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lucabond
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Glad you came out in 1 piece more or less. Did you get to keep the deer meat ? Heal up quick and be well your very lucky.
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ShortyzKustomz
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Glad to hear your ok... I somehow ended up watching youtube videos of people hitting deer on bikes, I've seen people in wheel chairs to peoplehitting them at 85+ with only fairing damage....It could be alot worse either way
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Guest
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Glad to hear you are mostly alright. Breathing is good after one of these encounters. I had my shot at deer hunting some years ago on my Yamaha cruiser with a 20 valve sport bike motor. Hit it mid air as it jumped over a coop the fox hunters put up to block the entrances to fields around here. My National Plexifairing broke, but threw him over my head before he hit me. I went sliding down the road with the bike sliding ahead of me. It hit the gravel on the side of the road stood up and crashed down on the other side. The bike was a real cosmetic mess. I was so ****ed that I was up and chasing the deer who was hopping away on two front and one back leg. I ran out of steam about time I got my hands on him. Most likely wasn't the smartest thing I've ever done. Took years to get control of the rages acquired in Vietnam.
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Guest
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Wow.
Not many do this and live to talk about it.
Sounds like you're on your way to recovery, worried about the bike and all.
I know someone who hit a tractor at 50mph(here come the redneck jokes) 2.5 mos ago and it still in the bed with a busted up body. Says he'll never get on another bike as long as he lives.
Good luck to ya!!
Not many do this and live to talk about it.
Sounds like you're on your way to recovery, worried about the bike and all.
I know someone who hit a tractor at 50mph(here come the redneck jokes) 2.5 mos ago and it still in the bed with a busted up body. Says he'll never get on another bike as long as he lives.
Good luck to ya!!
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Grandpa
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So you hit a dear. Oh, deer!
Bambikiller Nick Diaz
Middletown, MD
Bambikiller Nick Diaz
Middletown, MD
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makr
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I try to hit as many dears as possible...keep in mind I am a single guy.
I hit a deer in the spring. No idea how I walked away. Scary stuff. The bike is back together and well if that helps.
I hit a deer in the spring. No idea how I walked away. Scary stuff. The bike is back together and well if that helps.
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TheCafeKid
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Well I'm certainly glad you're alive and getting better. You were very very fortunate. And now, a short scolding. If you don't have a license you need to get one. And after this I would a
strongly suggest you take the safety course. It is a tremendous teaching tool. It goes a good way into teaching you evassive manuvers. Now I'm not suggesting that it would have prevented you incident, as sometimes those horned bastards just appear out of nowhere. But it would probably have helped in teaching you to be more aware of situations such as this and when and where to watch out for things like this. The BMV course at least in most states does none of this. Glad you were wearing a helmet too but what else were you wearing for gear? Enough tho I'd say you've probably learned a valuable lesson in this. Unfortunately at the cost of blood skin and pain, but fortunately not the cost of a life. Be carefully out there guys. This is a bad bad time of year to be riding in the country or burbs after dusk. Glad you're gonna make it.
Oh and on the bike
make absolutely sure that frame is straight. Even a slightly tweaked frame can lead to big time handling issues at speed. Good luck on the rebuild when you get started, but take your time. It's nearly winter now and you have four months or so to work on it.
strongly suggest you take the safety course. It is a tremendous teaching tool. It goes a good way into teaching you evassive manuvers. Now I'm not suggesting that it would have prevented you incident, as sometimes those horned bastards just appear out of nowhere. But it would probably have helped in teaching you to be more aware of situations such as this and when and where to watch out for things like this. The BMV course at least in most states does none of this. Glad you were wearing a helmet too but what else were you wearing for gear? Enough tho I'd say you've probably learned a valuable lesson in this. Unfortunately at the cost of blood skin and pain, but fortunately not the cost of a life. Be carefully out there guys. This is a bad bad time of year to be riding in the country or burbs after dusk. Glad you're gonna make it.
Oh and on the bike
make absolutely sure that frame is straight. Even a slightly tweaked frame can lead to big time handling issues at speed. Good luck on the rebuild when you get started, but take your time. It's nearly winter now and you have four months or so to work on it.
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piester
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yeah all in all im ok. in a bunch of pain but i only missed a day of work. the main things i am mad about are that i had just changed the oil and then it all came out. i had filled up the tank that morning, and the weather is suposed to be beautiful all week. oh and the fact that i hit that thing in the first place. everyone except for my grams is mad at me because i already started working on the bike pulling broken stuff off. oh well. im probably done riding this year but i cant help but want to get it fixxed back up before the snow falls. but i also may have found a few bikes that an older lady wants me to get out of her garage. an early 80s 1150, late 70s 1000, and a pair of 80s gsxr 750s. i think ones an 85 and ones an 87. suposedly all 4 run good and and were on the road at the end of last summer. i think she said that there was some other bikes in the barn and a bunch of parts too. i did also see a really old zuki racing jacket that i want. and i cant really beat the price of nothing. but like most good things, im willing to bet that nothing is in as good of shape as she says they are.
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piester
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oh yeah and the license thing is because of me having a heavy wrist. not because im a new rider. i havnt taken any state run courses but i have attended a few track days on a cbr. but i definetly promote the idea of taking pretty much any kind of courses.
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TheCafeKid
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Well either way I can tell you from experience that not having a motorcycle endorsement, at least in this state, is an F4. That's harder punishment than a DUI. Odd yes but the last thing you need is to fight a felony for riding. They might take your license away for good.
At any rate. Good luck!
At any rate. Good luck!
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Speedo
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Abs rock solid advice. There will be a LOT more stuff wrong than you think with that type of collision. Trust us on this one. I hit a deer (not a 'dear'...whole 'nother series of stories if u know what I mean
) in OH on 71S heading to Columbus from Cleveland about 6 yrs ago in my daughter's Accord at dawn. Going 'bout 70 and one of the scariest moments of my life. Me fine, car totaled. It came outta nowhere and the time between when I saw it and when I hit it was less than the time it takes to lift your foot off the throttle. Crazy sh*t. The thing literally peeled the hood back to point that it slapped the windshield and I heard the deer hit the roof as well (could see it as the hood smacked into windshield totally blinding me). Survived no injury, but not fun calling my little girl at 7am explaining that Daddy crunched her car that she was kind enough to lend me (mine had a blown head gasket a few days before and was in the shop at the time). Are you kidding me? Ditch the crashed bike and ride all of these if you can and pick the best one and be done with the whole business. If you can't ride/won't start, then pick ur favorite, buy it cheap, lean on all these great guys on the GS site and be done with it.
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Speedo
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Sorry, I messed up who I was quoting. Sorry CafeKid.
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Originally Posted by Piester
i also may have found a few bikes that an older lady wants me to get out of her garage. an early 80s 1150, late 70s 1000, and a pair of 80s gsxr 750s. i think ones an 85 and ones an 87. suposedly all 4 run good and and were on the road at the end of last summer. i think she said that there was some other bikes in the barn and a bunch of parts too
My prev comment stands....if you have access to all these great bikes (and will be able to walk/ride/etc), by ALL MEANS take advantage and take a look and prob buy a new un-messed-up Suz.....
Quote:
Originally Posted by Piester
i also may have found a few bikes that an older lady wants me to get out of her garage. an early 80s 1150, late 70s 1000, and a pair of 80s gsxr 750s. i think ones an 85 and ones an 87. suposedly all 4 run good and and were on the road at the end of last summer. i think she said that there was some other bikes in the barn and a bunch of parts too
My prev comment stands....if you have access to all these great bikes (and will be able to walk/ride/etc), by ALL MEANS take advantage and take a look and prob buy a new un-messed-up Suz.....
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coolksprt
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sooo since no one else already did, I guess I'll be the sick guy to ask for pictures of the wheels??
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DanTheMan
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I've hit two in my lifetime, one with the Jeep, the other with my truck. The largest one was done in with the Jeep (200+ lbs).
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koolaid_kid
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Geez, and all I've done is kill a Black Angus bull with my 1966 Suzuki T-200 X-5 Invader. I feel so left out. 
Glad you are O.K., Piester. What part of the country do you live in? Perhaps a fellow GSR person could lend a hand?
Glad you are O.K., Piester. What part of the country do you live in? Perhaps a fellow GSR person could lend a hand?
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Guest
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Last deer I hit, I ate with a big smile.
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ptm
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Glad you're OK. I hit a deer a couple years ago while I was on my '82 850 going about 60-70. Same thing - right into the side of it. No telephone pole involved, so I just broke my collarbone and hammered my hip and ankle pretty well, but everything healed OK. No fun. Somehow I managed to pick up the bike even with the collarbone broken - adrenalin is amazing stuff. People told me I was lucky, but if I had been lucky, I wouldn't have hit it in the first place...
As for the bike...without careful measurements, it's hard to tell if something is bent. With mine, one fork tube and the steering head were bent, but it was not obvious from looking at them. It wasn't until I held a straight edge against the tube that I could tell. And I didn't realize the steering head was bent until I tried to put together and the forks weren't parallel. Once I replaced the tube and triple tree (and the tank, turn signals, fender, gauges, headlight, handlebars, and mirrors) it runs and handles fine.
Good luck with the healing. It takes a while...
As for the bike...without careful measurements, it's hard to tell if something is bent. With mine, one fork tube and the steering head were bent, but it was not obvious from looking at them. It wasn't until I held a straight edge against the tube that I could tell. And I didn't realize the steering head was bent until I tried to put together and the forks weren't parallel. Once I replaced the tube and triple tree (and the tank, turn signals, fender, gauges, headlight, handlebars, and mirrors) it runs and handles fine.
Good luck with the healing. It takes a while...
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Did she press charges? 
Sounds like they settled out of courtDid she press charges?
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