Bike vs Sheep, Masterton 19/01/2013

[Katman]

I have gone over the incident in my head hundreds of times and looked at it from every possible angle (including Katman perspective) and can honestly say I was doing absolutely nothing wrong.

Sounds familiar.

Perhaps you should think harder.

[sugilite:Me]

Another thing for people to realize is when it gets dry, many more sheep will escape their paddocks to get to the greener grass on the road side. And before some people wag the finger at farmers, it is not always under their control what the bloody sheep do. I have witnessed a few sheep near my place wiggle their way through 3 fences in less than 2 minutes on their way to greener grass down by the river, and those fences were in good order, not all sheep are dumb.
I came up the back way from Masterton to my place near Dannevirke last Sunday and saw an easy 30+ sheep dotted on the road/side along the way. I got it on camera as I'm making a few motorcycle safety videos covering hazards found on rural roads. I used to be a sport bike riding city slicker, and now I'm a sport bike riding country bumpkin of 13 years, I can confirm that rural roads are anything but safe.

[Deano]

Vicki (Flame) and I have seen first hand what happens when a sheep gets run over by a Ducati 999 at approx 100kph.

Disembowlment. Not pretty !

The sheep went under the front wheel and got caught up in the front mudguard and fairing before being spat back out.

[munster]

How the hell did you slide down the road for 100m if you were doing anything even remotely near the speed limit? How? Seriously.

To take the head off a sheep you must of been low flying. To kill it yes, after hitting it, but the other to remove it's head !!!!!!!!

Both of these sound like a perfect Mythbusters Episode to me

[Akzle]

fuck i hate sheep.

had one running beside the ute once. it took a dive underneath it. zero damage to the ute, this dumb fucking thing put it's head stright under my front wheel.

didn't quite kill the fucker, so i had to back up and have another go.

i guess the moral of the story is, sheep are fucking dumb.

[Brian d marge]

Well I can say I was stupid enough as a youngin to part company with my GPZ1100 @ around 180kph. I went around 150m on my arse/side...the bike went 185m. The police estimated my speed at around 160-180 kph. I was impressed, though very sore and missing a lot of meat and a broken wrist. Just wearing jeans and a leather jacket of poor quality . All I could afford back then. Twas on coarse chip in the dry.

Ya beat me , mine was 160 jeans and leather jacket ....
Still have the jacket

Stephen

[Brian d marge]

fuck i hate sheep.

had one running beside the ute once. it took a dive underneath it. zero damage to the ute, this dumb fucking thing put it's head stright under my front wheel.

didn't quite kill the fucker, so i had to back up and have another go.

i guess the moral of the story is, sheep are fucking dumb.

They are voters too and have rights

Stephen

[nzmikey]

the farmer is probably skull fucking it as we speak.

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[Crasherfromwayback]

Ya beat me , mine was 160 jeans and leather jacket ....
Still have the jacket

Stephen

I'm still picking gravel out of my arms some 28 years later...

[ducatilover]

Good to see you're okay dude.
I know the roads in this area very well, and I've had my fair share (hehe pun) of close calls with our woolen buddies.
Don't get put off them though (my awesome roads)

If anybody claims you can see a wooly wanker in most of the grass in the area, they're idiots and probably from Auckland.

And yes HenryDC, we've all had turns around here with the fleshy head, 'twas fantastic

[ducatilover]

How the hell did you slide down the road for 100m if you were doing anything even remotely near the speed limit?
How? Seriously.

I've done near 200m... and through a farm fence

[duckonin]

Interesting questions and I will admit to not knowing the answers but I do suspect they show a general misconception about speed and crashes. Most crashes the happen "at 100k" the collision occurs at somewhat less than the stated speed whereas in this case there was no slowing so the rider was thrown down the road at 100k, if he had been accelerating then the energy would have been greater than if he was doing a steady 100k. Also hit correctly with the energy in a largish bike plus rider doing 100k over the relatively small area of a front tyre knocking the head off the sheep would seem possible if a bit unexpected.

It will be interesting to see what SCU have to say.

I have seen horses hit by trucks at 100k plus two sheep hit by bikes at 100k plus.Cattle mowed over by cars Truck drivers good ,trucks really messed up. Motorcyclist's not in good shape their own fault. Bikes looked like shit. Sheep one dead other ran away. Cars normaly head to scrap yard and drivers to hospital. To lose your head !!!!!! Yep will be interesting to read SCU report, but then who is to say he/she got it right they were not on site. Theirs is total speculation.

[duckonin]

fuck i hate sheep.

had one running beside the ute once. it took a dive underneath it. zero damage to the ute, this dumb fucking thing put it's head stright under my front wheel.

didn't quite kill the fucker, so i had to back up and have another go.

i guess the moral of the story is, sheep are fucking dumb.

As a single musterer years back I was heard to say the same , 'dumb fucken bitch' sheep that was. Boss came over told me " Nope your the dumb cunt if you think the sheep is dumb ". TOOK A NUMBER OF YEARS TO FIGURE THAT ONE OUT. Boss was right. Life is the teacher.

[Brian d marge]

I'm still picking gravel out of my arms some 28 years later...

Half arse , Ive still got me head up me arse and its been up there for over 30 years

Stephen

Stephen

[HenryDorsetCase]

And yes HenryDC, we've all had turns around here with the fleshy head, 'twas fantastic

put it in a courier bag and send it to me when you're done.....