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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
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Subject: Re: Missing cyclist's body found
Date: 19 Feb 2025 18:41:02 GMT
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AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
> On 2/19/2025 12:03 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:56:55 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2/19/2025 11:04 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>> On 2/19/2025 9:02 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>> On 2/18/2025 9:11 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>> On 2/18/2025 8:31 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This is not a cyclist. But it could be (35 seconds)
>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpXxjDia7ps
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I approve. The White Tailed Deer are causing ecological
>>>>>> tragedy around here. We need either more hunters or more
>>>>>> wolves.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> +1 to that!
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://www.yellowjersey.org/cars/DEER1.JPG
>>>>> https://www.yellowjersey.org/cars/deer18a.jpg
>>>>> https://www.yellowjersey.org/cars/66mal61.jpg
>>>>> 
>>>>> and many more...
>>>> 
>>>> Yow. My sympathies! I've had very close calls, but no
>>>> impacts with deer.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I drive a lot in western Wisconsin on county roads.  The
>>> suicide venison bombs come down the hills and across the
>>> road in a blink.
>> 
>> I drove a lot there too, and had a few close calls, several times on
>> motorcycles. Luckily, I never hit one. I did, not too long ago almost
>> hit, or rather got hit by a deer on the Catrike here in Florida
>> 
>> --
>> C'est bon
>> Soloman
> 
> Not only deer. Motorcyclists also suffer wild turkeys:
> 
> https://www.cbs58.com/news/man-in-serious-condition-after-motorcycle-collides-with-turkey
> 
> 

One of my colleagues back in the day of bike lights being feeble things,
managed to run into one of the Red Deer in the Royal parks, they are large
deer, and seem to have light absorbing coats!

Described it as hitting a wall that someone had attached a wet smelly rug
to!

Roger Merriman