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Out with friends for a big ride and front man hits a deer. He was going about 50kph and it bolted out of the scenery and straight into him.
Broken ribs and a worse for wear Norden but thankfully he’ll be fine.
Easy to forget that Canada is as wild as…..
Police attended and had to put the deer down as it was badly injured. Not sure shooting it in the nose was really fair but two shots later it was dispatched.
Broken ribs and a worse for wear Norden but thankfully he’ll be fine.
Easy to forget that Canada is as wild as…..
Police attended and had to put the deer down as it was badly injured. Not sure shooting it in the nose was really fair but two shots later it was dispatched.
You don’t need to be in the real wild to hit a deer , we saw one in the middle of Dunstable 2 weeks ago , crossed the road in front of us ! A friend of mine hit a chinese water deer just outside of woburn she managed to stay on but destroyed the deer and the cagiva v raptor she was on stunk of deer insides for a while ! Happened right in front of me .
bimsb6 said:
You don t need to be in the real wild to hit a deer , we saw one in the middle of Dunstable 2 weeks ago , crossed the road in front of us ! A friend of mine hit a chinese water deer just outside of woburn she managed to stay on but destroyed the deer and the cagiva v raptor she was on stunk of deer insides for a while ! Happened right in front of me .
You sound fairly local to me, there's loads of the buggers around here! As you say they don't seem limited to rural areas - any wooded area in a town and you can pretty much guarantee there'll be some.anonymous said:
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It was resting in the verge but they have a habit of bolting when you’re right on them. We’ve had a bit of a heatwave and the bugs have gone mad so they’re driving the deer out of the woods. And these local white tail deer are pretty big, stand at eye to eye level with an average man..
Reports are that he’s cracked a rib and got some road rash here and there. Engine guards on his bike saved a lot of damage but the left side plastics are toast along with the front mud guard and screen.
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What gets me is that they time their run to absolute perfection, if their intention is to cause an RTA and commit self destruction.And for clarity, it came from the OTHER side of the road. Not a wide road per se but it absolutely came out of nowhere at full tilt. Mental really…
itcaptainslow said:
bimsb6 said:
You don t need to be in the real wild to hit a deer , we saw one in the middle of Dunstable 2 weeks ago , crossed the road in front of us ! A friend of mine hit a chinese water deer just outside of woburn she managed to stay on but destroyed the deer and the cagiva v raptor she was on stunk of deer insides for a while ! Happened right in front of me .
You sound fairly local to me, there's loads of the buggers around here! As you say they don't seem limited to rural areas - any wooded area in a town and you can pretty much guarantee there'll be some.They have a few deer there !
Edited by bimsb6 on Saturday 11th July 22:23
That's crap. I think I said in my other post that saw a fairly large adult deer just standing in a ditch by the side of the road as we passed in a long line of traffic. I was keeping a very close eye on it as I was expecting it to just jump out.
Was the cop a stormtrooper? Who needs two shots to kill a deer at point blank range?
Was the cop a stormtrooper? Who needs two shots to kill a deer at point blank range?
Clipped one a couple of weeks back, on outskirts of Blandford Forum around 05:00. Travelling at 5am speed.
The verge was a couple of metres wide, I was out in position 3/murdering cats eyes due to the time and likelihood of deer and my flawless plan that it would give me time to react.
All I saw was a brown thing in left peripheral out of/near the trees and before I could get the F of "feck this is going to hurt" out, the deer hit my front wheel and put my bike on a bit of a mini tank slapper. I think I felt it brush my right leg.
Spent a very brief spell thinking 'where am I going to slide/any traffic to hit' combined with 'relax those arms' not an ideal combination. Once stable, I braked to check for deer, it appeared to have made it at least to the trees on the right. It was quite small I'd stab juvenile or Muntjac?
Felt I had a very lucky escape.
The next morning 04:00 I left the town centre hotel I was staying at and there was another one, this time a big bugger in the car park giving me evils, word must have got out in the community. Then coming across Wareham Forest drag strip another one casually standing on roadside waiting for me, went by that one at <10 mph, whilst it again glared at me.
I've always been aware (fearful...) of the hazard they present as I leave home just before twilight through the summer. Never had one this close before.
The verge was a couple of metres wide, I was out in position 3/murdering cats eyes due to the time and likelihood of deer and my flawless plan that it would give me time to react.
All I saw was a brown thing in left peripheral out of/near the trees and before I could get the F of "feck this is going to hurt" out, the deer hit my front wheel and put my bike on a bit of a mini tank slapper. I think I felt it brush my right leg.
Spent a very brief spell thinking 'where am I going to slide/any traffic to hit' combined with 'relax those arms' not an ideal combination. Once stable, I braked to check for deer, it appeared to have made it at least to the trees on the right. It was quite small I'd stab juvenile or Muntjac?
Felt I had a very lucky escape.
The next morning 04:00 I left the town centre hotel I was staying at and there was another one, this time a big bugger in the car park giving me evils, word must have got out in the community. Then coming across Wareham Forest drag strip another one casually standing on roadside waiting for me, went by that one at <10 mph, whilst it again glared at me.
I've always been aware (fearful...) of the hazard they present as I leave home just before twilight through the summer. Never had one this close before.
J__Wood said:
Clipped one a couple of weeks back, on outskirts of Blandford Forum around 05:00. Travelling at 5am speed.
The verge was a couple of metres wide, I was out in position 3/murdering cats eyes due to the time and likelihood of deer and my flawless plan that it would give me time to react.
All I saw was a brown thing in left peripheral out of/near the trees and before I could get the F of "feck this is going to hurt" out, the deer hit my front wheel and put my bike on a bit of a mini tank slapper. I think I felt it brush my right leg.
Spent a very brief spell thinking 'where am I going to slide/any traffic to hit' combined with 'relax those arms' not an ideal combination. Once stable, I braked to check for deer, it appeared to have made it at least to the trees on the right. It was quite small I'd stab juvenile or Muntjac?
Felt I had a very lucky escape.
The next morning 04:00 I left the town centre hotel I was staying at and there was another one, this time a big bugger in the car park giving me evils, word must have got out in the community. Then coming across Wareham Forest drag strip another one casually standing on roadside waiting for me, went by that one at <10 mph, whilst it again glared at me.
I've always been aware (fearful...) of the hazard they present as I leave home just before twilight through the summer. Never had one this close before.
Feckers.The verge was a couple of metres wide, I was out in position 3/murdering cats eyes due to the time and likelihood of deer and my flawless plan that it would give me time to react.
All I saw was a brown thing in left peripheral out of/near the trees and before I could get the F of "feck this is going to hurt" out, the deer hit my front wheel and put my bike on a bit of a mini tank slapper. I think I felt it brush my right leg.
Spent a very brief spell thinking 'where am I going to slide/any traffic to hit' combined with 'relax those arms' not an ideal combination. Once stable, I braked to check for deer, it appeared to have made it at least to the trees on the right. It was quite small I'd stab juvenile or Muntjac?
Felt I had a very lucky escape.
The next morning 04:00 I left the town centre hotel I was staying at and there was another one, this time a big bugger in the car park giving me evils, word must have got out in the community. Then coming across Wareham Forest drag strip another one casually standing on roadside waiting for me, went by that one at <10 mph, whilst it again glared at me.
I've always been aware (fearful...) of the hazard they present as I leave home just before twilight through the summer. Never had one this close before.
There's quite a few deer around the Revesby estate in Lincs, last year I was driving near there, and one appeared on the verge and started running level with me. I decided to back off and let it win the race. And when one crosses the road ahead, it often has company.
Edited by RSstuff on Monday 13th July 19:49
Revesby? They seen to be everywhere!.
We have a family of them living in a little copse at Freiston down the road.
The landscape here is wide open fields, They get around by travelling in the lower drainage channels.
My wife hit one in her E class near Holbeach a couple of years back. I decided to fix it without claiming. Cost £2k in plastic parts and a headlamp.
The car got off better than the dear though.
Another friend hit one in a Disco 3 on the A47 near Dereham. The Disco went over the top, it was Disco 1 - Deer 0.
A friend of mine also hit one near Wood Nook, Grantham. That was the end of his Maserati, it was totaled. (It was an old one but a nice one he had had from new).
Cant imagine how bad it could be taking one out on a bike (I am a biker).
We have a family of them living in a little copse at Freiston down the road.
The landscape here is wide open fields, They get around by travelling in the lower drainage channels.
My wife hit one in her E class near Holbeach a couple of years back. I decided to fix it without claiming. Cost £2k in plastic parts and a headlamp.
The car got off better than the dear though.
Another friend hit one in a Disco 3 on the A47 near Dereham. The Disco went over the top, it was Disco 1 - Deer 0.
A friend of mine also hit one near Wood Nook, Grantham. That was the end of his Maserati, it was totaled. (It was an old one but a nice one he had had from new).
Cant imagine how bad it could be taking one out on a bike (I am a biker).
2ndclasscitizen said:
Bob_Defly said:
Was the cop a stormtrooper? Who needs two shots to kill a deer at point blank range?
Here in Oz injured kangaroos are usually dispatched with a tyre iron. Don't know if that's better or worse than two shots.So after another 10 minutes it thankfully passed away and that was the end of that. It would have been more humane if I'd bored it to death with stories of my racing career.....
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