deer on the NBT

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Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on November 18, 2008 at 11:18pm

Umm...going slower around bends? :)

I was up there on the 5th and saw some deer while going north and coming back south, but they were just standing on the side of the path.

A brighter light might get their attention from a distance so you aren't surprised by one on your ride.

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Permalink Reply by o0_dan_0o on November 19, 2008 at 7:43am

pack heat> shoot deer> drag carcass home> hang from tree> skin/clean> eat for a month > profit!

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Permalink Reply by Chucko on November 19, 2008 at 8:38am

Same thing has happened to me many times. The deer in those woods are so tame they don't even move when you're going by them in broad daylight. I doubt there's much you can do besides yelling at them loudly, though I'm not sure that will help much. I usually just swerve to avoid them.

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Permalink Reply by Ali on November 19, 2008 at 10:07am

Yeah but you better be either a hell of a shot with a 9mm or risk carrying a shotgun slung to your back loaded with slugs...

-Ali

o0_dan_0o said:

pack heat> shoot deer> drag carcass home> hang from tree> skin/clean> eat for a month > profit!

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Mulcky on November 19, 2008 at 12:21pm

I was on the Des Plaines River trail about a week ago and missed a deer by about a foot. It scared the hell out of me! All i saw were those black eyes, the rest of it blended into the forest. devil.

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Permalink Reply by Dan P. on November 19, 2008 at 3:03pm

Was it on the south end of the NBT?

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Permalink Reply by joe stein on November 19, 2008 at 7:53pm

deer in question was where path parallels harms rd s of glenview rd. i see them often in the twilight, but darkness makes it hard to see the boogers, even with a light. a brighter light might actually make the problem worse - thus the saying "deer in the headlights". maybe time for a card in the spokes?

a coworker who is a hunter suggested a "deer whistle" which is made for cars, but alas, they only work >35 mph. tom boonen i am not.

pb

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Permalink Reply by BalloonBiker on November 20, 2008 at 2:34pm

And of course hitting a deer isn't nearly as bad as hitting a bear.

I had read about the Montana one: http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/09/10/news/top/news01.txt

And then I find there was a bear incident in Colorado: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jun/26/bicyclist-going-4...

And then of course the Alaska Bear that got the girl on the bike race:
http://www.newser.com/story/31263/bear-mauls-girl-in-alaska-bike-ra...

I'll take a deer any day!

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Permalink Reply by S on November 20, 2008 at 4:27pm

elle said:

I don't think a bike will do as much damage to a dear as a car will, however, if you don't want to hurt yourself, wear a helmet and hope for the best. Its all you can do. Probably wouldn't be as bad as hitting an opening car-door anyway (as far as I can imagine).

I don't think the damage to the deer will really be that bad. Any carbon fiber stuff on your bike probably won't do so well though, the german rider that hit a dog at the tour de france ended up almost bending his front wheel in half. It's probably not as bad as getting doored but it's still bad enough. I had a teammate hit a deer on the NBT earlier this year and he ended up with a broken collarbone.

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