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Here's a link to an amazing story of a deer and cycle accident that has a happy ending:
http://lifeisaroad.com/deerkilling.html
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Boy, do I hope to be so fortunate if I'm ever so unlucky.
I think deer are the worst threat out there. Even fool drivers on their phones, all the immortality that comes with highly protective vehicles, and in a hurry can be guarded against with training and observation and heightened defensiveness, but deer . . .
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[quote]jjoyce (7/23/2006)
I think deer are the worst threat out there. [/quote]
Don't ever forget about livestock. I got a frantic call from a client wanting me to look at one of her llamas. Her then boyfriend had an annoying habit of leaving the gate open absent mindedly. One of them got out and while some of her neighbors were trying to herd it on horse back it made a bee-line back across the highway in the cover of darkness. Fortunately it was a full size Bronco with a push bar on the front rather than a motorcycle that hit it. It did quite a number on the pushbar as well as some of the stuff behind it. The llama was dead when I got there.
I've also seen the results of a holstein/sedan interface. There's nothing like kamikaze (sp?) critters is there? At least the most common places you need to watch for cars coming out of are roads and driveways/parking lots.
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Some of the farmers out here don't check their stock often enough - or their fences. Let me tell you, a Black Angus is mighty hard to see in the dark. No, I didn't hit her, because she wasn't actually IN the road.
Predictions are very difficult, especially about the future.
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In New Mexico we had a State Police Officer hit a cow and in the same area a minivan hit another cow resulting in death. A couple years ago a man came into a rally I was at and proclaimed he had hit a deer with his R1100RT. He said it was 10AM, he came around a corner and the deer was grazing next to a rock embankment. The deer freaked and ran into the road. The deer and the bike connected with the deer going under the fairing and over the front fender. The deer was instantly dead and the BMW rider rode through it like the Valkaryie rider did. Upon examination of the bike you could see where the fairing was pushed back an inch or so but the rider remained upright and intact.
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| Here's another deer story that's been out on the net for a while (it happened in 2001, I believe). If you're not comfortable with harsh language, you might want to skip this one, but it's an interesting first-person account of riding an ST1100 right THROUGH a deer. http://www.advrider.com/Fame/Deer.html Deer are beautiful, graceful, amazing creatures. They're also dumber than a bagful of rocks. They're also a large part of the reason I have air-horns on my bike. Commercially produced deer whistles don't work. Period. Air horns do. Very effective when dealing with deer. Upon sighting the hoofed ruminant, apply all the brakes you can muster, let out a couple of substantial whoops on the air horns, and hope you've scrubbed off enough speed to maneuver around whatever path the deer decided to take to exit the area. If not, aim for the skinny part of the deer just ahead of the back leg. Less venison to transect in that region. Just lots of guts and "processed vegetable matter". Don't ask me how I know! 
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[quote]OzarkHarleyGuy (7/21/2006)
Here's a link to an amazing story of a deer and cycle accident that has a happy ending:
http://lifeisaroad.com/deerkilling.html[/quote]
Thanks for sharing this nice story.
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