Birds!!!

[Caladbolg]

Has anyone ever been hit by a bird!? I was just coming down the hill before coming into akaroa and out of the corner of my eye something gives me a hell of a fright.. it was a sparrow! i moved my head but it managed to hit the top of my helmet.. i felt sorry for the poor bugger getting headbutted at 100k.

Birds could pose quite a hazard? especially if it was a larger bird like a gull or magpie!

I was quite surprised as it was my first ride on the open road.

[Nagash]

A member a little bit ago posted pictures of him waking a seagul with his helmet,

Broken nose with blood on the inside and outside of a helmet. Looked painful to me..

That's pretty unfortunate for your first open road ride. They ain't always like that, honest.

I've hit a couple of ducks before.. washing the blood of the bike is the worst bit.. other than that, stupid animal shouldn't of been there in the first place.

[toebug]

Check out this thread, it is an example of what a bird can do to you!
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ghlight=pukeko

[Nagash]

Check out this thread, it is an example of what a bird can do to you!
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ghlight=pukeko

I was searching for that!

It was a pukeko though.. not a seagul.. probbly why i didn't find it.

[beyond]

Yep, thrush on the helmet at 130kmh. Sounded like a shot gun going off in my ear and gave my head a good sideways rock.

Then would you believe it, only yesterday I'm cruising along a nice back road at 140kmh and a flash out of my right eye and then a massive thump in my left man boob that hurt like hell. I thought it must have been a magpie cos it blew all the wind out of me and I reckon I must have had at least three broken ribs.

Once I gathered my breath I turned back and rode slowly along the road and found a rather dead looking Kingfisher. Man it hurt and still does. The deep bruising will come out in the next few days and that's with a thick leather suit. Imagine a seagull or Pukeko. In fact it was a Pukeko that whacked one of the litre club guys on Highway 22 and caused him to have a head on and die.

Birds and motorbikes don't mix.

[Caladbolg]

Check out this thread, it is an example of what a bird can do to you!
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ghlight=pukeko

Fuck me.. thats nasty! I'm glad it was only a sparrow... poor guy must have needed new undies after that one

[_intense_]

Yep, was on my MC22, and cruising upright on the open road, at 110kish, and remains indicate what hit my now scratched HJC visor, was a sparrow, and all i remember is all of a sudden my head was thrown back, my visor went dark with feathers and blood and so forth, and it felt like someone had thrown a brick at my head.

i stopped an after inspecting the massive brown stain in my ex-pants, figured out what had hit me. rather scarey.


// have also had a couple of front wheel strikes, a sparrow and a blackbird to be precise, no-where near as exciting as my near-life helmet strike experience.

[Chickadee]

Happens a fair bit. I remember Gijoe1313 telling us about being whacked on the nog by a duck while riding. Something that size would give you a bit of concussion for sure!

[toebug]

Yep, thrush on the helmet

Lucky its only on your helmet!

[georgie]

It scared the shit out of me when a bumble bee hit my visor... No bloody idea what I would do if a sparrow or, God forbid, a duck headed my way. Reckon it would knock me off my bike!

[Bren]

I was hit by a bird quite a few years ago....it was a duck, but hit me on the upper arm...started me off on a wild tank slapper...

I have had a bee lodged in my helmet...that aint nice either, especially when ya get stung by the bastard!

[Dutchee]

Heading to Taupo the other week, all of a sudden the rider (I was pillion) ducked/moved and I'm busy eye-balling a myna. Funny as hell, we didn't hit it, we didn't come off. the rider thought it'd be smart enough to avoid us and couldn't believe it had a death wish. It got caught in the up-draught (my husband was riding MY bike behind us and watched the whole thing).
I always cringe when I see birds, but am worse about it now haha

[Mikkel]

I have taken a sparrow out with my should at about 100 km/h... The impact is surprisingly powerful considering they only weigh about 10 grams. This was on the leathers and it was fairly undramatic, just a bit of a surprise.

Weirdest thing I've tried was catching a big moth with my arm at about 140 km/h... It hit right on one of the stiches and made a smallish bruise.

[Nagash]

Hah, moths are cool to hit, they just dissapear into a small cloud of dust,

[Boob Johnson]

Yep hit two so far & had at least twice as many near misses that i've had to duck to miss. Funniest one was when a sparrow hit the front screen near the wing mirror at 160+ & left some of his feathers stuck between the front faring & the screen, shit he hit it hard, gave me one hell of a fright