my friends,
In past posts i have read about the warning of "birds"a.k.a<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":b"> uzzards, on the road.I never realized just how deadly these ugly fat disgusting eating road kill birds can be.
It was a usuall sunday ride in sunny s.fla today,out in our typical flat straight country roads.loaded with annoying flying
insects and sculking buzzards.Thank god today was not a over-crowded ride.6 bikes including myself.r6,r1,gx1k,900r,and
1 gx750.
We were on our way home & were out in the boonies.i was the lead bike.we were about to hit our last real long straightaway,and i decided to open her up a bit before going back into the city and into radarville.i climbed to about 150 or so and the pack followed at a safe distance back.thank god we had all experienced riders and no squids in the pack. i started to slow her down & just than i see a big mess up ahead in the road in my lane approaching fast.i start gettin on the brakes not knowing yet what lies up ahead.
finally i approach at the slowest speed i could.this all happened so fast,their was not much more i could do.
i finally get real close and their sits in the middle of the road the biggest ugliest buzzard i have ever seen in my life.
The big dumb feather brain was so busy munching on his road kill he didnt see me comin till it was too late.
I saw big wings start flapping when he finally saw me & at that point i'm hard on the brakes.i'm thinkin w.t.f do i do?
i didnt want to go down of course,and i especially didnt want to make any riders behind start a crash chain reaction.
fatso is steady flopping his wings trying to get airborne,but his weight and his full belly were causing him a very slow skyward shot.finally he gets some altitude,and i made my decision to go to the right hard and if i wreck i wreck,i didnt want others getting hurt if i just ran the ********* over.
as soon as i cut it right birdbrain dosnt fly straight up in the air,his dumbass goes up and also to the right.oh shit i'm thinking i'm dead.i got my speed down to about 60 or so and the collision occured.WHACK!!!!.Bird slams into my front smoked zero gravity windshield and my rg.side stock "01" mirror.(Those big ugly mirrors saved my life!).the mirror took most of the impact and swung back against my fairing up top and took the biggest hit.crack!fairing was toast.
We all stop.i'm shaking like a leaf and at that point could not ride for a while.we get off the bikes and start estimating the damage.broken windshield,some how his beak or foot scratched my mirror up front on the black side, and broke it.the mirror hit the fairing up top so hard it actually broke my fairing and the bar the mirror is bolted to actually BENT!.i couldnt believe this.all from a buzzard.that bar the mirror bolts to is one hefty bar,and it bent.we tried to straighten out the bar and could hardly move it.so i'm sayin just at that speed and the impact of the bird doing that much damage amazed me.(i'm guessing $500.00 in damages).i wrote this post hoping any rider out there will be careful of those nasty creatures.
their slow taking off and very stupid.we all love playing around on our z's with our buddy's on a nice sunday day,
take it from me if you see a buzzard in the road,DO NOT ASSUME he will fly outa the way,cuz chances are he will not.i got very lucky today and thank god nobody was injured,just from a hobby we all love.watch those buzzards fella's!
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In past posts i have read about the warning of "birds"a.k.a<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":b"> uzzards, on the road.I never realized just how deadly these ugly fat disgusting eating road kill birds can be.
It was a usuall sunday ride in sunny s.fla today,out in our typical flat straight country roads.loaded with annoying flying
insects and sculking buzzards.Thank god today was not a over-crowded ride.6 bikes including myself.r6,r1,gx1k,900r,and
1 gx750.
We were on our way home & were out in the boonies.i was the lead bike.we were about to hit our last real long straightaway,and i decided to open her up a bit before going back into the city and into radarville.i climbed to about 150 or so and the pack followed at a safe distance back.thank god we had all experienced riders and no squids in the pack. i started to slow her down & just than i see a big mess up ahead in the road in my lane approaching fast.i start gettin on the brakes not knowing yet what lies up ahead.
finally i approach at the slowest speed i could.this all happened so fast,their was not much more i could do.
i finally get real close and their sits in the middle of the road the biggest ugliest buzzard i have ever seen in my life.
The big dumb feather brain was so busy munching on his road kill he didnt see me comin till it was too late.
I saw big wings start flapping when he finally saw me & at that point i'm hard on the brakes.i'm thinkin w.t.f do i do?
i didnt want to go down of course,and i especially didnt want to make any riders behind start a crash chain reaction.
fatso is steady flopping his wings trying to get airborne,but his weight and his full belly were causing him a very slow skyward shot.finally he gets some altitude,and i made my decision to go to the right hard and if i wreck i wreck,i didnt want others getting hurt if i just ran the ********* over.
as soon as i cut it right birdbrain dosnt fly straight up in the air,his dumbass goes up and also to the right.oh shit i'm thinking i'm dead.i got my speed down to about 60 or so and the collision occured.WHACK!!!!.Bird slams into my front smoked zero gravity windshield and my rg.side stock "01" mirror.(Those big ugly mirrors saved my life!).the mirror took most of the impact and swung back against my fairing up top and took the biggest hit.crack!fairing was toast.
We all stop.i'm shaking like a leaf and at that point could not ride for a while.we get off the bikes and start estimating the damage.broken windshield,some how his beak or foot scratched my mirror up front on the black side, and broke it.the mirror hit the fairing up top so hard it actually broke my fairing and the bar the mirror is bolted to actually BENT!.i couldnt believe this.all from a buzzard.that bar the mirror bolts to is one hefty bar,and it bent.we tried to straighten out the bar and could hardly move it.so i'm sayin just at that speed and the impact of the bird doing that much damage amazed me.(i'm guessing $500.00 in damages).i wrote this post hoping any rider out there will be careful of those nasty creatures.
their slow taking off and very stupid.we all love playing around on our z's with our buddy's on a nice sunday day,
take it from me if you see a buzzard in the road,DO NOT ASSUME he will fly outa the way,cuz chances are he will not.i got very lucky today and thank god nobody was injured,just from a hobby we all love.watch those buzzards fella's!
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