I've been making an effort to be at the gym more regularly ... which means about twice a week over the last few months. Mornings like this are good motivation... leaving the gym around 6:30:
The most important thing when riding is sight distance, more importanter is being seen; and yes, they are all trying to kill you. 😊I tell people, who usually don't understand, unless they take up riding themselves....that I ride my bike with the attitude that "everyone out there is trying to kill me". Defensive driving to its fullest. It's something you have to work at constantly, anticipate everything. It's crazy it's so much fun.
Non riders don't understand, we riders do.
A friend of mine has turkey buzzards hanging in his yard. I would not want to hit one of those. Liable to knock you off the bikeI had a VERY close "near-miss" on a Turkey Vulture (BIG bird probably around 25 to 35 pounds)
Now I know there are all sorts of circumstances to adjust to in any given moment of potential collision with a big bird, or even a larger animal like a deer, but this was advice given to me. IF collision is INEVITABLE, square up, learn forward, grip the bars and go in straight and hard, like a pulling guard seeking out the defensive end. In other words, don't try to keep veering off for your offline and lean will undoubtedly push you like a pinball into any other immovable object on sidelines. Keep the physics on your side at least and go in straight and locked in.A friend of mine has turkey buzzards hanging in his yard. I would not want to hit one of those. Liable to knock you off the bike
Right -- if collision is unavoidable, hit it square and straight.Now I know there are all sorts of circumstances to adjust to in any given moment of potential collision with a big bird, or even a larger animal like a deer, but this was advice given to me. IF collision is INEVITABLE, square up, learn forward, grip the bars and go in straight and hard, like a pulling guard seeking out the defensive end. In other words, don't try to keep veering off for your offline and lean will undoubtedly push you like a pinball into any other immovable object on sidelines. Keep the physics on your side at least and go in straight and locked in.
Hard to do for avoidance would be the initial reflex and should be if able to avoid the object.
Hence why I hate deer, so jumpy and unpredictable. But I guess that was the original point. You don't know what way they will go, so with that fact, set yourself and your bike up for the best chance of survival. Again, so many unknowns with .02 seconds to react.
Unless you see it well before down line which is always the goal, then we have a better chance to adjust. Many times they jump out from nowhere though.
Scaring the crap out of a bunch of geese in the road can lead to a slippery situation, be careful with that. 😁I haven’t come up on deer on the Vx. Not sure how that would play out.
There’s a curve leading up to an on-ramp in town here where geese like to hang out. They literally walk right out in front of traffic all the time, yielding for no one.
Well here I come reving out that 300cc on the curve and they already out in the road. I’m about to grab a handful of brake when I see them in utter panic trying to get off the road expeditiously. Apparently 10k rpm scared the crap out of them. So I got back on the throttle and powered thru lmao
HITTING one can really ruin your day, TOO!Scaring the crap out of a bunch of geese in the road can lead to a slippery situation, be careful with that. 😁