Bird Strike!
 

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/874222-m...ost-me-my-life

OUCH!!! Glad he's ok(ish)

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Ouch, glad he is recovering. That sounds very nasty.

I have had one bounce off my lid and that hurt my neck. But, the worse I have seen was a pheasant take out a complete fairing, ripping off the clocks etc of a brand new TDM I was following. About £800 of damage with no insurance to claim back the damage from. When I checked the rider was alright, he was shaking.

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I can't believe he managed to stay on his bike right upto 140mph without hitting another road user.

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Certainly a lot luckier than this guy:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ambulance.html

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100cc bike doing 140mph ;)? Not likely.

Am I the only one sceptical that he was probably doing 50mph lol?

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NO!!!

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Only doing 50mph whilst conscious eh.

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Tbh ive it was a 30mph zone then 50 is resonable to believe. If it was NSL I be amazed if he want under 80 especially as it said it was on a straight - I could be wrong of course, not everyone is a throttle *****.
Taking nothing away from teh bloke though, he's a lucky fecker and Im glad for his family etc that he's not brown bread and would wish him all the best in his recovery.

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Yeah 50mph my ass! :P Lucky guy!

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John McGuinness hit a bird on the TT practice at over 100mph