So I went out to a buddys house today and he wasnt home (shoulda called) Anyway, I was going maybe 30 down his street and out scampers a stupid squirrel. Why cant they just keep going? Well I played it in my head to a T. And he ran back under me and got munched by my rear tire. Id say im lucky it wasnt a dog. Or a deer. Nice, my 3rd legitimate ride and I kill something. Haha.
My first roadkill
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konarider94
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it will happen again. be safe.
i hit a turtle once. bastard came out of nowhere. but seriously i learned a lesson about catching up to cars too fast on corners and following too close. they can straddle turtles.
almost hit a skunk...that would have sucked
almost hit several deer including a gay one. i was in gay, mi so naturally it was a gay deer.
dog tried to eat me. 120lb german shepard and i raced. i won by a couple feet.
little dog ran out at me in my friends apt complex with a kid and a mom watching him. i didnt want to stop and have him try to bite me and i didnt want to run him over in front of a little kid. i pulled in the clutch and revved a couple times while looking through my smoke helmet shield and the dog turned around and ran away with its tail between its legs.
edit: i didnt know that rule, otherwise id have a broken turtle helmet
i hit a turtle once. bastard came out of nowhere. but seriously i learned a lesson about catching up to cars too fast on corners and following too close. they can straddle turtles.
almost hit a skunk...that would have sucked
almost hit several deer including a gay one. i was in gay, mi so naturally it was a gay deer.
dog tried to eat me. 120lb german shepard and i raced. i won by a couple feet.
little dog ran out at me in my friends apt complex with a kid and a mom watching him. i didnt want to stop and have him try to bite me and i didnt want to run him over in front of a little kid. i pulled in the clutch and revved a couple times while looking through my smoke helmet shield and the dog turned around and ran away with its tail between its legs.
edit: i didnt know that rule, otherwise id have a broken turtle helmet
Yeah sadly i have ran over more animals on my bike then in a vehicle. Even hit a squirrel while in a turn. Hit a bird with my head, ran over a raccoon, another squirrel and i believe ive even hit a cat.
Stay on the rode more and itll happen more, just make sure you arent flying or have no way to take a safe route. By all means DONT swerve to avoid one, that is sure to cause a crash. Just slow down and if impact is going to happen let off the brakes.
Stay on the rode more and itll happen more, just make sure you arent flying or have no way to take a safe route. By all means DONT swerve to avoid one, that is sure to cause a crash. Just slow down and if impact is going to happen let off the brakes.
You guys have hilarious stories!! Hahahaha. Yea I didnt do anything panicky. I may have clutched it and eased the rear brake but thats all. I remember him/her stopping and I thought "yea, youll run back in my path" then he/she must have read my mind cause it darted between my tires. I went back by expecting some twitching but it was motionless....... I suppose a 400+lb bike and a 290lb rider equals dead critter!
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Ive only had one encounter and it was defiantly one too many for my taste...Anyway, i was riding home on a pretty frequented county highway and i was kind of in a hurry to get home. The posted speed limit was 55 and i was cruising somewhere in between 70 and 75mph. So I'm coming up over the hill and a raccoon runs out right in front of me and completely caught me by surprise! Even with my HID high beam blazing I didn't see him until it was too late. The only thing I was able to do was kind of stand up and pick my butt up off the seat a bit. When I hit that thing i could have swore the bike was airborne lol! The bike went into almost a tank slapper handlebar speed wobble but I managed to recover it. I was only a mile away from town and made sure to go home and change my underwear haha. My buddy who was in his car following me said he swore i was gonna go down and that it was the biggest coon he'd ever seen....guess im just lucky and of course the ol Buell lives to fight another day! lol
I was riding 2up through north-eastern Oregon to my grandparents at night last summer. The roads out there are awesome: tight curves and the occasional straight stretch where you can get on it a bit. I came out of a corner into a straight and was wicking it up (very desolate, middle of nowhere, no cops within a hundred mile radius) when I notice something in the wheat by the side of the road. Next thing I know a coyote is racing alongside the road and I just knew he was going to jump in front of me. Sure enough he makes his move, I hold my line, hit the gas and feel a sickening thump-thump. Still there, dead as ever the next day. I got many thanks from the uncles for taking one of the little buggers out. Cute little buggers though, I sure felt bad...
I was riding a while back doing about 65mph .... I spotted a opossum in the road right in front of me. I he was looking at me so I didn't know which way he was going to go. I thought, with my luck I will be in the middle of a swerve and hit him and make it worse. So I went straight, and he didn't move (playing possum I guess). Anyway, I braced for impact, and got my butt off the seat. It was a let down, I drove right over him with both wheels and it was just a little thump thump, hardly felt it. I guess they are mostly fur.
