What's the strangest thing you've hit/run over?
 

I flattened a ring necked pheasant the other day and have destroyed various woodland creatures that have had the misfortune to wander in front of my bike in my travels.

What's the strangest thing you've ever hit or run over in your travels?

The law.

Physically it would have to be a dead deers leg on the highway on my old bike going 70 mph. I got about 2 feet of air and almost went down.
The sad thing? I was tempted to turn around and ride over it again going faster.

a turkey vulture at 70 mph to the chest

A dump truck. :panic:

A flock of seagulls. They destroyed my face shiled and I was pulling feathers from my helmet and leathers for a week after. I probably plowed through a few dozen of them before I made it through the flock.

The worst part was that we were stopped on the side of the road that was covered in white birds in front of us, stupid me says to my riding buddy "I wouldn't worry, they are pretty good at moving before you hit them". Then I got on the throttle way too hard.

Hilarious. Turtle in the apex of a corner with my front tire.

Riding a country road in Michigan at dusk, I came up to what I thought was a bit of fog... Turned out to be a huge swarm of bugs. I just tucked a bit and headed in...about 30 yards in I felt something hit my shoulder, them my face and everything went dark. I slowley pulled off the road and removed my helmet. Just like a cartoon, I had a bat,wings extended splattered across my fullface helmet.

So far...just a giant bug to the throat. It hurt. :(

Leon has run over an alligator.

I have hit a buzzard,straight into my chest, shoulder area. I was wearing a JR mesh jacket. Blood and guts and feathers everywhere, and I had the biggest bruise ever.

A Lightning Bug...Looked Like Fucking Radioactive Waste on my Face Shield when it exploded

so far I'd have to say that one is in the lead :lol:

He has the pic too. Everyone turned around and it was dead, so he took a pic with it.

You know you've had a good day...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...6/5af01012.jpg

on my bike? uh... I have no idea...


in my truck... I uh... ran over myself... :leaving:

I got out to check my front drive shaft in my truck... and my truck tire hit a rock and kicked it sideways... fucker ran right over me... like... over my legs chest and sholder...

good thing my Toyota is still pretty light... for a truck...

that's fuck'n weak.. you should have seen Rae's and my visors on the way to Knoxville... damn love bug season :panic:

Lol...I didnt take one after the Run we took to Maryland...It was ten times worse

That was only an hour of riding and that was In Town...God Help me if I went trough the wooded areas of jersey.

I had a Fucking Explosion when I went on the MD Run...Right SMACK in the middle of my line of sight.

i've ran over a duck and a dead racoon

after the racoon i couldnt get the stink off of the bike to save my life it was bad

that's nothing :lol:

I've had it where I had to pull over and wipe the bugs off just to see the speedometer :lol:

in philly one night i bagged a fatass rat and narrowly missed a stinky crab

It looks so weird when you do hit one.

Birds... pppssssshhhhhaaaaa whatever, talk to me when you hit them on a regular basis. I even had one fly through my car :lol:


The rest, you haven't lived until you've played road-kill tag ;)

couple guard rails. thats all.

ummmm..... Let's see, on a bike,I've hit three deer,a cat,a muffler,part of a plastic lawn chair,a huge plastic sign,a dead pine tree(must have fell off a truck),a traffic barrel,a farm implement/combine(barely,broken fender no biggie),a bird in the chest,a Coors bottle thrown from a pick up truck (remember that,guys?),a garbage bag,hmmm that's probably all of the weird ones I can remember.

Me and you Tigger....

not wierd but a deer here as well.

grounds for death. like seriously.

One of these.

http://www.controlelectronic.com/CES...rrier_Gate.JPG

I was exiting the parking garage in the building I work at behind a car and the magnetic sensors didn't pick me up on my Tuono. The barrier started raising and the gate arm began to lower.... Luckilly it was a solid ramp that raised up (not a bar, like shown above) and I was traveling in the opposite direction than the arrow in the picture... I had to fuckin gas it & jumped the damn thing.

Definitely got my attention!

my boy caught a duck to the chest when he was testing my bike lol

That'd be scary as shit.

A queen-size matress at 80mph. That was different.

That was awesome... You still got the pics of that? I think I deleted mine... I was just telling someone about that ride the other day...

Speaking of OSP/drewpy mishaps...

Canvas bag full of decoy geese at 890mph:
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...tor2567742.jpg

I don't know if it's strange but I killed about 15,000 butterflies last Spring at the Gap. Ok maybe it wasn't QUITE that many but it was a lot!! :lol They were quite distracting to drive through...

More birds than I can count. Birds are easy. They just deflect off.

My *strangest* hit was that I clipped a moose with my hardbag about 20 miles west of Jackson, Wyoming.

I didn't go down. A foot more to the left and I would have. He was standing on the yellow stripe in the middle of the road and it was dusk out in the mountains. VERY hard to see.

coyote at 90 mph.... :panic:

a barbed wire fence.... :panic:

motor oil.... :panic:

kids home made ramp... :panic:

kid... :D

Oh Trust me It glowed for like a mile down the road...at first I was like WTF WTF...then I realized it was a lightning bug. I've had some HUGE splatters on the actual bike...In some Weird spots to...where you wouldnt think a bug could hit.

For me its only 2 bats, and a few squirrels.

How big was the gator leon hit? and ho wupset was curb about it. You know we like reptiles more than most people LOL

Tom

We didn't know Curbie then :)

you win

A water spicket like on the side of a house just the little nozzle
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Mercedes-benz m271 engine specifications

Ooo... I somehow ripped out one of my sprinkler thingys in my yard a few months ago... I think it got caught on the lower fairing somehow... Had a nice fountain out there for a couple days until the HOA fixed it...

I was hoping for a more detailed story about the decoys. You let me down OSP.

Nothing too unusual, just a 'possum at 50 MPH (stupidest fucking animals on the planet).

It was posted on the old site back when it happened... On the way back from Canada the weekend before moving to FL... Drewpy has the grand idea that we will go smoke Cuban cigars...

Knee puck to the helmet front straight at grattan.
Knee puck to the leg on the street.
Lots of birds including one to the chest that fell in my lap and was tossed to another rider. I also ducked one that hit back seater in the face shield.
Pack of cigs from friend in front of me.
June bug I thought some one tossed a chocolate ice cream cone out of a car.
Rabbit.
Mouse.
Phesant.
Dead coon.
A deer tail still connected to the deer at about 90mph. Thank God I did not hit the whole thing.
Tire in the road on the freeway at 70mph middle of the night.
Almost hit a V-8 engine that fell out of the truck in front of me.
Turtles and frogs are always on Grattan I have hit many of them. (frogs are slippery)
While passing a bus on the freeway it hit a deer and I got covered in yuck.(blood is sticky)
Police horse crap in east lansing(after a MSU foot ball game)
Railroad track with steel grate missing bent rim all to crap.
I also ran into the back of a friends Katana we started to leave a stop sign and then he stoped after rolling about 10 feet. Poked a hole in the F2 radiator with his pipe.
A whole mess of mayflys, they taste real bad.

Ok thats all I can remember in 15 years of riding.

And you boys tried to get me to go with you... crazy bastards

ran through a huge pile of fresh horse shit, covered everything


ran into a toyota corolla, then it ran over me, and broke a lot of my bones that i happened to have liked not being broken

And you didn't go because of your bleedin' vagina.

annnnnnnnnnnd remind me not to go anywhere with you :lol:

In 15 years of riding a lot of crap happens. I have about 100,000 miles in on sport bikes.

Oddly enough, I've never run anything unusual over in 6 or 7 years of riding.

Crazy truth... bled thru all the tampons you gave me from your secret stash...

I've taken out a few squirrels. No loss, IMO. Rats with furry tails.

I once ran over a cat, but didn't hit it. While cranked over in a right turn a cat ran under the bike. I saw the movement and looked down and I saw the cat run under the bike. I braced for the crash when the rear wheel went over the cat. Nothing.. sombitch made it between the front and rear wheels. Scared the shit out of me, probably him too. I figure we both used up one of our lives that afternoon.

Damn... that's insane.

That sounds like the squirrel I almost got the other week. I was coming home from work on a nice twisty road when a squirrel ran out. I wasn't trying to hit it but wasn't going to crash avoiding it.

It ran from the right side of the road and I left my left boot toe hit it's tail. It continued on it's way to the other side of the road. :lol:

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I've hit numerous birds ( I really like my armored gear ) and some really nasty bugs. I remember one time I had just flipped down my visor when I hit a bigass bug that splattered all over my visor.

When I was young, dumb and "squidly", I was riding in a loose fitting tank top. I was doing about 70 mph when I rear ended a wasp in my left nipple. To say that hurt would be a gross understatement.

I locked up both tires and ripped what was left of the backend of the wasp out. I had a hollow spot there for a month.

I shuddered just thinking about that

Thats wild.