Collinsion!!

[johnr]

Once found myself riding through a flock (herd? ... who knows?) of ducks as they were taking off. Got hit by 3 or 4 of them. Blooming hurt.

 

[Gerry Attrick]

A good few years ago, having careered around Lincolnshire's leafy lanes on a (motor)bike, I parked up in my then landlady's garage and headed in for dinner having smelt the unmistakable aroma of cooking chicken. Except on arrival at the trough, found the chicken to be pork. Strange thought I. Until next morning when washing my beloved Honda 400 four, I discovered betwixt cylinder head and tank, the perfectly cooked corpse of a blackbird (deceased).

Not nearly enough meat on it for a growing chap.

 

[Cubist]

Blackbirds do have that great habit of launching themselves at very low altitude across the road. One hit me on the knee once when I was riding a motorbike. Huge bruise from that one. I also once hit a large winged beetle, possibly a cockchafer, at night, which hit the middle of my visor. I had been doing quite a speed at the time, and apart from feeling like I'd been shot, the resultant leg/wing/casing encrusted yellow goo which seemed to cover my entire field of vision took a hell of a lot of removing before I could ride home.

 

[Tony B]

I hit a rook many moons ago doing 70 on my motorbike, couldn't use my shoulder for 3 days, lovely bruise and I was wearing a padded leather jacket, very very painfull and scared the sh1t out of me and my missus who was on the back.

 

[thomas]

Lucky squirrel. Once saw a pic online of a squirrel that had gone through the front wheel between spokes and smashed the carbon fork, throwing the rider down into his collarbone at speed. Ouch! Full on smashed shoulder and collarbone iirc.

I've cycled over the head of a snake (if only he was an inch further left!) and hit the hind leg of a rabbit (I could feel it crush - horrible) as it jumped out in front of me when it was impossible to stop.

 

[Cubist]

Time you learnt to bunny hop then!

 

[Radius]

Time you learnt to bunny hop then!

:?:

 

[pes]

Head on collision for me yesterday, fortunately I was going quite slowly (top of an incline) through Claybroke magna, when it hit me... head on wrong side of road, no lights, must have been 30mph ish as I only saw it when it hit errm altitude 1.4m or thereabouts. A bloomin pigeon hit me on the left shoulder, crazy like, never been hit by a bird before!!

Well there's a first for everything I guess, still no commuting for me for 2 weeks as I've got the next 2 weeks off

How is it?
The pigeon that is, not your shoulder.