What was the biggest live animal you ran over with your motorcycle?

Question

and what happened , please describe in details(speed, road conditions...). Also if you ran over a roadkill please tell me your experience..

thanks

Ps. did you give it a proper burial? lol

Answer 1

Well funny you should ask, and I will tell the tale, it was, as we call them, 'an awed ooh, what i dont' hear you say, it's a local colocalism for a sheep! You know a bleeter!

Summer evening fine dry known road with bends hills dips fairly straight, know it well, and over the brow of the hill I came to find dumbly bum sheet asleep on the road. It made no effort to move and with only 15 yards to steer round it, oopps, hit it fair and square on the shoulders full broadside, doing about 60 mph.Stood up on the pegs to save the old bum, and hit the brakes to get the front end to dip and then powered on full throttle to lift the front end up and hit the blighter and stayed  on the bike, an old very heavy BSA 650 single and then shudered to a halt. Parked up, walked back to see the outcome just as car car over the brow of the hill, as the driver slamed all on and managed to miss it.

Chap gets out and asked if I had hit it, 'no' says I, as if you hit and kill some thing on the UK roads, you cannot claim it as ''road kill'',  so says he it must be your's , dead right matey.

So with some difficulty I manged to get this 'lump' on to the pillion seat legs dangling down each side tied it on with the must carry on old bike tow rope, and trundled off home. Took several detours to avoid ' Mr. Plod' zones (Police) other wise they would have confiscated it, and then along with my Dad hung it up by it's back legs in the workshop at home and quite literally with a joiners wood saw cut the thing into managable sized pieces, took it up the street to out local butcher and put it in his freezer, to keep.

We had sheep every thing for the next 6 weeks trying to eat this thing.

I have to say that although I had some butchering experience, actually doing the whole monty is some thing else altogether.

The butcher had all of the inside bits to do what ever butchers do with them, and the skin finished up been 'tanned' and made a very nice sheep skin seat cover on the bike!  

No I do not want sheep sandwich for my tea, thanks.

Last year hit an old fox 3am empty road pitch black but in the car, totalled the front end, radiator, body, track rods , ouch, expensive yeah...and no I did not eat this one.

Motorway Mr. Plod took it away, yeah, probably the local Police station BBQ coming up!!!

So what road kill have you manged to eat!!!

I have also  managed a few pheasants as well, but too small to eat, shame really as they are quite tasty.

A.P.

Answer 2

umm... a fly lol

Answer 3

I once hit a deer coming around a bend, but that doesn't answer your question about which animal I ran over.

A couple of years back I ran over a 5 foot rattlesnake, it curled up both sides, touched my legs, and scared the freakin' daylights out of me.  I had to stop to catch my breath.

A similar incident happened when I was in first grade on a field trip, walking along the curb I didn't see the garter snake and it curled around my leg.  Deja vu is a ******!

Answer 4

cat , 40mph it took a large chunk out of it and the owner took care of the body.barely lifted the suspension of the honda 900.hit a dobermain on the side once scared me.introduced him to halfa house brick at 30 mph the owner locked him up after that.bounced a crow off the top of my helmet at 80 mph straight into the pillions face lol , didnt even slow down.  

Answer 5

A fat assed raccoon. I didn't really run it over, I just kind of clipped it with my floorboard. Didn't kill it. Roads were dry, it was dark, and the b*****d was almost across the road and turned around and ran into me. I hit a dead something on my Honda. It took 3 washes to get the stink off of it.

Answer 6

Personally, a possum.

I hit it straight on, and it went under my bike.  It was dry, and I was going about 35MPH.

Fortunately, no damage to me or the bike, but I couldn't say the same for the possum.  The possum ran off, (I think).  It didn't go under my rear wheel.

I hope the Possum lived.

Answer 7

never did that. ran over a log once with a 750 virago chopper. dark road about 11 at night.felt like the bike bunny hopped! Tracked straight and true no damage.Freaked me out.

Answer 8

the other day i was driving down a main street in los angeles and a HUGE crow darted across the road and i hit it with my chest going about 50 or 60 on my R6, it left a huge bruise even with my leathers on.

theres no way the sob lived, he was flying almost directly towards me when it happened hurt SO BAD. feathers went everywhere, it was probably hilarious for anyone driving near me lol

Answer 9

Acually I did not run it over, it ran into me. I was going down I35 in Austin (TX) aroun 80mph and a big ol black bird flew into my chest/gut region. It hurt like h**l and I almost flew off my 85 gs750. The idiot bird fluttered around and got blown over my head. I dunno if someone hit him after that as I was too freaked to even turn around

Answer 10

I was 17, tooling down the road on a 1977 CB750FourK

I seen the raccoon run out into the road, so i rocked the brakes pretty hard, almost got stopped, but didn't want to try to swerve and lowside...

i slowed down got almost stopped, and he stopped right in my way...

bump, bump....

sorry lil dude, shoulda moved your butt...

Answer 11

I ran over a possum but he was already pretty flat.

A couple of armadillos have been launched off my crash bar but it was night, both times, so I couldn't tell what kind of distance I'm getting.

Answer 12

A bird hit me right in the chest once.  I've avoided everything other than that including two large dogs who ran right out in front of me as I was doing 80 one night at Sunset Beach, Oahu.

Answer 13

an adult doe mule deer (no antlers thank christ)

was going around 80 mph, it was at dusk, and it hopped out of the weeds about 10 feet in front of me

i figure i probably got slowed down to about 70 mph before i hit it

i hit it square dead on, and then the bike went sideways hitting it again.

i skidded from there to a stop in probably about 15 feet

bike was a write off

deer was dead

i was road rashed on my arms and 1 knee, broke my left wrist, a couple ribs, and broke a finger.  

this was around a month and a half ago.... just finally was able to go for a tour again this weekend, wasn't able to ride for very long until now.

no, it did not get a burial... it was half eaten by coyotes by the time i went back to that spot the next morning (not that i'd have buried it anyways... i went out to kick it)

Answer 14

I hit a coyote, in new mexico light rain, messed up front fender & right foot. Pulled over a took him out of his misery (9mm)