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Strange things you have hit
This article appeared in a local paper a couple of weeks ago, poor bastard! Emu's and roo's blend in to the road side vegetation very well.
A MOTORCYCLIST has been killed after hitting an emu in Victoria's west. The rider came off his bike after hitting the bird at about 10.30am (AEST) today on the Casterton-Edenhope Road, near Edenhope, nearly 400km west of Melbourne. Police are investigating the accident, Rural Ambulance Victoria spokesman John Mullen said. The man's death takes the state's road toll to 254 for the year, eight fewer than for the same time last year. A friend cleaned up a kangaroo last year and is still recovering. Who has other tales of woe to tell??? |
other creatures are out there too
well I'm sorry to here about that.....
well you are down under and the creatures sharing the world are may a bit bigger than over here in Europe.... well this June a few month ago on a bike trip to Sweden together with my mate we came just in to the outskirts of Esbjerg/Denmark, I did nearly hit a deer in bright day light... I was riding behind a van on a busy road, suddenly this deer came out of the bushy side to cross the road but luckily rearlisied the busy traffic and paniced back in to the side.... there wasn't much room to get around if it didn't turned around... deers course lots of heavy car accidents mainly at night. A few years before that I went to work on my bike, abut 6am, a foggy dark morning on a lonely country lane in Oxfordshire. suddenly there stand a male deer right on the middle of the lane and fros still as it came in to the beam of my headlight.... well i could just dip the bike to the right other wise I would have run straight in to that dear right up front, luckily the deed didn't turn the same way so no one got harmed, not the deer nor I.:thumbup1: My advise... we are not alone on this planet, and the roads are used by other creatures as well, so take care and watch out... spooky |
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Can't match that - the emu was hit in clear daylight conditions? Come to think of it, you must have seen the pics that went around the internet of a horse through the windscreen of a car - probably a "photocut" fake? (But horses do get hit on the UK roads) There is plenty of roadkill on the roads of the UK but nothing the size that you guys can find - the odd deer, very occasionally. |
roadkill
2 years ago in cambodia the deadtol
1 snake 1dog (smal one ) 2 chikkens :oops2: 1 year ago in thailand,cambodia but with the bicycle the dogs had there revenge, every time you pas a dog in thailand with the bicycle they go for the kill. ok its good for the condition but one of them had the chance to bite in my soft panniers and stop my bicycle . once on my feed i sceard the dog away. so if you ever wanth to ride e bicycle in thailand always have a something to hit ore trouw with you |
A friend of mine almost died after hitting a cow. He's OK now though.
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Elivs
A guy hit Elvis in Las Vegas.
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Bottle
I am a non drinker but if my football team keep losing I may have to 'Hit the bottle':clap:
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I once hit a huge tigersnake in Tasmania. The bloody thing ended up wedged in my bashplate- still alive too!! Took me a while to put my feet down. Luckily it's back must have been broken so it didn't move from there. I ended up jumping on it's head to put it out of it's misery(True story_ I hadn't even had a single G&T).:cool4:
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On topic: someone on the blogs here got hit by a vulture in Africa. If I recall, the vulture died. Stephan PS Is this thread in the right forum? |
I once hit a duck in original size out of white clay or plaster. It was broken.
Cheers from Izmir, Turkey |
[quote=Stephano;157373]:offtopic:Crystal Palace, Dave?
Yes Stephano ....You are correct !!! Palace till I die!:clap: |
I kind of bumped into a cow in northern India a few weeks ago.
It was standing in the middle of the road, so I slowed right down, then it started moving off in one direction, so I came off of the brakes to go around the back of it, but then (being a cow as opposed to a bull), it changed its mind and went the other way. I clipped the back of it with my radiator (skimming the edge of one of my forks). The result was a toppled, confused (but OK) cow, me only just correcting the weave and blue liquid all over the road! All in all, an expensive incident both on the time front and on the wallet! I'm sure that in a few years' time, I'll laugh to tell the story of it. Come to think of it, I already do laugh at it... (read all about it at www.planitearth.co.uk - UK to Australia 2007 - Home Page) |
Good to hear that others were more fortunate than the guy in the newspaper story.
I almost forgot about this one. When I was young and silly (ok the young bit was a long time ago) I used to ride an XR500 up a stretch of beach between Noosa and Rainbow Beach where the vehicle ferry leaves for Fraser Island. I hit a Seagull at somewhere in the vicinity of 120 - 140kmh. It hit me square in the middle of the chest and by the time I managed to stop the bike I could hardly breath. Apart from being winded I got out of it very lightly. After a ceremonial burial for the unlucky bird I continued on my way. You just can't beat a ride in the sand on a beautiful beach that is just as wide and hard as a real road. PS; G&T's can't be good for you can they Ken??? |
A long time ago, driving my benelli T50, I ran over a cat. It tried to cross the street between my front and rear wheel. The front wheel timing was good but it was just a bit to slow for my rear wheel so I ran over it. It made a lot of noise and ran away. I stopped but it disappeard in the bushes (I don't know how many of it's nine lifes it had already used)
Another time I was riding my GoldWing on the Autobahn, doing about 160 km/h when I heard a very loud BANG. I stopped at the next parking to check out what happened. Then I found the remains of a very big dragonfly that had hit my fairing. I was glad it hit the fairing and not me. |
It is not uncommon collision in the western USA but I hit a deer in Oregon, made a bit of a mess of the bike, me and the deer. In fact the deer had to be shot by the guy who came to my aid.
3 days later I came out of hospital and went to recover my bike, I had an invite to dinner and guess what; we had venison, a real road kill dish. I had a broken collar bone broken ribs and concussion. Fixed the bike as best I could and rode it back to Charleston SC to ship it home. Other hits include rabbits, a lamb, dogs, and cats. The most bizarre was a kid’s football which I ran over with both wheels, and properly could not do that again if I tried. Steve |
OK, heres my hit list. Going way back when I was a little tacker growing up in the Australian bush. I hit a wallaby's tail as he bounded in front of me whilst out on my Montessa. The next one, whilst not strictly mine, was quite spectacular. I was following a mate at night near warranbool. He was on his Triumph bonneville and me on my Norton commando, i've still got that Norton. A rabbit ran out, hit the rear wheel of the Bonny and without a word of a lie achieved something of an altitude record, for a rabbit that is. I'd guess it was sling-shotted about 40 feet into the air. Then in 84 whilst spending a memorable year in North America touring around on a 81 Low Rider, we were wanting to make time across the flat boring bit between Arizona and the Mississippi, so pushed on well into the night somewhere in northern Texas. Within a flash a dark lump appeared in the headlight, smack bang in the middle of the road. Before I had time to react we hit it with a hell of a thud, then happily continued on our way. Next morning revealed all. There seemed to be a dead Armadillo every mile or so. This I'm sure is what we hit. Back in Oz, cleaned up a couple of cockateils ( small cockatoos for the uninitiated ) in western Victoria. Then again at night near Mansfield, Victoria. Two very large dark apparitions appeared in the head lights of my 91 Herritage, which VERY quickly morphed into two horses. Grabbing all the brakes that were available to me I can still remember the rear end slowly drifting out to the right in an effort to beat the front end, just as I came to a stop and was able to reach out and pat one of the horses on it's arse. My one saving grace was that they were trotting away from me and not towards me. I guess the underlying current here is, be bloody aware at night. I will also go so far to say that years of experience and the gradual accumulation of skills and road craft do pay off.
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rabbits(x2), pigeons(numerous), a fox & a badger
i've had a couple of near misses with sheep:rolleyes2: none have resulted in anything more than fur/feathers/blood on the bike/helmet and a minor wheel wobble.......yet:( |
Friend of a friend, in Canada, hit a Moose. Damn near killed him. Car took the legs from under the animal which landed on top of the vehicle. Fire service had to winch the thing off in order to get the guy out.
If that's the size of the moose.....how big are the bloody cats ? :eek3: |
A lot of the roads in central asia have what appear to be small smooth rocks on them, until you notice them moving! I clipped one such tortoise which pushed my front wheel off a bit, bit of a wobble but fine. The remains of tortoises hit by trucks was another worry - sharp shell fragments. Luckily the bright red made them easier to spot!
I remeber reading a few years ago about someone who hit a deer on a bike at about 80mph, he managed to cut the deer clean in half with no injury to himself - just covered in blood and guts! |
This seems like a loooong time ago now...
------------------------------------------------ 8/6/05. Birnin N'Konni, Niger. Have you, I wonder, ever had an eagle hit you in the leg at 55mph? No? I won't believe you. You must have. Actually, up until this morning, neither had I. In this part of the world they like to sit on the road, d'you see, eating roadkill and bugs and so forth, and as you approach them, the thought process tends to be, "I am absolutely certain that those eagles will get out of the way before I get there", and they almost always do. It's not as painful as you might think. Imagine someone throwing a labrador at you as hard as possible. |
Pheasant!
I had the misfortune to be passing on a fairly crisp dry wintery day a local landowners shooting grounds as they were on a pheasant slaughtering mission when I lived in the UK. I was fair hurtling down the country roads enjoying myself ( as you do) when BAM!!! a Cock Pheasant who thought he had escaped the guns smacked through my windscreen and into my chest....... I was doing about 90 on my BMW K100LT at the time and apart from the bruising, the new screen, the laundry bill ( yep, i nearly wet myself I can tell you!) and the blood all over me from the bird I was luckily OK.
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YouTube's got footage.
There's plenty of video clips of motorcycles hitting animals on youtube.com.
Just search for "motorcycyle deer" on the site. I can't remember which exact clip it was, but I remember the unfortunate deer being cut in two by the motorcycle, which, miraculously, managed to remain upright! |
When I lived in Aus, I was heading out to the desert driving late at night between Dubbo and Bourke and got run off the road by, I presume, a drunk jackaroo in an old pick up. Section of road is dead straight and flat for something like 100kms and I was going for it in a V8 Discovery, pick up turned on to the road from the dirt with no lights straight in front of me, I end up going off the road as I come sailing past him but had to pull back on as tree was coming up and ended up sliding sideways at high speed - not that much fun in a 4x4, luckily went 180 degrees but cliped a road post and trashed one wing. Managed to get the Disco started again and off the road before a road train that was bearing down on me came through. Feeling slightly shaken, stopped for the night. Next morning, closer to Bourke, hit a Kangaroo, headlights popped out and hung down on wires, grill dropped out, had to reassemble it all. That afternoon, between Bourke and Tipoorburra, hit a Emu whilst going quite fast. Thing was so solid that I had a A-bar on the front and it sheared the bottom bolts on both sides and rolled on the top bolts into the bonnet trashing that. How to progressively trash vehicle in 24 hours. Also nudged a donkey in Africa but fortunately had almost come to a halt by the time I did it so not to bad.
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Technically I ran into a horse while riding at 13 years old. A wild group of horses merged in with me while riding fast on a gravel road -- and riding two up. Needless to say, I wrecked given that this group of horses merged into me. One kicked me in the left bicep muscle, and one kicked the crossbar of the handlebar bending it back and leaving a two horse-shoe edges in the steel tube. That crossbar may have saved my life. An adult horse kicking a 13 year old in the chest with a force like that, would have been bad.
Walked away from the !20kmph crash a bit shaken up, dusty, and the kicked arm having me out-of-service for a week or two. Respect animals by staying away from them and being 100% aware 24 hours a day. :oops2: |
roo in qld... ouch 200k ride to hospital,feck it hurt' day time too????
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I hit plenty of Pidgeons when a Dispatch rider in London. They taste horrible.
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On the way down south last year and the weather was misserable, I had visability problems and ended up bouncing down an old country road. When I stopped to look at what I though were rocks it turned out they were Rabbits. Not sure how many I killed but there was many dead from previous drivers. The place looked like a battlefield full of little fluffy bodies. It smelt disgusting too.
The same thing happened with frogs a few months ago.... |
Cow in Rajastan
King cobra in Kerala (another took a shot at my leg in Tamil Nadu) Buffalo in Laos( I just missed but it turned and ran straight into an oncoming bus) But what scares me are the tortoises on the road, you don't see 'em till you're right on top of them. |
Do idiots count?
Some years ago I hit an idiot pedestrian who stepped off the curb immediately after having looked (I thought) straight into my eyes. "SMIDSY". Dislocated elbow, several weeks off work (I was self employed, so lost earnings), and a surprising amount of damage to the bike (Kawasaki GT550). Gratifyingly (I'm nasty) he was injured more than I, and he tried to use that as a defence when I took legal action for my financial loss (he failed).
Living near Oxford I regularly see foreign tourists step into the road having looked the wrong way - seen a few students knocked off bicycles, but so far I've avoided them. I've hit a few pheasants round here; why do the damned things run along the road and only take off at the last moment, only to climb to about shoulder height once they have taken off? |
Well one time and band camp......
I have hit all manner of livestock including birds, dogs, roos, echidna', emu. Fortunatly none have resulted in serious injury. Even ran over a goanna once and Loxsmith wanted to roast him up on the side of the road. :-) |
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While motorcycling, I've hit a dog, several snakes and almost was wiped out by an emu which suddenly decided to run down the centre of the road towards me.
In a car I've hit birds, snakes, frogs, rabbits, a fox and a wombat in Australia. In NZ I almost hit a goat and it's amazing that I haven't actually struck any possums yet as they are so plentiful around here. However the worst of all was hitting a pedestrian in Sydney who just ran out straight out from a pizza shop near the side of the road, into fairly heavy traffic, ignoring the Don't Walk sign at the lights. I was driving next to the median strip. I don't know how he avoided getting hit by cars in the other lanes. The ambulance came for him, the police interviewed me and numerous witnesses and concluded I'd done nothing wrong. But it ruined my birthday! |
Killed a lamb in Argentina with my pannier (box, not soft bags...) while trying to avoid it. Sorry Larry!
Bounce off a Pakistani in erm Pakistan who walked out without looking, not that they ever do that much..despite me having a double horn. Minor collision with a Beetle (VW taxi variety) in Mexico who decided to do a U-turn in front of me. Again, my metal panniers did more of their good work on his front fender. |
Hit What?
:funmeteryes:Talk about hitting things on the road, 3 years ago I hit an Emu on the gravel rd just north of Mullawa WA at about 95 kph. I was on my sidecar unit when it hit the front leading link suspension, just a broken blinker light on the right. Then 2 Years ago I hit another one just out of Nannup WA at 110 kph with my 1200 Goldwing, I didn't even see it till it was 2 feet from me, end result bike wobble for 100 mtr's and me still upright. How's that?
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Hi, hit an eagle here in Scotland, it was at the grass verge feeding on something and flew out into my path as i approached, bounced off me and the bike behind me. it hobbled off into the grass and i assume it survived as is was not there when we returned. Andy
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