[touch wood] I've not had many scaries.I watched a door panel emerge from under the car in front of me while buzzing down the motorway. I didn't have time to avoid it so pulled my weight back, thought a happy thought, hit it square on and luckily went straight over it.I had a rock break the thumb lip off my visor and also had a fist size bird glance off my front fairing and distribute itself across one of my shoulders.I don't much fancy being out in this weather unless it's in town cruising.
Once had a nob car driver flick a cigarette out of his window as I was filtering through slow traffic ,got me under the eye , that foccing stung and the dick didn't think he did anything wrong, I'm sure he always wondered what the ashtray in the car was for 😡And had a wasp go up under the front of my lid ( long time ago not very expensive lid ) and buzz around in front of my eyes 👀 shit me pants , panicked and forgot I could lift the visor for about 10 seconds , the longest 10 seconds of my life , although my missus tells me I think 10 seconds is ages
Going round a very nice left hander (already cranked over enough) right in my path was a wheel trim, to this day I do not know how I leaned over even further and ducked under it.
On the bikes over the years I've been hit in the shoulder by a pheasant, but managed to stay on despite a massive tank slapper, was hit in the visor by a pigeon, thought my neck was broken, it was sore for a week, killed a small dog, hit a boar which tossed me under a truck, managed to walk away from that one with 2 cracked ribs, truck driver nearly had a heart attack
I have had a few near misses with scaffolding poles, bricks and planks of wood as well.
Quote from: unfazed on 03 December 2016, 01:39:38 amOn the bikes over the years I've been hit in the shoulder by a pheasant, but managed to stay on despite a massive tank slapper, was hit in the visor by a pigeon, thought my neck was broken, it was sore for a week, killed a small dog, hit a boar which tossed me under a truck, managed to walk away from that one with 2 cracked ribs, truck driver nearly had a heart attack Pigeon was obviously mistaken identity, saw the Fazer on a dry day and thought it was Fazersharp.But then you say "hit a boar"?I live in Harrow, school place of Winston Churchill, and i don't recall him, me, or anyone else ever having issues with rampant boar's causing traffic problems!Some small dog's are just too big for their boots and need to be put in their place occasionally. Normally terriers or the like with Napoleon syndrome that have a bark and a bite not quite as big as my size nines.