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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 29300 Tucson Az Gender:	Bird!... 06/05/12 at 09:56:52 ... at 170mph... ...
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bess227 Full Member Offline Back in the saddle after 20 yrs Posts: 100 N. Wilkesboro, NC Gender:	Re: Bird!... Reply #1 - 06/05/12 at 10:15:48 did he stay on the bike? massive fail? holy crap that would be like someone throwing an anvil at you at 65. that said, what a great pic.
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 29300 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Bird!... Reply #2 - 06/06/12 at 10:40:59 the story... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/isle-of-man-tt-ian-hutchinson-855255 PS... IOM video... I didn't watch the whole lap, but... if you've never heard a bike bounce of the rev-limiter... it happens at 1:31...
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Bird!... Reply #3 - 06/06/12 at 13:23:37 I dont see how anyone can ride that fast. I crashed before he got to 3rd//
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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: Bird!... Reply #4 - 06/06/12 at 15:01:45 I don't recall who it was... I think it was Sluggo but possibly Gitarzan who was hit in the shoulder by a bird (of a smaller variety, like a sparrow). If I remember right, he was doing like 40 or 45 MPH and said it knocked him hard enough to pull his hand free of the bar and left a softball sized bruise.
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cowboy Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 173	Re: Bird!... Reply #5 - 06/06/12 at 18:03:31 that's one lucky guy. a sparrow hit me at 60 and almost took me off my bonneville.
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Reply #6 - 06/07/12 at 07:32:07

I was doing... 45-50mph on my BMW when I collided with a magpie.

I can only thank my windshield was the tall, cruiser kind AND that it was a full 6mm thick (1/4 in).

All I remember was "oh, sh...t" and ducking my head... and THWACK!

I feared I was going to careen, but no, good heavy locomotive of a bike...
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Reply #7 - 06/08/12 at 08:51:14

I was riding thru Arkansas a few years ago on a cross country. While on heavily wooded back road, suddenly a hoard of black birds began flying out of the bushes alongside of the road. I was on a big Yamaha Venture and just hunkered down behind the fairing and windshield listening to the thump thump thump... thump... thump thump... This continued for several hundred yards and I remember looking in my rear view to see a wake of dead and wounded birds fluttering on the road behind me.

The JOURNEY is the reward!

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Bird!... Reply #8 - 06/08/12 at 08:53:39 YOu scared them,, they thot you were on a Yamaha Vulture.
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splash07 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 911 Charleston, SC Gender:	Re: Bird!... Reply #9 - 06/08/12 at 10:49:16 justin_o_guy2 wrote on 06/08/12 at 08:53:39: YOu scared them,, they thot you were on a Yamaha Vulture.
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