Oh I Think I Killed A Cat!

A sheep ran down a sloping field directly into my car once and didn't make it.

Like you, I couldn't avoid it, but felt bad about it.

 

Had a bird fly straight into my visor at about 80!! Feck me, it bloody hit me hard. Was like being punched with a breeze block. Vision black, cartoon stars and tweetie birds, just pulled in the clutch, and freewheel to a stop. Had to sit for a minute to recover.

Only time I ever got hit that hard was a snooker ball jumped the cushion and smacked me on the temple. Poor kid that did it, was nearly crying in panic. I did have a mohican / quiff at the time, German para boots & battered biker leather

 

I hit an owl, don't know if I killed it, came round a bend at night and it was just sat there, a feather fest, stopped the bike but pitch black and dangerous so didn't hang about

 

1973 just North of Ware, Hertfordshire hit a swarm of bees at about 60 on my Yamaha DS7. They just emerged from a hedge like a thick mist. I did not initially know what it was. Wearing an Everoak full face, my vision went down to about 5% and I got stung 3x on the neck. My leather jacket was a goo of dying insects. When I serviced the bike months later the air filter was full too.

 

Did you salvage any honey out of it?

 

First proper ride of my speedmaster me and my mate went to Bellingham him in front down some country lane when his bike spooked a family of Pheasants, 2 adults and 3 young uns, 4 of them smashed into me and the bike killing them instantly leaving just one adult
Felt crap/guilty but it was unavoidable

 

Bloody hell Im glad Pheasants aren't that big

 

Yes, the bees were a complete 'mare.......

No honey, sadly. I remember wondering what it was coming out of the hedge then braking hard to a halt as I squinted through the gaps in the visor. Full face helmets were just taking off and I reckoned a jet helmet would have cost me a lot more than 3 stings.

Bees were everywhere, jammed in the loom under the tank, you name it. My Peter Fonda style jacket took a fair bit of cleaning. I thought that was it until about 10 years later I hit a wasp in the South of France and again got stung on the neck.

 

I once hit an owl late one Friday night on my way up to the lakes, nearly took me head off, riding the old CD175, and have had several encounters with wasps jammed down the inside of the old open face lid I used to wear, usually brought about a very rapid stop and lid removal to remove the nasty beggars.

 

Thank god we don't get anything that big here !!!! When I was in the states 10 years ago, report in the paper of a biker getting beheaded by hit one of these big buggers !!!


(@crispey , still the snipping tool !!! )

 

Wouldn't want to encounter one of those in a truck or 4wd, never mind on a bike, I've seen how big they are from the other side of the road which was much too close for comfort !!

 

Mate of mine had his bike written off and spent a month in hospital and still limps after hitting a deer, I think once over a certain size it then doesn't matter, they'll all do the same amount of damage
@MrOrange beginning to wish I never mention it

 

Apparently current wisdom on this is to hit the throttle just before impact to reduce personal damage by raising the front suspension to drive through to animal ........ don't think this would work with moose though

 

im guessing it was the fridge that the moose was in that killed him [/QUOTE]
Reminds me of the Irishman that was killed when a train ran over his finger.
He was picking his nose at the time.