> > From: Charles Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/09/05 Wed PM 03:33:47 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT - Cat Stew > > On Sep 5, 2007, at 9:14, Gonz wrote: > > My sister-in-law is a nurse and once she was called late at night due > > to a bad accident. A family of four lost three people due to the > > driver trying to avoid a raccoon crossing the highway and running > > their car off the highway and flipping it. > > > > A general rule of thumb I read on a motorcycle-based mailing list > once was: "If it is small enough to eat in one sitting, it is not > worth the danger of swerving to avoid it". > > I tend to stick to that rule when things dart out in the road in > front of me - and haven't hit anything yet (thank goodness!) > > Don't know for sure where a raccoon fits in that rule, actually. > Some of them are pretty big. I think I'd rather go through it than > flip the car/motorcycle over, though!
I hit a medium sized dog (the owner had encouraged it to chase me) square on at about 30mph. It lifted the front wheel in the air and knocked it to full right lock, taking my hand off the left bar. I have to admit to closing my eyes as the wheel came down again but the tyre just chirped twice as it bounced, by which time I had hold of the bar again and managed to centre the wheel on the third landing. By this time the dog had rolled completely under the bike and the back wheel went over it. It then sped off. I wobbled to a halt, turned around and rode past the owner with a defiant "Har!". Don't think either of them will try that again. I certainly don't want to. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
