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 Anyone ever hit a critter with the Spyder?
Today, I narrowly missed a squirrel. It appeared from the leaves and was by my wheel before I saw it.  My impulse was to swerve, but there was a car coming from the opposite direction. I braced myself to hit the little fella. Fortunately, the little critter stopped just in time.
I hit a squirrel once with my car and felt awful. Hitting any critter with a Spyder seems doubly awful, certainly closer and somehow more personal.
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They'll learn to keep they a## out of the road!.....
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On my return trip (after hitting the squirrel with my car), I'm certain it's mate returned to the scene to grieve.
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I hit a large box turtle the other day with the rear wheel and the squish and crackle was horrendous! The nanny even had a little to say about it and the rear end wiggled a bit.
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several people on here, including myself have hit deer with them. Some have went to the hospital over the accidents. I would not worry to much about squirrels, they breed about as fast as rabbits, both taste good but squirrels are rodents so would you feel bad hitting a sewer rat?
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Squirrel thump dead!! No swerve for me! Got my swerve on after
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 Originally Posted by Netminder
I have never hit anything on my Spyder, but have hit 3 deer over the course of my car driving time. Here in the Lauretntians of Quebec they are all over the place, and even more so during hunting season. Very hard on the deer and the car! 
Hubby has hit two deer with cars. Colleagues and friends would invite him to go hunting and request he bring his car. 
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Originally Posted by Ga Blue Knight
I hit a large box turtle the other day with the rear wheel and the squish and crackle was horrendous! The nanny even had a little to say about it and the rear end wiggled a bit.
 The critters are so much closer on a Spyder.
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Small Critters???
I thought that's why SpyderPops invented the Bump Skid! 
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I hit a deer in Colorado 3 years ago riding my Goldwing.I got really lucky as I managed to keep the bike up and come to a stop totally unharmed.The cost to repair the bike was$7200.00.
The deer a big one at that landed in the ditch lying there for 10 mins. we all thought it dead when all of a sudden it got up and ran away.
Ivor
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Originally Posted by Rar
On my return trip (after hitting the squirrel with my car), I'm certain it's mate returned to the scene to grieve.
That's very common, Especially with Raccoons and opossums. That's why you'll often see two of the same animal type' hit near each other.
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Originally Posted by boborgera
That's very common, Especially with Raccoons and opossums. That's why you'll often see two of the same animal type' hit near each other.
Interesting. Folks laughed when I told them another squirrel had appeared at the accident scene.
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Originally Posted by SethO
several people on here, including myself have hit deer with them. Some have went to the hospital over the accidents. I would not worry to much about squirrels, they breed about as fast as rabbits, both taste good but squirrels are rodents so would you feel bad hitting a sewer rat?
 And as a bonus it gets the dumb ones out of the Gene pool.
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That's actually a fear of mine - that a dead skunk would be in the middle of my lane. 
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Dead Skunk?
Dead is better than a live one!!!!!
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I ran over a armadilo with the rt ft wheel @ 60 mph bump that was it
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Originally Posted by neelbert
I ran over a armadilo with the rt ft wheel @ 60 mph bump that was it
UGH! I suppose squirrels are as common road debris in the north, as armadillos are in the south.
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Road Kill
Wasn't Fred Rau who ran over a calf right after getting his RT? The calf was first tenerized by the 18 wheeler he was following. He just kept on going.
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