How Do You Deal With Tailgaters?

[Too many Kubotas]

Never worry about chickens, they run into the front wheel, spin around a few times, get spit out by the back wheel, and just keep right on going.

Aside from running into a pack of badgers (which oddly enough ended well) I can relate to things getting caught in the front wheel spokes.

In my case it was a snake, which after a few revolutions came out and barely missed my right ear. Sure glad it didn't wrap around my neck instead.

 

[dstig1]

What... he didn't have health insurance?

No - the deer didn't have a BMW

 

[tradosaurus]

When I collided with a deer at about 45 MPH while riding my BMW, I wound up in hospital with 14 broken ribs, broken shoulder blade and collar bone, collapsed lung and lots of road rash but the deer wasn't so lucky.

Were you riding a motorcycle?

 

[bdhsfz6]

I had a deer that was standing near the 55mph highway actually try to head butt my car as i drove by. My uncle had warned me about that section of the highway. He even told me the deer would sometimes turn and head toward you car.

I shot a buck a decade or so ago that had a Ford blue oval insignia skewered by one of the tines on his antlers. Maybe this explains how it got there.

It wasn't a revenge killing though, since I drive a Chevy

 

[not2old]

Were you riding a motorcycle?

Restored 1982 R100RT. It took the windshield and top foot off the fairing. I'm convinced that if I had been riding my Sportster that has no fairing, I wouldn't have survived.

 

[goeduck]

How do you know that your speedometer registers exactly the speed limit? I drove my company Tundra for over a year before realizing it

My GMC 2500 has taller tires than stock, so technically I figure I am going 9% over based on circumference anyway.