[chuck_vtx F]

I hit a ground hog with a 1100 Goldwing going 50. the bike went 6 inches in the air.
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the bike was doing 50, NOT the ground hog

 

[Bassdude404]

I've recently put some deer whistles on my bike, but have little faith in their efficacy.​

You wasted your money on those things...Unless you're trying to call them out of the forest into your path...

Nov 6th, 1989 my dad passed and I inherited his '76 Goldwing, while my brother got his 1980-something Chevy Chevette...Had those stupid deer whistles on it...2 weeks later a deer hit that car head on and went through the windshield...

December 8th, 2010, my wife was headed to work in her 1995 Chevy S-10 pickup truck....Despite my telling her it was a mistake, she insisted on putting those deer whistles on her truck a few weeks prior.....While going to work, a huge doe ran out into the street and ran full speed, directly at her truck....Notice in the following pics how the bumper never even got touched (the dent was there when we bought the truck), but totally destroyed the front of the truck...Googled deer top speed and it said about 35 mph, my wife was doing 45 mph (55 mph zone), so combined impact speed of 80 mph...

I'm convinced those things don't scare deer off, but actually call them to the vehicle they're mounted on.....No experience, but I'm skeptical of the electronic ones also...

 

[chuck_vtx F]

thats a HARD hit for just fur and bones. I hope she is OK.

 

[Bassdude404]

thats a HARD hit for just fur and bones. I hope she is OK.

Her wrist was sore for a few weeks, but nothing major...She was mad as hell though!!..Momentum carried her over the deer, and she said she was so pissed that she put the truck in reverse, popped the clutch and ran the deer over backwards to make sure it was dead...lol...I remember answering the phone that morning and she was almost as I've ever heard her before...She was still driving the truck, explaining to me how the hood had buckled up, and I told her to stop driving before she locked up the engine..Got to an old bait shop, and that's where I found it and snapped the pics...I came up from behind and was thinking "Oh, that ain't too bad, we can fix this and keep driving it"...Then I pulled up alongside and saw the hood...Said something that I can't say here...lol...

 

[3D-Dave]

Yup. I clipped a medium sized deer 2 years ago. Poor Cafed Katana hasnt been the same since.

 

[Darwin]

Yeah, I know that the deer whistles don't work well, if at all. Wouldn't go so far as to say it calls deer though.

That deer did a number on the Chevy S-10. It looks a lot like my old Crown Vic...hit a deer on the way from a Superbowl party; and my Mazda Protege. Managed to hit 3 deer before it was finally TKO'd. Always amazing how the bumper stays intake.

As stated in my first post, I hit and killed a deer going over 70 in my Tundra. I was wincing while imagining the damage. To my relief, there wasn't a dent to be found. Just some fur in the bully bar. Hitting one in VTX would have an unhappy ending.

What do you think about those electronic sonic deer devices?

 

[epiphysis]

there are a bunch of studies that show deer whistles don't work!!


http://advance.uconn.edu/2002/021118/02111812.htm

http://www.ibmwr.org/otech/deerw.html

http://www.usroads.com/journals/rmj/9705/rm970503.htm

http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublicatio...77/eb1677.html

http://www.soundrider.com/archive/sa...deerohdeer.htm

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/martin/twigs/deerwhistles.php

 

[Bassdude404]

I remember when the 1500cc Goldwings came out a close family friend when I was growing up bought one...Hit a deer with that bike and if I remember right he only got a broken leg out of the crash...Deer was killed and the bike was damaged quite a bit...Insurance paid to have the bike back like brand new before his leg healed up enough to ride again...

Labor day weekend (Saturday) Jenny and I headed out early to ride to Ohiop and hook up with the X'rs there, then ride up to Hell Michigan and hang out some..One the way to Ohio, we're rolling on US 20 (2-lane 55 mph hwy), and Just past the IN/Oh line jenny is frantically smacking my left side ribs and yelling "BILL BILL BILL!!!!"...I glance left and see a deer running full bore, coming towards the road...Did a quick mental calculation and decided that the only way to avoid a crash is to nail the throttle as hard as I could...Sound of the pipes (V&H Bigshots) scared the deer and it ran into the woods it was running alongside of...Took a few minutes for our heart rates to slow back down to normal, but no crash report...lol...

 

[Darwin]

there are a bunch of studies that show deer whistles don't work!!

Dammit!!! Thanks Epi for posting those articles. Didn't realize that they've scientifically proven those whistles don't work. Still hope for the electronic one. Might stick it on my truck first to see what it does. It won't take me long to find out.

I remember when the 1500cc Goldwings came out a close family friend when I was growing up bought one...Hit a deer with that bike and if I remember right he only got a broken leg out of the crash...Deer was killed and the bike was damaged quite a bit...Insurance paid to have the bike back like brand new before his leg healed up enough to ride again...

Labor day weekend (Saturday) Jenny and I headed out early to ride to Ohiop and hook up with the X'rs there, then ride up to Hell Michigan and hang out some..One the way to Ohio, we're rolling on US 20 (2-lane 55 mph hwy), and Just past the IN/Oh line jenny is frantically smacking my left side ribs and yelling "BILL BILL BILL!!!!"...I glance left and see a deer running full bore, coming towards the road...Did a quick mental calculation and decided that the only way to avoid a crash is to nail the throttle as hard as I could...Sound of the pipes (V&H Bigshots) scared the deer and it ran into the woods it was running alongside of...Took a few minutes for our heart rates to slow back down to normal, but no crash report...lol...

Wow! Hope you was wearing brown pants that day. I also have V&H Big Shots so maybe that's somewhat of a deterrent. Seems like by now, someone would have invented a device to scare off deer. Seems like an easy way to get rich.

 

[Bassdude404]

They did invent one...It's called a shotgun....lol...

 

[Darwin]

They did invent one...It's called a shotgun....lol...

Have one of those but don't think LE would be thrilled if I mounted it to my handlebars.

Maybe I could wear a back holster like the terminator.

 

[Bassdude404]

LOL....Used to go deer hunting with dad when he was alive, and we saw more deer while in the car driving to and from our hunting spot than we did sitting in the woods all day...