| Author | Message | ||
     Dtx |
Ok, in the last month, I have come across the wildest things on the road. I hardly ever see any animals cross my path when I am in my truck, but when I am on the bike, everything comes out. 1. Deer pranced out...no biggie 2. Bob cat...couldn't believe what I just saw! That thing looked mean. 3. Turkey...barked the D&D at it and it flew off! Do turkey's fly??? 4. Stray rabid dog...made a "B" line for me, but obviously I out ran it. What are some other wild beast's you guys have come across. This reinforces the "scan the road ahead" rule. | ||
| Road_thing |
Coyote. No problem. Armadillo. Potential problem, but missed it. By the way, it's true that they kinda jump stright up when they're frightened. Exactly the wrong thing to do if you're trying to miss a speeding F-250... Skunk. Avoid at all costs! Never mind how I know... rt | ||
| Taxman |
turkey's can fly for short periods. to get up into a tree to roost, or to get away from a preditor. but they can't fly for more than about 50 yards or so. i would really worry a little more about the Deer though. they can change direction, or slip and fall on the asphalt. they can dart out in front of you faster than most things. and hitting one of them would be very bad. i'm in michigan. i think we hit more deer in a month than many states get in 3 years. | ||
| Blackxb9 |
yes turkeys fly. funny! | ||
| M1combat |
Rabbit X2 Squirrel X2 Dog X2 (one nearly got his head caught in the rear wheel...) Hit a bird at about 110 right in the shoulder (OOOOWWWWWW!) Hit many HUGE June Bugs (They're really more like animals if you ask me...) | ||
| Black_sunshine |
Big nasty rat. I was at a light in downtown Atlanta and one walked out right in front of my tire, looked at me and then continued across the street. It was about 11:00 at night. Oh, this weekend I came across two people walking a horse in the road in the N.Ga mountains. | ||
| Whodom |
I saw a black bear cross a few hundred yards in front of me when I was headed south on 180 about 5 miles north of T.W.O. last summer. He paused and looked at me like "WTF is THAT?" and high-tailed it into the woods. | ||
| Light_keeper |
We get deer all the time around here. Really got to watch for them as they tend to all of a sudden appear out of the brush and into the road. We have two or three bad mishaps a year around here. Last year I had a Moose walk out of the woods. It was about 100 yards ahead so that was no problem. | ||
| Dtx |
I should clarify, the deer was a way's down the road...so that's why it was no biggie. Come to think of it, I should have "barked" the D&D at that wild cat! | ||
| Buells Rule! (Dyna in disguise) |
Up in the central part of Wisconsin deer, coyote, are very common to see standing right in the damn road. Was with the wife riding around saturday & we finally saw wild turkeys...pretty big birds too. | ||
| Daveinm |
I've seen 2 possums. There's not much other wildlife you'll encounter on the roads in South Florida. The first time was maybe a month after I got my bike. I was doing about 65 in a 50 and saw him step out into the road. He stopped and I thought he was gonna turn back, but he starting moving farther into the road when I got closer. I hit the brakes and buried that f'ker. Ran over him straight across his back. There was a split second that we locked eyes before I ran him over that we really connected though  Then I pretty much jumped his a$$ The second time was just driving through a local neighborhood...35 mph road. He ran into the road and I swerved. My buddy in the car next to me came really close to hitting him. | ||
| Ara |
The first time I rode my Honda Transalp to work, I did so wearing dress slacks and a leather jacket. I was motoring peacefully along when I saw a small, round, black object in the air coming at me. It was a bumble bee and the silly stooge hit me in the shoulder. I could feel him hit through the jacket. I figured he'd gone over my shoulder, but when my crotch felt like it was slowly catching on fire I realized otherwise! He'd landed on the seat between my legs instead of going over my shoulder, and when he woke up he was in a rather unsociable sort of mood. It was a good thing I was going to work at 6:30 AM at the time. I'd have hated it if anyone was around as I ran down the hallway, burst into the men's room, and shucked my pants to inspect my butt in the mirror. There is a God, and he's got a marvelous sense of humor. | ||
| Got1nut |
Be careful out there with the wild life guys, Last year here on the east coast in NY on the saw mill parkway in NY a rider was killed when a turkey buzzard hit his helmet, witnesses say it looked like the turkey buzzard was attacking the rider. Well the guy swerved lanes and hit an oncoming car. | ||
| Tatsu |
I've seen a lot of hookers, ladies in tong bikinis and a lot of Japanese tourist. | ||
| Diablobrian |
You guys in CA have to be careful too, hit a kangaroo rat...go to jail. (it's not quite that bad yet.......} | ||
| Cruisin |
ladies in thong bikinis...now THAT's an animal I wouldn't mind having around... | ||
| Buellman39 |
Here in pennsylvania we have ground hogs, and if you hit one of them its like hitting a bowling ball.  | ||
| Spatten1 |
In Montana they let cows open graze on public land. You can be flying around a corner and all of the sudden there are three cows with moronic stares chewing their cud right in the middle of the road. They just stand there, not reacting in the slightest as your rear end is swapping sides while you are barrelling right at them. | ||
| Ara |
Wyoming, too. Cows are as dumb as a bucket of stem bolts. | ||
| Bomber |
me and grounder scared an eagle from it's lunch last year on the way to homecoming . . .. . from Grounder's viewpoint (about 200 ft trailing), it was gong straight for my helmet . . . . from mine, it was a good twenty feet away (they don't gain initial altitude well) | ||
| Ocbueller |
Would you believe a peacock? Big sucker too! SteveH | ||
| Robxb |
a Buffalo in south dakota | ||
| Metalstorm |
Back in 85' when I was just starting my life of riding I once came close to hitting a young possum standing in the middle of the road one night. I stopped just in time and stood there about 4 or 5 feet away from it starring it down when suddenly a rather large owl swooped down and snatched it away. First I was spooked then I was just simply in awe. I'll never forget it. | ||
| Ingemar |
Only dead onces so far. Some were spread out like ... never mind. | ||
| Bikrgrrl |
Took a bird to my chest once, and the only thing that kept me on my bike (Kawasaki Vulcan at the time) was my rider's backrest. I thought I broke my sternum, but luckily only had some pretty deep bruising. Last weekend on my Buell, though, I got a bee inside my full face helmet while I was riding, and I'm still not sure how I didn't get stung. Other than that, I see deer and pets all the time, with the occasional fox or owl thrown in for variety. Kathy | ||
| Cyko_bob |
A couple of years ago I hit a Turkey Buzzard with a Honda Valkyrie. An oncoming car scared the buzzard causing him to fly in front of me. Luckily he was low and the Valky front tire simply rolled him under the bike. However, my wife and I...and the bike smelled like a cross between road kill and skunk. My wife gagged and I laughed. I also stopped at the first carwash I came across...washed her down (the bike...not my wife). I swear I can still smell the buzzard when I work on her...the bike. I have also hit roadrunners...birds have hit me...nearly hit deer. The scariest of them all, a horse came running across the road when the rider got bucked off...if I had slowed down I would have hit it head on, but I speeded up, hit the shoulder and barely missed it...washed my wife off that time.  Cyko Bob  | ||
| Koz5150 |
I caught a bird in the front rim once. The next year my dad had one fly into his armpit. last week I had a huge "thing" fly up and destroy my windshield on my Jeep, glad I wasn't on the bike. | ||
| Glitch |
Oh, this weekend I came across two people walking a horse in the road in the N.Ga mountains. More like came out of a turn and there were two people walking a horse, three dogs, and three bicyclist. All these loudass Buells trying to tip toe passed the horse trying not to spook him. That could have been a disaster! | ||
| Drift |
My brother inlaw and I had a deer run between the two us on our bikes. I was in the back. That scared the hell out of both of us. | ||
| Downundabueller |
Personally have encountered Kangaroos, Wallabies, Wombats, Snakes, Koalas, Foxes, Cows, lots of little rodents. When when talk about creatures on the road in general, we use the made up term kangawallabats. Gotta watch out for the carcasses of the road kill too. Sometimes at night follow trucks for their road clearing effect, and to supplement buell headlights. Its safer as long as they don't throw a tyre. Some areas we ride through have cattle grids across the road but no fences alongside the road the roads basically go through the middle of big paddocks. Some of my friends have also encountered camels, buffalo and emus, one lady came off in close proximity to a big salt water crocodile on a spillway. Yes she is still with us. Those things are serious predators. |
