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ttboof · Super Guru

Kangeroos should be extinct by now ?

TheWizardofOdds · Senior Member

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.

ttboof · Super Guru

thanks .i will add deer to my look out for list biggrin

with

kangeroos

sheep

wombats

emus

hondas

and galahas (dumb birds that realy hurt when hit )

any more sugestions ?

TT-R250M · Super Guru

ttboof wrote:
thanks .i will add deer to my look out for list
with
kangeroos
sheep
wombats
emus
hondas
and galahas (dumb birds that really hurt when they hit )
any more sugestions ?

That is not the nicest way to describe women but still good none the less. wink

Jarrah

Ps. I changed it a little. smile

ttboof · Super Guru

the hit usualy happens when the ttr gets me home a few hours late . smile smile

TT-R250M · Super Guru

ttboof wrote:
the hit usualy happens when the ttr gets me home a few hours late .

biggrin biggrin biggrin

KMAN · Senior Member

Magpies.i caught one once racing my rdlc thru the hills.

He got stuck wrapped around my clutch lever.

couldnt slow down cos every time I tried to change gears he'd have a crack at me.....

Dodged many roos emus and wombats in my part of aus to

texasT · Senior Member

(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

TerryK · Super Guru

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.

Terry

TT-R250M · Super Guru

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

LRJ · Senior Member

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.

ttboof · Super Guru

LRJ wrote:
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.

nice colection .the skunks sound nasty

pedrosan · Senior Member

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

ttboof · Super Guru

pedrosan wrote:
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 .

TimCC · Member

LRJ wrote:
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.

ttboof · Super Guru

Turkeys sound nasty .

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 smile

Cubber · Super Guru

We don't get many kangaroos in the UK, but we do get deer straying onto the roads - even in Devon.

This isn't my picture (it's from the US of A) but it shows what can happen

It can be seen, together with further shots from the rider's helmet camera, HERE

Martyn

TheWizardofOdds · Senior Member

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.

ttboof · Super Guru

starting to sound like deer and roos may be related .

but it does add to the experience of riding