hit a taco bell dog,

[greeneone]

I was riding through my friends neighborhood one afternoon and the little dog ran right under my bike, i didnt even have time to swerve.The little fella started yelpin an running around in circles as i pulled over to the curb to try and find the owner when all of the sudden the sucker walked over to my bike ,looked up at me and starting growling.So i started my bike and laughed all the way home.True story and i am a dog lover by the way.:-&

 

[jabberjoe87]

Since we are talking about dogs, I couldn't pull myself together when i was taking my permit test back whenever that was and one of the test option answer things for when a dog runs into the street is to slow down and kick at it

 

[spyug]

Please no kicking dogs. Running over cats o.k.Avoid deer, moose and caribou like the plague.

Seriously, the urge to avoid wildlife (especially doggies and kitties) by swerving has killed so many riders and kicking at them could upset the applecart or worse. You have to fight down that urge and hit the poor little critter if necessary.

The best defence against an attacking dog is to let him get a bead on you and accelerate away from him (if you can).

I've only been chased once by a dog and that little technique got me away from him with no injuries to either of us.

Worse than cats and dogs of course are deer as many of you know and in some parts of the world little critters like black flies, bees, wasps and mosquitos.

My very first solo ride , in the countryside, I'm wearing a half helmet and I get a bee trapped between my cheek and the chinstrap. I have on coming traffic and traffic behind me wanting to pass. Nothing but 6 foot ditch on my rightside and just a foot or so of gravel at the side of the road. Try to dig the little bugger out with my left hand. Just makes him mad and he stings me. Damn near drove into the oncoming. Had to drive about 5 miles with him stuck in there before I could pull off and stop. Almost quit riding right then but toughed it out and went to full face.

Birds also can be an issue and I've had one bounce off my shoulder. I've heard of a couple of folks getting a bird strike full in the face. I believe one cruiser rider was killed this way a few years back.

Got to be careful now with spring here now as everything is stirring so enjoy the critters but be careful.

Ride safe.
Spyug.

 

[greeneone]

Junebug

Junebug

That reminds me ,one night i was riding and my face sheild kept fogging up so i had to ride with it open an a june bug almost put my eye out,thank goodness for fog x.Be carefull.If we seen it coming it wouldnt be an accident.

 

[Guest]

Similar to Spyug's bee adventure - I was a brandy-new rider back in the '70's on my trusty Honda 175. Was driving down a secondary road one afternoon when a yellow-jacket zipped right into my open shirt collar and down my back!!

It was one ****ed-off bee & started stinging the crap out of me; I've got one hand on the throttle, wobbling down the road, the other reaching behind me trying to whack the little bugger to death. By the time I was able to pull over & stop, the bee was dead (and squished) and my back was chewed up. Thank goodness I was the only one on the road at the time, and not allergic to bees either!!

So the moral here is, "bee carefull."

Mike

 

[Smokinapankake]

Funny story about some sort of bug hitting me -

Going west on I-70 just east of Grand Junction, Colorado, at about 75 MPH something hit me dead square in the chest. Given the location (Colorado), I'm guessing one of those big nasty brown and yellow grasshoppers about an inch and a half long.

Being a newish rider, without proper gear, i.e., a real m/c jacket, I was wearing a threadbare Levi jacket.

The impact took my breath away, felt like getting hit by a rock, just about made me crash. Stop for gas and look at the point of impact. Sure enough, indiscernible bug guts about 2-1/2 inches in diameter (maybe it was seagull turd?). Fellow on a Beemer K75 or K100 or something comes over and says, "How close were you to that farm truck up ahead? Cuz that sure don't look like bug guts to me"

Somehow I don't think it was a bug anymore.

 

[heathen]

Animanls and me did not get along when i was young. Back in the late 70's early 80's. At 15 i hit a dog that came out from under a pick-up leaving my friends house. I was on my 76 yamaha enduro 250 no liscense no gear other than my helmet. took all the skin off my right elbow and broke my rear turn signal. The lady that owned the dog came out of her house and started yelling at me about killing her dog. I said your dog almost killed me and she said she was going to call the cops. I hopped back on my bike and took off out of there.

At 18 i hit a deer at night at possum kingdom state park. To much to drink on a twisty road going way to fast on my 72 honda 750 four. Came around a corner and there he was standing in the middle of the road. If i hadn't been drinking i think i could have avoided him but that didn't happen. Hit him mid section about 50 MPH this time with no helmet. All i could think was keep your head up. Luckily i went down on top of the bike and just slid to a stop.

 

[Guest]

Wearing a open-face helmet, something that hit me managed to crawl into my ear canal. I stopped quickly, and was able to get it out without major damage.

30 years ago, I was riding my GT550 in a rural residential area north of Des Moines. A big dog started chasing me, snarling as if he intended to take a serious chunk out of me. I sped up, and he kept pace with me for a short distance. He eventually lunged at me and missed, and got his left leg under my rear tire. It wasn't big enough to destabilize me. The dog howled, boy did he howl! Through the rear view mirror I could see him up in a few seconds, on three legs. I sort of felt sorry for him, but hey, he was trying to take a piece out of me. I hpe that a vet was able to save his leg.

 

[Zooks]

Try avoiding these hopping buggers.

 

[knowyourenemy66]

What breed of dog are they serving at Taco Bell?

 

[Zooks]

 

[pntrdave]

I dodged a bullet (well golf ball) at the brown county rally one year. Following planecrazy to dinner one evening and passed a golf course on our left. Saw the guy swing, saw the ball heading our way, saw it bounce off the pavement not six feet in front of me. Bet that would have hurt huh.

 

[Zooks]

four!!!!!!

 

[marz]

what kind of dog are the serving.. ohh mannn larrrffff


but a pair of shoes nearly had me off and down the rode at about 90 kmh last night.. damn scary. i might say..

i thought george isnt up here why are these trying to kill me..

so yeah watch out when its dark. never know..

did a oil change yesterday and found the remenats of the possum i hit last mthn.. didnt smell but it was hard to get off the oil filter cover(no problems with that bugger just hit it square.. thats why i was so suprized at the shoes nearly having me off.
perhaps i should slow the feck down.. yeah i should..

 

[duaneage]

My buddy hit a chicken in Mississippi. Feathers and guts all over the engine and man did it stink.

 

[Big Si]

I hit a roe deer one autumn evening on a quiet back road.

In autumn, the roads stay warm as the air cools, so the stupid animals lie on the road.

Fortuntely, I had seen it as a lump on the road and had slowed right down. It ran almost off the road, and then ran back onto the road, at which point I clipped it with the bike.

By the time I had stopped, got off the bike and headed back, it had got up and run away.

Si

 

[BentRod]

I'm saving my own animal strike story for the student budget bike thread, but I will tell you another or so.
First off,
one of my first rides out when I started, I wore a full face and was movign nicely through farm country in the evening, coming home to Hamilton. along one stretch though I seemed to hit patch after patch of little bugs, which popped on my visor with out much incident. However, after about 4 km of this I started having issues with visibility, and tried to wipe the mess off the visor. I did this only to find that bug guts tend to streek.

I cracked the visor open so I could see, slowed down and ate a fist full of bugs until I got to a coffee shop where they handed my a rag and had a good laugh about it.


Deer story, not mine.

Friend of mine, Evert, was out on his 03(?) R6, and was communting home one evening, just outside of town. On one side was a thinly forested area, and on the other, farmer's fields with corn stalks tall as a man. He said he was going about 60 when a doe stepped in front of him and he cut hard to avoid it. It became clear that he wasn't going to be able to avoid a collision so he lowsided the bike and got away from it, letting the bike slide into the doe. Evert, wearnig jeans, textile jacket, racing gloves, and full face was ok, and came to a stop on his butt. for all intents and purposes he was unharmed. Some time later a truck came to collect him and his wreck. he must have tried to put something in his back pocket because it was about this time he realized that he had WORN THE BACK POCKETS CLEAN OFF HIS PANTS.

 

[tkent02]

perhaps i should slow the feck down.. yeah i should..

Yeah, like THAT's going to happen.

 

[rudy]

Not a story of me, but I was there.

Before I got into bikes I was cruising around with two buddies on their Honda Shadows. I was in a big old Jeep at the back. Heading down a nice gravel back road, empty fields on either side. There was a decently deep ditch between two fields on the right side that we all happened to be looking at for whatever reason. Paul went past just fine, a second later Dave goes past at which time a Turkey Vulture with a wing span of about 6 feet pops out of this ditch and up to the road. I guess he was flying along in the ditch and was gonna go over the road. Scared the crap out of Dave as this huge bird was inches from his head. We all had a good laugh after, except Dave, who didn't think it was so funny. That's a big, heavy bird!

 

[GS550ES-Hank]

The NH manual says to slow down, and swerve away from a dog as far as possible, traffic permitting, then when along side said dog, accelerate away. If it does approach close, you actually are supposed to kick at it. I seriously don't think I'm balanced or coordinated enough to pull it off yet.

Since we're on the topic of wildlife hits, the one and only time I rode without my helmet, which is legal in this state, I took a bumble bee to the face. They're unassuming enough in the open, but at 30, those things are like bricks!

Unrelated event, I was headed down I-93 up here on a nice highway cruise with a t-shirt on (it was about 95F outside) and took a wasp at 70 to the forearm. Startled me and I ended up with a welt the size of a golf ball when I got home.

I'm never riding without at least a helmet and long sleeves again.