Like. OW!

Kieran_Burns
Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
edited July 2010 in Commuting chat
i laugh in the face of those who say insect hits hurt.

I wiggle my posterior at you.

Coming in this morning, I got a full-on bird strike right into the side of my helmet! :shock:

Cruising along, getting thoroughly wet and enjoying myself, a bloody great sparrow flew out of a gap between the trees and bounced off the side of my helmet.

By 'eck, that smarts! I stayed on the bike okay but wobbled a fair bit, glanced over to see this sparrow describing weird little loops in the sky as it was clearly more stunned than me :lol:

Fook that was shock

Way less damage than the last time I had a bird strike commuting - cost me a new windscreen that did.
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2009 Specialized Tricross Sport
2011 Trek Madone 4.5
2012 Felt F65X
Proud CX Pervert and quiet roadie. 12 mile commuter

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  • TommyEss
    TommyEss Posts: 1,855
    My Dad lost a wing mirror to a wood pigeon - it shat itself all down the side of his car (wll, to be fair, I think it exploded...)

    Amazingly accurate sir, I must say!

    Good job it wasn't any bigger, eh?
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    If it was any bigger, it would've needed engines!
    Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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    2011 Trek Madone 4.5
    2012 Felt F65X
    Proud CX Pervert and quiet roadie. 12 mile commuter
  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    kieran, The RSPB would like a word after a man fitting your description was seen to head but a poor little baby sparrow making its maiden flight
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    spen666 wrote:
    kieran, The RSPB would like a word after a man fitting your description was seen to head but a poor little baby sparrow making its maiden flight

    This was no baby - it was HOOOGE

    Did I say sparrow? I meant Albatross
    Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
    2009 Specialized Tricross Sport
    2011 Trek Madone 4.5
    2012 Felt F65X
    Proud CX Pervert and quiet roadie. 12 mile commuter
  • TommyEss
    TommyEss Posts: 1,855
    Isn't it bad luck to kill an albatross - or just bad luck to be in it's way whilst wearing a cape?!
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  • clanton
    clanton Posts: 1,289
    What flavour was it?
  • Peasoup
    Peasoup Posts: 63
    Whilst pedalling along the seafront near Fleetwood last weekend I was hit on the bonce by a mussel dropping seagull.

    Wearing a helmet saved my life etc etc etc.
    No rotational brain inury suffered
  • Wooliferkins
    Wooliferkins Posts: 2,060
    Albatross!!
    Neil
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  • TommyEss
    TommyEss Posts: 1,855
    Otters' noses - Badgers' earlobes....
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  • fenboy369
    fenboy369 Posts: 425
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    I got a full-on bird strike right into the side of my helmet! :shock:

    Fnar, fnar <sniggers at back of class room>
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    '11 Schwinn Corvette - FCN 15?
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 30,236
    TommyEss wrote:
    Isn't it bad luck to kill an albatross - or just bad luck to be in it's way whilst wearing a cape?!

    Being followed by one is good luck, killing it is bad luck - see Rime of the Ancient Mariner, S. T. Coleridge (1798).
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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  • sufferingpete
    sufferingpete Posts: 524
    Finally absolute proof that you should wear a helmet.
    Racing is rubbish you can\'t relax and enjoy it- because some bugger is always trying to get past.
  • dancook
    dancook Posts: 279
    sufferingpete wrote:
    Finally absolute proof that you should wear a helmet.

    :) That would be an amusing selling point..

    "And what's this for?" *pointing to helmet*

    "It's to stop birds"
  • ex-pat scot
    ex-pat scot Posts: 939
    "Bird strike" - not bad in the bragging stakes.

    I got a "Bin lorry strike" last autumn. That DID sting.



    (I did manage to smash the buG@er's windscreen though, and it was his fault. And the payout was very generous. Just as well I was on the FG machine, and not one of the carbon beauties, otherwise the claim would have been astronomical).
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  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    dancook wrote:
    sufferingpete wrote:
    Finally absolute proof that you should wear a helmet.

    :) That would be an amusing selling point..

    "And what's this for?" *pointing to helmet*

    "It's to stop birds"

    Your helmet repels birds? :shock:


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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    I was really hoping to have the bird (feathered type, perve-boys) stuck in the lid. You gotta admit that would be one hell of a photograph :D
    Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
    2009 Specialized Tricross Sport
    2011 Trek Madone 4.5
    2012 Felt F65X
    Proud CX Pervert and quiet roadie. 12 mile commuter

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