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Another bird story
This morning I was riding along the Yarra trail and I had a two small birds
fly out of the bushes on the side of the trail and one of them flew straight into the side of my front wheel. It got caught in my spokes, spun around maybe half a dozen times (smashing into the fork on each revolution) and then came loose and flung up into the air. I had a quick look over my shoulder to see if it was moving but, not surprisingly, it looked to be pretty well dead. Not sure what sort of bird it was as it was only just getting light and it all happened pretty quickly. This is the second time that I have had a bird do a kamikaze run into my front wheel on the way to work (the last one was about three years ago from memory) - maybe I need to draw a couple of birds on the top tube to keep a tally. Gags |
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Another bird story
Gags wrote:
...This is the second time that I have had a bird do a kamikaze run into my front wheel on the way to work (the last one was about three years ago from memory) - maybe I need to draw a couple of birds on the top tube to keep a tally. It's either that or use a disk wheel! BTH |
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Gags wrote:
This morning I was riding along the Yarra trail and I had a two small birds fly out of the bushes on the side of the trail and one of them flew straight into the side of my front wheel. It got caught in my spokes, spun around maybe half a dozen times (smashing into the fork on each revolution) and then came loose and flung up into the air. I had a quick look over my shoulder to see if it was moving but, not surprisingly, it looked to be pretty well dead. Not sure what sort of bird it was as it was only just getting light and it all happened pretty quickly. This is the second time that I have had a bird do a kamikaze run into my front wheel on the way to work (the last one was about three years ago from memory) - maybe I need to draw a couple of birds on the top tube to keep a tally. Gags I have two bird stories. Once when I was riding along the Mundabiddi trail at night, a bird sleeping on the track rose up from the ground and ended up between my knees. It was fluttering around trying to fly while I was trying to ride, the whole time it was stuck between in the triangle formed by the down-tube, seat tube and top tube, with my knees at either side. After about 20 seconds it managed to escape and fly away. It was about the size of a pigeon. Another time, after a long night time ride in the bush, we were heading back into town along the bitumen, just chatting as we went. I saw what I thought was a large rock in the middle of the road, so I steered a few centimetres to the right of it and all of a sudden it lifted up into the air, banging on the bottom of my handlebars before flying up into the night sky. It scared the living daylights out of all of us. Dorfus |
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On Aug 29, 12:23 am, "Gags" wrote:
This morning I was riding along the Yarra trail and I had a two small birds fly out of the bushes on the side of the trail and one of them flew straight into the side of my front wheel. It got caught in my spokes, spun around maybe half a dozen times (smashing into the fork on each revolution) and then came loose and flung up into the air. I had a quick look over my shoulder to see if it was moving but, not surprisingly, it looked to be pretty well dead. Not sure what sort of bird it was as it was only just getting light and it all happened pretty quickly. This is the second time that I have had a bird do a kamikaze run into my front wheel on the way to work (the last one was about three years ago from memory) - maybe I need to draw a couple of birds on the top tube to keep a tally. Gags One of the lads chopped a bird to bits at the BBN velodrone last summer. Flew straight into his back wheel. I've hit one on the motorbike once, it got jammed up under the fairing, by the time I'd stopped it was well dead. Nothing like a wombat ... bloody wombats! |
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In aus.bicycle on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:13:14 -0700
Bleve wrote: One of the lads chopped a bird to bits at the BBN velodrone last summer. Flew straight into his back wheel. I've hit one on the motorbike once, it got jammed up under the fairing, by the time I'd stopped it was well dead. Nothing like a wombat ... bloody wombats! I had one swoop in front of the motorcycle. It was hit by the headlight and ended up hanging by one wing from the front indicator stalk. Rolled up to the servo with this bird on the bike, pity that was in the days before cameras on mobile phones.... Zebee |
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Zebee Johnstone wrote:
Rolled up to the servo with this bird on the bike, pity that was in the days before cameras on mobile phones.... Zebee My mbike was in for a service one day and they asked how long the bird had been in there? I had no idea what they were talking about until they showed me a sparrow that was wedged into the cooling fins of the engine and completely dessicated. DaveB |
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"DaveB" wrote in message u... Zebee Johnstone wrote: Rolled up to the servo with this bird on the bike, pity that was in the days before cameras on mobile phones.... Zebee My mbike was in for a service one day and they asked how long the bird had been in there? I had no idea what they were talking about until they showed me a sparrow that was wedged into the cooling fins of the engine and completely dessicated. DaveB Ah, mummified wildlife. I found a rat like that when I helped a friend move his mum's 25 year old fridge out of the house to make room for the new fridge. It appears Mr. Rat had a Winnie the Pooh moment but no Piglet to help him resolve it. |
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Zebee Johnstone wrote:
I had one swoop in front of the motorcycle. It was hit by the headlight and ended up hanging by one wing from the front indicator stalk. Rolled up to the servo with this bird on the bike, pity that was in the days before cameras on mobile phones.... Eons ago a colleague in Canberra told me he had a galah fly into his chest while he was riding his motorbike on the Monaro highway. I believed him, because I saw the bruise it made. Even earlier, I was driving from Canberra to Melbourne and had a small bird fly up into my windscreen at about Seymour. I stopped to check, saw that it was still fluttering about, so put it inside my shirt to keep it warm. When I got to my folks' place, I saw that it was (1. dead) and (2. a quail). I made sure it didn't die in vain... -- beerwolf |
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:23:08 +1000, "Gags"
wrote: This morning I was riding along the Yarra trail and I had a two small birds fly out of the bushes on the side of the trail and one of them flew straight into the side of my front wheel. It got caught in my spokes, spun around maybe half a dozen times (smashing into the fork on each revolution) and then came loose and flung up into the air. I had a quick look over my shoulder to see if it was moving but, not surprisingly, it looked to be pretty well dead. Not sure what sort of bird it was as it was only just getting light and it all happened pretty quickly. This is the second time that I have had a bird do a kamikaze run into my front wheel on the way to work (the last one was about three years ago from memory) - maybe I need to draw a couple of birds on the top tube to keep a tally. So, a bird in the wheel is not better than two birds in a bush. Whereas a bird in the hand is. |
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Another bird story
Resound wrote:
"DaveB" wrote in message u... Zebee Johnstone wrote: Rolled up to the servo with this bird on the bike, pity that was in the days before cameras on mobile phones.... Zebee My mbike was in for a service one day and they asked how long the bird had been in there? I had no idea what they were talking about until they showed me a sparrow that was wedged into the cooling fins of the engine and completely dessicated. DaveB Ah, mummified wildlife. I found a rat like that when I helped a friend move his mum's 25 year old fridge out of the house to make room for the new fridge. It appears Mr. Rat had a Winnie the Pooh moment but no Piglet to help him resolve it. Some friends of mine found a dead mouse in the toaster. Dorfus |
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