Poor Wabbit!

[NakedHound]

Had a lovely little jaunt to Fincole Abbey (Durham area). However, on the way there my noisy can, must have startled a rabbit. I was doing 60 on a country road as it ran into my clutch pedel and under my back wheel. A little fish tailing but I kept control ok. My wife was following me in her nissan 350z, and said the poor critter was definatly dead (otherwise she would have hit it to put it out of its pain....awww bless her!)

Funny thing is, I have driven a car for 15 years and have never hit a thing. Only passed my DAS last week, and now Ive blood on my hands....(well boots).

Is this just a freak occurance or should I expect more of this?? :smt102

On return home (and to restore some buddhist karma...) I spent twenty minutes hearding two house flys out.

[Mrs DJ Fridge]

I once ran over a squirrel on my push bike, total accident in a local park, quite traumatic I can assure you.

[keith_d]

The only thing I can remember hitting was a cat which ran out in front of my pushbike about 25 years ago. It went under the front wheel but somehow managed to avoid the back wheel. Once I'd got the bike back under control I looked for the cat but it had vanished.

So I doesn't happen often,

Keith

[davepreston]

ask dizzy blonde about deer's lol

[Tomor]

Also a member of the deer club!

[Balky001]

I've had a couple of birds explode on me (sounds a bit rude!), one on the hand and the other on my knee but I don't think riders are a magnet for wildlife :)

[BanannaMan]

Another deer club member here.

[Matt-EUC]

I can't get over the fact that you have a clutch pedal!!


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[timwilky]

I have had a sky rat hit my helmet at silly speed, smashed my head back with blood/feathers over the visor. Lucky to stay on.

Saw a pheasant destroy the front of a TDM some years ago.

Wildlife is a menace and should be eradicated.

[Matt-EUC]

A clutch pedal!!!!


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[Matt-EUC]

I was doing 60 on a country road as it ran into my clutch pedel and under my back wheel.





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[NakedHound]

You got me...gear lever......how long till I live that one down? :mrgreen:

[Red Herring]

Most of us were polite enough not to mention it.....

Never mind about the rabbit, these things happen from time to time and unfortunately there isn't much you can do about it. Some people have been known to slam on the brakes and/or swerve to avoid rabbits and such like and end up having a much bigger crash as a consequence.

[Kenzie]

Nice one Matt, he may never want to ride again with that hanging over him!
I've not hit anything on the bike yet but had some low flying Pigeons come at me from the side of the road.

[DJFridge]

70mph pigeon through the radiator grille of a company car once. Whole engine bay smelled like cooked chicken by the time I got home. Local roads round us are inundated with seagulls at the moment, would happily run over one of the annoying vermin if it wouldn't damage the car.

On the bike, only large insects so far.

[SIII]

Got a blackbird square in the face, both of us doing about 60mph, vision blacked out, clutch in, free wheel to a stop and then sure I saw cartoon stars & tweety birds for five minutes !!!! Just glad the road was straight. Rider following me said the bird just exploded into a mass of feathers !!!

SIII 1 - Blackbird 0

[carelesschucca]

Small birds are my thing I seem to hit our feathered friends on a regular basis. I've had a small bird strike at least every year I've been riding. Last one made a good mess of my new jacket. Worst one was a blackbird that smashed its self off my visor leaving blood and mess over everything.

IIRC Tristan (thefuriousT) had a bike bambi interface on the way to the GM last year but I can't find the thread that show his selfies as he sits in the ditch in the aftermath.

[ophic]

You got me...gear lever......how long till I live that one down? :mrgreen:
Disappointed! I thought it was a suicide clutch on some piece of ancient american hardware.

[Geodude]

You riding wearing one of these Chucca? :p ;)

http://www.ridersdna.com/image/cache/data/New/helmet/ffairb/ffab(130)-500x500.JPG

[carelesschucca]

oh thats a bad lid... I thought it was a normal thing to have bird strikes. The birds do appear to be particularly suicidal between Strathblane and Aberfoyle I've had at least six hits on the 17 miles of the A81. Then again at one point I was along that road 3 nights a week just to get to The Duke's Pass.

[dizzyblonde]

Nowt like smashing a deer in half and riding off into the sunset with its remains stuck to your bike for a few thousand miles.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HkSotF594Lw/UIGT95ffPXI/AAAAAAAALdk/m5rI87nmF88/s400/Punch+7.gif

[Red Herring]

I hit a badger once on an old air cooled 600 Diversion. The blood and guts went into just about every nook and cranny on the thing, and despite repeated jet washes the stench every time I stopped at traffic lights was horrendous for weeks afterwards.

[shiftin_gear98]

Thankfully I've not experienced bird strike yet. But I did have the misfortune of startling a fox one evening after dark.
It ran straight out from between two parked cars, BOTH wheels went over it. Buy the time I'd stopped and composed myself from almost dropping the bike it was long gone. Probably died not long after.


Still on the bright side - I seem to have less fox **** in my garden now...
Probably more humane ways to have done it though.

[dirtydog]

I can't get over the fact that you have a clutch pedal!!


Sent via the medium of interpretive dance.

A clutch pedal!!!!


Sent via the medium of interpretive dance.

Sent via the medium of interpretive dance.



And the point in that was? :toss::toss:


As for wildlife I've only ever had a couple of bird strikes and as said they do seem to explode on contact and it is rather messy?