It WAS a kid. Two kids and an adult. My mph isn't/wasn't the issue. Maybe at 40 I wouldn't have had the punching power to knock it the hell out of the way. Maybe I'd be the one in the ditch.
I'm not even pissed that the dog was in the f'kn road, I'm pissed at the way the idiot handled himself when I pulled up. If he would have had a bat or gun..... Well he wouldn't have been the only one. Could have gotten really ugly in more ways than it already had. Thus the call to police.

 

Yeah, like it's your fault the friggin' dog ran out in your path. Sounds like a real classy bunch of bumpkins, especially since they had no idea how fast you were going. You were going over the limit by your own admission, but had you been doing the limit and the dog was running loose there's as good a chance of hitting him in that situation, so I won't be one to jump on you for causing the accident.

Anyway, I'm glad you didn't go down and are okay. It's good the dog was large, because I hit a medium-sized mutt three years ago and I ran over it, causing the bike to go down. I think a larger dog like a Lab would not be as inclined to get under the wheel like what happened with my encounter. There was quite a bit of damage but it was all fixed. There were no leash laws in force there but the cop told me I could file a civil suit for damages. The insurance covered all but about $150 so I didn't bother, and the VA fixed my knee that was thoroughly banged up from rolling down the highway for a few hundred feet. It's fine now, though. BTW, we never found the dog. I hit him and I guess he wondered off, but there's no way he could've survived that ordeal. A dog can't launch a 900-lb. vehicle (with me aboard) going 50mph in the air without sustaining fatal injuries, IMO.

 

After the owners response, ya should have tied a rope to the dog and dragged it away.

 

Be glad you're a Canuck! Down here if someone is doing 40 in a 55 zone for very long they get taught an old Nascar rule called BUMP TO PASS.

 

I don't care if the dog ran out in the road or not. If it had been my dog you killed while beeaking the law...and not just a little, 15 over is a lot. I would have been calling an ambulance for you after I beat the crap out of you. Your reaction time is always better at a slower speed, if you had been within the limit of the road, you may have avoided the accident all together. You were in the wrong, period.

 

Glad you were able to to keep from serious injury. I have 3 large mutts of my own and they are like family. That being said they are fenced in and always leashed when outside the perimeter.
Not sure why everyone is bashing the OP. if you read his original post it clearly indicates the 80# lab was going 70 mph. J/k.
Not there and not judging, as I have no idea of the area or terrain you were traveling. I push the speed limit on occasion, but I do recognize that my ability to react quickly diminishes at a higher rate of speed. Too bad the family was not willing to communicate in more 'adult' manner.

 

And then again, maybe he couldn't have avoided your dog, and he could have been killed.

So…if the OP would have killed your dog doing 55mph, everything would have been roses, and you wouldn't have to kick his ***? How would you even know how fast he was driving? Even more important, WTF does his speed have anything to do with the fact that YOU failed to properly control your animal, and allowed it to roam near a country road where you knew there was high speed vehicle traffic?

Bottom line...YOUR unleashed, unfenced animal could have caused the death of a motorcyclist. If anyone needs his *** kicked, it would be you.

 

sud55, glad you're OK. I can't believe some of you guys are bashing this dude. He tried to show some compassion and go back and make things right, as best he could. The reaction he got probably didn't really have much to do with the "love" these morons had for their dog. They obviously didn't give too much of a **** or the dog wouldn't have been running out into the road in the first place. If he hit the dog at 70, he would have hit it at 55. How many times you seen a dog run into the road and not try to go right to the vehicle? It ain't like they apply the 2 second or 4 second rule. Like the OP said, had he been going any slower, maybe he would have gone down. Some of you guys need to go ride some more and chill out.

 

sud55! First of all. Glad you are ok. Same thing happened to me. Some people here would rather you be killed than the dog. I think my second post says it all. No response. A bunch of cowardly hypocrites. Hold you head high. You did nothing wrong. **** happens. Or like I said in my "Picked up a New Bitch Tonight" thread. Sometimes God says this is how it going be. You PETA ****** can kiss my ***. Lets RUMBLE.
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/off-t...dog-today.html
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/off-t...etrospect.html

 

Classic excuse. "I was going way too fast, but it's not my fault"
Bullshit, if you'd gone slower the dog might not have been in your path at all.