Originally Posted by
spclark
As am I, reading this thread.
I've been riding (again) just the last couple years. Maybe 800 outside miles... so far.
Fawns I've seen maybe five times while riding my bike, country roads mostly save the one on our local MUP.
They all spooked, ran off.
I think four squirrels in all. All looking injured, not particularly 'squirrely'
Several cats, moving speedily enough not to present a hazard.
Been chased by two (at the same time) loud, aggressive farm dogs.
One box turtle.
Wouldn't want to hit a goose....
It's not things that you hit. It's things that can hit you.
Fawns are a problem when I don't also see the momma deer. She'll be in the brush near by. 3 times since my 2019 accident. After slowing down when seeing a only fawn on one side of the MUP. The momma dear jumped completely over the MUP from the brush to get to her fawn. Once missing me by only 10 feet. If I hadn't slowed down from the 15 - 20 plus mph I was doing, then she may have knocked me off my bike. Which probably will have put me back in the ER or at least pretty banged up.