My week end so far , I was fixing the damage a roo did tgo my sons car when it decided to hop into his car as they do . he had borrowed my wifes Honda accord while I was fixing his car only to get a phone call ,I have a roo stuck in the grill of mums car what do I do , my response was pull it out of course check for damage if ok drive home ( turns out about 3K of damage everything forward of the engine damaged ,
I headed out for a ride on Sunday had a run in with 5 roos in the first hour which is fairly normal which leads me to my question how do these pests manage to survive when they have to hop towards or into a bike making a heap of noise in a forest miles from no where ? , I recon the only way they are getting by is they breed like rabbits and can afford to spoil peoples days by crashing into them loosing a few thousand a day on the roads .
the other down side of these pests is due to their random attacks my average speed is lowered due to self preservation kicking in on the open fire trails ext waiting for the next hit from nowhere .
Just felt like a bit of a rant to make me feel better .
I still managed a 5 hour ride on a perfect autumn day despite the roos , and didn't mind the black snake that I stepped on going over a log it had a good chomp on my boot but id be a bit annoyed if that happened to me just as im heading into hibernation for the winter
I know where you're coming from except my problem is deer.They are haunting me. I've hit two on the same bit of country road recently. Luckily for me and not them I was in my car not the TT. They hang about the road with miles of wilderness around it? When I take the bike I'm down to 30mph on a 60 road. The headlights on the bike are no good either so that doesn't help.
(in alphabetical order) armadillos buzzards & bees cats democrats ...sometmes I have to make several passes on these folks elves fools g -i can't think of... hogs imbeciles jerks who walk in road and think they own it kangaroo's (as you mention) llama's (we have um here to watch sheep) moose new democrats opposum possum q aludes me real old democrats soup cans turtles u name it very old democrats weasel xylophone yoga class dropouts zebra
I hit a Roo couple of years ago on the XR400, was doing 90kph on a dirt road when he ran out from behind a tree, he was a big bugger too ended up hitting him on the rear leg, spun him around & bent the front wheel.
Have had many near misses with Roo's counted around 40 on one 5km section of road up the Flinders last month, I also hit a Magpie at 85kph, not nice at all, close calls with sheep, snakes, Emu's etc. Even had a couple of close calls with Wedgetail eagles up the Flinders but it's all part of the fun.
The problem with roo's is the land being cleared. Where there is cleared land, there is grass. This means that the roo's now have more grass and are coming closer to civilization. Also with more grass they are breeding like rabbits. I think we need to cull them a little or start a relocation program, way too many!
Jarrah
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In my neck of the woods (literally), I also have to watch out for deer (I have had a grazing collision with one), opossum, raccoon, coyote, fox, and turkeys; but the one that scares me most is skunks: even near misses and contact with dead ones turns me into a pariah for the rest of the day at work.
In my neck of the woods (literally), I also have to watch out for deer (I have had a grazing collision with one), opossum, raccoon, coyote, fox, and turkeys; but the one that scares me most is skunks: even near misses and contact with dead ones turns me into a pariah for the rest of the day at work.
I'll swap with one of you poor souls out there in sunny Australia, Texas or California. There are no kangaroos, snakes or armadillos at all in Keighley, West Yorkshire, UK. There is noticeably less sun however, so I suppose it's swings and roundabouts
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I'll swap with one of you poor souls out there in sunny Australia, Texas or California. There are no kangaroos, snakes or armadillos at all in Keighley, West Yorkshire, UK. There is noticeably less sun however, so I suppose it's swings and roundabouts
id like to try mud and snow you guys have plenty of both and the green laning looks like fun .
In my neck of the woods (literally), I also have to watch out for deer (I have had a grazing collision with one), opossum, raccoon, coyote, fox, and turkeys; but the one that scares me most is skunks: even near misses and contact with dead ones turns me into a pariah for the rest of the day at work.
I've had a few near misses of low flying turkeys. Those things are too big to have any business being off the ground.
We have scrub turkeys not a,big bird but a bit stupid .when they flap out of the bush my immediate thought is it's a roo so usually on the brakes before I realise what's going on
That scares the hell out of me. Nice photo though. When I'm riding through the worst part of my deer chicken run my knuckles are white, toes curled and my backside twitching like a rabbits nose. My language isn't great either. Those deer are kamikaze.