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
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y140/DaveBelton/bike%20stuff/Photo0119.jpg) (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y140/DaveBelton/bike%20stuff/Photo0120.jpg)
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
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.
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)
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.
Quote from: "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.
wow, wild turkey, pheasants and Duck, it must be like living at a shooting range :D
Sorry, that post was rather fowl. 8)
Quote from: "daveb"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:
QuoteSorry, that post was rather fowl. Cool
We won't Grouse about it :wink: [/quote]
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
Quote from: "daveb"Poultry in motion
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Top that JD :wink:
Wow, this thread is for the birds..........
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=)
Quote from: "Sin_Tiger"Quote from: "daveb"Poultry in motion
:ImaPoser :ImaPoser :ImaPoser
Top that JD :wink:
I got nuthin'. You win! I'm not feeling very pun-ny today. :P
Quote from: "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=)
I was told it could have been a racing pigeon, I replied it should have flow faster, then it wouldn't have hit me.
Quote from: "JetdocX"Quote from: "Sin_Tiger"Quote from: "daveb"Poultry in motion
:ImaPoser :ImaPoser :ImaPoser
Top that JD :wink:
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.
Egg-sir-lent ?? :shock: !! you gota be yokein !! :ImaPoser
KK
It's certainly nothing to crow about....
What's all the flap about?
Its all one big Yoke :D
aren't you guys just getting a little too
eggsighted
:shock:
:roll:
:lol:
No, just behaving like tits.
This thread has now become the booby hatch. :roll:
Quote from: "nickcalne"No, just behaving like tits.
Egg-sactley :lol:
I was very lucky, after the pigeon hit the Tiger I could have gone for some Tweetment.
I suppose when it hit you feathered the throttle?
You all think this is a hoot..sounds very cheep to me :roll:
bit bigger than a pigeon, but I managd to catch the bird on camera
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y140/DaveBelton/bike%20stuff/th_WatchtheBirdie.jpg) (http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y140/DaveBelton/bike%20stuff/?action=view¤t=WatchtheBirdie.mp4)
It's three years since our neighbour Ian died after hitting a pigeon with his face. I never really understood how that could kill him until going to Silverstone early on Sunday morning, I hit a sparrow at around 70mph. It hit just at the top of my visor - one hell of a bang, some feathers and a cricked neck. A pigeon I don't want to contemplate. :roll:
Well no wonder. You were on the wrong side of the road. The poor seagull was looking the other way. :lol:
ROTFL :D
Quote from: "Bixxer Bob"It's three years since our neighbour Ian died after hitting a pigeon with his face. I never really understood how that could kill him until going to Silverstone early on Sunday morning, I hit a sparrow at around 70mph. It hit just at the top of my visor - one hell of a bang, some feathers and a cricked neck. A pigeon I don't want to contemplate. :roll:
Sorry to hear about your neighbour,
I got hit in the shoulder chest once by a thrush that few out of the hedge, I was travelling about 50mph, thought I had broken my ribs, or puncutred a lung, but I was just winded.
The force was enough to rip my hand off the clutch side of the bars.
Quote from: "Bixxer Bob"It's three years since our neighbour Ian died after hitting a pigeon with his face....
Sorry to hear about neighbor. For learning purposes... do you know any more detail of what took his life, the head thrown back by projectile pigeon, hitting the ground after being ripped of the bike by force of pigeon, or loosing control of the bike and then crashing?
What was he wearing in general? Full, half or no ATGATT?, Helmet or no helmet, ???
My condolences to his family. Life randomly deals hard blows to good and bad equally.
The impact with the pigeon broke his visor and his neck. He then ran off the road. It's possible it was running off the road that broke his neck, but the view of the accident investigation officer was it was the bird. He was wearing all the gear - full leathers, gloves boots and full-face helmet.
His workmate and my workshop manager died three weeks later after colliding with a car - but that was his bad judgement, no-one else to blame. Again, ATGATT, but nothing's going to help you at the speed he was doing. We lost 4 men and one woman in a little over 18 months around then.
Latest incident was a friend of a friend at the TT. Hit a car and had his arm severed at the shoulder. Unlucky, but lucky that the next two bikes were a paramedic and a neuro-surgeon. the surgeon followed on to hospital and spend 11 hrs stitching him back together. Hope is for 50-60% of normal use.
But enough gloom, the sun is shining and I'm going camping :)
Not exactly Tiger related, but an acquaintance in Queensland, Oztralia, hit a Wedgetail Eagle with a GoldWing - brought the 'bike down, and totalled it!
Rider lucky with only sctrached ATGATT, and a few bruises. Didn't swerve or lock-up, just hit it straight on.
They're bloody big birds.......
Bill
FarRider
on a lighter note i once hit a pheasant in the car at 60ish. It hit the windscreen and shot up really high into the air. It then came down nearly vertically from maybe 100 feet on to the following car's bonnet. The driver nearly cacked himself as from his perspective it was raining dead pheasants. The thought of watching him swerve around in my rear view mirror still makes me laugh.
I know a guy in OZ who recently hit and killed a Roo with his TDM850 MKI
would you believe it, on my way to work this morning, another feathered friend decided to take its own life by bouncing off the Tiger, this time it was a small brown bird possible a thrush, deffinately not as big as the pigeon, however it was almost the same area of road. this time it hit the side of the bike low down.
Quote from: "daveb"I know a guy in OZ who recently hit and killed a Roo with his TDM850 MKI
Guess he bored it to death :lol: sorry couldn't resist :wink:
Wasn't wearing a scarf on the way back from Phuket, took it off when I got soaked, had to pull over when I got hit in the neck by what looked like a cricket, it was 10 mins before I could utter F%^$ that hurt.
Quote from: "Sin_Tiger"Quote from: "daveb"I know a guy in OZ who recently hit and killed a Roo with his TDM850 MKI
Guess he bored it to death :lol: sorry couldn't resist :wink:
Wasn't wearing a scarf on the way back from Phuket, took it off when I got soaked, had to pull over when I got hit in the neck by what looked like a cricket, it was 10 mins before I could utter F%^$ that hurt.
:lol:
have a read of Materbrewer's adventure
http://www.carpe-tdm.net/ipb/index.php? ... l=kangaroo (http://www.carpe-tdm.net/ipb/index.php?showtopic=17178&hl=kangaroo)
I was being a trifle unkind, apparently the Mk1's were made of sterner stuff.
sin Tiger, dont worry I am all up for banter, what did you think of his right up, he has now rebuilt the less the Roo.
I think he is also on Adv rider forum too.
Quote from: "daveb"sin Tiger, dont worry I am all up for banter, what did you think of his right up, he has now rebuilt the less the Roo.
I think he is also on Adv rider forum too.
I liked reading it, it was entertaining, unassuming and the grammar was decent, old school!