Deer me

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 7:44 am

Interesting little vid on cruising the back roads:

http://www.bikerenews.com/movies/deerwreck.wmv

Will Robinson · Post by **Will Robinson** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 7:59 am

That's the downside to a bike that weighs less than you do!
That little thing would have barely wobbled my 900+ pounds of RoadKing

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:12 am

You got a Roadking? Cool!. Pic of my Volusia that weighs in at 550 lbs. Still wouldn't care to smack a deer with it. Did run over a chipmunk and it didn't even phase the bike

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Will Robinson · Post by **Will Robinson** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:19 am

Sweet ride!
Yea I'm not really so cocky about hitting anything bigger than a squirrel, I've seen bikers go down from small dogs!
Lucky for me down here most deer are about the size of the one in that video or smaller. Up there where you are you grow 'em big!

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:25 am

Big fer sure. Some bucks will will go 250lbs dressed out. Don't think I'd want to slab side one of those. Years ago I hit a deer in my Olds Cutlass (circa mid 70's) and crumbled the front end. I can imagine what would happen with a bike.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 10:10 am

Looks like the camera hit it more then the bike did.

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:15 pm

Yehaw! Free venison jerky for all.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:59 pm

Anything that weighs 900lbs is NOT a motorcycle. It's a two wheeled pig.

Will Robinson · Post by **Will Robinson** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 9:21 pm

Mobius wrote:Anything that weighs 900lbs is NOT a motorcycle. It's a two wheeled pig.

lol, that's why they call them Hogs!
Even more food for your Harley bashing pleasure, that same 900lb Hog came stock with only 75 horsepower!

I went to look at a Suzuki Hayabusa the other day because I want a fast bike to play on and it was just barely over 300 lbs and 150 horses!
When they told me the top speed was just under 200mph I remembered I'm 45 years old and no longer immortal and so I walked away!

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 9:53 pm

Will Robinson wrote:That's the downside to a bike that weighs less than you do!
That little thing would have barely wobbled my 900+ pounds of RoadKing

But it still would have took you down, one way or another. When your leg was ripped off the foot peg and your knee screams out WTF was that. I would like to see the magical shield around your body if your on a bike that weighs more that 375-475.

here I will put it to you this way drive your bike past a 10 lb sledge hammer(vs a 40 lb deer), when it impacts your leg. Then tell me the difference what the weight of a bike has to do with it..... while your in excruciating pain.

Will Robinson · Post by **Will Robinson** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 10:00 pm

On my RoadKing my legs are behind steel crashbars so it won't be a direct hit, if a hit at all.
And yes, as I mentioned in a later post, I know anything bigger than a squirrel can be deadly

Here's a picture of what it would look like to a deer (except I'm much prettier!

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:54 am

From my Biker BB. A few deer/motorcycle incidents. Notice the somewhat dry humor bikers have:

I learned a couple of years ago that cagers are not the only ones we have to look out for. I was rounding a low-speed curve about a mile from my house when I was attacked by a deer. I swerved and it thumped my knee and leg. I was afraid to stop because I wasn't sure the leg would hold up. Spent the next day picking hair out of the studs on the saddlebags.
I'm an animal lover, but sometimes it's a one-sided relationship.

Happened in front of me two summers ago on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I saw a deer intentionally run out and jump on my buddy. The image will be in my brain forever.
He was non-functional for a while but got over it and we finished our trip.

I killed one two years ago this month while riding my then-Gold Wing.
And it just about killed me.
The saving grace was the front engine guards and rear crash bars that protect the saddle bags on the Gold Wing. When the deer hit me in the side and shoved the motorcycle down onto its side, I managed, for a while, to stay tucked inside the safety zone before finally leaving the bike.
It did a three-point skid on the bars and the front wheel for about 150-200 feet, according to the police report, and when all was said and done, I had some broken bones in my cheek and a bunch of bruises and cuts that took about 80-or-so stitches to close up.
But I managed to walk away.

Well I bagged my second deer this week with a motorcycle. The outcome was less painful on my volusia. The first one was on a Virago (no windshield). I locked up the tires as I hit the rump of the deer and went over the high side thus consumer testing my safety gear the hard way. This time I beaked hard (without lockup) and hit the deer center on. The deer rode the windshield; headlight and front fork a little while till its wiggling and my slow speed caused me to lay the bike down. If I had no windshield, the deer would have hit me in the breadbasket and stripped me off the bike.
The only damage to the bike was the headlight housing and exterior ring. The high beam filament on the H4 broke and I lost an adjustment screw when the lens separated from the ring. The floorboard underside was ground down and the front fender and shield were scraped when I laid it down. I also got air in the front break line which was easy to bleed. I just kept applying break pressure, did not lock the breaks and tried to ride it to a stop. The deer did nothing to help me keep the bike up though. Judging from the amount of hair caught in the chrome straps on the windshield it did a lot of flexing. The OEM shield is real tough.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:38 pm

I'd like to point out that the bike that hit that deer was a cafe and only tagged the deer's head. The driver was very lucky.
My boss talked of her husband cutting one in half ...literally ..... with a touring bike.

Richard Cranium · Post by **Richard Cranium** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:46 am

Will Robinson wrote: I remembered I'm 45 years old and no longer immortal and so I walked away!

Danger Will Robinson, Danger!

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:11 pm

BUBBALOU wrote:
Will Robinson wrote:That's the downside to a bike that weighs less than you do!
That little thing would have barely wobbled my 900+ pounds of RoadKing
But it still would have took you down, one way or another. When your leg was ripped off the foot peg and your knee screams out WTF was that. I would like to see the magical shield around your body if your on a bike that weighs more that 375-475.

here I will put it to you this way drive your bike past a 10 lb sledge hammer(vs a 40 lb deer), when it impacts your leg. Then tell me the difference what the weight of a bike has to do with it..... while your in excruciating pain.

Exactly. Kenetic energy and inertia are a real pair of bitches aren't they?