Watch the cows

[Noel lynam]

The gods were on my did today as I narrowly missed a young cow which ventured out in front of me, I literally squeezed between the said cow and it's mother, whilst breaking hard, missing both by a whisker, previous to this I was gingerily following two 10 year olds blasting down the road on a 125, with the younger sister driving!!!, I bloody lovr Indonesia

 

[TN_twowheeladdict]

Happens in the US too!

 

[sqeeezy]

You'll love India, the roads have people dogs chickens cows on them and are used to dry vegetables or cow dung or arrange gravel.

 

[AZ Mtn Girl]

Where I live, it's mostly "Open Range" , which means no fences and animals can wander at will. And if you hit one, it's your fault and you will have to pay the owner for destroying their animal. Never mind the fact that hitting a horse or cow will destroy your motorcycle and probably seriously mess you up.

 

[grymsr]

up here we dodge mostly deer and moose. hitting a moose is like hitting a brick wall. every year or so someone buys the farm after a moose encounter.

 

[Acedoc]

You'll love India, the roads have people dogs chickens cows on them and are used to dry vegetables or cow dung or arrange gravel.

you forgot the crop laid out to be threshed by the traffic wheels. them straws are slick

 

[Turbofurball]

On my recent failed trip to the Pyrenees I added cows to my list of "animals I've dodged" ... it's quite a long list. Always pays to be alert!

 

[Acedoc]

list of animals to be dodged - please keep addding
cows
dogs
cats
bluebull (antelope)
wildboar
snakes
chinkara (ravine antelope)
stray horses and mules
egrets in the monsoons

 

[smilespergallon]

Let's see, what have I dodged with my Classic...

tortoises (that hard shell can throw you off the bike)
foxes
opossum (Big nasty american style, not the cute and cuddly ones from Australia. Seriously though, how often do you get to say that about an animal?)
fast food bags
random garbage from the back of someone's pickup truck

And the pick of the bunch, once I had to dodge a big ol catfish laying right in the middle of the lane. Someone must have noodled it in the creek or something and then had it jump out of the truck on the way home..

 

[kballowe]

Deer. The Wife snapped this pic from the back of our cruiser. We narrowly missed half a dozen that day.

 

[Turbofurball]

The list as far as I can remember (I live in a nature reserve):

Dogs
Cats
Cow
Sheep (plural)
Goats
Donkeys
Deer (plural)
Lizards of various kinds
Wild Boars
Squirrels (red ones - had to brake for one this morning)
Badger
Snakes
Toads
Tiny little shrews
Eagle (was chowing down on a roadkill boar, and didn't care about me in the slightest)
Small bats (that's more of a headbutting risk, and I have hit one with my head)
Vultures
Large bats (loads of them were asleep on a bridge one time, no idea why)
Praying Mantis (that was right outside my house, otherwise I wouldn't have seen it)

The foxes have very good road sense, I've never had to go around one in the road but see them all the time. I have a photo of some of the vultures somewhere.

 

[vectinterceptor]

Here in England we have the New Forest nearly 71 and a half thousand acres, with horses, ponies, donkeys, cows and pigs wandering around freely most of the roads are 40mph to protect the livestock.

 

[DaddyJack]

Like kballowe, DEER, especially mating season and raising fawns. Wild turkeys, singly or flocks by season. Groundhog, once, they are pretty bashful. Farm doggies and hobby chickens. Buzzards on roadkill, mostly armadillos hit overnight. Skunks, but I think the buzzards smell worse. Squirrels, they show you where the word "squirrely" comes from! Turtles, if they are going in the same direction it's supposed to rain. Nah. Snakes, rarely. Miscalculating sparrows. Smiles' catfish wins the prize, though, that's doubleplusgood!

 

[Boot]

I can add barn owls "floating" over hedges and pheasants either shooting over the top of the hedge or dithering in the road, first going one way, then the other then deciding on the original direction!

 

[Acedoc]

Hit an egret one time .
Also forgot to add monkeys to the list - uploading a video I took on my bike while going through Sariska Tiger reserve. People are fond of feeding wildlife grain for religious reasons- I figured such high prey concentration will attract Mr spots who is not too shy of humans.
went another 3 kilometers before the bike lit up like a Christmas tree - battery went kaput despite a full service and battery health check.
Ps - couldn’t upload video

 

[kballowe]

We were out riding, minding our own business when these three mules took an interest in us.
They ran alongside us for half a mile, and so we stopped and the Wife got off and gave them each a pet.
It was a bit scary at first when they jumped out of the woods and onto the road.

 

[DaddyJack]

You are Honorary Members of the Herd now!

 

[Turbofurball]

Here's a photo of the vultures, I think when they swooped over the road it was to try an dissuade us from stealing their dinner ... then when we stopped they were busy fighting with each other over it.

 

[puttbutt]

do pedestrians count?

Happens in the US too!

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ok, why did the cow cross the road?

 

[wspollack]

On tour in the Alps last year: