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Jax, FL | Glad to see the wierd stuff others have hit over the years. In 30 years I have hit all the mundane stuff like bees, bats small animals, once had a bird drop a large (VERYLARGE) fish on the road in front of me while riding through the Okeefenokee but the worst was a pelican that decided to commit suicide by jumping in front of me while crossing the stock island bridge (key west). I centerpunched it and it exploded like it had swallowed a grenade. Fortunately the speed limit is low because in addition to a broken windshield , bracket, crushed front fender, the front tire bead broke as the fender wore through the tire. The stench was incredible. These things apparently survive on fish and Mcds french fries. I'm certain I made a popping sound when I got off the bike ('91 eglide sport) Hope it doesnt happen to my v8ball.
Dave (only been riding 30 yrs)
'07 factory custom Ultra
'10 vision 8 ball for a daily ride |
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San Antonio, TX | What a mess! I was lucky with my Armadillo kill the other day. It was just a bump bump for me but it was death for him. Now that armadillo is just a stain on the concrete that I look at when I ride home.
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| 1 cat, 1 bat.
No Armadillo, No Pelican
Now I feel so inferior... Thanks a pant load guys... :/ |
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centrel Minnesota | 3 birds, 1 in the shin 1 took out my blinker the last one just went under, 1 racoon, and 1 corn field rat (aka deer) |
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Tifton, GA | I had a cat run under my bike one night and it made it out alive. Scared the you know what out of me. I was going a little slow and it had to be going wide open, felt the rear tire bump over it's tail. When I went back to see check it was gone.
Hit a bulldog on the Harley and got crap on my white wall tire, fender, boot, and pants leg. Bent the cover on my oil cooler, front fender skirt, and unpluger the wire to my oil temp guage. The guy behind me said the bike looked like it went 2 feet to the side. |
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Green Bay, WI United States | Was up above Portage, WI and was looking across I-39 at another bike going in the opposite direction. Turned my head back to the front and saw a black spot and then was hit in the left shoulder by what I presume to be a crow size bird. This was all at 80 mph and it hurt like hell but shocked me more. The Z-71 pickup behind me must have had a very interesting picture of the whole incident. Might be a good thing I did not see it coming as I might have tried to avoid this piece of bird flack and might have wrecked. Hoping I don't ever hit anything that will wreck me but this is the chance we all take on our 2 legged travels.
Ride fast, ride hard, but above all - ride safe.....
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Salinas, Ca. | Hit the pavement once. It hurt like hell!!!! |
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Bay of Gigs, WA | Snowy owl in the panhandle of Idaho committed hari-kari on my headlight one night. I think he was hunting rodents that were warming themselves on the pavement heated during the day. Didn't break the bulb, but cost me a headlight bucket. Also a robin apparently drunk on fallen fruit hit me in the breadbasket one autumn afternoon, felt like Randy Johnson unloading a change-up on me. Knocked the wind outta me. Also a Labrador running out from behind a parked car. Kicked the drivers door of a '76 or so Camaro changing lanes on I-5 by the Tacoma Dome, he got back into his own lane then. Not bad for 38 years riding, nothing took me down, 'cept some mailboxes. |
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seattle, wa | "Not bad for 38 years riding, nothing took me down, 'cept some mailboxes. "
That made me LOL.
Keep on riding safe.
I wanna hear that mailbox story sometime.
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Jax, FL | The only thing that ever put me on the pavement was my own stupidity, both times. Nothing hurt but my pride thank God. |
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Orlando | ammo - 2010-11-29 2:38 PM 1 cat, 1 bat. No Armadillo, No Pelican Now I feel so inferior... Thanks a pant load guys... :/ Wild turkey (not in the bottle), while ridding my BMWK1200LT. Took out the windscreen and left a HUGE amount of blood and guts! |
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Bay of Gigs, WA | Rwilly, you're in Seattle. should we explain rain to these other guys? It's not the hard volume, it's the relentlessness. You wouldn't think a few drops of water would drive you nuts, but the Red Chinese knew during Korea that a few weeks of it dripping on your forehead, and you're ready to talk...
Did you get stuck on the slab or Old 99 during last weeks little weather event? |
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Puddle Jumper
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Jax, FL | Those things(wild turkeys) are everywhere in our state. Hit one some years ago in the girlfriends brand new, white and gold vette. I should have picked it up because all I got for supper was hot lip and cold shoulder.
Edited by dumpsterdave 2010-12-01 1:03 PM
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Bay of Gigs, WA | I hit a goose taking off from about 100' up the road in front of me at 35mph in my 66 Impala coming back from lunch one day about 10 years ago. It popped the hood (!) and rolled over the drivers side mirror. I pulled over, despondent, wondering how I was gonna get my money back out of this one. Sure enough, the front grille and area of the front above it was smashed in like Earl Anthony had just unloaded a 16 pounder into the nose of it. I looked back just as the goose, laying in the road, took his last breath, and I started digging around on the floor behind the front seat and found a grocery bag, pulled the six pack ring holder out of it and walked back to him and fished him into it. I was surprised at how well they groom themselves, but I guess that's why they make pillows out of them.
Anyway, there I am in the middle of a two lane with a tie on and everything, stuffing this goose into a grocery bag while soccer moms drove by in dismay and I took him back to my office and put him in the fridge. I called Farmer George in Port Orchard and asked how long I had 'till I had to gut him, and he told me not to worry, hunters pack these things around all day before they clean them and they're okay, so with him on ice, I was probably alright.
When I got home, I took him down by the lower garage and cut his head off so he could watch me gut and skin him. I hung him for three days, and cooked him according to my wifes' Betty Crocker cookbook. Let me say this right now, when those old fairy tales talk about having a fat, Christmas goose, it just goes to show how poor those people really were back then, because this thing tasted pretty bad. Probably lived on banana slugs. In any case, the damage was over $600, and I'm on my third grille now. Amazingly, Chevy made a million six of these old Impalers, but no ones repopping grilles now, and I still haven't found one as straight as the one this guy wrecked. I hate geese.
Sorry if this got off topic... |
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Goldsboro, NC | dumpsterdave - 2010-12-01 2:02 PM
... all I got for supper was hot lip and cold shoulder.
You dated Loretta Swit? |
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Green Bay, WI United States | Back in the days of the 66 Impala, remember the sound when you turned the air cleaner top over on the Quadrajet carb.... The extra noise sure made you think you were going faster, along with the hacksaw headers and Thrush mufflers! Sorry, could not help myself.
Old motorhead :-) |
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Suicidal pelican