a bit of speed!

[NordieBoy]

Another wasp at 110kph visor up a bit with the fullface helmet and it got me dead on the right temple.
I tried to scrape it out of the helmet with my finger but I think I just pushed it into the helmets ear cavity
Some people came out of their house to look when they heard a big single drop down through the gears and stop from 110kph in about 3.2m Good brakes.
Wasp was dead and it was its corpse bumping against my ear that I felt

Lucky I'm not allergic.

Latest one was a small bird smack in the middle of the visor at 120kph.
Man it was LOUD!
Didn't feel anything as it was so small but my ears were ringing for a while.

[eliot-ness]

The other half hit a hare on the 1000 miler once, it snapped his gear lever in half. Being the kind of bloke he is, he repaired it with an Allen key and some cable ties and carried on!

Didn't he have any hair restorer???????????

Got a wasp inside my shirt once. Wobbled down the road beating the shit out of my chest trying to squash the little bastard. I got some very strange looks from pedestrians when I stopped, pulled my jacket off and ripped my shirt open. Seven bloody stings before I got it. Always ride with the zip to the top now.

[Biff]

The last time I hit a bird, about three weeks ago, I saw something out of the corner of my eye, it hit me on the hand then my chest. At first I thought it was a stone until I got home and noticed bird $hit and gunk over my jacket. It bloody hurt.

[Lou Girardin]

A few years ago, I was driving the cage from Rotovegas to Taupo. I had 6 bird strikes going through the forest, I was getting seriously paranoid about kamikaze feathery things after that lot. Maggies make a spectacular cloud of feathers when you hit one at 140 k's though.

[vifferman]

I was driving to Wellington one day, in our Fiat 132, and took the Western Access road. Somewhere out the back of beyond, I was going down a smallish hill at about 75 mph, when I saw a hawk snacking on some road kill. It took off, but achieved only windscreen height before it hit the top middle of the windscreen. I was sure it was going right through, and ducked just before it hit with a loud bang. Ah.. so the windscreen's laminated.

I immediately looked in the rear view mirror, expecting to see a cloud of feathers with a bird tumbling through the middle of it, but couldn't see anything.
"What happened to the hawk?"
My wife replied, "It just flew off!"
Must've been pretty wrecked though.

[mikey]

hows the bird holding up spank?