Moose versus motorcycle

[Mitchell]

NY biker injured in collision with bull moose

CHATHAM, N.Y. (AP) -- An upstate man is recovering after his motorcycle ran into a moose on a section of the Thruway in eastern New York.

State police say 39-year-old Kim King of Buffalo was traveling east on the Berkshire spur of Interstate 90 early Friday morning when he hit a young 600-pound bull moose in the Columbia County town of Chatham, near the Massachusetts line 23 miles southeast of Albany.

Troopers say King was able to lay down his motorcycle so he didn't hit the moose at full speed.

Police say King was taken by helicopter to Albany Medical Center, where he was listed in critical but stable condition with multiple fractures and internal injuries.

The moose suffered two broken legs and was put down by troopers.

[wncbmw]

600 lbs! Makes a deer seem less scary! But . . .

Troopers say King was able to lay down his motorcycle so he didn't hit the moose at full speed.

Imagine how much slower he would have hit it if he had used his brakes! Glad the rider survived. I suggest he sign up for a riding course or at least study enough physics to understand the co-efficent of friction of rubber is better than steel and chrome!

[Ves]

600 lbs! Makes a deer seem less scary! But . . .

Troopers say King was able to lay down his motorcycle so he didn't hit the moose at full speed.

Imagine how much slower he would have hit it if he had used his brakes! Glad the rider survived. I suggest he sign up for a riding course or at least study enough physics to understand the co-efficent of friction of rubber is better than steel and chrome!

+1 on that..

[toolinalong]

I keep my moose off of the Interstates....too dangerous.

[wncbmw]

Moose! You call that a moose? I got your moose right here!



(From the safety of the bus in Denali Park)

[rdsmith3]

I just got back from a vacation in Maine. This is the fourth summer that our family has gone up there. I have driven thousands of miles in Maine, Mass., upstate NY, NH and Vermont, and I have never once seen a moose.

[toolinalong]

Exactly. So you will recognize this sign. I spent 3 weeks riding around Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and the Adirondacks in upstate New York, summer of 2006. I get home after 6 weeks on the road, and these two (a male and a female) are sitting in the woods twenty feet back from my driveway. (see the picture in my previous post). Go figure.

[icecave]

Going under a moose would be good option on a bike, bad idea in car. In a car, the moose gets clipped at its knees, lands on the car hood, and you get an unobstructed view of the body crashing through the front windshied, unless you can duck under the dash.

[Wando]

Hey, not to sound like Mr. Animal Rights and I am happy the guy is alive but seriously what was he paying attention to if he couldn't see 600 lbs. of moose in front of him. Let's be honest its not like a cheetah jumped into the road out of nowhere, it's an animal that might lose a race to a cow (ok well not exactly but some dramatic comparison was needed). I feel sorry for the moose in this case and not to be stereotypical but I live in Chicago and people swear by it here... but what nationality was the rider of the bike and could that explain the bad riding? No offense intended

[icecave]

It would not surprise me if a moose can do over 30 MPH for short burst.

http://www.moosefoundation.org/moose_facts.htm

[pinecone]

not to be stereotypical... but what nationality was the rider of the bike and could that explain the bad riding?

What the
Bad riding comes from a) knowing how to ride and choosing to ride poorly, or b) lack of training/practice. I don't see how nationality could possibly have anything to do with this!

[iowabeakster]

It's well known that the: Irish, Germans, Bolivians, Canadians, Turks, Estonians, Aussies, Greeks, Nigerians, Libyans, and of course Italians are terrible riders!

The perfect rider is of course a blend of: Norwegian, Sweedish, Scottish, Danish, Brittish, and Polish.

[wncbmw]

If it was during rut in the fall, and it was a bull, it might have been charging the bike! They get a little out of sorts when they are horny.

[nonskid]

Last 4th of July I encountered a full grown male moose (dinosaur) in the middle of the road as I rounded a sharp corner. This in south central Massachusetts! Just lucky I wasn't flying through the corners like I usually do. I could have recked the bike! Bullwinkle didn't seem to be bothered by my intrusion. He just moseyed on up the road then disapeared into the woods.

[alaskaflyer]

Going under a moose would be good option on a bike, bad idea in car. In a car, the moose gets clipped at its knees, lands on the car hood, and you get an unobstructed view of the body crashing through the front windshied, unless you can duck under the dash.

That's exactly how my wifes grandmother died up in Fairbanks AK.

Also, having lived and ridden in Alaska for a long time, Moose, Deer, Fox (you name it) run up onto the road where you have little to no time to react, so I think to call this guy a bad rider is kind of unfair not having been there to see the circumstances, and if you are in a turn at a decent (legal) rate and you hit the brakes the bike will straighten up and next thing you know you are headed toward oncoming traffic in the opposite lane...

one more thing...(to the animal rights guy) I don't think the moose was grazing in the middle of the road, I'm pretty sure he was just trying to cross the road at the wrong time for both the rider and the moose.