Bandit Alley
GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MOTORCYCLE => Topic started by: SHREDDER on May 08, 2007, 02:55:59 AM
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After riding the Bandit for 6 years and a few close collisions with animals I finally hit one! I never in a million years expected to hit a turtle but I did. Just clipped the edge of his shell with my tires. Just wondering what kind of animals others have hit. :bandit:
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After riding the Bandit for 6 years and a few close collisions with animals I finally hit one! I never in a million years expected to hit a turtle but I did. Just clipped the edge of his shell with my tires. Just wondering what kind of animals others have hit. :bandit:
The problem with turtles is that they don't really run fast when they see you coming. :wink:
Hope you are OK.
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Besides bugs, I think I hit a bird once, and hit a rabbit in the car once. I've came close to hitting a skunk and a armidillo.
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I once hit a grouse at 100+ mph... knocked my right boot off the peg and splattered blood and feathers all over the side of my GPZ1100.
Mt buddy behind me said he thought I blew something, all he saw was an explosion off the right side.
I left the mess on there for a week, great conversation starter... also explained why I was walking with a limp. :wink:
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Well it was not a animal but I hit a Gator (AKA tracker trailer tire). I was riding on the hwy at bout 80 MPH. Broke the bottom of the lowers I added to the bike.
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I have yet to hit a live animal but my one buddy hit a turkey on his 250 ninja.
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Giant Blue Heron.
Went home for lunch to get my motorcycle to take back to work... on the way back the bird flew out of the woods... directly across the road... from my right side before I could react. :shock:
It clipped my windshield, and then the left side of my helmet.
I was able to keep going... I saw it doing the death-flop thing in my rear view mirror.
Those are some pretty damn big birds.
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Deer, squirrel, chipmunk, cat, a few birds...
Luckily I was in a car all those times. :shock:
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Who hasn't hit an animal with their car? I think the question was meant for motorcycles. Thankfully I've never had to encounter an animal whilst on the bandit.
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I hit a couple of birds,woodchuck escaped by a hair the other day,and had a few deer watch me go by a few ft. away(maybe loud pipes helped?). And a couple that ran across in front of me.(slow down as soon as you see them) I've watched a pal hit a German shepard on his maiden voyage out after doing a frame up restoration on his Norton Comando. That didn't turn out well for him the bike or the dog.I was leading and slowed down when I seen the dog on the side of the road. Befor I waved him to slow down he sped up,thinking the dog was going to bite him. He ran straight in front of him(dog died) he broke his foot,and the Norton had to go back on the lift.
You can never know what a animal will do, at the last min. they might try and beat you across.You almost have to have a 6th sence,like when you see the car at a intersection or driveway. But sometimes the varmits just jump out of nowhere. Dan
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Hit a bird, or rather it hit me, on the shoulder about 10 years ago. I was riding my honda magna 70mph on the highway. It was a meadowlark maybe the size of an orange that jumped up from the grass on the shoulder. Knocked my left hand off the bar. I too saw the explosion of feathers in my mirror. Amazing how hard the hit was. Left a bruise on my shoulder that was disappointingly not shaped like a bird. Can't imagine why people ride without gear.
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ALMOST hit Bambi's mom on my Honda single cam 750 years ago. She came down an open slope onto the road from my right rear and tried to angle across in front of me. Dumb deer.
I caught her with my peripheral vision at the last moment when she was just about 6 feet away going full speed. I hit the brakes, she bounded in front of me....just.....and her left rear hoof slipped on the pavement and she kinda flew across the other lane while I headed for the right shoulder of the road. Thankfully, for some unkown reason, I was actually below the speed limit of 90kM/Hr (55MPH). If I'd been going the limit, or over, I'd have been dead meat, fer shure. Fresh underwear was required ASAP but all's well that ends well. :grin:
That's been my "close encounter" with wildlife....but that's plenty enough for one lifetime, IMO. :grin:
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Who hasn't hit an animal with their car? I think the question was meant for motorcycles. Thankfully I've never had to encounter an animal whilst on the bandit.
I hit a bird with my front tire last year...I and the bike were fine, but the bird....
I have never hit anything more than a bird, maybe a squirrel, with a car. I'm not going to run off the road and wreck trying to avoid an animal, but I also try to avoid the potential of hitting an animal.
I've come close to hitting deer on the bike only twice.
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The only thing I've ever hit (with my car) was a bird on the 401 back from Toronto. Stupid bird flew down from right to left, right underneath my car....and I didnt see it continue off to the left.
At the next stop, I checked my car. The poor thing was lodged in my lower intake, headfirst, with its feet sticking out. Pretty gross!
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Coming home from a toy ride 2 yrs. ago,10:00 pm on a logging road,bugs thick as fog poor headlite on a Honda Nighthawk,rounded a turn,3 LARGE MOOSE in the middle of the road. Took the one on the right,hit him in the butt,took my left boot off, never did find it. Broke front forks,new W/S left ex. pipes,gas tank, side cover,ferring. Got 2 broken wrists,broken ribs,left leg fracture and other sore spots . The moose died so i don't feel so bad,was sore for a long time. Was my 69 th. birthday,some gift. :stop:
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Coming home from a toy ride 2 yrs. ago,10:00 pm on a logging road,bugs thick as fog poor headlite on a Honda Nighthawk,rounded a turn,3 LARGE MOOSE in the middle of the road. Took the one on the right,hit him in the butt,took my left boot off, never did find it. Broke front forks,new W/S left ex. pipes,gas tank, side cover,ferring. Got 2 broken wrists,broken ribs,left leg fracture and other sore spots . The moose died so i don't feel so bad,was sore for a long time. Was my 69 th. birthday,some gift. :stop:
I think we have a winner! :bigok:
:welcome: to the board, Biker. Nice entrance. :bandit:
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Thanks for the welcome, still cherish each day i can bike. Bought me a 1200 Bandit S for my 71 st. birthday, hope i am up to the task. :bandit:
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Yeah that moose story takes the cake! :congrats:
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I caght a Starling in the top of the helmet a couple years ago. It snapped my head back pretty violently. Had a sore neck for a couple days.
One year later on the same road about 1/8 mile from where the Starling incident happened, a Turkey Vulture flew out of the ditch and I had to duck to miss it. I guess I was interupting it't lunch. :shock:
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Who hasn't hit an animal with their car? I think the question was meant for motorcycles. Thankfully I've never had to encounter an animal whilst on the bandit.
Up until about 10 years ago, I had never hit anything in a car. Then one day, I was driving along, and a gopher ran out and hit the side of my tire as I was driving. So I'm still not sure if that counts as a hit, or a been hit. Gave a porcupine a love tap though...
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I wouldn't want to hit a moose in a car let alone a motorcycle. Welcome to the board, glad you fared out better than the moose. :welcome:
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Do insects count?
I just remembered a funny and embarrassing incident when I was a kid about a hundred years ago...
I was always into the fast jap bikes, and a few Nortons, Triumphs, even an old Beemer R65 for a time, but I've never owned a Harley. Some of my friends did, though, and one particular older buddy of mine was always bugging me to get one. He said the chicks loved 'em, and it would improve my social life. He had a chopped Panhead that he was real proud of, so I was suprised that he offered to let me borrow it for the weekend... he swore I'd get one for my own once I experienced all the girls that would throw themselves at me.
So there I was cruising down main street about 45mph in a small town in Ohio named Lisbon... no helmet, bandanna on my head, aviator sunglasses, and greasy jean jacket with the sleeves cut off. Well sure enough, three cute girls walking down the sidewalk turned at the sound of those pipes and smiled, waving at me.
Of course I waved back and gave them a big smile. At that moment a huge junebug hit me right in the teeth.
For those of you that don't know what a junebug is, it's a really big round flying beetle about the size of an acorn, with a really hard shell. When this thing hit me in the mouth it almost broke my front teeth, but instead it smashed open and burst, giving me a mouthfull of slimy bug guts and pieces of wings and legs. It took me completely by suprise! I started choking and trying to spit the disgusting mess out and forgot to watch where I was going... I looked up just in time to see the back of the parked car before I ran into it, sending me over the bars and sprawling onto the trunk.
After I slid off and picked myself up, I looked across the street and the girls where laughing their asses off. I looked at the bike and the springer front end was a mess... one spring was hanging off and the forks were bent back at a 45-degree angle. I was just bruised up a little, more embarrassed than anything else.
I called my buddy and he came with his pickup. It took me 3 months working at the gas station pumping gas and doing oil changes to pay for a new front end and other damage on the Harley.
I was only about 17 years old, but I can still taste that freaking junebug to this day. Needless to say, I've always worn helmets with face shields since then, and I never did buy a Harley.
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You have June bugs too?? Yup they hurt alot, ugly too! I don't drive alot in the night so I've never hit one on the bike. Does a peddle bike count?? :lol:
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Besides bugs, I think I hit a bird once, and hit a rabbit in the car once. I've came close to hitting a skunk and a armidillo.
Hey Solman I thought they had bigger problems in your neck of the woods?
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w115/SemperFi-2/illegalscrossing.jpg)
Oh that's a little South of me also!
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:motorsmile:
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I've only hit bugs with my BANDIT.
Hit a dog a many years back. 2 of us on a Yamaha RD350 going aroun 60. It was a fairly large Irish Setter that ran across the road at night. When I saw the dog I tensed up for a crash - but nothing major happened. I felt the handlebars jitter a little and then we stopped up the road a ways. The front fender got the dog ( good old metal chrome fender ). When we headed back to look for the dog it was on the other side of the road and the fender had sliced its head open. The dog had been thrown about 16 feet, and the bike had a minor bend in the front fender. The only thing I could figure is that the amount of mass we had just bounced the dog out of our way. Or maybe I was just a lucky ?????
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I hit a dog on my Bandit 10 yrs ago at night. Never even saw it til it was about 30 ft in front of me, I was doing exactly 52 mph when I saw him, grabbed all the brakes I could, punted him into the ditch about 30 feet. The bike went into a BIG wobble, I thought I was going down but managed to keep it up. The dog was prolly 50lbs or so, killed him instantly.
I guess I was lucky not to crash, but of course I tell my buddies it was my superior riding skills. :lol:
Now I have slightly bent forks, so I go thru seals a little more often than normal(I guess thats why)?
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I've almost hit a couple stupid humans on my bike before. 2 in 3 months on my last bike. I attribute alot of it to the fact that bike was too damn quiet. (FZ6 is a pain to make louder). I've never before or since had a problem with pedestrians but the Hyosung is nicely noisy and the bandit is nicely loud. The v-max I had had a nice rattle in the exhaust most of the time I owned it (pedestrian whistles?), the KLR had an aftermarket pipe as did my first bike, a Intruder 1400. I'm a big fan of audible bikes...not for the ability to possibly be heard by the idiot in the cage beside you but for the announcement effect in slower situations. (That, and a gunning it with the clutch in is more effective than ANY of the japanese/korean horns to get someone's attention when light changes).
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I almost hit a couple of kids that ran out into the street while driving the Mustang the other day!! It's not a quiet car, and I was in 1st gear doing about 20mph. I think what it comes down to is more people should engage their brains before they leave the house, and pre-teens/teens are the biggest offenders. ;)
I too have found that the horn on the bikes is nigh on useless, but for a different reason. If I have to "panic brake" I find that my hands are in the wrong position to be able to hit the horn. ( I -think- that happens because when I panic brake, I tend to do it motocross style, in that I stand up and push my weight onto the pegs as much as possible to stop the back end from coming up. That rotates my hands into a position that puts the horn too low for my hands. Or,... it could just be that I'm defective. :shock:) Since my hand is already on the clutch, I rev the hell out of the engine, and usually what I braked for realizes the error of it's ways.
I did that recently when I cube van decided to swing wide left to turn right into a driveway with no warning. He used 3/4 of my lane as I was trying to pass him, I got to practice my panic stops and realized how useless the horn was. He noticed the revving engine though, especially when it bounced off the rev limiter.
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Summit Point Raceway is known for wildlife on the track. Two years ago, one of the coaches for the org I ride with was flying down a straight on the smaller (Shennendoah) course. Was on the throttle, turned around watching the form of the Beginner rider behind him. Had NO idea there was a deer standing in the middle of the track. He just got back on the bike earlier this year.
Then on 6/8, I was riding the Main course (very fast with a LOOOOOONG straight) there. Second session of the day, one of the control riders in my group hit an opposum at the fastest part of that straight prolly doing in the mid 140s. I was only a few seconds behind him. Cut that sucker in two. The pieces were at least 6 feet apart!
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one of the control riders in my group hit an opposum at the fastest part of that straight prolly doing in the mid 140s. I was only a few seconds behind him. Cut that sucker in two. The pieces were at least 6 feet apart!
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
To prove to the oppossum it could be done. :bandit:
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Haven't hit anything on the bikes (knock on wood), but lots of close calls with cats, dogs, deer, birds, rabbits, and yes even turtles as well :lol:
Oddest close calls I had: One time I was heading to work following a car. I notice it go over something and it's spinning around on the road after it went over it. Begin picking out a spot to swerve and avoid it when I realize it's a kitten. All spreadeagled and doing 360s along the road. Managed to miss the little guy and turned around to see if it was ok. Was small enough that the car didn't actually hit him. Just sent it for one hell of a ride.
Another time I was out riding on some country roads. Get up behind this old Ford Aerostar van, the kind with that short and really slanty nose. Just getting ready to pass him and all of a sudden there's an explosion of feathers. Next thing I see is this chicken cartwheeling through the air. It was up high enough that it looked like the guy had thrown it out his window. I'm guessing the chicken had tried, in vain, to make a last ditch jump to get out of the way. Unfortunately for him all it did was get him high enough to hit that slanted nose and ricochet off the window into the air.
I've had so many bugs explode on my shield that I can't understand how people keep riding without helmets. Considering the pings I've taken from bugs or God knows what else I know I would have been in a lot of pain without a lid.
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Ohhh,.. birds. Yes, I've had a lot of close calls with birds on the bikes.
We were in the mountains last year and I almost got hit by a bat ( helmet and all, I still ducked and tried to cover my head. :roll:) then a HUGE owl during the same trip. I could have reached out and grabbed a wing feather as he crossed my path.
Then a week or so ago, I almost got a Red Tailed Hawk.
You know, I chase these things to try to photograph them, and they never want to be close to me. I get on a bike, and have both hands busy however... and they dive bomb me. :crybaby: :rant2: :shrug:
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You know, I chase these things to try to photograph them, and they never want to be close to me. I get on a bike, and have both hands busy however... and they dive bomb me. :crybaby: :rant2: :shrug:
Have somebody ride around in circles at a bird sanctuary?? :lol:
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one of the control riders in my group hit an opposum at the fastest part of that straight prolly doing in the mid 140s. I was only a few seconds behind him. Cut that sucker in two. The pieces were at least 6 feet apart!
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
To prove to the oppossum it could be done. :bandit:
Sorry... didn't have my camera shoved in my leathers on the track... :stickpoke: :lol:
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Well I posted here a while back, since then I have hit something new.
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x280/okbandit/okbanditvsthebeaver.jpg)
I went back to get this picture after the near death experience and being told what it was. Turn's out it is a North American beaver. Sorry about the picture quality, a phone was the only camera we had with us. Highway 9 just outside Pink Oklahoma. Word of warning, beavers are just about invisible at night, his eyes didn't light up at all. Thought it was a wild pig when I hit it.
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To me was the animal who hit my Bandit, look, look....
(http://albumbandit.iespana.es/verano2005/fotos/HPIM1522.jpg)
If you can,t see the photo, please, click here:
http://albumbandit.iespana.es/verano2005/fotos/HPIM1522.jpg
:taz: :taz:
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Carlos - La foto no exhibe.
Okie - WOW! :shock: :yikes:
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Well I posted here a while back, since then I have hit something new
Layin in th road with ma beaver, kay? lol. (in the style of http://icanhascheezburger.com)
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okbandit, how much for a beaver seat cover? :lol: :grin:
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Couple yars ago I'm riding through Vermont with a couple other guys, going up one of the straighter sections of Rt. 100, at +/-70 mph. A medium sized bird launches itself from the side of the road, directly in front of me. It hits the handlebar right where the controls/mirror attach and explodes. Guy behind me only sees a big puff of feathers. Both my bike and I are covered in bird chunks.