I owe one to BMW engineers

The Hobbit

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Coming to work today at 60ish, coming out of a bend with a bit of lean and a touch of front brake as the road has terrible bumps a female pheasant smashed into my front wheel!

Big thump type noise and the world disappeared in feathers, but I just got a bit of a kick through the bars a slight waggle and we carried on with remarkably little drama... Checked the bike and so far no sign of any thing other than a little blood.

As I say I owe the chassis guys a pint.

Cheers

Barry
 
I know, I know....
but I was travailing a bit faster than I normally do and remembered the bumps, they are more like waves, easily enough to bounce me out of the saddle ( and crack the front wheel of my MG) at 50 so I was loosing some speed.
 
True: but get a 10 oz bar and put through the spokes of your front wheel whilst moving and I doubt the weight difference will have a great effect
 
I clipped a small vixen/large cub on a tightish unsighted corner last week, all I had tome to so was sit up slightly and shout Fark as I caught it near the back. The car behind swerved to finish what I had started. Not a great thing to go through but no real drama. I took the corner a bit slower the following evening
 
Dawn and Dusk on the backroads around me are great for wildlife spotting, but not so good for motorcyle riding, even at legal speeds they are almost under your wheels before you can get to the brakes.

Last week a huge pheasant wandered in front of my car, as a vehicle was coming the other way I slowed right down only for the twat behind to almost rear-end me.
 
The Hobbit said:
True: but get a 10 oz bar and put through the spokes of your front wheel whilst moving and I doubt the weight difference will have a great effect
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True, but I think the average pheasant has slightly less tnesile strength than a metal bar. They can certainly do panel damage, but I doubt they'd cut through spokes...
 
The Hobbit said:
Coming to work today at 60ish, coming out of a bend with a bit of lean and a touch of front brake as the road has terrible bumps a female pheasant smashed into my front wheel!

Big thump type noise and the world disappeared in feathers, but I just got a bit of a kick through the bars a slight waggle and we carried on with remarkably little drama... Checked the bike and so far no sign of any thing other than a little blood.

As I say I owe the chassis guys a pint.

Cheers

Barry
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I'd say thanks to god for designing explosive pheasants.
 
Here in belgium during the training for the tests they make you run over a car tyre at 50 mph to simulate dogs , cats etc that might run out in front of you , just a normal car tyre thrown in the middle of the road , keep it upright and you barely feel it . Did it on the GS and on a hornet . Once you have a bit of inertia you'd be amazed at what you can run over and hardly notice .
 
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