Anyone ever hit a bird?

Nearly hit a great big pigeon today! Was doing about 50 or 60 leaving a roundabout to join a dual carriageway, when this bird swooped past from right to left.
I resisted the urge to alter my line and just ducked a little -- missed the sod by a whisker!! It got me thinking - anyone ever hit a big bird?
Cheers
Craig

Thankfully...No. But I did see an episode of traffic cops or something where a guy on a blade was hit square in the face with a pheasant! Smashed his visor and knocked him out. Bike looked like a total write off!

Yes, doing around 50 -60 MPH. Hit me square on the forehead, and trashed my crash helmet. Had a headache for the next 24 hrs

Never on 2 wheels. Minced the crap out of one on the motorway in my car one time, left a trail of feathers.

I bet there will be quite a few on here that have been hit by a bird on a bike. Good job you missed it mate. Hitting a bird at 60mph with a helmet aint gonna be a pretty sight.

[Lissa]

Pete's arm after he hit a pheasant last year.

Defavu... Emu at 70-ish.

[Biker Biggles]

Originally Posted by Lissa

Pete's arm after he hit a pheasant last year.

I bet he was a pheasant plucker after that.

Nearly hit a peacock the other day! God only knows why it was in the middle of a main road, it was just over the brow of a hill and would have seriously taken me by surprise with very little reaction time (i was riding 'briskly'), but thankfully a bike coming the other way had the good sense to flash and warn me so i was backing of the throttle by the time i was right up close. It was beautiful but would have made a right old mess of my bike!

[timwilky]

I saw a fairing explode on a TDM in front of me when a pheasant hit it. ripped off the headlight and clocks. a good grands worth of damage.


A woody hitting my helmet was enough to make me think my head had been smacked off.

Still could be worse. Dizzy managed to get a deer a few years back

Yeah, on me 125 on the way to work one morning, a fat ar5ed wood pidgeon jumped outa the bush at me, it clipped me mirror, hit the screen on me bike and then bounced into my chest, i was doin around 50, god only knows how i stayed on. I dont have any pics but it was a Honda CBF125 and it broke the mirror clean off, and cracked the screen, only the L plate held it together and it bled all over me nice new jacket!