Has anyone heard of this before?

[MikeinNZ]

Now those of you that know my bike know it’s special but has this happened to anyone before?
I hit a bird on route to work last week and ever since my bike has had a certain smell of death to it.
Today it was stinking out the garage so I pulled the side fairings off to no avail then I tilted the tank up to check the top of the air box and finally out of despair I took the top of the air box off..

I took a photo of the maggots as the bird was a little to gross
I have no idea how it got sucked up the backwards facing trumpet but as I have said before “my bike is special”.

 

[Nikolajsen]

I can almost smell it from here
No, never seen it before.

 

[Longdog Cymru]

I had it on when I had a BMW R1150GS. I hit a Blue Tit on the way to an MoT test and I couldn’t find it but the tester presented it to me after the test!

 

[Gigitt]

A quail ran across the road trying to get to the other side... 45 km later we stopped and I could smell roasted chook.
Poor thing got stuck between my exhaust header, engine and sump guard.

 

[BaldKnob]

I ran over a dead fish in the road and the splatter on my Kawi’s exhaust was... aromatic, to say the least! Took forever to wash that stink off.

 

[Sierra1]

Hit a very large black bird on the RT. Didn't know it I had hit it or not. . . . until I stopped. Smelled wonderful. It stayed together so it wasn't that hard to pry off.

 

[EricV]

I have twice had birds end up in the forward facing intake for the radiator, then screened it off. Never had one go up to the air box though!

 

[RCinNC]

I was out in Colorado a couple years ago when I saw a small yellow bird zip right in front of the bike. I was sure I'd hit it, but didn't see any evidence on the front of the bike, so I kept going. Eventually I stopped at a hardware store to get some Gorilla Tape, and looked one more time. I could just barely see a tiny little claw, way back in the air intake on the right side. I would have missed it had I not looked right into the intake. He was wedged up there so far that I thought I was going to pull his leg off, trying to get him out.

Just a year later, I took another bird strike in North Carolina, only he didn't get stuck in the intake this time. I even got this one on video....

 

[lund]

I accidently hit a pig at 5am in the morning once at about 80km/hr, it just stood there and it wasn't till it was too late i realized what it was in my headlights. Windscreen went red and the liver got stuck in the ...hhmmm grill. Oopps that was with my truck not the bike. The only victim's on the bike have been bugs, lucky i guess.

 

[WJBertrand]

On my old ST1100 I hit a sea gull on the way home from work. I was doing about 90 MPH at the time, and as sea gulls are substantial birds, the impact was obvious. In my mirror I saw a flurry of feathers but no bird. When I finally looked down at the dash, I saw the coolant temp gauge rising quickly. I immediately pulled over expecting a damaged radiator. Instead I found the carcass of the poor thing, wings spread, covering 90% of the radiator. Ruined a pair of gloves removing it, it’s head being stuck between the edge of the radiator and the inner faring surround. Actually broke that piece. Since my commute was right along the coast between Ventura and Santa Barbara, I tossed the remains over the K rail for an unceremonial burial at sea. There were feathers and sea gull poop everywhere. The rest of the ride home I was trailing feathers, but the cooling system was thankfully intact.

Based on the mess and my rough estimation, the body mass of a sea gull is approximately composed of 70% poop!


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[Tenman]

We had a guy offshore we nicknamed seagull. All he did was eat, shit and squawk.

 

[MattR]

We had a guy offshore we nicknamed seagull. All he did was eat, shit and squawk.

Was he actually a seagull?


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[Tenman]

Was he actually a seagull?


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He was a coon ass cajun

 

[Eville Rich]

My S10 suffered the indignity of running across a manure track. It was dusk and I thought it was just a bit of mud from the field, from the tractor turning onto the road. Nope. Splish splash, enough lubricity to cause a bit of hydroplane as each tire crossed it (about a one foot wide track). Sprayed up on my boots, up under the rear wheel well, fenders. The worst was the stuff that hit the exhaust and front of the engine. Hot poop and pee smell for about a 1/2 hour and then philosophical questioning about what it really was. At least I was heading home. It got a thorough washing but it took a long time before I couldn't smell anything, especially after the engine was at temp and I was stopped.

I'm more cautious now.

Eville Rich
2016 S10

 

[VRODE]

Always wary on summer rides around here. On spreadin’ day the roads are tricky.
But nothing is worse than riding past a chicken farm on a hot summer day. The stank stays on those tires a long time.

 

[Tenman]

My grandpa would pee on the butane heater to run us boys out of his barn. Then laugh at us. STANKY

 

[Checkswrecks]

While a number of us here have hit deer, a guy on the FJR forum named Warchild had the best YUCK deer story I've heard.
As I remember, he was doing well over 100 at night on an ST1100 when he hit one and after coming to a stop found that he hit it between the ribs & hips, splitting the deer. He said it took him a while to comprehend why he, the bike, and everything else reeked so bad. The intestines had been blown apart so there was the freshest of shit driven into every crevice of the bike and what he was wearing. Worse, he had deer shit covering his face, in his mustache, and up his nose.

 

[gunslinger_006]

While a number of us here have hit deer, a guy on the FJR forum named Warchild had the best YUCK deer story I've heard.
As I remember, he was doing well over 100 at night on an ST1100 when he hit one and after coming to a stop found that he hit it between the ribs & hips, splitting the deer. He said it took him a while to comprehend why he, the bike, and everything else reeked so bad. The intestines had been blown apart so there was the freshest of shit driven into every crevice of the bike and what he was wearing. Worse, he had deer shit covering his face, in his mustache, and up his nose.

That one wins


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[PhilPhilippines]

He was a coon ass cajun

A coon is a derogatory term akin to n*88er as far as i am aware.I trust i am wrong..

 

[Tenman]

You are wrong. I have a ton of Cajun relatives. You hear coon ass being proudly said all the time