Anyone ever hit a bird?

[Paul the 6th]

oh yeah i had a bumble bee in my neck at about 40mph on a scootay when i was 16, it managed to sting me and my neck swelled up like a beast. Tried to flick it off but had to put my gloves back on to pull it off my skin

[dizzyblonde]

I had a wasp sting me on my little finger when I was coming home from the GM last year with MrUki. Little git.

I'm a woos, I couldn't pull the brake lever, it really bleddy hurt

Good job I can do it with one finger then innit

I hit a deer once.... Luckily, in my van. Came out of nowhere, i was doing about 60mph. If i had been on the bike, it prob would have finished me off!

Dizz likes to hit deer...

[TEC]

You really do not want to run over an adult herring gull, makes a right mess of the bike, blood n stuff everywhere

No. But I once ran over a sheep in my Passat. It ran out from behind a bush on a mountain road, and copped it under the left front wheel arch at about 50mph. Most of it was embedded in the intercooler and the inside of the wheel arch was coated in guts and sheep****. When I hit it I just heard the thud and then looked in the rear view mirror and saw a red mist...

[yorkie_chris]

I've hit a pheasant a glancing blow on the shoulder, it was hard enough that it knocked my hand off the bar, that was about 80 or 90mph. Half asleep coming back up through Wales from MYCs uni... didn't half wake me up!
That was messy even though I stayed on, just.

Best one I saw was a lad with GSXR600K2, air intake ate a blackbird flat out. It had pulverised it and it was just feathery goo in the airbox!

[DarrenSV650S]

Originally Posted by ceeshaw

Anyone ever hit a bird?

Is that gansta slang?

A seagull swooped won when iw as in the car in mc donalds car park and bounced off the bit above my windscreen and i cat darted out into the road when i was on my bike a month or so ago the cat didnt live i dont think but the gull did, Never hit a bird on the bike come close though i managed to duck under them no idea how its just a reaction now i even did it when i was in the car

Hrm, sort of yes for this one.

I was riding along fairly slowly and a group of house martins swooped over me. However, one little dare-devil decided he'd show off to his mates and fly in between my wheels. I'll give him credit, he made it behind the first wheel, but found himself run over mid flight. Poor thing. All I felt was a small bump, looked back and saw a small red mound.