Wakey, wakey!

[Tanshanomi]

So, yea, this got my attention. Fortunately, there were no others following her, because there were seven Spyders and a Gold Wing following me!

 

[spydaman60]

So, yea, this got my attention. Fortunately, there were no others following her, because there were seven Spyders and a Gold Wing following me!

appears to be a photo shop video.:thumbup: rather poorly done, of one deer crossing in front of the spyder and the gopro camera. dead giveaway when they didn't slow down after the first one, and the same choreography of all the deer.:roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:

 

[Orange monster]

Looks like only one deer but on a loop.

 

[flamingobabe]

pucker time

 

[rcturner]

Where I live this happens on a very regular basis. However, even though you know you will probably see deer and have them run in front of you, it still gets your attention. Every time. :yikes:

 

[Chupaca]

Once is enough...!!

looping it doesn't change the near miss. When I lived in the east coast this was common...still scary..!! :yikes:

 

[Big Arm]

:yikes: At least you seen this one..... The one that hit me in the side, I never seen...... till the next morning, laying in the ditch.....

 

[Motorcycledave]

Try this one....

 

[Orange monster]

Dang look at that front fork!:yikes:

 

[Bob Denman]

I'm surprised that he kept it upright... :shocked:

 

[flaggerphil]

Maybe he shouldn't have been going 85mph...

Y'know.

 

[stallion143]

Ryde safe folks...

Deer season is almost upon us! With the hunting season comes the increase in deer movement...

Just sayin'....

 

[Jackspyder]

Ryde safe folks...

Deer season is almost upon us! With the hunting season comes the increase in deer movement...

Just sayin'....

Agreed! Ride safe!

 

[Showie]

No deer whistle? :yikes:

 

[redflasher]

No deer whistle? :yikes:

Experts say the whistles DON'T work. If you ride and depend on the whistles to clear the road ahead of you, good luck....

 

[jwulf74]

I thought that the electronic Hornent whistle had some scientific backing...

 

[Tanshanomi]

Experts say the whistles DON'T work. If you ride and depend on the whistles to clear the road ahead of you, good luck....

Besides, even if they DID work, who says the freaked-out deer isn't going to run into the road rather than away from it?

 

[Tanshanomi]

At SEMA one year, I spoke with an engineer whose company had actually tested them. He couldn't guess whether the ultrasonic whistle could actually alert deer or prevent an accident, but he could categorically say that nearly all the deer whistles he'd seen on cars were mounted so hopelessly wrong that he was confident weren't making any sort of whistle at all, at any frequency.
They made the whistle only when mounted according to a number of very specific criteria, which as I recall were:
1) Mounted in an area of consistent, high, positive air pressure (a lot of cars with upright grilles have pockets of turbulent air right above the bumper).
2) Mounted so they pointed directly into the oncoming flow of air (which, depending on where they're mounted, is often neither perfectly horizontal nor exactly parallel to the vehicle's centerline),
3) Mounted at one of a couple specific, narrowly-defined distances apart (where the sound waves harmonically amplify, rather than interfere with each other).

 

[Larry rt]

I play my music loud in areas that I know deer could jump out. It seems to work ! I have seen deer run off way before I get there . Plus I enjoy the music .

 

[CurtG]

Don't know about the electronic one but years ago I had a customer in the towing/body shop business who told me that the majority of the dear strikes he had come in for repair or salvage had whistles on the front bumpers. Anecdotal, I know, but I've never seen the need. The only dear I've had a close encounter with, in a company truck, decided for some reason that after getting though traffic it forgot something on the other side of the road turn around and clipped my right front bumper :yikes:. Didn't do much damage to either of us, a little of the plastic on the truck, he got up and joined his mates in the cornfield maybe a little wiser.

Stay alert if you're in deer country the rut will start soon and testosterone poisoning kills a lot of dear.

Ride and ride safe,