kamikaze creatures
This morning I was forced to recall an experience last summer involving my front wheel and a bird. Today I was cycling in to work and a chap on a motorbike swerved to avoid a pigeon coming in to land. Now as we all know this was unecessary as it is impossible to actually hit a pigeon, even if you try. The memory this conjured was that of a smaller bird, perhaps a wren or a blackbird, that made a very daring, but unfortunately unsuccessful, attempt to fly through my front wheel. The mess this made of my (brand new) wheel was considerable, and the huge volume of feathers produced remarkable. Any other experiences of kamikaze creatures that people would care to recount? Botts

I might have mentioned this one before but, 150mph on a 916 down the glen towards Achnasheen - the biggest stag I've ever seen cleared a 7 foot deer fence and landed on the road in front of me. I swear to god I was close enough to touch it. If it hadn't kept running I'd be a grease spot now. Toooooo bloody close! Funny thing is, all I could think was "Fuck, Im gonna wreck Jeffs bike"!

Back in the early eighties , my mate Neil was riding round the pub , on his Vespa cutdown . A badger ran out in front of him and he hit it , the scooter flipped and Neil skidded down the road and hit a wall . As he got up , he reckons the badger gave him a dirty look and ran off. Incidentally, the crash bent the forks on his bike back , giving him a shorter wheelbase and the kind of trail normally associated with a shopping trolley , he still rode it everywhere like that for 6 months , cos he was too tight to buy another set .

Oh yeah , I`ve also had several wasps fly into open faced lids and sting me , ouch!!

Badgers are notoriously hard creatures. I got a bee in my mouth once but spat it out before it could get me. Bees are nice, wasps are bstards.

I concur on the bee/wasp thing . Bees only sting if you piss them off , wasps are like chavs with a couple of Stellas in them , they want to sting you . I think badgers are the stuntmen of the animal world.

Yeah, ironically I'd just passed a Lotus Elise that had been well and truly stuffed. Bits of fur and antlers sticking out the front of it!

good eatin on a deer, i had deer burgers once. so so.