All my friends I ride with pulled out of a ride today, so slept in and decided to go on a last minute decision ride by myself. My first blind bend on Putty Road was introduced to a large well fed goanna taking up and laying across the whole lane. He heard me and took off sort of quick. Question is what would of happened tilted over a t 45 degrees and I had hit it, would I have come off?
(11-12-2011, 08:35pm)jamdonut Wrote: [ -> ]All my friends I ride with pulled out of a ride today, so slept in and decided to go on a last minute decision ride by myself. My first blind bend on Putty Road was introduced to a large well fed goanna taking up and laying across the whole lane. He heard me and took off sort of quick. Question is what would of happened tilted over a t 45 degrees and I had hit it, would I have come off?
In my view it all depends on your suspension setup, how hard were you holding on to your handlebars and how much margin have you left yourself speed-wise. We assume here you could not avoid it altoether. If it was a standard setup - pretty soft and you were loose on the handles with some room to move wider, you would get a substantial headshake and a bit of excitement. The bike would probably just roll over it and kept going on. If you had a hard setup and even worse being tight on the bars you would still have a 50/50 chance of staying upright prowiding you had the room to pick it up a bit The worse would be a panic, rolling off the throttle and hitting the breaks
That would almost garantee the need for a new fairings if nothing worse.
Still speculation though..
Anything is possible
Shredder hit a big goanna doing very fast speed weekend before last. Have to ask him , all I know the goanna got itself off the road.
Goannas will usually go for the nearest big tree, if you have time to see where that is and not cross between you should be good, otherwise there just like any other big stick, if you hit it cranked over it will not be comfortable
At the end of the day ................. it's all just one big balancing act
i've hit plenty of wild life including wallabies twice.
my best advice is don't hit anything while under brakes,let go of the front brake before impact.[I usaully throttle on a bit LOL]
I shouldn't have called it advice ,more of a personal opinion
(11-12-2011, 08:35pm)jamdonut Wrote: [ -> ]All my friends I ride with pulled out of a ride today, so slept in and decided to go on a last minute decision ride by myself. My first blind bend on Putty Road was introduced to a large well fed goanna taking up and laying across the whole lane. He heard me and took off sort of quick. Question is what would of happened tilted over a t 45 degrees and I had hit it, would I have come off?
may be
Did the same thing years ago early in the morning, if it had not turned around I would have been gone, just past the old half way house, the bloody thing was a big as a crocodile
There are roos wombats & dears up there also, even if you hit one thats already road kill would soon f%^^%k up a good day
(13-12-2011, 08:06pm)DAVE01 Wrote: [ -> ]i've hit plenty of wild life including wallabies twice.
my best advice is don't hit anything while under brakes,let go of the front brake before impact.[I usaully throttle on a bit LOL]
I shouldn't have called it advice ,more of a personal opinion
I have to agree with Dave, get off the brakes & on the gas, two reasons, 1). The Suspension will be compliant & not bottomed out. 2). Under these conditions the bike is far more stable when it is under acceleration.
I have survived many a roadkill by these two simple rules, however, it is rule of thumb and I am sure there is a 'Roo out there with my name on it wanting to play for keeps!!.
(11-12-2011, 08:35pm)jamdonut Wrote: [ -> ]All my friends I ride with pulled out of a ride today, so slept in and decided to go on a last minute decision ride by myself. My first blind bend on Putty Road was introduced to a large well fed goanna taking up and laying across the whole lane. He heard me and took off sort of quick. Question is what would of happened tilted over a t 45 degrees and I had hit it, would I have come off?
My wife also had an incident with a goanna on the Putty Road near the Grey Gums cafe. She ran over its head and tail as it was trying to grt back into the road side. The bike went airborne but she landed back on 2 wheels. She was doing about 120, I think if she was going slower she would have come off. She was a bit shaken up, had to change her undies at the Cafe!!!
hahaha John!! Did you change yours for hers??
So glad she did not come off.
Have a very merry Christmas busa boy. I hope to see you both again soon.
(Sorry for post hijack)
Circa 1979. Came screaming over a crest on the old inland route between Mackay and Rocky to see a large flock of emus milling about in the middle of the road right in front of me. Didn't have time to react, didn't brake of back off. Not that the z650 would've slowed down at all.
Passed straight through the group without hitting any one of them. Might have well have had a kilometre to spare either side.
