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[ESokoloff]

On Thursday AM just before 1st light, an adolescent buck decided to commit suicide in front of my Zero DSR. 
He was successful & I manage to ride through the debris field without going down. 
When I came out on the other side I heard a heavy scraping noise.
I thought for sure I was dragging a corpse.
Turned out to be the left crash bar (deer approached from the left) that had its 10mm bolt sheared off as well as one of the skid plate mounts dislodged so the top of bar was what I had heard.
Looking down at the dash I found the wind screen & instrument panel tilted steeply back.
My left mirror was missing as was my phone!!!! (I think the windscreen made contact with top of phone squirting it out the bottom of the holder).
Initially I thought one of my fork mounted driving lights wasn’t laminated but after dismounting I found that the right one was pointing down & the left was pointing up.
The fender was missing as was the headlight housing.
Sometime back I had installed a JW Speaker adaptive 5.75” led headlight and it survived quite well though was pushed in & to the left due to the (stock) headlight mount being mangled.
I had carved out the stock headlight housing to allow the led headlight to fit. 
I made it out fairly well but my knees.
My right knee received quite a deep gash from (I believe) the accessory plate on the right crash bar in spite of my very expensive Motoport ridding suit It seems the plate sliced right through the armer & then had its way with my fleshy knee (deep cut that took 10 stitches).
My left knee felt as if it had experienced a hyper extension.

If you have crash bars on your bike you may consider removing the backside of that accessory plate on the right bar.

Careful out there

[princec]

Well... glad you're still alive to tell the tale. Deer are scary.

Cas

[Richard230]

It is good to hear that you didn't go down after ramming a deer. Lately, around here there have been reports of deer strikes along the I-280 freeway not long before sunrise. Be very careful when riding in deer territory, especially in the early morning and after sunset.