Topic: Close Call

[RAFster122s]

I hope that was a vehicle and not a deer…

A Bison I believe rivals the weight of Moose. Saab and Volvo used to design their front windshields to withstand hitting a moose. Moose have long legs and huge torsos and they pretty much skip front end crash protection and if the front glass and opening don’t keep them out of the passenger compartment someone is going to likely die or be seriously injured. With a Chinese investment group owning and controlling Volvo now I don’t know how much their engineering has changed or if they still have the same safety at all costs mentality.
Is Saab still making cars or did GM kill them instead of sell them?
Swedish regulation may have had something to do with their Moose protection as they have a lot of Moose, as do other Scandinavian countries and O Canada does as well…

[HondaMan]

Yeah, bison scare the crap outta me...in 1980 I took my wife to SD by way of WY and when we were buzzing toward Wind Cave Park we encountered a herd. There were some cars in the opposite lane trying to slow-pass them, which got some of them into my lane. Just as I was trying to sneak past one, it took offense at the "clunk" into 1st gear and whirled around at us: those things are fast! Good thing my SOHC4 was faster...

[seanbarney41]

On one of the relay rides 2010 or 2011 we were in eastern New Hampshire heading to the hand-off in Fryeburg Maine. A 1.75 (tall) liter water bottle fell off the next bike a few hundred feet in front of me while we were all leaned over in a long 80mph right hand turn. It did it's best but I somehow avoided it. It came up in conversation a few years later with some of the riders that were behind me, I guess I came closer than I thought.

This reminds me of one that fortunately made me laugh.  Was on the freeway on the way back from a long weekend trip with several friends.  It had gotten pretty hot and I had no where to ditch an excess amount of gear.  In an effort tp cool down I unzipped my leather down to about my belly.  Somehow the freeway speed wind lifted a folded map right out of my inner breast pocket.  The mapfluttered about in the turbulent air in front of me and then flew off.  Damn, I had gotten a lot of good use out it back in the days before google.  About a mile or 2 further on, I took an exit...just had to stop for a cool drink.  As I slowed on the exit ramp, I turned to look back to see if my friends had followed.  I see my bud, standing on his pegs, peering over the top of his windshield, with a full size map plastered perfectly over it.

[spotty]

got hit by a wombat a few years ago ( for those of you unfamiliar with this native australian beast, imagine something about the size of a labrador with very short legs and no neck, solid lump of stupid, about 80-90lbs )
i was riding up into the hills where i used to live which has solid forest both sides of the road with the occasional house, just coming into my favourite corner and i saw a dark lump detach itself from the side of the road and dart towards me, for a lump of animal with teeny little legs they move fast ) i didn't have time to react before it hit me in the right ankle and pushed the Vmax a couple of feet across the road towards the downhill bank of the road. i stopped with the intention of going back and enquiring after its health ( or kicking its head in )  , it had already moved on, pitch dark so i couldnb't see anything.
it was about this time i realised that my right ankle felt quite damaged and i needed to get home, kept riding and when i got home and told Mrs Spotty she a) enquired after the wellbeing of the stupid marsupial, and b) said it was my own fault for doing over 50mph on a 30mph road

[grcamna2]

On one of the relay rides 2010 or 2011 we were in eastern New Hampshire heading to the hand-off in Fryeburg Maine. A 1.75 (tall) liter water bottle fell off the next bike a few hundred feet in front of me while we were all leaned over in a long 80mph right hand turn. It did it's best but I somehow avoided it. It came up in conversation a few years later with some of the riders that were behind me, I guess I came closer than I thought.

This reminds me of one that fortunately made me laugh.  Was on the freeway on the way back from a long weekend trip with several friends.  It had gotten pretty hot and I had no where to ditch an excess amount of gear.  In an effort tp cool down I unzipped my leather down to about my belly.  Somehow the freeway speed wind lifted a folded map right out of my inner breast pocket.  The mapfluttered about in the turbulent air in front of me and then flew off.  Damn, I had gotten a lot of good use out it back in the days before google.  About a mile or 2 further on, I took an exit...just had to stop for a cool drink.  As I slowed on the exit ramp, I turned to look back to see if my friends had followed.  I see my bud, standing on his pegs, peering over the top of his windshield, with a full size map plastered perfectly over it.

LOL !!! 

[HondaMan]

got hit by a wombat...

Holy cow, Spotty, glad you made it!
That's about like being hit with a Cessna....

[RAFster122s]

Your Wombats are bigger than our ground hogs (wood chucks) and about the size of the bigger Armadillos. Those suckers will leave a mark... permanent one if you survive it...
Our Javelina are a serious hazard at night, the mule deer are plentiful out near me but not as risky as the stupid Javelina. The coyotes don't pose much of a threat on the bike, nor are bobcats and foxes.
One night coming back home during the winter I passed a Javelina that had laid down on its paws in the middle of the other lane going the other way. It was pretty late as I had went to a late movie one weekend.  It just laid there and ignored me as I drove past. It was getting heat from the roadway. I doubt it had gotten hit by a vehicle as it had laid down upright with its legs beneath it on the pavement. It it had been hit it most likely would have been on its side or splayed out in some contortion. I notified the Sheriff office to check to ensure it wasn't dead. It blended in with the pavement pretty well having a lightly mottled grey dark - grey coat.