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Duck hunt

Do you know how do you feel after hitting a pheasant with your helmet while driving a motorbike at 130kmh?

I do.

Some details after the jump.

I was coming home after a good ride with Tommi and Giuseppe (both on Aprilia Tuono). I was really curious to see how much the new Termignoni exhaust system gave to my motorbike (more details in some other post... it will be in italian, I guess).

I was riding in Monte Morello, near Florence, and I was pretty fast; suddenly I saw this pheasant (I think it was a pheasant... I recognized it from the tail but - you know - it happened pretty fast , coming from my left and "flying across the street", from one side to the other. Fortunately.

I thought "not it'll go up...come on, bird, go up...up...UP!"... BAM!
I hit the pheasant with the left side of my helmet and I can assure you it was really hard. Fortunately I didn't lose the control of the bike; I closed the throttle and after 200m I stopped to take a breath. Finally.

three comments

And the pheasant? It’s very good for sauce.

dasnake, (Email) (URL) - 28-09-’08 11:20

You really don’t know how many people asked for the pheasant, suggesting me to cook a good dinner.
Thank you all for being so worried about me. :)
btw: I didn’t look at the pheasant after the hit. I didn’t give a damn to the dinner: I was worried enough about me.
Maybe next time…

orangeek, (Email) (URL) - 28-09-’08 12:00

You wrote a post and didn’t had enough time to learn braille, so vision and upper limbs motion was ok.
In the helmet photo you are standing up so also lower limbs were ok.
Enough for the worrying about you part, next thing to worry about is dinner ;)

dasnake, (Email) (URL) - 29-09-’08 11:21