Well not for the Hawk, It was DOA.
Hit while riding
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From: Land of the Free, Home of Jack Daniel's
A Vienna Sausage.
Heard and felt a hard splat as I passed an oncoming pickup, and saw something else fly by that didn't hit me. It left this incredibly solid, opaque mass on my windshield and I pulled over to look. I thought I'd hit some huge bug with about a half-pound of innards until I saw the can that missed me lying on the side of the road.
If that thing had hit me in the face, I would have been highly pissed.
Heard and felt a hard splat as I passed an oncoming pickup, and saw something else fly by that didn't hit me. It left this incredibly solid, opaque mass on my windshield and I pulled over to look. I thought I'd hit some huge bug with about a half-pound of innards until I saw the can that missed me lying on the side of the road.
If that thing had hit me in the face, I would have been highly pissed.
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From: North Carolina
Besides the usual road grit, what have you been hit with while riding?
My husband had a yellow jacket slam dunk down his shirt and sting him in the belly this past weekend. He was wearing a jacket and two shirts, and still the damn thing just went right down. He got the bike pulled over and stopped, and started tearing off clothes in some nice lady's yard to be rid of the thing. No telling what she thought about having a biker suddenly stop and start stripping in her yard. Wish I had gotten a photo.
He was not a happy camper after that though as you can imagine. 
My husband had a yellow jacket slam dunk down his shirt and sting him in the belly this past weekend. He was wearing a jacket and two shirts, and still the damn thing just went right down. He got the bike pulled over and stopped, and started tearing off clothes in some nice lady's yard to be rid of the thing. No telling what she thought about having a biker suddenly stop and start stripping in her yard. Wish I had gotten a photo.
He was not a happy camper after that though as you can imagine. Okay to contribute to your question I have a real good one for you. Some members of our local HOG chapter were out for a nice afternoon ride this summer. They came upon some road kill that a buzzard was still feasting on. No problem right, they slowed down slightly to allow the buzzard to fly off and they gave him plently of distance. The problem was that the buzzard did not want to leave his lunch behind and tried to take it with him. Just so happened it was a skunk and just when they thought all was good the skunk came falling down right between them and hit the wifes face shield and dropped on her chest. I did not see it but heard a lot about the story and it was not a pretty sceen.
I would rather get stung!
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From: Nassau County,Long Island
Years ago my Blue Knights chapter was riding back from a trip to West Point on the Taconic Pkway upstate NY when someone actually threw some feces off an overpass which landed on the face and shades of one of our members. That has to be the worst.
Before I was married I was riding out to Montauk which is the end of Long Is. with my future wife. While riding through the Hamptons at about 60 mph I felt a sudden sharp pain on my face, I looked in the rear view mirror and saw a big bumble bee attached to my face!!
Before I was married I was riding out to Montauk which is the end of Long Is. with my future wife. While riding through the Hamptons at about 60 mph I felt a sudden sharp pain on my face, I looked in the rear view mirror and saw a big bumble bee attached to my face!!
Cruiser
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From: Crestview, Florida
Bees love me, I had one up my pants leg, another one in my ear and another one in my shirt. That was in a span of two weeks and of course every one of them stung me. Had a rabbit one time run out and into my rear wheel if that counts.
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From: South of Dallas Area, Texas
A couple of years ago saw something swarming in front of me. Looked similar to a cloud. It was bees...caught a couple in the chest and one in the strap of my helmet by the ear. It kept stinging me until I was able to stop and get it dislodged. My wife used her finger nail to dig out the stinger which was still pulsing....
Had an owl bounce off my forehead. Hit a huge buzzard this summer on our way to little Sturgis. Numerous small critters, opossum, armadillo, squirrels...
After a tornado this spring a clean up truck hauling debris hit a bump and unloaded a piece of brick. I saw the first bounce then lost site of it until just before hitting me square in the chest. Wimpshield went back on after that.
Had an owl bounce off my forehead. Hit a huge buzzard this summer on our way to little Sturgis. Numerous small critters, opossum, armadillo, squirrels...
After a tornado this spring a clean up truck hauling debris hit a bump and unloaded a piece of brick. I saw the first bounce then lost site of it until just before hitting me square in the chest. Wimpshield went back on after that.
MikeM
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From: Southern NH
All the usual bugs and bees. Had a bird fly into my rim last year all that was left was feathers. Had a chicken try to make it to the other side of the road, front wheel didn't get him but the back one did.
Had a 19 year girl putting on makeup and doing her hair rear-end me at a stop sign in 95.
The oddest thing to ever hit me was a golf ball, I live down the road from a golf course and one Sat afternoon a few years back I saw it hit the road I ducked and swerved and it still nailed me in the kneecap. Hurt like hell but I was glad it hit me and not the tank it would haver left a good size dent.
Now the things that I have hit, dead raccoon, retreads, squirrels.
Back in the late 80's I was slowly passing an 18 wheeler on the highway, doing about 65-70 when I heard a loud bang and the next thing I see is a wheel and rim pass in-between me and the rig shoot across the highway and hit a bridge support structure, to this day I think I would have been dead had it hit me from behind. It hit the bridge support with tremendous force. I heard those 18 wheeler tire and rims weigh about 100 lbs.
Had a 19 year girl putting on makeup and doing her hair rear-end me at a stop sign in 95.
The oddest thing to ever hit me was a golf ball, I live down the road from a golf course and one Sat afternoon a few years back I saw it hit the road I ducked and swerved and it still nailed me in the kneecap. Hurt like hell but I was glad it hit me and not the tank it would haver left a good size dent.
Now the things that I have hit, dead raccoon, retreads, squirrels.
Back in the late 80's I was slowly passing an 18 wheeler on the highway, doing about 65-70 when I heard a loud bang and the next thing I see is a wheel and rim pass in-between me and the rig shoot across the highway and hit a bridge support structure, to this day I think I would have been dead had it hit me from behind. It hit the bridge support with tremendous force. I heard those 18 wheeler tire and rims weigh about 100 lbs.
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From: Haney, British Columbia
All in one ride about a month ago, a dump truck pulled out from a quarry quite a ways in front of me and big hunks of dirt fell off his back wheels and exploded on the road, it took me a bit and some smacks to the face before I managed to get around him. Then I had a similar strange experience as I came down a hill and leveled off a straight stretch of open highway. It seemed the wind had picked up and set loose an invisible air born blanket of tiny pieces of straw or dry grass. I proceeded to get hundreds of tiny stabs to my face. On my ride back home I saw a dragon fly come out from my left side and I just knew I was going to get personal with him. Sure enough he smacks into me and wedges himself right into the corner of my mouth. His tail end is whacking me in the nose and I manage to spit him out.
I shoulda ate him.
I shoulda ate him.
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From: Liberty Hill, Tx.
Lots of bugs. Several have been big and very liguidy (you know they type that are very colorful and go everywhere), but at least they just need cleanup. A lot of sand blasting from dump trucks or even just pickup beds.
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From: Chesterfield, VA
Great thread Georgia Girl.
Don't have much to out do anyone here, but got hit by chestnut from a tree doing about 60 back in the 70's that almost made me crash on my Honda 450.
And why do people run windshield washer when a bike is directly in back of them? Are they stupid?
Don't have much to out do anyone here, but got hit by chestnut from a tree doing about 60 back in the 70's that almost made me crash on my Honda 450.
And why do people run windshield washer when a bike is directly in back of them? Are they stupid?