Deer Danger 4428Ken I was thinking the same thing. I ride my bike up in PA with my brother. He has deer all around him. He actually...
2 Deer stories (from about 20 I could tell you. I live in a very rural area and they're a constant danger).
I live in the Upstate area of South Carolina. There's a story going around about a rider out of Greenville, SC who was descending the Saluda Grade (a favorite climb north of Greenville) when a deer jumped out of the woods. They crashed. The deer was a buck with a nice rack and the bike frame became entangled in the deer's antlers. The deer bounded off into the woods with the bike still entangled and left the rider stranded on the mountainside. Neither the bike nor the deer were seen again. I'm not sayin' it's a true story. It's just goin' around.
Second story. Tonight on the way home from a club ride in a town about 45 minutes north of me I was coming down a country highway doing about 65. There was a vehicle oncoming and, as we were about to meet, a deer bounded into the road from my side. I slammed on the brakes and missed it. The oncoming car creamed it just as the deer-car combo was even with my driver side door. I could hear the impact and, in my rear view mirror, I could see the car go all over the road trying to maintain control. Had it happened 2 seconds earlier, that car might have hit me head on. Of course, I drive a huge honkin Ford F150 4x4 farm truck ... so it would have gone better for me than for them in all probability. Anyway, they were fine, but their car was a mess. It didn't go so well for the deer, either.
-- Bob C.
"Of course it hurts. The trick is not minding that it hurts." T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
