I must give off some kind of weird electromagnetic radiation that attracts birds be cause I feel like I am in an Alfred Hitchcock movie sometimes.
I have sucked sparrows into my intakes, been hit in the head by countless pigeons, almost got killed by a wild turkey, get attacked when I walk into the bird cage at the zoo, and today I had a football sized bird crash right through the windshield of my 1098.
Strange stuff.
Dude that sux! Through as in broke the windshield? Pics?
I suggest getting some lessons from C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger in case you ride near the Hudson River. ;)
Perhaps its payback for punching babies. :P
I hope I'm never on a plane with you flying out of Newark!
Quote from: NAKID on January 31, 2009, 07:29:45 PM
Dude that sux! Through as in broke the windshield? Pics?
Hard to tell from this crappy cell phone pic taken in the dark. It split the whole windshield down the middle.
(http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc19/silentbob_pics/0131092009.jpg)
I have my stocker if you need it [thumbsup]
Quote from: Special K on January 31, 2009, 08:13:50 PM
I hope I'm never on a plane with you flying out of Newark!
i was on a us airways flight the same day that happened
Glad you're ok!
Quote from: silentbob on January 31, 2009, 07:19:28 PM
I must give off some kind of weird electromagnetic radiation that attracts birds be cause I feel like I am in an Alfred Hitchcock movie sometimes.
I have sucked sparrows into my intakes, been hit in the head by countless pigeons, almost got killed by a wild turkey, get attacked when I walk into the bird cage at the zoo, and today I had a football sized bird crash right through the windshield of my 1098.
Strange stuff.
You have birds.
IZ has nails.
Only been a bird strike victim once. Did you treat birds badly when you were little?
Quote from: howie on January 31, 2009, 10:06:22 PM
Only been a bird strike victim once. Did you treat birds badly when you were little?
Jebus, I hope that's not it. My Daisy Red Rider Special BB gun will have doomed me.
LA
Weird. Something about where you live / how fast you ride?
Do you wear a floral print safety vest of something? Picture of a bird feeder on your chest?
In 25 years of riding, the worst I've done is take out a crow.
Bugs on the other hand... I swear the larger flying beetle type things wait until I flip up my visor before they decide to dive straight at me. A few dozen times I've been nailed hard enough to leave a big welt. Not to mention the inside of my helmet looks like the aftermath of a lobster suicide bomber.
[puke]
Time to start fixing the bird overpopulation issue. [evil]
Maybe the birds know what you're capable of?
So much for the wash job the 1098 got.
Huh... I've seen a truck rear end a bird that was flying too low on the freeway but never seen someone get hit by a bird head-on or otherwise. Odd... That'd scare the shit outa me.
last summer i got hit twice in one day
one flew into my leg and the second jumped uf from the side into the side of my helmet
good thing they were small
I've hit hawks twice.
Once in the cage and once on the bike.
It's kinda weird when it happens.
I've heard of people hitting larger birds like buzzards and it knocks em right off the bike. I don't like buzzards.
A guy I know hit a Canada Goose at about 60 mph on a BMW airhead. Direct hit and damn near kill him. Greg was as big. As one can be and still get on a Nuc Sub. He's 6'8" and when over 350 looked gaunt and skinny. Otherwise, it would have killed him.
LA
Quote from: LA on February 01, 2009, 06:28:33 PM
A guy I know hit a Canada Goose at about 60 mph on a BMW airhead. Direct hit and damn near kill him. Greg was as big. As one can be and still get on a Nuc Sub. He's 6'8" and when over 350 looked gaunt and skinny. Otherwise, it would have killed him.
LA
He's lucky. You would have to be pretty big to survive a hit from one of those. There was a story on here about a guy who was almost killed by a turkey. The initial hit broke his neck and knocked him out cold. Then his bike went off into a ditch.
When I saw the bird coming at me I braced my head on the tank to absorb the impact. The bird broke the windshield in two, hit my helmet, and launched straight up into the air. The dead body came down, missed Jake on the 848 and hit Chance on the Monster.
Quote from: silentbob on February 01, 2009, 08:07:03 PM
When I saw the bird coming at me I braced my head on the tank to absorb the impact. The bird broke the windshield in two, hit my helmet, and launched straight up into the air. The dead body came down, missed Jake on the 848 and hit Chance on the Monster.
Ta da!
Quote from: silentbob on February 01, 2009, 08:07:03 PM
He's lucky. You would have to be pretty big to survive a hit from one of those. There was a story on here about a guy who was almost killed by a turkey. The initial hit broke his neck and knocked him out cold. Then his bike went off into a ditch.
That was Fastwin on his Hayabusa, that's a crazy ass story only he can tell.
Quote from: silentbob on January 31, 2009, 07:19:28 PM
I must give off some kind of weird electromagnetic radiation that attracts birds be cause I feel like I am in an Alfred Hitchcock movie sometimes.
I have sucked sparrows into my intakes, been hit in the head by countless pigeons, almost got killed by a wild turkey, get attacked when I walk into the bird cage at the zoo, and today I had a football sized bird crash right through the windshield of my 1098.
Strange stuff.
Holy s#@t! Not you too? I almost got killed by a wild turkey in May 2007 on a DML ride to Arkansas. Got hit, kamikaze style, by a huge tom turkey from the side of the road at 1:30 on a sunny Saturday afternoon with all my friends in tow... I had the lead. It hit me so hard it destroyed the front end of my Hayabusa (my sport touring bike) and because I had a big tank bag on the bike I couldn't duck any lower than it would let me so the turkey hit me square on the top of my Arai Corsair and exploded. The guy behind me said it looked like it ate a grenade! I cut the damn bird in half with my helmet. It crushed the top of my Arai, knocked me unconscious, gave me a concussion and crushed four vertebrae in my neck.
Unbelievably, I still stayed upright even though I was knocked out. I slumped over the bars and kept rolling, with a chopped throttle in 6th gear through the oncoming lane (thankfully no one was coming) and over their shoulder and into the bar ditch. I finally rolled to a stop in the ditch and fell over 600 feet from impact. The first car that pulled over had two off duty EMS techs and the highway patrol was called. More good luck. They shut the highway down and Care Flighted me to a hospital in Arkansas. A friend in the group had to make "that call" to my wife. Bummer.
She came to Arkansas with a friend for support. They stabilized me in the hospital over three days and she had them ship me to a Dallas hospital via ambulance to be operated on. A few surgeries later I ended up in a rehab hospital with a bionic neck. SOB hurts me right now but I am still alive and not paralyzed from the neck down... and I had the privilege of taking the dumbest turkey in Oklahoma out of the gene pool!! [thumbsup] I'm alive and well (sort of...) but more importantly still riding. Does it get any better? Thanksgiving has turned into one of my favorite holidays... all because of turkeys. [laugh]
Quote from: trouble on February 01, 2009, 09:12:14 PM
How's Chance doing?
He's fine. I took most of the momentum out of that bird. It hit him in the arm and caused him to wobble a bit off course but he's a pretty big guy. Amazingly none of us ended up covered in feathers or guts.
Who ate the bird? ;D
Quote from: fastwin on February 01, 2009, 09:25:34 PM
Holy s#@t! Not you too? I almost got killed by a wild turkey in May 2007 on a DML ride to Arkansas.
I remember reading about that. Scary stuff. Glad you're still here taking out at least one more turkey a year the right way.
Quote from: trouble on February 01, 2009, 09:37:37 PM
Who ate the bird? ;D
I guess the homeless software engineers that wander the streets of Sorrento Valley.
Quote from: silentbob on February 01, 2009, 09:40:57 PM
I guess the homeless software engineers that wander the streets of Sorrento Valley.
[thumbsup]
Wow... right through the screen! Glad you survived. I took out a crow with a bus. Flew straight into the windshield, not sure how it didn't break ~
JM
Took a crow to the front of my left shoulder at 80mph on my 620 a couple of years ago. Thanks to the forward-leaning riding position it did not take me off the bkie, only sat me up straight. Felt about like a baseball. Friends in a car behind me siad the crow pretty much expolded into a cloud of feathers.
Weird to read about all these bird hits. Over the years I've dodged a few buzzards having a little roadside snack that were a little slow on lift off but I never thought one minute about a freaking gobbler. :P Glad no one else has had the pleasure of the big bird experience. Wonder if they make a grill guard for Ducatis? [laugh]
Funny thing about my wild animal "interface" was there were two friends on that Arkansas ride that were from Finland. I know one went back shortly after my accident, not sure if the other still lives here... he kind of disappeared after his friend went home. Anyway, while waiting on the air evac one of them went back up the road and snapped some pics of the two piece turkey. Those pics are probably posted somewhere in Finland as a warning to not ride in Oklahoma if you are ever visiting America!! [laugh]
I've nearly gotten a slow turkey with a school bus, but never on the bike ~
JM
Must be that "Bird Flew" I keep hearing about.
Quote from: MrIncredible on February 02, 2009, 12:00:22 PM
Must be that "Bird Flew" I keep hearing about.
People like you make baby Jesus cry
[laugh] [laugh]
Quote from: Drunken Monkey on February 02, 2009, 12:17:08 PM
People like you make baby Jesus cry
[laugh] [laugh]
dammit...
don't encourage him... [laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
I swear I saw the bird aim for you.
Wach out for crow when riding next to a cornfield!!!
I killed a white owl on my way to work one morning (3:30am)
I was doing 110 and saw him dive at me (going after a rodent on the road ...or?)
I ducked/flinched and it probably saved me!
I (through my Joe Rocket jacket, shoulder pad, and two shirts underneath) got a huge bruise on my right shoulder/arm.
If it had hit my helmet I woud have been totally Fastwin'ed! (and that was before I even knew Brian)
A guy I work with came in a few minutes after me and asked me if I saw the big dead owl in the road on my way in... [roll]
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/dave.jpg?t=1233760827)
Quote from: RichD on February 04, 2009, 06:48:55 AM
Wach out for crow when riding next to a cornfield!!!
I killed a white owl on my way to work one morning (3:30am)
I was doing 110 and saw him dive at me (going after a rodent on the road ...or?)
I ducked/flinched and it probably saved me!
I (through my Joe Rocket jacket, shoulder pad, and two shirts underneath) got a huge bruise on my right shoulder/arm.
If it had hit my helmet I woud have been totally Fastwin'ed! (and that was before I even knew Brian)
A guy I work with came in a few minutes after me and asked me if I saw the big dead owl in the road on my way in... [roll]
Damn Rich! I never heard that story before. That was a close call for sure and I am also sure it hurt like hell. Owls are not small birds. They are the same size as a red tail hawk... hech, they both are about the size of the turkey that I hit. Just for grins I went back on the old board and found the Fastwin vs Turkey thread. It's on page 30 or so, May 19, 2007. I haven't looked at the pics of the halved gobbler in a while. Made me appreciate the fact that I'm still around! [thumbsup] Dumbass bird!!! [bang] :P
I couldn't help but to think of this picture when I read this post. I hope this isn't one of you fella
(https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3627/3327137407_20f524d5f4.jpg?v=0)
o rly?
I've hit/been hit so many birds, snakes, rodentia and a turtle(almost) that I have thought about applying the "confirmed kill" markers to my windscreen as a count. I am easily a Double Ace by now ;D and luckily only have 2 broken fingers and a deep puncture wound/cracked ribs (one of the rare times I didn't have a jacket on) to show for it.
Nothing ever really fazed me, until I met up with Bambi in the Navarro Redwoods! By some weird intuition or sixth sense or whatever you wanna call it, I saw/felt something airborne and above me off the slanted hillside to my right. I did a racer crouch that would have made Ben Spies proud (way to go Ben in race 2 [thumbsup]) and the hooves of the damn thing smacked my helmet as it went over the top. I saw it in my mirror, it hit the ground out of whack but got right up and bounded off the road. My wingman saw the whole thing and thought we had just entered the twilight zone. Was a great topic for the rest of the day and every time we ride through there....
Quote from: hypurone on March 04, 2009, 06:45:34 AM
I've hit/been hit so many birds, snakes, rodentia and a turtle(almost) that I have thought about applying the "confirmed kill" markers to my windscreen as a count. I am easily a Double Ace by now ;D and luckily only have 2 broken fingers and a deep puncture wound/cracked ribs (one of the rare times I didn't have a jacket on) to show for it.
Nothing ever really fazed me, until I met up with Bambi in the Navarro Redwoods! By some weird intuition or sixth sense or whatever you wanna call it, I saw/felt something airborne and above me off the slanted hillside to my right. I did a racer crouch that would have made Ben Spies proud (way to go Ben in race 2 [thumbsup]) and the hooves of the damn thing smacked my helmet as it went over the top. I saw it in my mirror, it hit the ground out of whack but got right up and bounded off the road. My wingman saw the whole thing and thought we had just entered the twilight zone. Was a great topic for the rest of the day and every time we ride through there....
you could use vinyl sticker shaped like the animals.
Quote from: Raux on March 04, 2009, 06:53:10 AM
you could use vinyl sticker shaped like the animals.
Exactly! [thumbsup] There are actually sheets of them on the webz for sale... Just haven't found anything that I really wanna stick on my ride ya know? I was thinking of just putting a single one for each species of critter and then applying a small number overlay on each one to indicate the number of confirmed kills for that critter...
Quote from: silentbob on January 31, 2009, 07:19:28 PM
I must give off some kind of weird electromagnetic radiation that attracts birds
I think I could help you, I'm a design engineer here :
http://www.nelco-usa.com/index.php (http://www.nelco-usa.com/index.php)
We once made a lead helmet for a woman that thought satellites were used by the government to read her mind.
Quote from: silentbob on January 31, 2009, 07:19:28 PM
I must give off some kind of weird electromagnetic radiation that attracts birds be cause I feel like I am in an Alfred Hitchcock movie sometimes.
I have sucked sparrows into my intakes, been hit in the head by countless pigeons, almost got killed by a wild turkey, get attacked when I walk into the bird cage at the zoo, and today I had a football sized bird crash right through the windshield of my 1098.
Strange stuff.
Next you'll be landing in the Hudson :)
Quote from: jasaretta on March 04, 2009, 03:47:35 PM
Next you'll be landing in the Hudson :)
I was on a United Airlines flight that day. The birds were after me. They just got the flight number wrong.