Originally Posted by GhostRider62

Speed is fun in the right place

i do agree with you on balance of the bike. For a tall rider and my proportions, most new bikes put me too far forward with one of the problems being what you describe. When braking hard, I really can't get my weight far enough back on most of my bikes although one custom bike is much better.

WRT to wildlife, I was on a club ride a few years back and we approached a bunch of deer in a cut cornfield. I could see that they could run into us, so, I slowed way, way down. One of the deer jumped right over the head of the lead rider. He had no clue and never touched his brakes. I was in a pack once and a squirrel too a rider down. Two dogs attacked me and the little one caught into my front spokes taking me down.....there was not a damned thing I could do. A truck mirror clipped my shoulder sending me into a corn field, no real injuries on that. The notion that crashing is avoidable is really naive.