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Ninja 250 vs Deer
11/05/16 at 20:57:01

Cruising a two lane country road about sundown, 55mph, two cars in oncoming lane approaching. Out of nowhere a deer, which I never saw in advance, apparently lunged out from the ditch and into my right side. All I remember was "wham" and thinking I was about to slide into oncoming traffic...still not knowing what happened. I just held the wheel straight, let off the gas, no brakes, eventually pulled in the clutch, and coasted down to about 15mph. I was almost in the dark and knew I was a few miles from the county dump site. I crippled the Ninja in and under the light checked things out and regained my composure. Looked ok to make it the remaining 5 miles home. Assessment so far is a busted front fender (ebay replacement ordered), crack in main faring that I can fix, snapped and busted right rearset where I think his head slammed into my foot and pushed it all in and back, and fur all over.

God was watching over me. Going that fast on that small of a bike and having a deer smash into me should have caused a bad wreck. I swear my path of travel never budged, even with a force on my front tire enough to snap my fender in multiple places.

Be safe out there my friends. No matter how vigilant we are, we're not invincible!

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Ninja 250 vs Deer Reply #1 - 11/05/16 at 21:06:56 apparently you are invincible my friend. prayer of thanks offered.
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5837 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: Ninja 250 vs Deer Reply #2 - 11/05/16 at 22:23:06 Wow Its just like I thought , if the good lord has chores for you to do in your future ... Then .... It don't matter what Satan throws at ya , it will be O.K.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Online Thumpers Rule Posts: 5107 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Ninja 250 vs Deer Reply #3 - 11/05/16 at 22:28:07 Your deer whistle works well . Glad your ok !
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Re: Ninja 250 vs Deer
Reply #4 - 11/06/16 at 03:54:54

A deer should know better than to attack a Ninja! They would be much better off attempting it on a Pinto....or Colt (I can't think of any wimpy bike names at the moment).

Glad that you are OK, and the bike is mostly OK as well. Riding at sunset is something I do more than I should.....as that is when I can squeeze in a short ride in the evenings.

PVC cement is supposed to work really well on the fairings.....and you can use pieces of PVC plastic for reinforcements. Be careful not to get it on the paint as it will eat the paint away.....I put a piece of tape on the paint side of the repair crack to help keep it from oozing out onto the paint.

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Reply #5 - 11/06/16 at 07:10:09

Thanks for the well wishes! Waking up and thinking about it this morning, I still shoulda been spread out on that highway. As MM noted, God must have some plans for me and it just wasn't my time to get hurt.

I think on the faring I am going to use JB weld and back it up with a piece of plastic. I like JB because it dries slow enough where I can wipe the ooze off and it be pretty clean on the outside. Here's the break.

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stewmills Serious Thumper Offline Imagination is more important than knowledge Posts: 2641 Auburn, AL Gender:	Re: Ninja 250 vs Deer Reply #6 - 11/06/16 at 07:11:06 And the broken peg mount...
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Ninja 250 vs Deer Reply #7 - 11/06/16 at 08:36:31 JB weld doesn't hold ABS, ask me how I know cough cough junky ninja cough cough Get the stuff Dave said, it's almost the only thing that'll hold
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Reply #9 - 11/06/16 at 10:13:16

Glad to hear you made it through that experience with no injuries and no major damage to the bike. So you never even saw the deer,even after it hit you? Did it run off before you could look back. They seem to stand by the roads for minutes trying to decide if they should cross or not and then when they see a vehicle approaching they decide they had better hurry up and leap across.

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Re: Ninja 250 vs Deer
Reply #11 - 11/06/16 at 15:17:13

JB weld will probably work, if you scuff up the plastic before you attempt to glue it. And you will need to put something on the crack to reinforce it, something that will span across the crack and give the JB weld a fair amount of surface area to bond to. You could use some aluminum flat bar and bend it to follow the contour of the faring....and scuff it up as well.

Looking at your footpeg mount....it appears that the deer hit that area pretty hard. The peg is supposed to fold.....before it breaks stuff???? The deer could have been pushing down and backward - which is not the way the peg folds.

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Rodger Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 256	Re: Ninja 250 vs Deer Reply #12 - 11/06/16 at 15:42:06 Jeez, Stew! Glad you're okay and that the Ninja wasn't seriously damaged. I've hit 3 animals (2 white tail deer, 1 pronghorn antelope) in a car, & those were bad enough. Shudder to think of doing it on a bike!
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batman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3806 osceola new york Gender:	Re: Ninja 250 vs Deer Reply #13 - 11/06/16 at 17:04:42 Glad your ok ! country roads at night, can't be I a hurry,I never ride over 45 because I'm very rural ,deer an sometimes black bear ! If you want a solid and permanent fix for plastic I'd use fiberglass cloth and epoxy from a marine supply store ,find a good weld shop to fix your foot peg bracket.
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