Blooming suicidal wildlife :warning-tad grim:

[Visitor Q]

All things considered i came off flipping well, but trundling along a country lane at a happy 80 ish, some pheasant sitting in the bushes went eek, by gum tis a motorbike, leapt up and fluttered across the road about a metre in the air, bumbled into a incoming transit vans side panel, knocked off still fluttering, and smashed into my gaffa taped on knee slider. And fecking detonated (and i really do mean explosion style). Little bastard rolled down the bike in pieces and off.

I look down and my knee is yellow, the brake cable and forks and frame are yellow. There is matted feathers everywhere.

Just plain grim.

Oh and yesterday i went through a cloud of feathers from a recently departed bird.

Oh and a rabbit tried to race me (and won i think) when i pulled off to go on another run down this road.

And its all been on this one country lane (the baldock to buntingford road) which is a fabulous fabulous road ive been very close to knee down on, without feeling vulnerable or silly. But i think a re evaluation of the safety of it all might be need, if EVERY wil animal i encounter wants to leap at me.

Any thoughts?
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[Robby]

When I work the early shift I leave home at 6am, and drive 17.5 miles of mostly country lanes.

My car sits very low, with parts of the exhaust even lower.

Small animals are suicidal, but often make it under the car. Sometimes they go under the wheels. Bigger ones.. well they get the exhaust.

I do brake often, but they just wait until you get moving then dart back out.

[iCraig]

I hit a squirrel the other day too and they do seem to have a death wish, and I'm certainly not the kind of person to avoid them if it puts me in danger.

I'd sooner run over them!

They just seem to leep out on me, maybe its cos they can't see/hear motorcycles and dash for it?

My worse encounter was with a rabbit about 10pm at night, when it ran into my path then and froze in my headlights and at 80MPH you can't slam on in time and I hit it, and it flicked up from my front wheel hit my crankcase, twatted my leg hard, and rolled along the road!
I was lucky not to come off!

[tony532]

my g/f rode over a rabbit on her ped a couple of years ago and it exploded made a noise like gun going off

[mr jamez]

The morbid side of me is asking for pictures

[Visitor Q]

Lol sadly not, i have a mental image of it (imagine the famous grouse advert where its running around pretending to celebrate a goal... it did that into my knee) altho if i had a camera i could probably go find halfa dozen smeared into the road on this particular strip. Its all good.
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[tony532]

i head butted a pheasant last august when it flew out of a bush at me

and a couple of weeks ago one flew out of a hedge and hit my stepdads car and its head slid along the side of the car and my son laughed his head off!!


they seem to wait until something is coming and then lamely fly out of a hedge at you.. might be suicide
(who knows!)

[mr jamez]

Shame the whole thing didn't stick to you knee, pheasent knee slider

[tintin]

I once played 'chicken' with a badger, it went one way, I went the other, it swapped direction, just missed it. They're big buggers!
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[map]

Once was going towards some pidgeons in the road. Most flew off at an angle. One tried vertical take off and smacked into the fairing. Thought fairing had been broken the noise it made but only found one feather stuck in the mirror.

I put it down to Darwin's theory of evolution

[synaptyx]

I once hit a duck in my dad's car. It's head just exploded, as mentioned earlier, it was like a gun going off. Shattered the number plate too! What the hell is that yellow stuff anyway? Brains and egg yolk!?

[mazza]

[izzi81]

we get deer around here, my dad hit one with the car and did the headlight in a few years back, and a couple of months ago I saw a pack of 3 insanely run across the road as soon as a car came along (don't they always do that? ) and the last one got hit by the car on it's back half. That was *not* nice to see, car was going about 30, nasty thump, deer falls down, then hobbles/drags itself to the other side of the road
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[carvell]

I just go there however, sometimes through walkern, sometimes I can't remember, I just end up there.

I know the exact turning you mean there - I've ended up in fields at night round them lanes, where the road takes a sharp turn but I carry straight on, cos the field looks the same as the road, can be a bit scary indeed!
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