stewmills
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Serow, my pants survived, barely. Good thing I hadn't eaten a big bowl of chili or burritos earlier that day!
The deer did smack me pretty good. I think I took most of his impact in my R leg and foot. Without warning, I just remember feeling a huge "whomp" on my right side and feeling a lot of pressure on my R leg, and simultaneously feeling a "smack" on the bridge of my R foot as if someone smacked it with a sledgehammer. Remember that on these bikes you typically ride with your toes sorta pointed down (unless shifting or braking). Given that I was going about 55mph and most of that force was probably front to back as we impacted, the force of him hitting the bridge of my foot just pushed my foot backwards and that's what snapped the mount. I looked at the bike and I also had rubber boot marks on the passenger peg mount and right-rear upper faring where my foot apparently got knocked up and back pretty far. It all just happened so fast that I didn't realize my foot went up and back that far.
Crazy....just crazy.
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