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Driving tonight (yeah four wheels) along the A10 northwards just before the Buntingford bypass and saw a car parked stupidly with it's hazards on. Switched to main beam and glad I did as I nearly ran over the deer that this car had felled. Not one of those tiny muntjacs this was a big fecker with enormous antlers.
The deer was totalled, dead as a dodo, there again the car was totalled too, with the front looking like a crumbled paper bag.
So, what's the point of this post? The point is that I often travel back that way late at night (after a Friday night down in Soho with the Massive) and as I reach that stretch of road am often doing 110 (no, no I mean kilometers officer - yeah right!). Too fast? True but it's a pretty deserted piece of road, particularly late at night but that's not the real point.
You see if I had hit that feckin' deer at even 80 I'd likely have been dead and this forum would be without my valuable contributions (hey, steady at the back please :lol: ). So it's made me think. Whenever out in the wild countryside maybe it's best if we all slow down at night as by morning if you look closely the roads are littered with squashed dead things, most of which would cause us to come off our bikes, never mind a bleedin' great deer.
Well I for one will certainly be doing so...
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Amanda M
12-10-04, 07:23 AM
:shock:
kinesin
12-10-04, 07:28 AM
Good advice sir!
I offen fly back down the backroads back home late at night trying to avoid the car still on main beam. It's nice 5 mile blast, with some good and some bad corners!
While I know wheres about the road kill is going to be, I find the hardest thing is mud on the road (especially on the adverse camber corner :****ed:). I don't like tractors at the best of times, or the crap they seem to leave behind. I least I know these roads tho, they are fun in the dark! Unknown roads scare me for the reasons mentioned :oops:
I ride very sedately at night now if I even venture out on the bike after dark for exactly this reason... oh and traffic islands.. :?
Maybe the driver of the car was on a stag night? :wink:
Do you think the driver said "D'oh" just before he hit it?
As someone else on here has in their sig with regard to potential roadkill............if you can't eat it in one sitting, don't hit it :lol:
A canada goose pulled out on me when I was in the van once. Caught it in the windscreen at about 40mph. That made a hell of a bang. Would've taken my head off on a bike.
Deer and horses can end up through windscreens a lot of the time. The legs get taken and they roll across the bonnet. The people who hit that deer were lucky that didn't happen. A dying, thrashing, large animal on your lap can sting.
Deer and horses can end up through windscreens a lot of the time. The legs get taken and they roll across the bonnet. The people who hit that deer were lucky that didn't happen. A dying, thrashing, large animal on your lap can sting.
You don't understand, this thing was bigger than the car! :lol:
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coombest
12-10-04, 10:19 AM
This reminds me of the Czech GP at Brno a few years ago!
I can't remember who it was, but someone - I know it was one of the Japanese 125cc or 250cc riders - was haring down the back straight, through the frest section, when all of a sudden, a deer appeared from the trees and ran straight into his path! :shock: He could do nothing and barely had time to back off the throttle so just rode straight through it! :shock: :shock: :shock: Ripped the poor little thing clean in half! It made a right mess off the fairing asn hurt his knees a bit, I seem to remember but he just got straight onto his spare bike & went out again!
I think it was somewhat smaller then you seem to be describing though, Greg!
As for hitting anomals on the road - my boss hit a duck in my works van... He stoped to check the van as it'd made an almighty bang but it had done no damage to the bumper other than to loosen the rubber valence that's stapled to the bottom of the bumper!
That's all we thought was wrong until it went to be serviced & I pointed out that the aircon wasn't working as well as it once was!
Turns out that the duck had brokensome pipes on the aircon unit and wrecked it! the quote to have it repaired was £350!!! :shock:
That was one expensive duck & he didn't even pick it up to have for dinner!!! :roll:
Just a point to make here....
Greg, as the first car to pass after the Deer was killed, you had the right to pop it in your boot and take home for a winter of venison!
Itching 2 go
12-10-04, 11:37 AM
check this out for road kill
http://www.superbike.co.uk/images/for_web/downloads/video_thumbs/27_8_4/bunny.mpeg
:shock: ikk =P~
Mr Toad
12-10-04, 11:55 AM
at least the car had stopped - this one didn't -
http://forums.sv650.org/viewtopic.php?t=13821&highlight=
I try to take it quite careful if I'm on the roads early or late in London due to the number of urban foxes running about. I usually see a couple each week.
On the other hand, as there are usually less cars about, the tendancy is to go a bit faster :oops:
I've leathered a fox early on morning when doing 70ish (well it was 70 and a little bit more O:) ) in my car on the M8 and it makes one hell of a clatter. It just jumped out, no chance to do anything! I dread to think what'd happen if I'd hit it with my bike.
This from the archives.
http://www.sv650.org/pic5/page28.htm
This lad did hit a deer and survived. Back in 2000 I think
John
I wonder if this is where Rictus got the inspiration for his latest paint job?! :shock:
Seriously, that does not look pleasant! http://forums.sv650.org/images/smiles/eusa_sick.gif
woah... thats nasty... not much damage tho
woah... thats nasty... not much damage tho
You wouldn't be saying that if you were the deer! :shock:
I can imagine the simpsons song now
Doh, A deer, A female deer.... etc etc
This from the archives.
http://www.sv650.org/pic5/page28.htm
This lad did hit a deer and survived. Back in 2000 I think
John
Eeew. Hope the blood was the deer's!
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Flamin_Squirrel
12-10-04, 01:32 PM
:shock:
How the hell did that much blood get over the bike with no damage? :?
Nick762
12-10-04, 01:44 PM
check this out for road kill
http://www.superbike.co.uk/images/for_web/downloads/video_thumbs/27_8_4/bunny.mpeg
:shock: ikk =P~
Hare raising....
chazzyb
12-10-04, 01:51 PM
Switched to main beam and glad I did as I nearly ran over the deer that this car had felled. Not one of those tiny muntjacs this was a big fecker with enormous antlers.
The deer was totalled, dead as a dodo, there again the car was totalled too, with the front looking like a crumbled paper bag.
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I hope you went back later with a good sharp knife and carved a few joints off it.
But seriously, let's all take it slower at night. It could happen anywhere, but if there are deer signs up, they're there for a reason.
Dunno what I'd do for a frog or duck sign tho'.
Sid Squid
12-10-04, 02:33 PM
I headbutted a pigeon when it flew into my path on the M4 while I was doing about 80, the force of the impact pulled my hands off the bars and shifted me back on the seat, there was blood and snot and s**t and whatever else constitutes the innards of a pigeon all over my lid and jacket, the visor cracked but fortunately didn't break, just as well really, I didn't fancy a face full of raw pigeon to complicate matters, amazingly the bike just kept going in a straight line and I managed to get my hands back onto the bars.
I had a bad injury to my neck and wore a brace for about a month afterwards, I also had a large semi-circular bruise at the top of my back where my lid hit it.
Just lucky not to crash as well, f**cking hurt though.
You should have sued! :lol:
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Carsick
12-10-04, 06:28 PM
That just makes me even more glad that I managed to duck a pigeon that went for my on the Christchurch bypass. Would have got me in the side of the head, though, so perhaps a little more painful.
amarko5
12-10-04, 08:59 PM
Don't talk to me about deer :twisted:
i totalled my alfa 33 cloverleaf by avoiding a deer and running up an embankment and rolling the car over completely back onto its wheels .
glad i avoided as 2 years previous a lad hit a deer in the same place and it slid up the bonnet through the windscreen and broke his neck killing him instantly.
saying that i had a severe back complaint for months (after the car had landed back on its wheels the front left hit a tree stump stopping the car dead and the contents of the boot ended up punching me in the back.
you ask what was in the boot ( a fold down mclaren childs pushchair) felt like a 14 pound hammer doing 60 mph though.
anyway just thought i would share that one with you 13 years ago and i still suffer back pains. and you cant sue a deer :cry:
and you cant sue a deer :cry:
I bet there is a solicitor that would take your money and try though :roll:
Jelster
12-10-04, 10:49 PM
On the Met's one day "BikeSafe" course we discussed "road kill". The instructions were as follows:
"Anything the size of a cat or smaller, aim for the centre and hit it as hard as you can."
"Anything bigger and it's going to hurt, unless you can avoid it."
I guess he wasn't a member of the RSPCA :D
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As someone else on here has in their sig with regard to potential roadkill............if you can't eat it in one sitting, don't hit it :lol:
Thought I had to post on this thread after that :lol:
There was a WSB round years back when Haga was on the Aprillia RSV, he just got under the screen on the straight about 10 sec after the race started as a bird hit the screen and got flung off sideways (the bird, not Haga). This contributed to a poor start for him (haga, no idea if the bird was male or female) :wink:
On a similar note I almost wiped out a squirrel last year as it ran out into the centre of the A38, looked at me hurtling towards it at 100 (kph, or mph, can't remember officer?) and then ran back accross my path, some VERY heavy counterstearing ment I missed it by about an inch or 2. checked before I got to my mates house as figured I'd jet wash the bike before some of my mates saw it if contact had been made :twisted: :?
benHallowes
14-10-04, 12:54 PM
hmmm - i hit a badger in my car and it ripped the bumper off and punctured the radiator - felt like hitting a block of stone in the road! :shock:
DONT aim for badgers - you WILL come off worst!!!!
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