Birdstrike

[Whizz]

This goes to prove that you need to look out for birds, even on the ground!!.


Cheers
Whizz
 

[royst1100]

i had a bird strike when i first started riding. in harvest season the galars gorge themselves on the seed on the side of the road near silos (ever wounder why they fly straight down the road? well there so heavy they need the distance as theres always fences next to road they cannot clear). anyway had one fly infront of me straight into my helmet, visor colapsed onto my face, only doing about 25-35 mph but not plesant. same year mate had one to the chest at high speed and nealy took him of his bike

[Brock]

Hag a mate on a Ulysses ride meet up with a Magpie, he took it in the shoulder, head first or should I say beak first.

Apparently the folk in A&E couldnt believe he rode in. (Beak was still embedded in the shoulder)

[Whizz]

Ouch!!!
 

[terrydj]

i had a bird strike when i first started riding. in harvest season the galars gorge themselves on the seed on the side of the road near silos (ever wounder why they fly straight down the road? well there so heavy they need the distance as theres always fences next to road they cannot clear). anyway had one fly infront of me straight into my helmet, visor colapsed onto my face, only doing about 25-35 mph but not plesant. same year mate had one to the chest at high speed and nealy took him of his bike

S
Just near Wagga Wagga bottom of NSW in 1974 their were thousands of galas on every corner feeding on the grain??? that had come off the trucks. I had crash bars on the back of the Yammy 500 and they did take out a few????
Besides the Galas I have been hit by or hit, Budgies and I think a sparrow/butcher bird and like the picture have come close heaps of times at night up North to knocking an owl/Tawny Frogmouth or three

[Streak]

Something tells me that Mitch has the best Bird Strike Story.....

[alans1100]

The only thing I've seen across the nullarbor is dead roos on or near the road.  Maybe an emu or two and a few crows if you count the living, Oh!!! and a feral dog (4 legged)

I've had a few close calls with Wedge tails in the NW and back blocks of WA plus roo's, goats, cattle, 1 snake and a couple largish lizard types. (goanna or monitor).

The closest near hit was a larger wedgie, wingspan of about a lane width. It wasn't going to leave it's roadkill for anything. It flew off at the last moment and I had to duck below the screen just in case. I also saw a few camels on the Marble Bar road. I gave them a plenty of room as a quad road train driver wiped his cab off a week before when he hit one.

At Karratha, on the way home from work one night a small roo did hit the LH front corner of the bike, tore off the wing cover and pushed the LH side case off. I was only doing about 80kph, my reaction was to move right. Had I hit the brakes it would  have been a front wheel hit and more damage to the bike. I found the side case but the wing cover and roo were nowhere to be seen.

[Tipsy]

The wing cover is probably still in the pouch,

Havnt come close to any of that but did catch a Bumbly bee with my left eye one morning on the way to work back in NZ ... had a shiner by the time I got to work and for 5 more days.... Damn it hurt.

Tipsy

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Didnt Diesel hit a poor defenceless bird minding its own buisnees on his way to lightning ridge?
                                                                                                         Greg

[saaz]

He did, and was more worried about the mirror and non-co-operative electrics.  A real cowboy 

Didnt Diesel hit a poor defenceless bird minding its own buisnees on his way to lightning ridge?
                                                                                                         Greg

[Biggles]

Didnt Diesel hit a poor defenceless bird minding its own buisnees on his way to lightning ridge?
                                                                                                        Greg

To make matters worse, it was an Apostle Bird.  I think that was a risky hit- the Maker might not take it at all well!

[West Aussie Glen]

Living in Newman (in the Pilbara) in the 80s one guy had one of the first big Yamahas, 1200cc or there abouts, often did the trip to Perth, over 2,000kms return, for a wewekend. He hit an eagle at high speed and was hospitalised for about 3 months from memory.

[Mystic2]

My encounter with Sea Egale on the way into Townsville near Bluewater , I always keep a eye on what's on the road a fair way ahead, but this day I didn't see anything on the road , the Egale was spotted as he swooped in from left , then bang feathers & the other stuff & he's wedged in under windscreen , I had just passed a couple of cars that do 90klms on open road and then in the passing lane 110klms so I didn't want to stop , I reached around to remove him , it was then I realised there was fair bit of wind outside the screen and the Egale spun around in my grip and his talons hooked into my jacket which then tried to relocate my shoulder into a new position , I finally shook it off . The look on the truckie's face coming the other way made up pain in the shoulder , he was nearly falling out the window laughing and pointing ! When I did pull up town I found the impact had cracked the fairing just above the head light & pop 4 of the push in fixings , the other stuff washed off. A couple of weeks later we hit another in the car , the same thing they just swoop in from up high you don't see them till the last second and it's too late , there has been a lot of young Egales around some a learning easy but dangerous feed on the highway!
Mystic2
 

[Malcolm6112]

The only encounter with a bird was when I was learning to ride,
I was young and stupid, wearing only joggers. The bird hit my toes. They stung for ages.

 

[Aj1300]

Mystic 2, lay off the Red Bull.  You don't need those type of wings.

[Sabie]

Try hitting an eagle at 140kph, he pulled up just as I hit him taking out the light bar.

[Brock]

I got a maggie last tuesday on the way to work, got him with the lower right bit of the fairing just in front of right leg. It made a good thump at 110ish, no damage to the bike but.