| Author | Message | ||
     Nutsosane |
I rodeout early this morning to enjoy the cool air and avoid the traffic. Exit a sharp right hander and moved to the right to set up for the accompanying left. From the mountain on my right I caught a glimpse of turkey in my perifery as it impacted the front screen. We took a pretty hard hit at 50 mph but the bike wasn't fazed. After checking all systems I u-turned and shut Huckleberry down. The left handguard and clutch perch was pointing skyward and the mirror was in disarray. Pulled out the tool kit and fixed the perch but the mirror required heading for the garage and bigger wrenches. The whole bars have been repositioned by the turkey and I can now see the odometer plainly.  The bird was nowhere to be found, all he left was a stain of blood on my jacket. That's when I realized my clutch cable retainer gave up and I was cooking the cable on the exhaust. Took it in and they put a replacement retainer on and ordered the updated XT retainer. When it comes in I'll get a new clutch cable also. The old one will become a spare if I can talk my tech into "throwing it away". I was happy to whack the turkey at 50mph; better than a deer at any speed, right? NUTS | ||
| Froggy |
Sounds fun   | ||
| Nutsosane |
  Happy? | ||
| Ulynut |
Turkeys love Ulys | ||
| Johnboy777 |
Hey Nutsosane, I'd like to see a frame-by-frame reenactment of the turkey strike with that plastic turkey. Thanks . | ||
| Midnightrider |
A few years ago I came across Momma turkey leading 7 turklets across a highway. I slowed down and then mom and the first three kept on crossing while 4-7 did a 180 and headed back. I saw my chance and jumped on the throttle ( there was traffic behind me). Right before I got to the gap number 4 changed his mind again and decided to try and catch up with mom. He also thought this was a good time to test his wings. He was wrong. WHAP! Took number 4 right to the left chest at about 55 mph. Felt like a cast iron football. Missed the windscreen. Missed everything but me #4 was still flapping about in the road and momma was awful pissed but she took the other 6 away when i went back. had to take the poor sucker over to the side of the road and give him a nap ( busted wing, bones sticking out). So far that's the only wildlife I've hit | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
You'd "hit" a turkey? | ||
| Rwven |
C'mon over, there are a few turkeys around here that could stand a good smackin'! | ||
| Dr_greg |
I hit a turkey BUZZARD  straight on with my head (the top of my head; I ducked right before the impact). WHACK! Gave me a headache (duh) for a while...crazy. Another good reason to wear a helmet. | ||
| Nutsosane |
Rwven, if you've got land with turkey that need frying I'll happily invite myself over. NUTS | ||
| Jlnance |
Fatty - you one sick puppy. I'm glad to know you. | ||
| Jlnance |
Nuts, you've already had an incident on your bike? It's only 2 days old. Is hitting a turkey a warranty item?  | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Fatty - you one sick puppy.  | ||
| Bigdaddy |
That's some funny stuff (when it all comes out good anyway.) I was following my son just south of the BRP and we were blasting along at a good clip and he went through a flock of wild turkeys -- at least 5 or 6 of them -- and he slid right through without incident. We stopped just up the road and he said "what was all them birds doing in the road?" | ||
| Jlnance |
"what was all them birds doing in the road?" I discovered that one of the local farmers raises peacocks.  | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
he went through a flock of wild turkeys I did too.  Once.  | ||
| Bigdaddy |
That flock 'eh? I'm familiar with that road myself We used to keep some guineas, but they're exponentially smarter than peacocks and great watch dogs too. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
We used to keep some guineas  | ||
| Sarodude |
For a second I thought this thread was going to devolve into some discussion fusing chicken chokage and monkey spankage. Good to see that it hasn't. -Saro | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Oh it still may. |
