Smelly Situation

[GTXS1100]

So the other night i was riding down the hyw and i passed a dead skunk on the road. It smelled terable and that made me wonder....

Has any one ever hit a skunk or been sprayed by one on there bike while driving down the road?

I have heard of cars comming up on skunks and getting sprayed but ive never heard of someone on a motorcycle having this happen. I think it would be funny if it happened to someone else but it would totaly suck if it happened to me. Any thoughts or comments?

[jwhughes3]

I pray it never happens.

Hard enough to get rid of smell just passing by.

John

[DeanR]

A little reading:
http://www.st-owners.com/forums/show...eed&highlight=

[tcoop]

Only while in the cage. The little critter walked out into the middle of the road. It was a small two lane road with on coming traffic with no sholder. I didn't have time to stop. The little guy turned his/her rear and lifted its tail in it's last act of skunk heroisum. The car smeeled for weeks. I hope to never have that kind of encounter with the bike.

[trbig]

None on the bike, though I've killed a stinkin' buzzard before. I've hit several in vehicles... one was following someone with several hundred miles left to go to get to the house. We could see the skunk through their headlights and we were about 2 seconds behind them. They clipped the skunk with a tire which sent him spinning up through the air like a helicopter. It was all slow motion... we could see him spinning with this lime green "Ooze" spraying out it's backside like a sprinkler. He couldn't have hit the direct center of our front grill any more perfect and stuck there. The sprinkler effect covered most of the front end of the car, and apparently right where the air intake for the inside vents of the car. I had to stop and peel him off the grill, but the ride home the rest of the way was miserable.

In another instance while working on an ambulance, I had had a rear blowout on an emergency run with one of the dual back tires at a high rate of speed about a week before we had this run. The tire came apart and had actually ripped out part of the inner wheel well and exposed one of our storage compartments for extracation tools. We had a call on a guy that had been dead a considerable amount of time in a very hot house. Imagine the smell of a nice summertime, bloated roadkill... then concentrate that all into one room of a small house. We normally don't haul bodies, but it was needed in this case, so we loaded him up and headed back to town about 15 miles away. On an ambulance, if you roll down the front windows, it sucks air from the back of the unit, so we had to leave the windows rolled up. On the way back, there was a skunk laying in the road that looked like it had just lied down and died perfectly in our tire tracks. No shoulder, narrow country road, and traffic in the other lane, there was nowhere to go and the guy driving hit it... which then shot it right up into that compartment through the opening in the wheel well. We were gagging soooo bad. When we got to the hospital, we just pulled up to the back dock to see if they wanted to pronounce the guy's death there or just take him to the morgue. The nurse's nose twisted up and she said, "You smell like something dead.. or a skunk or something!" I said she'd won a cigar since she guessed 'em both!

[Rasputin]

I got sprayed on a bike many years ago. It is not something one will ever forget. Dirt road thru a farm field. Little bugger got the shot off just before my front wheel rode a perfectly straight line up his backside. Dragged my boots in the dirt fields for many miles before I could even handle removing them. Not a fun experience at all. Good job I did not end up crashed and stinking, that would have been much worse.