That's nothing short or terrifying!

 

Mule deer are all over the place around here...had a few close calls but NEVER that close! Glad you made it through OK.

 

Lots of times I have had deer stop on the road and watch me as I approached. Yesterday twin fawns ran across the road in front of me. I saw the first one well before I got close but from experience I always slow expecting a 2nd or 3rd deer to run across. I wasn't disappointed this time when the second one came bounding out of the woods.

I slowed again when a hen turkey crossed the road with her little one trailing behind.

Today the rains returned ... groan.

 

You're one lucky grumpy! I remember reading bike/deer collision stats from Minnesota several years ago. I can't recall the percentage of those collisions that resulted in rider fatalities, but it was VERY high.

Don't pull out your horseshoe!

 

You sure it wasn't you that peed a little.

 

Usually deer travel in at least pairs.

 

Glad you're ok but deer jerky is mighty tasty!

 

Lots of times I have had deer stop on the road and watch me as I approached.

Same here. Riding home on backroads saturday evening I saw something up ahead a good ways and as i got closer n' closer i realize its a deer standing in the middle of my lane staring at me. I slow roll to a stop about 30 feet from it, and then it suddenly jumps as if it just then noticed me and runs across the road and off into the woods on the left. Stupid animals.

 

Glad it worked out the way it did. Better get some louder pipes to scare the deer away. :biggrin:

 

You sure it wasn't you that peed a little.

Thats funny. I was still wearing my sunglasses when it started to get dark. Didn't really notice it until I saw some one standing next to the rode. I pulled my glasses off in time to see a black cow in the rode. Made me pee a little. Clear glasses from now on if it is even close to sun fading.

 

Glad you're ok but deer jerky is mighty tasty!

Lol, yeah, I was hoping this thread was going to be more about where to come for some venison steaks... darn.

Do you have a highway bar? How is your leg/foot feeling?

--Michael

 

about a month ago i was riding to work, i came over a hill and TWO deer run out from my rt side hang a rt run paralell to me the whole time i'm on the bkakes rode was wet, rear locks up first DEER cuts right in front of me don't know how we didn't meet let off brakes second DEER ran back in woods to my rt. this all happend in 1.837 seconds!!!!! if the seconed DEER had come left that might very well have been the end.

 

Here is the excerpt from that article I read about fatality rates (Motorcycle Cruiser magazine, April 2004):

About 150 Americans a year die as a result of 700,000 collisions with deer, which reportedly cause over a billion dollars in damage. A disproportionate number of those fatalities are motorcyclists. The Wisconsin DOT site devoted to the deer problem says that while only 2% of car-deer collisions were fatal to humans, 84.9% of the motorcycle-deer crashes involved human fatalities.

 

You sure it wasn't you that peed a little.

:stopit: :tongue:

Lol, yeah, I was hoping this thread was going to be more about where to come for some venison steaks... darn.

Do you have a highway bar? How is your leg/foot feeling?

--Michael

Foot is good. If I had a highway bar I would have been writing about how "I DID T-bone Bambi"

 

Glad it worked out the way it did. Better get some louder pipes to scare the deer away. :biggrin:

Cant get a whole lot louder without making my own...which I am doing (whole other topic)