Scruit Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 This morning on my way to work...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9aeAzTn97g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rctaylor Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 Yikes!!!Always the second one too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrown57 Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 had that happen to me on my first ride at dusk i looked down at the speedo and then when I looked back up I seen the deer had just crossed in front of me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conn-e-rot Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 You had plenty of room there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obesityrules Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 You had plenty of room thereagreed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 If you couldn't smell what he ate for breakfast then you weren't close enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornbreadxd Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 Had the same thing happen to me, only with rabbits and I felt something under my rear tire, was 2-up at the time also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kritz Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 Hope you had on clean underwear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAMBUSA Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 You video tape your morning commute? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted September 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 You had plenty of room thereWell, I had about 15 feet at 60mph. That's why it's pucker factor 7/10 not 9/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted September 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 You video tape your morning commute?You don't? ($60 ebay dashcam, for those days when deer jump out at you, or you get hit by a cager who then runs and leaves you with a 'failure to control' ticket) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted September 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 Hope you had on clean underwear.Not after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted September 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 agreedAccoriding to my math 15 feet at 60mph takes 0.17s to cover. Less that a quarter of a second from eating pavement is pretty close in my book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohiomike Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 You don't? ($60 ebay dashcam, for those days when deer jump out at you, or you get hit by a cager who then runs and leaves you with a 'failure to control' ticket)Not on a bet.Or I'd have a video of this big buck walking out in front of me up on 127 southbound, in northern Michigan, when I was tooling along at about 75+. Luckily when I downshifted and the pipes backfired he heard me and darted on across. He sure wasn't hearing my horn....or the turkey scratching in the gravel just off the blacktop just a few miles further down 127.Them critters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgbgt89 Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 If you didn't hear their hooves clomping and feel a wind gust off of them they weren't that close. I about hit one one night and all i ever saw was his ass about 1 foot off my front wheel. No time to do anything, Jumped out of some weeds and over a guard rail and landed right in front of me. I was doing about 55-60 before that valley, and thought to myself that i better slow down since there is always deer down there. I was only doing 30 at the time, speed limit 45. Had i been doing the speed limit i would have hit it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent2406 Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 You video tape your morning commute?You know the Brits (is that right scruit? I couldn't remember exactly), they have cameras everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted September 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 You know the Brits (is that right scruit? I couldn't remember exactly), they have cameras everywhere. Yep, I'm a reformed looter.If you saw the kind of crap I saw then you'd videotape too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottb Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 Waiting for Kawi's thoughts on this.....LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 I shot past a deer walking parallel toward me on the freeway at night. I could have stuck my foot out and kicked it. (Hell, I could have stuck my elbow out.) I had no chance to react, but the deer jumped sideways away from me, it's reactions and awareness were way better than mine. Deer should be legally required to have headlights or at least running lights at night... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted September 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 I shot past a deer walking parallel toward me on the freeway at night. I could have stuck my foot out and kicked it. (Hell, I could have stuck my elbow out.) I had no chance to react, but the deer jumped sideways away from me, it's reactions and awareness were way better than mine. Deer should be legally required to have headlights or at least running lights at night...Meh, just cram a mini-maglite up his nethers and leave it turned on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent2406 Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 Meh, just cram a mini-maglite up his nethers and leave it turned on.Now that right there would be funny to see! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swingset Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 That happens to me pretty much weekly, my commute is at night and through deer country.I've hit 7 so far, all by car thank god no bike yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaDoc Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 I never came across deer, man never imagined them to be this fast, ... May be I have and I it just wizzed off before I even noticed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helmutt Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 I hit a groundhog once on my first little streetbike.......luckily, intuition took over and I instinctively stiff-armed the handlebars -- ran right over him, kept the bike on 2, and didn't kill him either.........but it was definitely a soiled-drawer moment. Deer are much more difficult to jump unless you can bunny-hop over a car, then you may have a fighting chance! :D All in all, I'm glad you didn't plow the deer.......but if you had, hit me up.......I'm looking for some pre-season venison steaks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conn-e-rot Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvCOiFcWNHE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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