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watching traffic cops tonight on bbc1,mainly about bikes,they attended a rta where a guy on a blade hit a pheasant full on in the face then ended up in a ditch.broken nose,cheek bone closed eyes and fat lips. if that was,nt bad enough his bike was totalled.

How's the pheasant doing

open face helmet i assume?

and i hope he did not pick the pheasant up to eat as that would be poaching....

Interesting that the guy doing 100mph on his VTR got fined £750 and 6 points and the 17yr old doing 124mph down the M18 got just £150 and just a 42 day ban (thats not even a test re-sit)

Justice for bikers again eh?

That poor bloke who hit the pheasant really copped for it though. We ride the same area as shown nearly every week during summer and I hit a pheasant on the Falco about 3 yrs ago. Luckily it hit me just on the fork leg but the impact was horrendous and I thought I was off for a few seconds. A good sized pheasant weights in at a good few pounds, add the birds flying speed & motorcycle ground speed together and it's always gonna hurt, he looked a right mess, the poor ba*^ard.

The Police Hyabusa shown on the programme is quite well known now though and although shown at Seaways is actually off patch as the cafe is in East Yorks not Humberside. The roads around Seaways though are superb..long flowing and everything (and I mean everything) seems to be flying along around there. It must be the easiest place in Yorkshire to get nicked at high speed

As for the car driver / Biker road rage incident..........well lets just say we (the guys I ride with) meter out our own justice in those situations... far more effective and satisfying.
As shown even though the copper had him on camera he still wouldn't prosecute...one rule for us another for them (as always)

Rant over!!

F9

Aladinsaneuk wrote:open face helmet i assume?

and i hope he did not pick the pheasant up to eat as that would be poaching....

no full face, bits of viser every where.

ouch

When out on a club run once, I ducked to avoid a seagull then felt a bit foolish. When we stopped I asked the rider behind hoe far above my helmet the bird actually passed and he said 'about 2 inches' - didn't feel so daft then!
A mate once had the headlight on his Busa totalled by a low-flying pheasant.

I've had two wood pidgeons, one on the shoulder and one on the top of the helmet.

Just goes to show that a Falco can catch pidgeons.

Phat Pheasant Plucker?

At least he's ok, sod the bike.

BTW why do people watch these stupid programmes?

I don't like plod getting licence payers money cos they are in a prog. Especially traffic plod.