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Just when you think you had a clear grasp of all the possible things on the road that could kill you while you’re out for a ride, this happens.

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Location: So Cal
 
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Years a ago there was a video showing bulls (?) charging at parked motorcycles. I thought THAT was crazy. This is another level!
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Hooked
2010 GTS 300 super, 2009 Genuine rattler 110
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Location: Chi-City Ill-noise
 
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2010 GTS 300 super, 2009 Genuine rattler 110
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Man, imagine trying to explain that to the insurance company…
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Hooked
2020 GTS 300 hpe Touring
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Location: Upstate SC
 
Hooked
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2020 GTS 300 hpe Touring
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Location: Upstate SC
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Damn! I have a friend who used to ride a scooter in India. He said that wild monkeys would chase him. Razz emoticon
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Hooked
2023 GTS300, 2021 Sprint
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Posts: 241
Location: Bama
 
Hooked
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2023 GTS300, 2021 Sprint
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Location: Bama
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New shopping criteria: “Can it pull away from a charging bull from a dead stop?”

Two up??

Sheesh
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Molto Verboso
2020 GTS 300 HPE
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Location: south Texas
 
Molto Verboso
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2020 GTS 300 HPE
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Location: south Texas
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On the way back to our RV site, after hitting the deer, we rode through a couple hundred buffalo on either side and across the road (in Custer State Park)... yeah, they are a LOT bigger than little Bambi.

Still editing the video.
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Gigi, '13 GTS 300ie Touring
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Location: Phoenix, AZ.
 
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Gigi, '13 GTS 300ie Touring
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Location: Phoenix, AZ.
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Like we don't have enough to worry about, now we have to watch for charging creatures. Facepalm emoticon
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GTS300 Super 2015 Blue, GTS300 Super 2023 Beige
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Location: Sydney, Australia
 
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GTS300 Super 2015 Blue, GTS300 Super 2023 Beige
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Holidaying in Cape Town back in 1961, on a ride down to Cape Point on my GS150 I rode through the middle of a pack of baboons. I was very nervous, thinking that one might jump onto the back of my saddle. But they were all busy climbing over stopped cars, tearing off aerials and windscreen wipers.

I think encountering that situation now, I would turn around and get out of there quickly. The bravery/audacity/stupidity of youth!

NB. my avatar dates from that holiday.
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2021 GTS 300 HPE +2013 GTS 294 Polini
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Location: Pretoria, South Africa
 
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2021 GTS 300 HPE +2013 GTS 294 Polini
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Location: Pretoria, South Africa
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The Baboons of the Wesern Cape live in close proximity with humans in wild areas.
This is a short documentary of the problem that they now pose where they have realised that tourists and residents are a source of easy food.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCNFOP45sjM
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Veni, Vidi, Posti
2020 Honda NC750DCT
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Location: Maple Grove, MN
 
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I wasn't on a 2 wheeler but we were in my wife's convertible. I insisted she put up the hard top roof when we were surrounded by buffalo in Minneopa Park in Minnesota.
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Veni, Vidi, Posti
GTS 300, Buddy 125
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Location: Knoxville, TN
 
Veni, Vidi, Posti
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GTS 300, Buddy 125
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Location: Knoxville, TN
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On my way home from the 2016 cannonball in Yellowstone I was stopped onthe Sports City whilr a herd of buffalo was filtering between card stopped on the road. A young male about 30' (qp meters or so) away from me clearly didn't like the sound of the Malossi exhaust. He was giving me the stink eye and occasionally pawing the ground control a good sign. I couldn't move the scooter because of stopped cars with other bison in the road between them. My escape plan should he start moving was drop the scooter and vault onto the SUV next to me. Fortunately, the rest of the herd moved on and traffic moved down I could put a car between the young bull and me before he decided to charge. A very uncomfortable 15 minutes.
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