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[KennyC]

Anyone else ever get the Heeby Geebies while riding? ( Thinking about a deer running over you? ) I live in the country with about a 30 minute ride to where you may not see a deer going to town. Just yesterday morning about 10 minutes from my house I just decided to slow down and really pay attention to the wood line by the road. Not a close call this time (have had several) but a deer crossed the road in front of me in 5th gear!! For that reason I don't care to ride home from town at night either!! Anyone else share that Heeby Geebie feeling? 

[mrmagloo]

All you can do is keep your eye's peeled and slow down.

[HDSLK]

Our area is crawling with them! The other night I took a ride about 7:30 PM and before I got home at 9:30 I counted a dozen of them along the roadside. That doesn't even count all the turkeys I saw! I just take it really easy, keep my eyes open, and say a few prayers!

[grandpadoc]

We like to get going real early on our trips (5:00am) so we can enjoy the destination for the day. I too have that feeling in the rural wooded areas and just take it real easy until later in the morning. Some states have pretty high fences and clear out a lot of area around the roads and some do not, but my experience is a deer can jump just about any fence and have to be about the most unpredictable critter out there.  Doc

[Chuck Pryor]

Anyone else ever get the Heeby Geebies while riding? ( Thinking about a deer running over you? ) I live in the country with about a 30 minute ride to where you may not see a deer going to town. Just yesterday morning about 10 minutes from my house I just decided to slow down and really pay attention to the wood line by the road. Not a close call this time (have had several) but a deer crossed the road in front of me in 5th gear!! For that reason I don't care to ride home from town at night either!! Anyone else share that Heeby Geebie feeling? 

Had this feeling a few weeks ago... a nice cool morning riding on Lockwood Valley Road in SoCAL. I had already seen a few bambi's, then two coyote scampered across the road. All was well and then all of the sudden  A HUGE BLACK BEAR comes galloping across the road right in front of me... Grabbed a fist full of brake, the bear runs up the hill into the trees. I pull over... take a deep breath, thank God for still being upright and having a pretty cool moment. Heey Geebies? Yes. Definitely.

Chuck

[tlr]

its not just the country roads. I was on I-90W going from Mass to NJ, it was early, but not too early around 8:30am.  Doing about 70mph and had 3 or 4 cars ahead of me. None of us were too close, probably 10 or so car lengths between us.  All of a sudden all the cars start braking hard ahead of me.  A deer came out on the right side, git hit and then proceeded to slide across the highway right in front of me.  Grabbed alot of brake and checked the scene behind me.  Alot to do in 2 seconds.  Deer was a big one too.  Anyway, we need to be very attentive and assume the improbable at all times. 

[Ghost__Rider]

I had one jump over my front fender last year at 45 mph. I could pick the ticks off his ass as he jumped........LOL. I stopped and clean my britches afterward.

[GtreetSlide]

One year during the Sturgis rally a couple stopped at the stop sign at the end of town (Hill City). When they started off a deer came running down the sidestreet on a collision course with the bike. The rider saw it in time to duck as the deer lept over him and the bike. His lady was not paying attention and got knocked off the back of the bike because she didn't duck.... This probably happened at about 5-10 mph in town...

[2018_FLTRXSE]

Not deer... we do have feral pigs wandering about here (and chickens). One night headed to work the midnight shift I saw what looked like a big black dog from a distance... had its head down like it was grazing, except it was in the middle of the lane on the freeway!

Not sure what it was from distance so I slowed up... no one else on the road so no other hazard. As I got closer I realized it was a PIG.. and at least 150 pounds! (That would have hurt!)

...and now the state is cracking down on the hunters...

Last week I saw a car on the side of the freeway and pig remnants on the road.... I'm glad I didnt hit that pig!

[KennyC]

 My wife and I and 3 other couples were coming from a rally one Sept. We were in front just getting out of a town when I saw this 10 or 12 pt buck coming from our left! I threw my hand up and pointed for everone else, started braking and he slid to a stop in the ditch just across the other lane from us! Ran ahead a bit started crossing the road and here came another buck right behind that one! In that same area the wife and I had at least 10 cross the road in front of us luckily at a safe distance!

[KennyC]

Not deer... we do have feral pigs wandering about here (and chickens). One night headed to work the midnight shift I saw what looked like a big black dog from a distance... had its head down like it was grazing, except it was in the middle of the lane on the freeway!

Not sure what it was from distance so I slowed up... no one else on the road so no other hazard. As I got closer I realized it was a PIG.. and at least 150 pounds! (That would have hurt!)

...and now the state is cracking down on the hunters...

Last week I saw a car on the side of the freeway and pig remnants on the road.... I'm glad I didnt hit that pig!

Hitting a pig of any size would not be good! They're solid muscle! We have a lot of feral pigs here too but haven't ever seen one on the road! Thank God!! They seem to stay in the woods here!

[KennyC]

Our area is crawling with them! The other night I took a ride about 7:30 PM and before I got home at 9:30 I counted a dozen of them along the roadside. That doesn't even count all the turkeys I saw! I just take it really easy, keep my eyes open, and say a few prayers!

I understand!!

[2018_FLTRXSE]

Hitting a pig of any size would not be good! They're solid muscle! We have a lot of feral pigs here too but haven't ever seen one on the road! Thank God!! They seem to stay in the woods here!

they are good eating though!

[kraut]

do not ride through wooded areas or along the borderline from woods to fields in dusk or dawn.

If you have to: turn on some hard music like ACDC as loud as your speakers may play.

Don't speed, try to closely follow a truck or anything else as massive as possible - but never forget: their brakes may be way better than yours.

If you see any movement apply brakes and hit the horn.

Do not try evasive action as trees or oncoming traffic are even harder than deer - if you can't avoid them brake down as much as possible, hit them staight on and try to get clear of the bike before impact.

And never forget: pigs, deer and sheep mostly come in numbers, after the first has crossed the road many more may follow.

Just my personal combined experience as hunter, driver and rider in a densely wild life populated area  

[KennyC]

they are good eating though!

That is true! I have wild hog and deer in my freezer right now! On the hogs I try to kill a small one to eat and then try to feed the coyotes the big ones!