Oh, Deer!

[Sarge707]

Glad your OK!! Practicing Helps a LOT! Having Guardian Angels never hurts!ray:

 

[FANG]

Glad you and Nancy are alright. Say a prayer often when I am on the spyder just seems like a good thing to do. ray:

 

[BRPjunkie]

Having hit three with a car, I never want to experience a bike encounter. Glad to hear you both are OK.

 

[Lamonster]

:yikes:
Glad you didn't make contact and rode it out safely.

 

[groundeffect]

Scotty, glad you both are ok... indeed, could have been a different outcome and I'm glad it worked in your favor.

Cheers thanks to goodness and safe rydes to you both.
Cheers from Newfoundland.
Dean

 

[Tom in NM]

Glad to hear you both are still with us . . . .

. . . sorry for the deer.

I was surprised to read that Nancy and I both use the same cuss-word when in accident-avoidance-mode. :yikes:

And I agree, you cannot have too much practice or good luck.

Tom

 

[murphybrown]

. . . sorry for the deer.

I was surprised to read that Nancy and I both use the same cuss-word when in accident-avoidance-mode. :yikes:

And I agree, you cannot have too much practice or good luck.

Tom

Are there any other words that work as well? Those words have served me for many decades. After that a BIG THANK You to our God and then check underwear and proceed!!!!

 

[Tom in NM]

Are there any other words that work as well? Those words have served me for many decades. After that a BIG THANK You to our God and then check underwear and proceed!!!!

Well, there is one other 4 letter word I have used, but that is usually when I have done something stupid that is also life-threatening. Being a family site, and since I am not the Vice President, all I can say is that it rhymes with something that goes well with Orange Sauce. pps:

Tom

 

[Roaddog2]

:yikes:
Glad you didn't make contact and rode it out safely.

:agree:ray: glad you and Nancy rode it out OK :thumbup:

 

[SpyderGirl]

Glad to hear you are both okay.

 

[pitmon]

Glad u are both okay, hate it for the person in the truck... and the deer. We hit one last summer and it did more than 2000.00 damage on our truck, and it was a small doe! I sure don't want to hit one on the bike. Again, glad u are both safe and sound!

 

[ntxYguy2009]

Glad to hear everyone is okay. :yikes:

David

 

[boborgera]

We did about 130 miles today, me on my 72 BMW and Nancy on her Spyder (my RTS is still in the shop). On the way home, a big buck jumped out of the woods near the road, maybe ten feet ahead of me. I was sure I would take him out (or vice versa), but he swerved, and I swerved, and I watched him go by my right leg, close enough to touch. I'm not sure how it missed my rear wheel or fender, but it hit the truck in the opposite lane.

Nancy braked hard when she saw it try to take me out. She said something about muttering "Oh, s**t!" Then the deer bounced off the pickup and landed back in her lane, directly in front of her. Another "Oh, s**t!" and a quick avoidance maneuver, and we continued on our way.

As for me, I was just plain lucky. A second or two difference, or a deer that went straight instead of taking a hard left, and I would have been history. As for Nancy, the Spyder's excellent brakes and great maneuverability were her salvation, along with a cool head, and periodic parking lot practice of those avoidance maneuvers and panic stops.

It's a good day to be alive! Great to be in the living room instead of the hospital, too. If things like this don't make you practice your riding skills and wear proper riding gear, nothing will. Glad we had our gear on...this one was too close!

Glad to to hear Nancy and You are O/K.
When those wood's rat's play Kamikaze, usually nothing good comes out of it :sour:.
Luck has very little to do with it, Most of the time it's 90% Skill and the other half is Luck. ray: