Has anyone ever hit a possum or rabbit with their bike?

[slofox]

Mmmm...yea, I've hit plenty of livestock. Never a possum though - yet anyway.

Rabbits aren't really a problem. Ran over a dog years ago - it chased me every time I went out. One day it chased from the front and I "accidentally" ran over it. It didn't die. But it stopped chasing me after that...

Have hit plenty birds...the little ones just go "POOF!" and disappear in a cloud of feathers. I have had a few close encounters with Harriers. Not hit one but have been close enough to count individual feathers in the wings...had one little bird hit my shoulder at high speed once. Hurt a bit. Prolly (definitely) hurt the bird more.

Hit a spur winged plover not long ago - a glancing blow off the fairing. Fairing was OK. Bird was fucked.

Biggest I hit was a sheep. Dumb-arsed thing just wouldn't veer off and I scraped past it with a glancing blow. Bent the brake pedal right back on itself. Dunno what happened to the sheep. By the time I looked it had buggered off so I guess it survived.

Ya gotta watch out for them varmints on the road yessiree.

[superman]

Rabbits aren't really a problem. Ran over a dog years ago - it chased me every time I went out. One day it chased from the front and I "accidentally" ran over it. It didn't die. But it stopped chasing me after that...

Good stuff, I got dickhead dirt bikers who hoon up and down my road doing wheelies with nothing but tshirt and shorts on. I often "accidentally" place large rocks on the road (SARCASM) and sit with a deck chair next to the road with a camera.

They usually bugger off pretty fast unfortunately, I don't know how I'm ever going to get some good footage to send to "Destroyed In Seconds"

[cowboyz]

actually.. ironically enough......

I got the name cowboyz because I spent the majority of my career sharemilking. We moved to town when our youngest turned 5 and after leaving the cows behind.... 6 months later one jumped out at me in the middle of the night and cleaned up my bike and me. I think they missed me?

[aprilia_RS250]

Will have to remember for when I ride past a gaggle of girls on my soon to arrive ninja to just stop and chat. Not ride and stare

Yes you rather hit that than a possum eh? Good on ya

[cowboyz]

Good stuff, I got dickhead dirt bikers who hoon up and down my road doing wheelies with nothing but tshirt and shorts on. I often "accidentally" place large rocks on the road and sit with a deck chair next to the road with a camera.

They usually bugger off pretty fast unfortunately, I don't know how I'm ever going to get some good footage to send to "Destroyed In Seconds"

thats not fucking mint. What a wanker. Im sure if you just asked them nicely to move along then they will.. or you could just pull your fucking head in.

[spajohn]

Anyone had any close calls or actually collided with an animal?

I got off a late night Interislander and was riding to a camp site a bit north of Kaikoura. Country side road around midnight, so not much light, when all of a sudden what seemed like a dozen rabbits must have got a fright from the bike and started running across in front of my path. I wasn't going too fast but with the poor visibility and so many of the little buggers didn't have any more time than to make sure I was upright and hit him squarely, then brake and come to a stop.

Certainly gave quite a bump, and bit of a squish, so the bike wobbled a bit. If I had any lean I reckon I would have been off.

End result - the bike survived, the bunny didn't.

[superman]

thats not fucking mint. What a wanker. Im sure if you just asked them nicely to move along then they will.. or you could just pull your fucking head in.

If you can stand hearing bikes and the good old doppler effect constantly for up to an hour then kudos to you. They're the neighbours, I'm half way up the hill they hoon up and down on. They live at the top, I can't tell them to move on because they'll see it as their right since they live there.

I can say the first few months it happened I just stood by my gate staring disapprovingly, but I don't think little 16 year olds really think about courtesy that much.

They don't do it very often anymore, I think I heard one of them shit their pants when a logging truck cut the corner at the bottom of the hill nearly hitting him. My ACC pays for those helmetless, gearless retards so they should stay in their many acres of paddock where the unregistered dirt bikes should be!

[Pascal]

My ACC pays for those helmetless, gearless retards so they should stay in their many acres of paddock where the unregistered dirt bikes should be!

It will pay even more when you have deliberately caused them to crash and they have to be scraped off the road.

Call their parents. Call the police. Discuss it like a mature adult.

Putting shit in the road so they fall? Not entirely cool, mate.

[superman]

It will pay even more when you have deliberately caused them to crash and they have to be scraped off the road.

Call their parents. Call the police. Discuss it like a mature adult.

Putting shit in the road so they fall? Not entirely cool, mate.

I don't put stuff in the road so they fall! Maybe I should have put a (sarcasm) bracket next to the big rocks on the road post...

However the deck chair and camera, aren't sarcastic. Driving at 100km/h doing a wheely is quite impressive to see.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Has anyone ever hit a possum or rabbit on their bike?

Yes...

Dodged the odd sheep, and cattle an have had a bird strike or 2 as well, dodged mad drivers, camper vans, falling sky rockets, granny on a sunday drive on thursdays, skylab, UFO's and other bikers...

I am doing well to be alive...

[yungatart]

Wow! You have wealthy rabbits and possums in Clevedon.
Ours just walk, hop or run!
Never seen one on a bike....

[BuzzardNZ]

1) fended off ( read kicked ) a huge rottie running straight for me. Luckily it came for me at the side, so booted the fucker in the head as I sped past. Big dogs don't seem to like loud v-twins and 4 stroke single dirt bikes

2) sea gull in the face.

3) large bumblebee in the eye at 80ks

[martybabe]

Of course the 'don't brake or swerve' rule doesn't always work...In this case the "Get off and run for your life' rule would suit you better methinks

Subtitle 'Road kill fights back'

[martybabe]

Nearly sconed a kangaroo. a few weeks ago....

Think i ran over his tail.

Ran straight out in front of me,,,,

Stupid things they are... just like sheep.

Never know which way they are going to go............

Lucky escape Kev, them giant wabbits take no prisoners.

[PrincessBandit]

Hit a small rabbit just out of Matamata in almost nil visibility due to fog. It magically appeared to the front left of my front wheel and in the split second it took to remind myself not to try and avoid it.....splat. Front wheel flicked but relaxed hands (they were frozen in a relaxed grip as opposed to frozen death grip) meant it righted itself.

I felt awful as it is my first and only road kill on the bike.