Random Motorcycling Observations From This Morning

1. Most birds are far more agile than a paramedic on a 500 pound V-twin cruiser. Most birds, that is.

2. A mourning dove at 75 mph will bounce off your helmet with nothing more than a loud thonk.

3. A crow hitting your chest at the same speed, however… well, that’ll leave a bruise.

I’ve had plenty of experience at getting bloodstains out of uniforms before, but this morning was the first time it was ever avian blood…

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Posted by Ambulance Driver on June 25, 2009 • Filed under: Uncategorized

Dedicated_Dad

Big grasshopper – blinding me at ~80 by covering both lenses in bug-guts? Check.Big B52 bug, fat/busted lip? Check.Yellow-jacket down the back, and me ~40 miles from my epi-pen? Check. THAT was a bad day…Bird in the face/chest/bike/etc? Check/check/check/check.~190k miles, now. BTDT.I actually wasn't going to post, until I saw the word: "proop."Fits, somehow…DD
Dedicated_Dad

Big grasshopper – blinding me at ~80 by covering both lenses in bug-guts? Check.

Big B52 bug, fat/busted lip? Check.

Yellow-jacket down the back, and me ~40 miles from my epi-pen? Check. THAT was a bad day…

Bird in the face/chest/bike/etc? Check/check/check/check.

~190k miles, now. BTDT.

I actually wasn't going to post, until I saw the word:

"proop."

Fits, somehow…

DD
Mule Breath

Small bird… sparrow or wren… something like that…Flew up from the road with perfect timing. Between the windshield and me. Busted nose and loosened tooth. I think I lost more blood then than when I sliced my arm while cutting cattails with my pocket knife.
Mule Breath

Small bird… sparrow or wren… something like that…

Flew up from the road with perfect timing. Between the windshield and me. Busted nose and loosened tooth. I think I lost more blood then than when I sliced my arm while cutting cattails with my pocket knife.
Rogue Medic

Cycles & More is now resorting to aggressive tactics over your less than complimentary posts about their service. They seem to have held the bike of a pigeon fanicier hostage and forced him to train kamikaze birds to attack you.
Rogue Medic

Cycles & More is now resorting to aggressive tactics over your less than complimentary posts about their service.

They seem to have held the bike of a pigeon fanicier hostage and forced him to train kamikaze birds to attack you.
Ross

Oh, if we're talking about hitting avians with CARS, I once hit a Newark seagull with a '71 Chevelle on the Garden State Parkway (Yes, in New Jersey. Get it out of your system; I'll wait). Done giggling now? Good. Darn bird left a grease spot about four or five inches across where it bounced off of my windshield.Word verification: ousnest. I assume that that's where an ou roosts…
Ross

Oh, if we're talking about hitting avians with CARS, I once hit a Newark seagull with a '71 Chevelle on the Garden State Parkway (Yes, in New Jersey. Get it out of your system; I'll wait).

Done giggling now? Good. Darn bird left a grease spot about four or five inches across where it bounced off of my windshield.

Word verification: ousnest. I assume that that's where an ou roosts…
2alago

Ahhhh see now a retired ambulance driver (and curent poduck rescue volly) knows enough to buy a bike with a ferring on it..if it dont bounce off the ferring.. its a deer!Drop by 2alago@wordpress and say hello!
2alago

Ahhhh see now a retired ambulance driver (and curent poduck rescue volly) knows enough to buy a bike with a ferring on it..if it dont bounce off the ferring.. its a deer!

Drop by 2alago@wordpress and say hello!