Wow. I never cease to be amazed at how some folks put the most inappropriate accessories on their bikes. That box on the back would be better suited to a big tourer like a ‘Wang or some other land barge, not on that CX500T which was marketed as some kind of sports bike, back in the day?
That poor woman will probably wish she’d died when she sees what’s left of her nose etc, if she isn’t brain dead. When I first started riding helmets weren’t mandatory here but were common, and I don’t think I’d ride like the lunatic I am without one, just head butting a bird at 60 MOH is bad, but a deer? That would be horrible.
A friend of mine hit a cow on his CB750 back in the 70’s and survived, maybe because he was wearing a helmet? It was over the Christmas holiday period when cops from Melbourne were sent to all the regional holiday spots including my home town. Two young cops arrived on the scene and pulled a pump action shotgun out of the boot to dispatch the injured cow to cow valhalla.
My mate was riding with a group of bikers, and the cops were talking to them about the crash, when both cops explained that they’d never shot anything except paper targets, and happily handed the shotty over to another mate to do the deed. They picked the wrong guy to trust with their Mossberg, who proceeded to empty the magazine into the poor cow. The cops were less than impressed as apparently they had to account for every shell and would have to explain why it took 5 or 6 shells to kill a cow that was nearly dead anyway.
