Tiger kills pigeon

[daveb]

picture the scene, about 6:30am on my way to work this morning at a nice and safe speed, the road is lines with hedgerow and trees, when a pigeon fly out out the hedge straight into my path, it glanced off the front screen in an explosion of feathers.

4 thoughts raced through my head
1st thought was this is going to hurt. but supprisingly how soft and spoongy a pigeon is, not a thud.
2nd thought was whats damaged
3rd thought is it stuck onto the bike, wow how cool will the photos be :grin
4th and final thought.....oh bugger my action camera is in my top.

no damage, just bird shit and greasy marks on my screen. the most upsetting thing is I washed the bike last night

Pigeon skidmarks




3 different bikes I have owned and 3 birds I have killed. on a 600 bandit a thrush flew out of a hedge and him me in the shoulder. The TDM850 I found a thrush roasting on top of the engine and now pigeon

[Nick Calne]

Woooo close call! Maybe it's your lucky day.  Get a Lotto ticket?

As for our avian friends, it's pheasants I hate.  Big enough to take you off the bike.  Stupid enough to flap 4 feet off the ground and get in the way.

[daveb]

we are lucky over here, one of the guys on the TDM owners hit a Roo last week in OZ.

http://www.carpe-tdm.net/ipb/index.php?showtopic=17178 (http://www.carpe-tdm.net/ipb/index.php?showtopic=17178)

[JetdocX]

We have wild turkey and pheasants all over the place around here.  Had a code brown turkey moment a week before Thanksgiving. :shock:  So glad I was able to duck down far enough to miss.

[daveb]

We have wild turkey and pheasants all over the place around here.  Had a code brown turkey moment a week before Thanksgiving. :shock:  So glad I was able to duck down far enough to miss.

wow, wild turkey, pheasants and Duck, it must be like living at a shooting range  :D

[JetdocX]

Sorry, that post was rather fowl. 8)

[Sin_Tiger]

1st thought was this is going to hurt. but supprisingly how soft and spoongy a pigeon is, not a thud.

It's only the deep fried ones that are the problem  :lol:

Sorry, that post was rather fowl. Cool

We won't Grouse about it   [/quote]

[daveb]

It's only the deep fried ones that are the problem  :lol

KFC to go

Poultry in motion

now this thread is dangerously spirling out of control like a dead duck falling from the sky. or a dead pigeon bouncing of my screen  :D

[Sin_Tiger]

Poultry in motion

     

Top that JD

[TheMule]

Wow, this thread is for the birds..........

[Bixxer Bob]

I had a pigeon stowaway last August.  Never made it home though..

http://tigertriple.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight= (http://tigertriple.com/forum/index.php/topic,6507&highlight=)

[JetdocX]

Poultry in motion

     

Top that JD

I got nuthin'.  You win!  I'm not feeling very pun-ny today. :P

[daveb]

I had a pigeon stowaway last August.  Never made it home though..

http://tigertriple.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight= (http://tigertriple.com/forum/index.php/topic,6507&highlight=)

I was told it could have been a racing pigeon, I replied it should have flow faster, then it wouldn't have hit me.

[daveb]

Poultry in motion

     

Top that JD

I got nuthin'.  You win!  I'm not feeling very pun-ny today. :P

wahoo, I win.. when I was typing it i thought it was Egg-sir-lent.

[KuzzinKenny]

Egg-sir-lent ??   :shock: !! you gota be yokein !!  

KK