Talking Turkey
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Talking Turkey
I almost hit a turkey friday playing hookie from work seen it coming out of the corner of my eye. Ijust reacted no time to think about it pulled in the clutch pulled the front and stepped on the rear brake just to see the feet clear my helmet bike fish tailed a little let the brakes free and she went straight up.Talk about a close one it was a medium sized bird 12lbs or so but take that to the head at 55 forget about it! That would have been cute explaining that one to the chief since I live in my Departments district.
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A turkey would be a load to handle at that speed. Sunday on my way to Rolling Thunder I had a blue bird fly into my boot at about 75 mph. It look like someone set off a hand grenade full of feathers. Would've sucked hard to catch it in the chin.
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I had the same thing happen to me several years ago. I was in a national park (Fort Donnelson) when out of the corner of my eye I saw theturkey coming out of the woods, flying as fast as he could. I was only going about 30 mph and slammed on the brakes, I missed the bird by only about 5 feet. I'm sure it would have killed all of us, made me shake for a while. Another time I was passing 3 cars and doing about 90 to 100 mph when I saw a deer jumping a fence and stopping in the middle of my lane. I had nowhere to go, one car was still beside me and my buddy was hot on my trail. The deer looked up at me and turned around and jumped back across the fence and back into the woods. Talk about pucker power!!!!!
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Yes now that would have sucked big time! I hit a deer last fall with my truck the same deer twice I was on my way to an overtime shift at 0300hrs 75mph on the highway took a drink of coffee looked up and wham! the damn thing shot straight in front of me Wham! again this time it went under the truck 3500.00 later a whole new front end. Sure to have killed me on a bike.
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Good save! Seems like every critter possible likes to play chicken on the roads here. The elk weigh almost as much as a VW. And, seemsthe griz are always pizzed about something.
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A friend of mine hit a owl a couple of years ago. It broke his collar bone but he was able to keep the bike up and get it stopped. He lost a lot of riding time that summer healing up.
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RE: Talking Turkey
Same here, the robbins all have a deathwish flying out in front of bikes cars trucks unreal not sure why? Unless they are feeding on bugs next to the road or something then fly up when they hear you.
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