For the birds

[papes]

On the way to my morning class today, I learned the importance of a full face helmet with a good face shield. I was doing sixty on a road about a mile from my house, and a ***** robin flew in front of me! I ducked, but not low enough, it caught me right in the middle of my shield! There was an explosion of feathers, my head was knocked back a bit, and I had bird blood all over my shield blocking my view. I made it to campus safely, though a bit shaken up, to find my class was cancelled...... Good way to start a day.

[DwarF]

Man, that's some scary***** when that happens. Glad you came through it allright.

I almost caught a Grackle at about 150 on my Honda. I don't think I would have fared as well as you did. You must be living right.

[BUCKET]

On 2006-09-25 20:32, DwarF wrote:
Man, that's some scary***** when that happens. Glad you came through it allright.

I almost caught a Grackle at about 150 on my Honda. I don't think I would have fared as well as you did. You must be living right.

What the f#*k is a Grackle,sounds like something from Harry Potter? :hammer:

[StoneTriple]

On 2006-09-25 22:09, BUCKET wrote:
What the f#*k is a Grackle,sounds like something from Harry Potter?

Very common around here. 12 to 18 inches long. Not something you want to hit while riding.

[Yandicoogina]

A mate of mine was riding to his work out in the remote goldfields of Western Australia when he saw the familiar shape of a dead kangaroo in the middle of the road. He veered around this big bloated stinking Aussie icon when a feasting wedge-tail eagle emerged from the other side. It lifted off slowly and Matt copped it full blast in the chest. These birds are turkey-sized and very nearly had him off on his puckering a$$. Apparently he was able to deflect it aside and all was well. I shudder when I think of those nasty talons and what they could have done.
I have only had a plastic coke crate bounce off a truck and scrape across my helmet. That was crazy, cos I saw it bouncing 100 yards in front of me and b4 I knew it I was in line for a headache. Might've been speeding that day!

[Mark99]

The other day on the M25 I saw a batch (about 3) of televisions fall off some dimwits 1/2 truck at about 50mph.

The made some mighty explosions as they smashed into thousands of bits and one car copped one straight in it's grill.

Lucky no bikes were around.

Mark

[speedtrip30]

I had a close call with a wedge tailed eagle the other week and got a good close up of those claws, they are huge. On the same ride saw a goanna sunning himself on the road. I also found a dead bird on the swingarm of the XT600 I had.

[cshell]

Not long after I bought my bike, I was at the dealership picking up some riding gear and talking to the salesman I bought my bike from. Out of the blue, he told me to be careful out there, and that freaky things can happen. I asked him what he was talking about. Apparently, just a few days prior to my visit, annother S3 owner was shooting down a backroad in the 60- 70 mph range when a Red Tailed Hawk flew directly into his path at head level. Scraped him right off his new bike, which took a ghost ride about 100 yards down the road. He was fully geared up so he was apparently alright, but that's scary stuff.

[cheapbastard]

papes, I've always said someone should throw you to the birds! :razz: Glad to hear you're alright man, next time ya see one, don't do this... that's there mating call silly! :-D

[Devious2XS]

Glad to hear you are OK.

A couple of years ago I was riding with a friend in the early summer evening and hit two bats about 5 miles apart on the same stretch of road. My friend nearly fell off his bike laughing. He still calls me "bat man" from time to time.