Birds!!!

**Jiminy** · 9th March 2008, 23:48

Got one with my shoulder on one of my first rides, didn't have a chance to identify the bird (well, ok, I don't know anything about birds).

Wasn't a Japanese MotoGP 250cc rider taken off by a bird (a seagull?) a few years back in Philip Island(?) and got injured?

Here is a good starting point if you want to see birds and MotoGP encounters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDIa-RymzeI

**fredie** · 9th March 2008, 23:49

i hit a magpie

a dove flew up from the bushes right next too the road straight into my visor . the noise was like getting hit by a peice of wood . DOOOOOOOIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE

HAD BIRD SHIT ALL OVER ME HELMET AN JACKET

gave me a jolt at 80klmph. had a spider in helmet , then it crawled into my ear

had too get the doctor for that one

**Bren** · 10th March 2008, 06:08

Originally Posted by Boob Johnson

shit he hit it hard, gave me one hell of a fright

Imagine the fright you gave the bird...ya prolly scared it to death!

**Livvy** · 10th March 2008, 06:22

I haven't been hit by a bird yet, or had any interesting near misses, but I remember the first time I got a bumblebee in the face, right between the eyes on my (thankfully closed) visor, that gave me a big enough fright!

Don't want to meet a bird with my body or bike at all though - I know I'm bound to - but I have a soft spot for birds (what, being an emotional girl and all) and I think I'd feel fairly horrible if I killed a bird whilst riding.

Unless the little fucker hit me hard, in which case, it's fault for being on the road...

**slimjim** · 10th March 2008, 06:31

yes have had quiet a few hit', helmet and chest, hitting the arm via the little bugger's hurt the most , but biggest fright was coming out of a sweeper and big bloody hawk watching over a road kill was the biggest scare, an it lifting off, erk !

**CookMySock** · 10th March 2008, 07:03

took out three pheasants at 130k the other day. looks like I was lucky I didn't cop one to the face..

DB

**phaedrus** · 10th March 2008, 08:29

nearly clobbered a duck once. Over the wind noise from 100 and mumble km/h, through the ear plugs and over the bike noise - there was the most surprised quack i ever heard.

**Bekki** · 10th March 2008, 08:35

One of my man's previous bikes got a new paintjob due to a duck incident!

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=8698

**jim.cox** · 10th March 2008, 10:01

I took out a flock of starlings once

No major damage

But I did get some odd looks when I next pulled in to fill up - blood and feathers everywhere

**n0regret5** · 10th March 2008, 10:38

brothers mate got whomped by a pukeko a few years back out the back of rotorua on his NS250, smashed THROUGH his visor, nearly took out his eye (he was doing an estimated 140), dropped the bike and everything, ended up having major surgery and was stuck inside for 6 months or something..crazy birds! poor things. haha. i've never been hit by one but one time i had my visor up at >100km/h to adjust my glasses i got smacked in the face by a bloody butterfly..was a shock more than anything, but still!!

**Finn** · 10th March 2008, 10:40

Originally Posted by n0regret5

brothers mate got whomped by a pukeko a few years back out the back of rotorua on his NS250, smashed THROUGH his visor, nearly took out his eye (he was doing an estimated 140), dropped the bike and everything, ended up having major surgery and was stuck inside for 6 months or something..crazy birds! poor things. haha. i've never been hit by one but one time i had my visor up at >100km/h to adjust my glasses i got smacked in the face by a bloody butterfly..was a shock more than anything, but still!!

I hear that you're so slow, there's a birds nest on your helmet.

**n0regret5** · 10th March 2008, 10:50

Originally Posted by Finn

I hear that you're so slow, there's a birds nest on your helmet.

i'm gonna take that as a piss-take, mate..i'm getting pretty fuckin sick of you getting on my case for no reason. get a life.

**n0regret5** · 10th March 2008, 10:54

just noticed your tag is CEO of kiwibiker. so whats up with making physical threats on someone who's just joined the forums to meet some new biker mates? seems pretty goddamn unfair, really.