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

[rwh]

30m down the road a few days later

And I thought I was slow

Richard

[pearlygirl]

collided with a magpie once it was doing about 10k I was doing 100, needless to say I survived it didnt

[gatch]

Hit a cat doing about 60, a rabbit doing 120 and also a bunch of birds at 100 and something.

Fastest fuckin animals I've ever seen !

One of the birds was mooshed over my jacket. The cat ran off, some of the rabbit ended up in the radiator shroud..

Didn't enjoy any of them.

[vifferman]

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

Why yes.
I've collided with four (4!!) animals: a brain-dead cyclist, a brain-dead pedestrian, and two brain-dead car drivers. Actually, that's not strictly correct; I didn't actually hit the latter two, just their motorvehicles. But they deserved a jolly good hitting.
A word of warning: people make for very bad steering and braking when they're under your front wheel.

[varminter]

I'd try to stay away from possums, tough little bastards. Clouted one with 3 foot of pipe once, it just hobbled off. Shoot them in the head or they wander off to die, they can take a fair bit of lead, I'd hate to hit one.

[Shadowjack]

Had a pheasant rip into my right shoulder last year, heavy little bastards - after I slowed down , I turned around to look for dinner. Nope, must have made it to the roadside scrub.

[Autech]

Hit a Rabbit about a year ago, was nicely lent over on one of my fav corners coming back from my Aunty's house, when out of the darkness loomed this Rabbit...
So I thought to myself, "If I give it a bit more of a lean I'll miss that fucker"... I didn't realise that this particular Rabbit had had a big row with its missus and was well set on killing itself. So the suicidal Bunny ran into the path of my front tire. I stayed on the gas and had a few wobbly moments but managed to keep both wheels pointing downwards. Wish I hadn't lent in further as I would have missed it, so yeah, don't avoid them.
Also glanced a possum once while heading in a straight line, that was a pretty close call cause because that Possum was HUGE!

Had a Bee sting me, not good when you're allergic to them, luckily I wasn't far from a chemist so shot in for some drugs.

[superman]

Why yes.
I've collided with four (4!!) animals: a brain-dead cyclist, a brain-dead pedestrian, and two brain-dead car drivers. Actually, that's not strictly correct; I didn't actually hit the latter two, just their motorvehicles. But they deserved a jolly good hitting.
A word of warning: people make for very bad steering and braking when they're under your front wheel.

Oooo stories! I love stories... got links to threads on these??? If not feel free to post them on here

[LBD]

Had a pheasant rip

Should that not be a "pleasent trip" ...you pheasant plucker

[allycatz]

Had a few near misses with dogs on my scooter. *55'ed an enormous emo looking highland cow/bull thing on the Paekakariki Hill this morning wandering over the Road...

[superman]

Collected a rabbit tonight with my ninja, front shuddered a bit (was probably going about 80km/h just going into a corner) but nothing too major. Don't fancy a hare though! They're as big as fuckin lambs!

[darkone]

Collected a rabbit at about 80k, it darted out from the left and I kept looking straight ahead where I wanted to go expecting to feel a thump as the front wheel hit. Felt a solid thump on my right boot instead, somehow the little bugger had managed to split the gap behind the front wheel and just when he thought he was home free, copped a size 9. No idea how he got on after that but there was a fair amount of rabbit fur stuck under the toe slider.

My flatmate managed to collect a roo doing about 70k on an unsealed stretch of road at a place ironically enough called Kangaroo Valley. Almost totaled his cbr600rr as the bike slid then flipped into a ditch.
As someone else had already killed it his only excuse was that it blended in with the colour of the road surface

[racefactory]

Riding a ZXR400 from Whakatane to Auckland at 1 in the morning in a big fuck off rain storm...

...hit a big white sewer rat at 100kph and lost the front wheel for a second, saw the whites of his eyes in sheer terror, won't forget it.

[marty]

Ran over a ferret yesterday. YUSSS!

Hit numerous birds, rabbits, rats with tyres and fairings, and a possum with my boot.

Avoided this already-dead one, could have ended in tears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEi9QBmgthM

[Shadows]

Ran over a large dog once at 60k, just like a big speed bump it was. Serves it right for tearing out of somebody's driveway and trying to bite. It bit a well timed steel cap size ten boot instead, and when it went down it's momentum carried it under my back wheel. It was far from happy about that and I bet it won't try it again.