Biker dies in crash with bull

This is one of my greatest fears.
- sanbar


Biker dies in crash with bull
09-05-2005
From: AAP

A MOTORCYCLIST has died after hitting a bull in Melbourne's outer west.
Police said the 33-year-old man was riding on Dohertys Road, near
Derrimut, about 6.15pm (AEST) yesterday when he struck the bull.

Both the rider and bull died at the scene.

The man's death takes Victoria's 2005 road toll to 139, 15 more than at
the same time last year.

 

We were in the cage yesterday and witnessed a whole paddock full of cows
leisurely making their way into a cane paddock across the road after
breaking through the fence. After we fought our way through the
rubbernecking wankers holding *all* the traffic up at the intersection we
were at, we saw a bike rider coming from the other direction at a great rate
of knots. I got that whole 'cold sweat' feeling......man I hate that!
Fortunately he blasted through without incident, but it really serves to
remind you of just bad it could be when the 'unexpected' crops up.

MrBonk
www.mrbonk.com

 

Bulls you say ?

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76986


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Trevor S


"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
-Albert Einstein

 

Dohertys you say?

Al

 

Don't go to the Northern Territory then... thousands of km of unfenced
highways cutting through cattle stations.

Gary (lucky they got rid of the wild buffalo)

--

"As the Bush White House desperately maneuvers in Iraq to prevent the new
government from being run according to the dictates of religious
fundamentalists, it desperately maneuvers here to pander to religious
fundamentalists who want to dictate how the government should be run."

Maureen Dowd, the New York Times

 

A friend was killed hitting a Buffalo in the NT on a Honda BolDor 900 in the
first year they were produced, must be 25 years ago now.

A cousin of mine went through the centre of a Horse on a Honda 4 many years
ago also, he survived but the horse was well and truly stuffed.

Boxer

 

Did they name it Pharlap 2?

 

Same here, Warren Ivin riding his H-D on the Arnhem Hwy short of Humpty Doo,
probably 30km from Darwin... a great loss and a terrible story.

I ducked

Gary

--

"As the Bush White House desperately maneuvers in Iraq to prevent the new
government from being run according to the dictates of religious
fundamentalists, it desperately maneuvers here to pander to religious
fundamentalists who want to dictate how the government should be run."

Maureen Dowd, the New York Times

 

Worst time for me was riding south from Cunnamulla to Barringun in the dark
on the way back from the Off Centre Run at Stonehenge in August '92. "Whats
that big dark shadow ahead of me?" A cow, of course; some of them were
migrating to the bitumen for the night as it was warmer there. Made it a
very slow run. Travelling after dark someplaces is just not a good idea.

Al

 

When _was_ the first your they produced NT buffalos?

 

This is a truly nasty story. The closest I ever came to this was
hitting a wild pig on my IT250 in the Strathbogie ranges. That wasn't a
pleasant experience for either party, I can tell you!

 

I almost hit a black calf at midnight on the Hume. I saw something
ahead, possibly its ear tag, and got on the anchors. I was still
braking when it trotted into the oncoming lane and was hit broadside
by a semitrailer.

Whole lotta beef.

-----sharks

 

You hit one emu.......
OK, and a kangaroo, several rabbits, a snake, some magpies, a parrot or two,
a large dog........ No, make that two large dogs. I hit one on the BSA in
1964.

Theo