Animals hitting my bike? I caught one trying to key it but I stomped my foot, yelled and scared it away just in time. On the other hand, I haven't hit/ran over one yet. Yet.

 

Bloated ground hog? Man, the STINK!

 

Hit a buzzard once and that was no fun at all. Fork tube and crash bar took the hit. A couple of seriously close calls with deer, buzzards and wild hog. Close enough I thought to myself this is gonna hurt.

 

I was on a Yamaha FZ6 (you know the way your toes point down on that type of bike). I hit a suicidal ground hog with my shifting foot. Watched him spin down the center of the road in my mirror and come to rest dead on the yellow line. Not as exciting, but preferable to a deer.

 

In April, 2015 @ 0620 I had an unscheduled meeting with a deer. The deer's head took out my right passing lamp. It's leg hit my highway peg which my foot was on. The force of impact broke a bone in my foot. The deer swung around me and took out a strap on my right saddlebag. No paint or mechanical damage.

I was doing 60 mph at the time in the middle of nowhere with no cell service. I never went down. I stopped, took in what just happened and continued on my way. it was dark so I couldn't assess the damage at the time.

A split second difference in the deer's speed or my speed and I could have easily t-boned the deer. I was incredibly fortunate.

 

The first dog I hit I caught him in the hind 1/4 about 50 mph. It whipped around and hit my left leg and kicked my left leg off the peg and almost me off the bike. Gained control and pulled over in a parking lot and got rid of the shakes in about 5 minutes and road on.
The second one I hit I hit square on (t-boned him) right in front of a family of 4 on the side of the road. They called their lost dog out of a corn field and across in front of me. I looked in my mirrors and saw them all standing looking at their dead dog laying on the highway. I kept riding. I did not want to look the 2 kids in the face. This one happened 30 years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday.

 

Wow, close call!
Deer scare the crap out of me. Never hit one with the bike yet but they are like fleas on a dog around here in the mountains. You really can't relax on the back roads, always looking every second.

 

had a bird hit my fairing and my mirror it bounced and then it hit my wife on her bike about 30 ft behind me rolling at about 90

 

Must have been tough staying on your bike!

Stay out of Stockton, Phil.

 

Hit a ground squirrel and it about threw me off my bike. No damage to anyone but the squirrel. It was a little guy but it caused a pretty big rip where I chewed a piece off my seat.