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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: Marcus on February 10, 2013, 10:40:39 AM

Title: Guy Hits a Roo
Post by: Marcus on February 10, 2013, 10:40:39 AM

Stay Safe....

Motorcycle Kangaroo hit at 85kms (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCIb5n3rKrE#ws)

Title: Re: Guy Hits a Roo
Post by: Poppy Dave on February 10, 2013, 10:54:54 AM

Lucky he managed to stay upright and wasn't injured  :runyay

Title: Re: Guy Hits a Roo
Post by: Brock on February 10, 2013, 11:00:59 AM

 :eek :eek :eek :eek

Title: Re: Guy Hits a Roo
Post by: Whizz on February 10, 2013, 11:44:22 AM

Dammed Kamikaze roos!

Glad the guy wasn't injured, as to the bike, well it was only a BMW  :grin

Title: Re: Guy Hits a Roo
Post by: Malcolm6112 on February 10, 2013, 11:57:21 AM

It goes to show that an ST can outlast a BMW. Ray rode back to Perth on his ST after a roo strike. :p

 :blu13

Title: Re: Guy Hits a Roo
Post by: Biggles on February 10, 2013, 12:47:55 PM

"Sorry little roo"!!   :eek
It's high time the gummint started teaching their roos about looking right and left and right again before crossing the road.  They made sure we had it drummed into us in school!

As for crash proofing, it looks like the ideal bike is air-cooled rather than wearing a vulnerable radiator.

No- I didn't mention Harleys [spit, get the taste out!!].  I'm just looking for a solution to that weakness.

Title: Re: Guy Hits a Roo
Post by: alans1100 on February 10, 2013, 01:16:11 PM

Here's a couple pics of my roo damage back in June 2008. What makes this so annoying is that it happened at 10:30pm when I was on the way home from work and 4 kms from where I was living at the time.


Hit here

(http://www.imghostr.net/images/2019/01/17/86fe88789ebd9bdfa016351ff635b24e.jpg)

and then pushed side case off. I've managed to get the locking tabs bent back enough so the case locks in but a new case would be better.

(http://www.imghostr.net/images/2019/01/17/85f6a1d089caad41c956f2c6c45f3c4d.jpg)

Title: Re: Guy Hits a Roo
Post by: Biggles on February 10, 2013, 01:39:56 PM

I guess these hits to the side are preferable to head-on collisions.  A better chance at recovery and probably a lot less damage.

The reason for the hits amid-ships, I'm deducing, is that the roo departs the road edge too late for the rider to see it, so braking isn't an option.

Could be worse- in US it's deer that run onto the road, and their body mass is badly located for bike riders.

Title: Re: Guy Hits a Roo
Post by: ST2UP on February 10, 2013, 09:22:41 PM

The deer have been getting thicker on the roads down this way for the last few years, after the deer farmers open their gates 20 odd years ago when the deer trade bottomed out.....Tenterfield to Black Mountain seams to be the thickest with a few down towards Tamworth.

Have hit 3 in the last 10 years......although really they hit me. Dusk and the next hour seams the worst.

 :beer