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Old Sep 8, 2006 | 07:42 PM
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I got my first road kill on my zx10. Ive hit a bird before on my last bike a zx6 but yesterday on my way home blasting threw a canyon. I come out of a corner into a straight away and there's a volvo in front of me so i juiced it and passed him. as i got back in my lane again out from the side of the road darts a squirel about a bike length in front of me and ran right under my front wheel. suicide by zx10. I just thought i would share that with yaall. anyone else ever hit anything??
 
Old Sep 8, 2006 | 09:34 PM
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I got my first road kill on my zx10. Ive hit a bird before on my last bike a zx6 but yesterday on my way home blasting threw a canyon. I come out of a corner into a straight away and there's a volvo in front of me so i juiced it and passed him. as i got back in my lane again out from the side of the road darts a squirel about a bike length in front of me and ran right under my front wheel. suicide by zx10. I just thought i would share that with yaall. anyone else ever hit anything??
Yea what's wrong with those little f-ers. I have 3 squirrels notched onto my bars, 2 of them could have made it if they would just keep going, but no, they stop and then turn back into the wheel SPLAT! How bad can it be to be a squirrel, could it be that bad that they have to run out and kill themselves. LOL
 
Old Sep 9, 2006 | 12:58 AM
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cute but dumb little critters...[>:]......lol
 
Old Sep 11, 2006 | 08:26 AM
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At least it did not hurt anything on the bike....

I hit a rabbit once, bout 5 years ago. No squirrels tho.....yet. lol

 
Old Sep 11, 2006 | 10:52 AM
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I ran over a little dog once when I had my blazer. Luckily for the dog, it didn't move, and I just when right over it without actually hitting it.
 
Old Sep 11, 2006 | 09:42 PM
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I've never hit any critters, scared the crap out of many though!! I'll never forget the raccoon I almost hit, I had just come around a corner and there he was, in the middle of my lane, I jammed on the brakes and I swear the raccoon put its paws over its head. I stopped just in time and he waddled off the road.

Narrowly avoided many suicidal squirrels though!!!

Hopefully I never do hit anything.
 
Old Oct 2, 2006 | 12:24 AM
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i've hit a squirrel in a corner that mother was like hitting a banana peel. took a pidgeon to the right shoulder at 80+ mph my throttle hand whipped back and i smacked my knuckles on the tail section. ridden through a bee swarm on 3 different occasions grand total of 70+ bee stings. in arizona we have these flying black beetles about 3 to 5 inches long some people call the florida cockroachs. i took one to the leg just above the knee while wearing shorts and part of the hard shell wing was lodged in my leg splated with bug juice...............
 
Old Oct 2, 2006 | 02:06 AM
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No hit, no kill thank goodness. Was side by side racing through T6 at Portland and a possum runs across the track. Whew! that was close. Then the ducks that wade in the small pool on the entry of T7. Crazy stuff.

Street stuff? Black cat in Sacromento, deer T-boned me in Oregon, almost *** ended a Spike Roosevelt elk at night, no offs fortuneatly. T-boned by deer at Mt St. Helens, deer won that one.
 
Old Oct 2, 2006 | 02:28 AM
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haha i had a suicide squrrel today when i was jammin about 110 on a straight away.....not sure if i hit it or not but i tend to ry to avoid them on my bike...but my car well i got like 10 notches on the fender for suicide squirrels hahaha....other than that i had a black cat run out in front of me just after the truck that was in front of me passed it.....we where going about 55 or so and i had all of my interior out of the car at that time and i heard it bouncing off of the underside of my car.....but it got up and ran off afterwards.....think thats about it for me
 
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No hit, no kill thank goodness. Was side by side racing through T6 at Portland and a possum runs across the track. Whew! that was close. Then the ducks that wade in the small pool on the entry of T7. Crazy stuff.

Street stuff? Black cat in Sacromento, deer T-boned me in Oregon, almost *** ended a Spike Roosevelt elk at night, no offs fortuneatly. T-boned by deer at Mt St. Helens, deer won that one.
Wow, deer really like you dont they?

I got a notch on the gf's car for a bird but not much other than that.
 

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