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Had a fantastic ride today on the PCH just north of San Francisco! Beautiful scenery and excellent twisties!
A weird thing happened on the way back at the end of the day. It was 5pm and we had just turned onto a narrow country road. I'm doing no more than 20 mph and this young but large deer decides to jump out from the bushes from my left and takes two leaps to cross the road.
It happened so fast and I was tired. I noticed him at the end of his first leap. He was headed right for me. Me, not the bike!
His chest is at my shoulder and I lean towards him to counter the impact. He hits my shoulder, hard! Ouch!! I'm able to keep my bike upright thankfully! The deer does a 360 in a counter-clockwise direction and crashes on the road, breaking his leg in the process. ?
If he hit my bike just in front of me or just behind me, I would have crashed. All three (deer, bike, and me) of us would have been hurt.
The deer scrambled to get to his feet and bounded into the bush with a dangling front leg.
I know all this detail because a friend was riding behind me and saw the whole thing.
I feel bad that I effectively killed this deer, and lucky that I get to ride another day...
The only damage to the bike is a broken left rear turn signal cover. I checked everywhere else for damage. Nothing. My shoulder is still sore today but I have full range of motion.
I guess I made the cougar's next meal a bit easier to hunt down.
And me? I'm now a deer hunter with my new bike, Snow Angel.
Not sure how many of us are out there where the rider and bike remained upright after a deer collision?
A weird thing happened on the way back at the end of the day. It was 5pm and we had just turned onto a narrow country road. I'm doing no more than 20 mph and this young but large deer decides to jump out from the bushes from my left and takes two leaps to cross the road.
It happened so fast and I was tired. I noticed him at the end of his first leap. He was headed right for me. Me, not the bike!
His chest is at my shoulder and I lean towards him to counter the impact. He hits my shoulder, hard! Ouch!! I'm able to keep my bike upright thankfully! The deer does a 360 in a counter-clockwise direction and crashes on the road, breaking his leg in the process. ?
If he hit my bike just in front of me or just behind me, I would have crashed. All three (deer, bike, and me) of us would have been hurt.
The deer scrambled to get to his feet and bounded into the bush with a dangling front leg.
I know all this detail because a friend was riding behind me and saw the whole thing.
I feel bad that I effectively killed this deer, and lucky that I get to ride another day...
The only damage to the bike is a broken left rear turn signal cover. I checked everywhere else for damage. Nothing. My shoulder is still sore today but I have full range of motion.
I guess I made the cougar's next meal a bit easier to hunt down.
And me? I'm now a deer hunter with my new bike, Snow Angel.