A customer's M620 is lethal. He does a lot of summer night riding tempting fate.
So far he has run over a fox, stray dog and wombat killing them all. He has not crashed in any of these incidents despite some bike damage.
The fox put him into a vertical wheelie at 60mph when it lofted his front wheel. Major tank slapper and soiled dragon jeans only.
Stray dog bent his gear change lever with its skull.
Wombat got the bike airborne with minor wiggling of the bars due to Ohlins steering damper (fitted after the fox incident ;D). Wombat was cut in half and it's very thick skull half collapsed the front exhaust pipe. Wombat guts and shit all over the bike. I had to hot wash it before I could wheel it into the workshop.
I'm thinking of fitting a razor sharp Katana to the front end to slice his way through should he come across some roos or deer.
[evil]
Sounds like Mother and the double raccoon incident.
Double raccoon incident sounds like a good story to tell drinking around a campfire.
We need to get you and Mother to DIMBY.
;D One day.
Jeepers. Well, after that, it sounds like he has 6 more lives left.
Yeah he says that. ;D You know the guy rides with one arm.. All the controls are on the LHS handle bar. The bloke is my hero. All the more amazing that he stays on the bike. The first one arm conversion I did for him was on a cruiser, but I convinced him to buy a Ducati and he's glad I did. He's in love with his Monster.
I fitted the steering damper to give him some back up.
He literally cut that wombat in half and launched both wheels into ghe air. Road kill and shit was cooked onto his motor and all over the rear rim and swingarm. It was a juvenile, hitting a full grown male could snap your forks. Wombats are furry boulders with eyes and not the sharpest animals.
Yesterday the owner of the Killer Monster told me he has made a donation to the local native animal shelter. Blood money. ;D
Haha! [clap]
I think the killer monster owner seems to have the correct method of dealing with animals, cutting right through them! The few times I've had animals cross my path, I've swerved around them crossing yellow lines and nearly loosing control! :o
Those critters seem to run straight at him. The dog bit him on the boot but got his skull split by the gear lever and footpeg. Cracked the rearset.
Fox dived under the front wheel..
Wombats aren't the sharpest tool in the marsupial shed. ;D
I try and sidestep behind them but they sometimes double back at the last minute. Like you guys we now have deer. The roos are bad enough.
I ran over a chipmunk under the tree house at Loudon a few years back. It wasn't a big deal, but I did have to look at the carcass every lap for the rest of the session.
Howie would have preferred it a squirrel. [evil]
Close enough [thumbsup]
Blinded by an oncoming car one dark october night I reportedly rode my RD350 between a mother moose (well, european moose, or "Ã,,lg", not quite as big as the US version) and her calf without noticing. The car was my neighbour and he asked me later that night if I saw the moose. What moose ...? I think a killer Monster would not have helped ... but your friend sure seems to be a very good rider [thumbsup]
Moose = brick wall. :o
I was informed today that a native possum be added to the kill list.
In over 30 years of riding I can count only one bird for myself (off the helmet).
Funny, my 620 was known for bagging critters too. chipmunk, some unknown birds, and a bat (yes, a bat) and too many rattlesnakes to count.
Had a close call with a coyote one morning on the way to work. I swear he was trying to get hit.... He ran in front of me by no more than 6-10 feet! :o :o
A bat! Big one? I've had bats follow my bike while riding through the hills on a warm summer night. They flew above and caught the bugs on the edge of my headlight pattern. It was an impressive display. We have some large species, but these were quite small like small birds.
A coyote is fox sized? Edit: whoa, much bigger than a fox. Hate to think of a rattler getting flicked up at you.
I was riding with this very same rider last week and had to avoid two large kangaroos. Clearly his bike lures them.
I've bagged a couple of rabbits, and three or four small birds to the chest.
I bagged a raven in Oz on that BMW. Picked it up on the right side cylinder and had to kick it off.
Iirc, I saw the bats when we rode back from the Mt Dandenong lookout.
Quote from: koko64 on July 21, 2019, 11:08:50 AM
A bat! Big one? I've had bats follow my bike while riding through the hills on a warm summer night. They flew above and caught the bugs on the edge of my headlight pattern. It was an impressive display. We have some large species, but these were quite small like small birds.
A coyote is fox sized? Edit: whoa, much bigger than a fox. Hate to think of a rattler getting flicked up at you.
I was riding with this very same rider last week and had to avoid two large kangaroos. Clearly his bike lures them.
The snakes were often dropped on the road by birds of prey to kill them. I was always worried that I was going to end up with one in my lap...
Quote from: Dirty Duc on July 21, 2019, 09:39:37 PM
I've bagged a couple of rabbits, and three or four small birds to the chest.
I bagged a raven in Oz on that BMW. Picked it up on the right side cylinder and had to kick it off.
It probably thought it was in the clear not expecting the boxer motor ;D Not a marsupial which is good. [thumbsup]
I got a hawk, small one, with the mirror.
That would be a solid bird.
Quote from: herm on July 22, 2019, 03:30:06 AM
The snakes were often dropped on the road by birds of prey to kill them. I was always worried that I was going to end up with one in my lap...
You'd hope the birds succeeded in killing them. I can only imagine how angry a rattlesnake would be if it wasn't.
5 or so ground squirrels have started from safe positions and made desperation dives under my front wheel. :'(
Nearly collected a coyote on the freeway *years* ago, lucky for him (and me) he saw me and reversed course.
Quote from: Speeddog on July 22, 2019, 02:52:09 PM
5 or so ground squirrels have started from safe positions and made desperation dives under my front wheel. :'(
Nearly collected a coyote on the freeway *years* ago, lucky for him (and me) he saw me and reversed course.
Do the squirrels love headlights?
My buddy on the 620 has anti kangaroo whistles on his bike, but he suspects they lure foxes. The wombats seem to love headlights. As I've said they're not the sharpest tool in the marsupial shed. [laugh]
I'm not sure what drives them.
I bear them no ill will, but I'm not risking a crash on their bad decision.
A couple have been in a safe position, *and* facing in the safe direction.
Yet they did a 180 and darted under my wheels.
:-\
One chap I rode with long ago was motoring along mid-corner, and a suicide squad of rabbits attacked from the inside and took him down.
His insurance sent him an official letter declaring the rabbits 100% at fault.
He framed it.
Quote from: Speeddog on July 22, 2019, 11:56:43 PM
One chap I rode with long ago was motoring along mid-corner, and a suicide squad of rabbits attacked from the inside and took him down.
His insurance sent him an official letter declaring the rabbits 100% at fault.
He framed it.
[clap]
Might have killed a bird. The hit was hard enough to break the windscreen. Other than that no kills. Many misses. Car, on the other hand, one dear and one racoon. I think, in the case of darting small animals, sometimes they have it right and maintaining course is best.
Squirrels?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-c29SqJH5s
Little buggers.
then there was the time Mother hit a pair of suicidal raccoons on his 620. :o
Two! How big do they get?
Quote from: koko64 on July 26, 2019, 04:14:30 PM
Two! How big do they get?
Can get over 20 kilo, definitely big enough to take you down.
Quote from: Speeddog on July 26, 2019, 05:12:38 PM
Can get over 20 kilo, definitely big enough to take you down.
Dog size then, and two.
Quote from: krolik on July 26, 2019, 12:50:54 PM
then there was the time Mother hit a pair of suicidal raccoons on his 620. :o
Did Mother stay up?