Deer Deer...

[BB]

Now as some of you more senior (and I mean in time on here not age!) members on here know, a few years a go I managed to kill a deer with my bonnie. This meant I had a ride in a helicopter and a spell in hospital and have some long term damage I can live with and my bonnie was written off. :'(

Now I just had a phone call from a friend in Bath Classic who tells me on Wednesday night out on his way home from the pub meet, a deer leapt out right in front of him over at Wingfield. This made him lay down his Multistrada - which he has only had for a week. Fortunately he is only scuffed up, as is the bike, and both will soon be back on the road. The Deer ran off safely [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

At work I get to see the after hours call out log everyday and it seems to me a night doesn’t go by when there isn’t at least one dead deer reported on the highway requiring collection – and that’s just the ones that are reported at night. Talking to a colleague he tells me it is the rutting season and the deer are especially stupid at the moment as they have other things on their mind than dodging bikes.

We do have an amazing amount of deer in Wiltshire, so I want you all to take care and not kill them – unless it’s planned and preferably with a gun. Using a bike is not recommended. So take care out there people, especially at dusk when the deer are most likely to be moving about.

Stay safe 8-)

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[Dabz]

amen to that! those things are very daft and can appear from nowhere!

[jonnydangerous]

hope the blokes ok!
ive had this happen to two different bike mates as well, have hit one in my car, and been a passenger in Ryans car when he hit one on the way back from a bike meet.....
go careful peeps.... :-)

[Uber Dave]

I hit a deer with an old car of mine, thankfully only a bambino but still made a mess of the car!

Watch out around Colerne airfield as well, when I was based there we had 4 of them which were regularly found grazing and used to go sprinting through the hedge when we went near by.

[igbell]

My mate had 2 deer jump out on his car once so both the front and back end of his car was a mess, for such a small animal they can make a mess.

I hope your friend is ok BB

[BB]

He's ok, just feeling a bit 2nd hand and fed up as you can imagine. He tells me he is scraped about a bit on his knees, etc and got a lovely bruise on his hip (and no I haven't seen it personally!) plus a few other bruises & scrapes. Wrote off his lid & bike jacket and his JEANS

He never rides in jeans and we only had a discussion about the stupidity of some people riding in ordinary jeans a couple of weeks back! : So the one time he does... :P He reckons he would only have a few bruises if he'd had his leathers on.

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[StreetHippo]

One nearly had me on the way to Lyneham at about 3 in the morning
Missed it by inches and I was going pretty quickly so it would have been a right mess
Hope your mate mends soon - bet he's more gutted about the Strada isn't he?? :

Stu

[zachl]

my stepdad had his old escort rs turbo written off by a dear, was a total mess.

and another mate nearly had an accident when he hit a bat and it clung to the front of his jacket, i think its safe to say i would have kacked myself

[Roxy]

Hope the fellow Bath Classic member is ok, I have to admit deer jumping out of the hedge does worry me esp around Bath and Wilts countryside. BB..If it's not deer I seem to remember it's foxhounds you need to watch out for too

Take care guys and girls

roxy

[BB]

I'd forgotten about the foxhounds! ;D and that was in broad daylight!! he was lucky too!

He is a bit ticked off about the Strada, he has only got a couple of weeks until we all go to the IOM but knowing him the strada will be going! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

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