Fixed my bike and went for a ride for the first time in 2 months, then this happens.

[Paul the 6th]

Crusing along a nice quiet bit of national speed limit recently re-tarmac'd bit of a-road at about 70mph, a black bird swipes out of the hedge along side me then dashes across the front of me, clips the wing mirror and hits my right pectorial (well it's more of a man boob at the moment, but you get the idea)...

Bird shizzle all over the bike, my leathers & my helmet - I looked like I'd walked into staples and massacred the tip-ex and pva glue section with a shotgun. and not to mention the recently eaten greenfly stuck in and amongst the poo, a single feather on my inner thigh and a LOT of water (or bird p1ss) all over my right arm.

pain wise, probably the equivalent of somone taking a run up and punching you in the chest.

Anyone else had any animal collisions lately?

Pt6

[pmapp]

Not having a right good time of late are ya old chap. Glad to hear you're back up and running though.

Should be doing Squires on Wednesday if you're about?

[yorkie_chris]

Yeah I had similar shoulder/pheasant interference problem a while ago, retarded animals. Just clipped me though, I didn't get splurged! :-P

[JamesMio]

Almost carbon copy of yours Paul on Friday night but at about 30 mph, black bird swooped and clipped my helmet, then dropped and pinged off the left side of my chest, whilst dropping its guts all over my jacket, trousers & bike!

Not the easiest of stains to explain is white bird cack when stuck to the front of my otherwise black trousers!

[Paul the 6th]

Not having a right good time of late are ya old chap. Glad to hear you're back up and running though.

Should be doing Squires on Wednesday if you're about?

Yeah not been too lucky lately, nearly had my finger end away with a screw driver when trying to remove a circlip around the gear lever on saturday morning. C'est la vie...


yay! first squires of the year for me!

I was meant to be workin in liverpool but I haven't got access to the venue til 5am on thursday morning = stayin at parents wednesday night then back home to york on thursday.

What time you all meeting & is the meet at white bear/tingley still? Could it be worth charging up the camera gear ya reckon? How manys confirmed so far?

and as for you chris - a pheasant?! fook me. Lucky guy!

[yorkie_chris]

Knocked my left arm right off the bar, very lucky. I think it was speedy claire caught one right on the head.

[Paul the 6th]

wow, not that uncommon at this time of year then?

Maybe the birds are all trying to get in there on pillion, but misjudging it (badly)

[yorkie_chris]

Mine was in about February on the way back from MissY_C's in wales.

[Paul the 6th]

Not the easiest of stains to explain is white bird cack when stuck to the front of my otherwise black trousers!

the lady in the petrol station thought it was hilarious - me stood with a 2 litre bottle of water pouring it over my leathers and wiping down with paper towels... looked a right nonse. :rolleyes:

[Warthog]

Ouch unlucky. Worst I have had is a sparrow get hit my my radiator. No pain, but I had to pick half-cooked guts out of the fins :(

[Paul the 6th]

I had to pick half-cooked guts out of the fins :(

Funnily enough I'm just about to tuck into a chicken club sarny. lol

[gettin2dizzy]

I fisted a bird the other day...







(get your mind out of the gutter!);)
...it just swooped in to my fist and I cracked it one. I've hit a pheasant on the chest before too, not fun.

[LEXINGTONONE]

slightly different but was out last night, had a run up to thirsk and back, my mate on his gixer had to swerve to avoid hitting a Fxxxxxxg great big crow, would have been nasty if he had hit the thing, it seemed to be a kamikaze crow, maybe they have closed the bird branch of the samaritans ? ps me and mate going to squires on wednesday night (from tingley but dont know time yet)

[Paul the 6th]

quality @ squires, going to start a thread in the pennine massive :)

[Steve_God]

Had a bird clip my knee last year while I was borrowing a DL650 V-Strom.
I was find, however the bird caught the outside of my knee, and must've hit the pannier as when I got off later is was cover in the white 'cack' with a few feathers scattered on it for good luck! lol/

[daz311066]

had a bird **** on me the other day soon dumped her :smt117

[Griffo]

I fisted a bird the other day...







(get your mind out of the gutter!);)
...it just swooped in to my fist and I cracked it one. I've hit a pheasant on the chest before too, not fun.



I'm just imagining a bird flying right alongside and the punching it in the beak... great!

So far i've had a duck stand in the middle of the lane, being a duck.

[Ceri JC]

I've not had anything hit me since the deer a couple of years back, touch wood. That was bloody messy (in a literal as well as figurative sense) and resulted in the only 'proper' tank slapper I've had.