Deer Whistles

[riceburner_imp]

Used to ride my bike to work about 2pm and home about 2am,coming down the mountain came upon a whole herd milling about in the roadway,hit the binders and idled by in first gear,could have reached out and touched the closest one,they seemed unconcerned about the bike and me.I don't ride after dark anymore,too many close calls.This was about 10 years ago.If you choose to ride in the dark use high beams as much as possible,scan the sides of the road for eyeballs,they light up long before you see the actual deer,if you see one slow way down,their reaction times are not calibrated to 60 mph vehicles,they get confused,if you toot the horn half the time they stand there and watch you go by.Riding since 1972,lifetime all vehicle total almost 3 million miles,seen and avoided a lot of deer,hit one with the car 2 years ago.Odds caught up to me.Good Luck.