My First Crash - Page 2

**a340driver** · 09-15-2014, 12:02 AM

Glad your OK .. I hate seeing a bent bike!!

napom · 09-15-2014, 10:49 AM

Progressive is very good to work with - just takes a little time - They took care of me when I went in the ditch . . .

Glad you are OK . . .

**Kawhead** · 09-15-2014, 02:06 PM

Well now you got a battle story to swap!

On my second deer strike I got to see my last beloved Nomad do cartwheels, summersets and break dance! I slid down the road for a few feet on my back and arm, then the patch of poison oak on the road side broke my slide. I rolled over in it and crawled out of it on my elbows.

Nationwide did me right on everything.

ponch · 09-15-2014, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Kawhead

Well now you got a battle story to swap!

On my second deer strike I got to see my last beloved Nomad do cartwheels, summersets and break dance! I slid down the road for a few feet on my back and arm, then the patch of poison oak on the road side broke my slide. I rolled over in it and crawled out of it on my elbows.

Nationwide did me right on everything.

I wonder why some people just blow through a deer and some do what happened to you? Did you have time to react? How did you make contact with the deer?

Silent Sam · 09-15-2014, 03:07 PM

....I know THIS will -once again- cause a storm of opinions !

I have 'DEER WHISTLES" mounted under my floor boards...(never hit a deer or coyote..came close tho...(skunks and coons are deaf)

**Kawhead** · 09-15-2014, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by ponch

I wonder why some people just blow through a deer and some do what happened to you? Did you have time to react? How did you make contact with the deer?

The first one I seen it about two feet in front of the headlight, and the second, at first I thought I hit a car, then somebody told me I hit a deer. The only reason I know what happened is because Todd talked to a driver behind me who said a deer came out of the woods and knocked me off the bike. No time to react in either case. I can't remember how I landed or rolled in either one but I have a very vivid memory, like a video, of seeing the bikes flipping. The first thought that went through my mind is "if you don't start breathing you gonna die"! It knocks every last breath out of you.

It's like a large sack of flour hits you, except it's maybe a 100~ pound well toned fury woodland creature.

It killed both deer. I reckon me and the second one butted heads or something.

**Kawhead** · 09-15-2014, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Silent Sam

....I know THIS will -once again- cause a storm of opinions !

I have 'DEER WHISTLES" mounted under my floor boards...(never hit a deer or coyote..came close tho...(skunks and coons are deaf)

I had whistles on my first bike. Somebody ask me if they were clean and I told them I just put them on two days before. Then they told me maybe a bug got caught in one of them.

I think maybe the damn stupid deer didn't know to run FROM a whistle.

ponch · 09-15-2014, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Kawhead

I had whistles on my first bike. Somebody ask me if they were clean and I told them I just put them on two days before. Then they told me maybe a bug got caught in one of them.

I think maybe the damn stupid deer didn't know to run FROM a whistle.

Deer can't hear them just as we can't. It's a scam.

Silent Sam · 09-15-2014, 11:23 PM

..Well it's sure true that skunks and coons cant hear them...I aint had the misfortune to cross path's with an Armadillo..yet !

Considering how many are squashed on the hiways in the south...I think those critters are commiting suicide, along with possum's !

Bart · 09-16-2014, 12:43 AM

Yesterday I slowed down for a big squirlly calf near the road, slowly passed him, started to accellerate when a young doe appeared from behind some brush and panicked at the rumble of my bike and zig-zagged in the road in front of me. There's probably a good chance we would have met unfavorably if I hadn't slowed down for the calf. Most of these critters graze in the bar ditches in the evening and panic when a cruiser comes by and are bent on jumping in your lap.

**Kawhead** · 09-16-2014, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by ponch

Deer can't hear them just as we can't. It's a scam.

I think so too.

Both of 'em died with a kind of "What the fuuuu?" look on their faces.

Silent Sam · 09-16-2014, 11:41 PM

..Well so far so good, for me...but I'll keep knocking on my woodie..just for added luck !

Longshot1587 · 09-17-2014, 01:40 AM

Wow! Glad to read you're ok. Truly blessed!

**Kawhead** · 09-18-2014, 02:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Silent Sam

..Well so far so good, for me...but I'll keep knocking on my woodie..just for added luck !

Knocking on wood is just as good as deer whistles. I done all the research I could and there is no conclusive evidence that whistles denture wildlife. I met a guy who hit four or five and he had whistles twice.

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Originally Posted by Longshot1587

Wow! Glad to read you're ok. Truly blessed!

Trust me, God especially watches after idiots. I'm proof in the pudding.

Ain't run across an air tight argument yet.

Silent Sam · 09-18-2014, 07:34 PM

...I dont -disagree with the possibiliy, that so far I'm "just lucky"..It could also be that ..I ride so slow..seldom at night...and the gods that screw with me..just dont want to have to deal with me...face to face ! (But I'hm a comin..they cant force me to live forever..

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Silent Sam Sr. Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: On The Shakey Side Posts: 2,501	..Well it's sure true that skunks and coons cant hear them...I aint had the misfortune to cross path's with an Armadillo..yet ! Considering how many are squashed on the hiways in the south...I think those critters are commiting suicide, along with possum's !
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Silent Sam Sr. Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: On The Shakey Side Posts: 2,501	..Well so far so good, for me...but I'll keep knocking on my woodie..just for added luck !
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Silent Sam Sr. Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: On The Shakey Side Posts: 2,501	...I dont -disagree with the possibiliy, that so far I'm "just lucky"..It could also be that ..I ride so slow..seldom at night...and the gods that screw with me..just dont want to have to deal with me...face to face ! (But I'hm a comin..they cant force me to live forever..)
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