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To: ShadowAce

Excellent. As a former rider of a few decades who stopped riding 2 decades ago due to age, etc I can relate to some of the story. $h!t can happen on a bike. A former boss took on a deer and ran off the road into a tree (compound fracture...deer? Just fine). Me? Not so much animals except for the large seagull that let go of one up ahead of me...it started the hit the front of the tank then I watched as it drew a line across the tank vertically and most of the way up my jacket.

I worked in a bike shop and asked a flight instructor whose bike I was working on how hard it would be to learn how to fly. ‘ yes...Training is required but then it is safer then riding these things’ or something to that effect


17 posted on 04/06/2020 5:13:51 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

“...for the large seagull that let go of one up ahead of me...it started the hit the front of the tank then I watched as it drew a line across the tank vertically and most of the way up my jacket.”


I was riding to work a couple of years ago. I live in the country and my daily ride involves a stretch of creek right next to the road. I spook a blue heron who took off and for a while he was flying parallel to me right about eye level about 10yds to my right. It was a real “wildlife moment”. Then he gained altitude, banked left and hit me with a load of heron poo. Payback for disturbing his morning fishing.


50 posted on 04/06/2020 8:25:35 AM PDT by hanamizu
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