I ride the gravel roads a bunch on my Kawasaki KLX230 and Honda CRF450RL. More than 15,000 miles on the two of them combined and about 50% of that on gravel, probably 40% on county blacktop and the remaining 10% on state highways (in the last 4 years). I see deer about one in three days on my rides. Had one in the ditch yesterday while on the GoldWing but it was a ways ahead so got slowed down.

They are a problem and definitely a risk that I am aware of. Pictures from my December 2021 accident with a deer. Wife and I have bought 4 new motorcycles since then, LOL. What can I say? I am a slow learner.

My wife says both with scuba diving (I do almost half my dives solo) and motorcycle riding, that if I die doing it at least I will die doing something I love. Of course there might be a few moments of sheer terror right before the death, but at least I was enjoying it up to that point. :-)

"Live fast, die young, and have a good looking corpse". Hmmmmm. Well I am down to one out of the three possibility, LOL The last two ain't gonna happen. That was a saying I latched onto from a movie I think my junior or senior year in high school.

Edit: better to hunt deer with a rifle or bow than a motorcycle. Voice of experience speaking. Pretty nice buck though. Too bad I don't remember it.

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