ORIGINAL: F2Woody

looking at the piston video again, it looks like his glove that goes flying, but look closly at the glove and how it falls and bounces, looks like it still has a hand in it. hard to tell though. but you never know

So I was doing some nice night riding with a friend and we were having a nice calm drive out on penny road near lake wheeler south of Raleigh. We were going about 55-65 mph and coming right out of a curve, A deer, yes a ****IN DEER! runs between our bikes. I was about 3 seconds behind my friend and He didn't see it. But the deer didn't make it. I didn't see the deer until it ran right in front of me.

I hit the deer (or the deer hits me) at about 55-65 mph head on, right on it's side. It ran from the left side and was going to the right side. The bike took most of the impact with the exception of some parts of my leg, but I'm not hurt. I was croutched all the way forward on the tank so when I hit the deer, it literally flew over my head. The odd thing was that I didn't fall. After the sudden impact, I prolly slowed down to 25mph and I was still going straight. I speed up and chased down my friend to get him to pull over cause I just hit a deer. He was like... say what?

We, pulled over to the nearest gas station (about 1/2 mile), and we inspected my bike. Loads of plastic is ripped off, the raditor is totally busted in, and turn signal is damaged. Other then that, those are the only damage I can see. and btw, the deer is dead, sadly enough. We called the highway patrol and did a police report, but since I only have liabilty only, deer isn't going to be covered. The Police officer was suprised that I wasn't hurt after hitting a deer going about 55mph on a motorcycle!

Next morning, I went back but to my surprise, someone already picked up the deer. (yes, I know it was dead, my dad came and took a look at the deer and poked it with a stick)