Roadkill

[rideslikean00...]

I know we joke about motorbikes killing kittens but on my route I regularly see dead birds, hedgehogs and the odd badger. Last night on the way back I saw the VW Tiguan ahead of me (who was driving like a boss, it has to be said) slow down a fair bit. I wondered why then I saw a bunny run back out of his path. I slowly accelerated past and the silly thing decided to run right past my back wheel, there was contact I felt it. I assume the thing is now roadkill, dark night and traffic behind me on a country road so I couldn't stop to check. No blood or hair present on the wheel/under the arch when I got off to check after arriving home.

So what's your experience with roadkill?
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[Skudd]

You BASTARD you utter utter BASTARD, I don't mind what gets killed on the road, but Bunnies, bunnies are sacred, more sacred than kittens.
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[rideslikean00...]

[covent.gardens]

Knows hazard is present. Hits hazard anyway?

[Tungtvann]

Hit a sparrow once.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/damaja/256189_10150221408216855_705201854_7136566_6157712_o.jpg

Narrow country lane, flew out from a hedgerow right into the car.

[rideslikean00...]

[weasley]

My wife hit a wallaby once, in her Renault Megane, in South Oxfordshire. True story. There was hair left in the panel gaps but no blood, so not sure if road kill or road wounded. She got it in the head.
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[covent.gardens]

[Minty]

[rideslikean00...]

[andyscooter]

Had a squirrel fall out of a tree onto me once

Don't know if it was dead when it fell or died from hitting me and then the ground


In before bad obz shouldof avoided it
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[FretGrinder]

A squirrel once ran across my path, bike went over him and then I found this on my exhaust -

https://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/d0xicle/CBF%201000/IMAG1153_zpsa2f4a939.jpg

Poor little fucker
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[Dave70]

Went over a hedgehog once.

Poor thing must have thought "phew, that was close", when the wheels of the car in front of me went either side of it. Then I came along and splat.
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2012: R125 killed by white van. 2016 R125 killed by 30,000 miles of redline. Current: 2016 Kawasaki ER6f.

[mudcow007]

hit a bunny once, looked in the mirror to see it scrambling around on the road

felt bad, so stopped got out an put it out of its misery like some sort of bear gryles person

did feel a bit bad....


oh just remembered another, hit a cat near Mold (wales) heard a thump, stopped checked the car

bumper was smashed off its mounts an there was blood all over the radiator & grille - at least it was fast.....

[Fisty]

I hit a sheep https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=251011&highlight=sheep
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[mudcow007]

[Enduro Numpty]

I've hit more wildlife than I can remember over the years. Most painful was a gull that took out a mirror an indicator the clutch lever and nearly broke my fingers. Most scary was a pigeon that somehow got down the front of my jacket. Had birds barbecued on cooling fins of air cooled bikes and jammed on radiators of water cooled ones. Came very close to getting a buzzard in the face that was attending previous road kill. Much as it makes me a complete bastard I've flattened multiple rabbits but have almost lost the front end due to loosing grip on a slippery dead bunny on a particularly tight hairpin. Most macabre bunny kill was many years ago on the west coast of Scotland - hit a rabbit, slowed down and seen it limp off. Ten minutes later I came back the same way and seen a couple of hooded crows tearing it apart.

Never hit a deer on bike but have hit 2 in cars - 1st one didn't die but sat on the ground staring at me, 2nd one did die - just as well, it caused £800 worth of damage. Most upsetting road kill was a tawny (I think) owl which flattened itself on my windscreen.

I am a bad person

[wr6133]

Suicidal pheasants round here, you are guaranteed to hit 2 or 3 a year. Maybe they figure getting mowed down by a bike is preferable to getting shot at by some buck toothed upper class twat.

[Northern Monkey]

A deer did about £3000 worth of damage to my dad's Merc Vito van when he hit it at about 50mph
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[Dave500]

Hit a badger in my car last year.
Few loud bangs from it going underneath the car and it made the front of the car smell of roast beef
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[Vracktal]

I've hit a bat on the Kawasaki.
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[Tamsin]

[temeluchus]

I head butted a pigeon and squashed a a few rabbits.

And hit a few on the bike too.
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