Is it safe to run over small animals

Always move to avoid running over them but is it safe, as in has anyone run
over a rabbit* , pheasant *, cat, dog and when does the size matter. Just
I'd like to live and it to die.


* 2 or 3 times a day for me

 

I've hit a rabbit on my bike. The little fucker bled everywhere.

Aim for the fuckers, they normally move.

 

I ran over a rabbit last summer.

I saw it run out into the road, but didn't really have a hope of
avoiding it and went over it with both wheels.

It was a bit unpleasant, and I hope it died quickly.

I think it was a medium sized rabbit. Appart form a small bump, it
didn't bother the bike much.

--
John (jsp)

SV 650
Black it is
And Naked

 

Ah thanks, was worried could have me off, will be usefull in an emergency.

 

I nearly hit a deer at the same speed on my Bandit and at about 50 on
the CG, and a fox at 120 on the Bandit. Those were the most memorable
moments for me.

 

I once had a chicken run through my front wheel.

Chicken went in one side, blood and feathers came out the other. And what a
mess that made of me and the bike.

 

Sometime around Mon, 02 May 2005 22:43:28 +0100, rob2 babbled on about:

Well I hate to put a downer on this, however a friend put the front wheel
of his GSXR750 over a previously squidged hedgehog and binned it big time,
scartch one bike and one ankle. Probably best to avoid small animals if
possible.

 

Perhaps it's best to avoid running them over whilst leant right over...

--
John (jsp)

SV 650
Black it is
And Naked

 

Hooligan says...

Yeah, wait til they are upright.

 

Sometime around Mon, 02 May 2005 22:56:23 +0100, Bear babbled on about:

I had a spate of bird strikes in the 70s, one (A sparrow) was a passenger
on the front brake stay for about 40 miles, the last smacked me right in
the face at maybe 100mph and despite a full face lid lid caused a huge
nose bleed and watering eyes, it felt like I had been hit by a sledge
hammer.

 

Yeah, but fair's fair, it was an RG500. I don't know of a single owner
of said model of motorcycle who didn't terminally bin it.
Whether it was the motorcycle or the owner at fault[1] I know not. But
there aint many RG500s left.

<waits for the exceptions to roll in>



[1] My own personal theory being an unfortunate marriage of the two
being largely responsible.

--
Alex
BMW R1150GS
DIAABTCOD#3 MSWF#4 UKRMFBC#6 Ibw#35 BOB#8
http://www.team-ukrm.co.uk
Windy's "little soldier"

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Muck amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

I hit a deer at about 60mph in a Talbot Solara. The deer scarpered and I
sustained no damage; didn't half make a bang

 

My bro had a deer run into his car, he was stopped at the time. The deer
just got a little confused by the headlights I guess.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

Blimey! Exactly the same thing happened to Biggles once. His ack-emma
went a *ghastly* shade when he landed the old Camel back at the
aerodrome.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Oh I see, he doesn't want to drop fag-ends in case they harm the
environment, but he's quite happy to go around kicking the shit out of
poor ickle pigeons? Sheesh.

 

Upright, staring at the bright light, then get them right between the
eyes.

If you can clip them wiht your boot, you can go back and collect them
for your dinner.

--
John (jsp)

SV 650
Black it is
And Naked

 

Understandable I suppose if he was on the Tig. Verdi + Tig does equal a
rather large frontal area ;-)

I had a funny one last year - I think you were on your sabbatical at
the time. A Kestrel or something similar took off from the verge ahead
& dropped something that slammed into my visor. I instinctively shut my
eyes as it hit, then opened them to see a mouse staring back at me. The
wind pressure kept it stuck there for a couple of seconds then it slid
off over the top of my helmet. Luckily it stayed more or less in one
piece.

 

That's just gross! What a charming image to take to bed - you ****.

 

I once clipped a west highland terrier, who was attacking my bike, with
my left toes, at about 30mph, it hurt a lot as my foot was on the peg at
the time and bent more than it should have, apparently the dogs head
went under the back wheel although I didn't feel it. The dog suffered a
broken jaw and distraught owner while I limped around in pain for a
couple of days.

--
Martin:
"For a minute there, you bored me to death."
VTR1000 Firestorm
TDR250 http://ukrm.net/BIKES/Yamaha/tdr250.html
martin dot smith nine zero three at ntlworld dot com

 

I hit a Great Dane in a Mazda years ago, the dog got up and legged it but
I'm sure it sustained injuries due to the fact it wrote the front of the car
off and actually shifted the engine off it's mountings.