SW-FOG "Home Safe" Thread

blufjr said:

I had another great time at this years SWFOG. Thanks to Scott and Shaun for organizing this and all others for just good company. I made my way home by going north through Wy and west through Montana, Idaho, and Washington/Oregon. I did a total of approximately 3,600 miles with the last day being the shortest at 450 or so, and I played nine holes of golf this afternoon and shot a 38. The ride home was exciting:

On my way back I madecontact with a deer. It happened inLolo, MT. on US 12 about one mile from US 93. It was around 4pm MT, Monday, when the deer came out of a clump of treeson my left. The deer was running diagonallyacross the road, in the directions I was going, when I saw it out of myperipheral vision. At the time, I wasaccelerating and maybe going 60 mph as I had the 70 mph sign in my vision. I didn’t back off on the throttle when I sawwe were going to make contact and maybe that helped me as the deer basicallypushed me off the pavement onto the 3' gravel apron. I was able to keep the bike on the gravel apron and not go downthe slight embankment next to the road. Forward momentum saved me. Thefact is, I didn’t have time to brake or anything else, it happened sofast.

The deer died shortly after the hit, a few people who hadstopped after seeing the accident dragged her to the shoulder embankment. I was unhurt, only a slight bruise on myleft leg. As far as the FJR faired: 4 of the 6 blue abs plastic fairing partswere damaged, while every thing around the glove box is broken. The windshield was totally removed and themounting hardware was all broken as was the tabs on the headlight. The windshield ended up lying down on mytank bag. The wheels, steering andengine didn’t seam to be affected. Itaped the windshield to the nose and continued on to Kamiah, ID,140 miles away.

I'm off to the Moto GP at Laguna Seca tomorrow morning, so won't be back for a week. (not taking my computer).

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HotRodZilla said:

blufjr said:

I had another great time at this years SWFOG. Thanks to Scott and Shaun for organizing this and all others for just good company. I made my way home by going north through Wy and west through Montana, Idaho, and Washington/Oregon. I did a total of approximately 3,600 miles with the last day being the shortest at 450 or so, and I played nine holes of golf this afternoon and shot a 38. The ride home was exciting:

On my way back I madecontact with a deer. It happened inLolo, MT. on US 12 about one mile from US 93. It was around 4pm MT, Monday, when the deer came out of a clump of treeson my left. The deer was running diagonallyacross the road, in the directions I was going, when I saw it out of myperipheral vision. At the time, I wasaccelerating and maybe going 60 mph as I had the 70 mph sign in my vision. I didn’t back off on the throttle when I sawwe were going to make contact and maybe that helped me as the deer basicallypushed me off the pavement onto the 3' gravel apron. I was able to keep the bike on the gravel apron and not go downthe slight embankment next to the road. Forward momentum saved me. Thefact is, I didn’t have time to brake or anything else, it happened sofast.

The deer died shortly after the hit, a few people who hadstopped after seeing the accident dragged her to the shoulder embankment. I was unhurt, only a slight bruise on myleft leg. As far as the FJR faired: 4 of the 6 blue abs plastic fairing partswere damaged, while every thing around the glove box is broken. The windshield was totally removed and themounting hardware was all broken as was the tabs on the headlight. The windshield ended up lying down on mytank bag. The wheels, steering andengine didn’t seam to be affected. Itaped the windshield to the nose and continued on to Kamiah, ID,140 miles away.

I'm off to the Moto GP at Laguna Seca tomorrow morning, so won't be back for a week. (not taking my computer).

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Dayum...Glad you came out mostly unscathed. That could have been real ugly.

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Double Dayum.

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Triple Dayum!!!

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philellis123 said:

"Forest Rats" is a new term to me. I have always considered them to be a plague of retarded, large, tan goats. We should get a new icon on here for those of us that have had this close encounter and luckily kept the shiny side up. Glad you weren't hurt, bikes are way less painful to fix than people.

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