So, was out riding down south last weekend and almost hit a roo, was doing about 80 on a dirt road(yeah, not the monster), but this thing was huge, taller than me on the bike. Anyway, just be careful out there folks if riding at the witching hour for roos and if you want to see how quickly they just appear out of nowhere - check this video...

BMW R100RS kangaroo hunting

I've paused it and gone through frame by frame - impossible to tell where skippy came from!

Two things I did notice, 

1) Your speed was quite conservative (slow)

2) BMW's are notoriously unstable and are easily scared and will fall down.

So the answer is simple.

1) Go faster

2) Go faster on a Ducati, by the time the roo hears you coming, you're gone, and lots more stable. 






                                           Mmick

Quote from: mostro900 on June 29, 2011, 05:28:56 PM
I've paused it and gone through frame by frame - impossible to tell where skippy came from!

You never see the one that gets you.
That guy was so lucky to get away with that.
So many different scenarios of what could have happend there, what if a car was coming the other way
A lot more roo's getting around these days in built up areas as well. due to more pet dogs kept under control.
A friend clipped a large wallaby on the west head road a few weeks back didn't come of just cracked the fairing.
It is near suicidal travelling the Out Back hwys at dawn or dusk even in a 4by with a bull bar.

   Not only dawn an dusk, saw one get hit by a car on the Pacific Hwy near Kempsey at about 10am a few months ago.       

Every time I go out in the bush (and I'm not talking Deepest Outback, just the dirt forestry roads nearby) I encounter black wallabies hopping along in broad daylight.  What they'll do you never know....  Keeps it interesting  .  

Almost got wiped out by a Kangaroo on the South Gippsland Highway not so late in the afternoon on my Duc a year or so ago.  It decided to let me live.

Any time.  Any bloody where.

To get my own back.... I eat 'em  .