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Bird Strike

Posted: |May 10th, 2017|, 6:16 pm
by HiFi
Hi all, just got to work, think a little drinky to settle the nerves might be in order!
On the M5 at 75mph, pigeon flies up out of nowhere from the hard shoulder. BAM straight into my visor :? Look into mirror and huge cloud of feathers spreading all over the motorway. Everything seems OK so keep going apart from the ears ringing from the BANG impact...
Have just finished cleaning chunks of bird off my jeans and jacket and the bird shaped splat on the visor :sick: In almost 30 years of biking never happened before, just thank my lucky stars it didn't hit my hands or chest.
Or worse still, the bike and break some unobtainable piece of plastc! :(

Re: Bird Strike

Posted: |May 10th, 2017|, 6:56 pm
by snapdragon
Ouch, been there, killed that pheasant, weeks of physio to get left arm working proper, and that was After the deflection from the mirror
Good to know your visor worked eh? :sick:

Re: Bird Strike

Posted: |May 10th, 2017|, 7:27 pm
by HiFi
Blimey that sounds horrendous is your arm OK now Snappy?

Re: Bird Strike

Posted: |May 10th, 2017|, 8:06 pm
by andybaggies
Ooo er, bird strikes are never good and it still amazes me just how many feathers they have.

I knew a guy who was a passenger in a car that took a swan hit on the M40 and it went through the windscreen. Luckily he was wearing glasses because he said he was cleaning blood & guts from his ears, nose & hair for weeks :shock:

Re: Bird Strike

Posted: |May 10th, 2017|, 8:23 pm
by snapdragon
HiFi wrote: 6 years ago Blimey that sounds horrendous is your arm OK now Snappy?
:) yeah mostly, the chiropractor calls me the pheasant killer :blush:
andybaggies wrote: 6 years ago Ooo er, bird strikes are never good and it still amazes me just how many feathers they have.
-//- cleaning blood & guts from his ears, nose & hair for weeks :shock:
ewww yuck

Re: Bird Strike

Posted: |May 11th, 2017|, 4:36 am
by Dapper dan
Nasty...
rather shocking when if happens..it's like your under attack!

I was riding on a gsxr :revrev: ....and caning it. :revrev: :revrev: ....suddenly found two pheasants on each side of the road :shock: ......buttock clenching stuff! :sick:
Knocked off as much speed as I could and sat up! :shock:
Decided to go for the middle of the road :happyhappy: .....and one of the buggers decided to fly towards the other one. :doh: ...hit me straight in the chest...felt like a bowling ball! :ouch:
Managed to stay on but was quite sore for a bit! :doh: :naughty: :thumbsup:

Re: Bird Strike

Posted: |May 11th, 2017|, 7:30 pm
by HiFi
Sounds like I got off very light judging by these stories!

Re: Bird Strike

Posted: |May 12th, 2017|, 12:41 am
by snapdragon
HiFi wrote: 6 years ago Sounds like I got off very light judging by these stories!
Sounds like you held it well hifi, :ride: blasted KamiKazi birds are a menace and getting you tdc as it did could knock you off, or out :ouch: