Deer & other critters hate my Supertrapp

[kz550]

I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed wildlife behavior such as this.

I've only owned my Supertrapp equipped motorcycle for one year, but I'm beginning to see a trend when I'm riding in the outback. Wildlife takes notice of my presence and they want nothing to do with me. Dunno if there's some accoustical whistling sound that's out of human tone range or if its the Supertrapp roar, but deer, coyotes, foxes and dogs scamper for the hills if caught in my path. I have seen this pattern repeated over and over. They look at me approaching, tuck their tails and scoot.

When I'm in a car I don't witness this behavior. These same creatures almost never move or care that I'm approaching.

[happyman]

maybe you have the proto type??

[jwells]

We have spent many years testing and developing the patent SuperTrapp sound and the effect this sound has on nature, both big and small creatures.
This unique sound also helps the trees and plants grow quicker and promotes faster photosynthesis as well.
It all makes our planet greener while also making your ride more enjoyable.

Although none of this is true, we do fully hope that you enjoy your motorcycle and ride as much as possible.

[kz550]

Haha, you boys laugh with your silliness. Here's the story, that I lived to tell, from yesterday evening.

Three deer ready to cross the highway from the other side, one looks big enough to be the mother. No cars present, just me at the lead of a loose pack of three sportbikes headed there way. Wanting to test the exhaust hypothesis and not wanting to get killed today, I downshift two gears without slowing to bring the exhaust note up to a loud howl. My bike was the only one with an aftermarket exhaust. They see/hear me coming, as I near their heads go up, tails go down and instead of crossing the road in front of me, they all bolt to the safety of the hills.

The tails going down is what I'm most curious about. Tails down would probably indicate they are not happy about my arrival.

[happyman]

Haha, you boys laugh with your silliness. Here's the story, that I lived to tell, from yesterday evening.

Three deer ready to cross the highway from the other side, one looks big enough to be the mother. No cars present, just me at the lead of a loose pack of three sportbikes headed there way. Wanting to test the exhaust hypothesis and not wanting to get killed today, I downshift two gears without slowing to bring the exhaust note up to a loud howl. My bike was the only one with an aftermarket exhaust. They see/hear me coming, as I near their heads go up, tails go down and instead of crossing the road in front of me, they all bolt to the safety of the hills.

The tails going down is what I'm most curious about. Tails down would probably indicate they are not happy about my arrival.

well where i am from tghere are deer everywhere and i have been hunting them for 40+ years as i have been riding since 1958 and deer do things differant things. differant deer differant reaction.. honk the horn or where ever downshift several times and you will be looking at several reactions. taill up wagging is alert and snorting also i will slow unless i can see the deer going into the trees or what ever. plus where there is one deer there is more often than not more you are not seeing ready to leap into your path . don;t matter if you spool up your bike they will cross i front of you. that is a false sense of security to say the least. good luck out there is what i wil say. deer are no fun on a bike if you hit one.

[kz550]

Crossed paths with seven different deer with ideas in their heads that they'd like to cross the road. In all seven instances, they got the hell out of Dodge; wanted nothing to do with the SuperTrapp note coming down the road. Some were around blind corners. For them, they were already on the run. For the others off in the distance, they did the old look, think, I'm out of here, long before I had to react.

05/30/10 Update: I was third of four riders this weekend zipping through the canyons. One set of deer were grazing along the roadside. First two bikes pass w/o any reaction. I approach, they look at me and split. Kind of like a deer plow.

[kz550]

Over 40,000 miles now on the bike and too many animal encounters to individually mention. Since putting the SuperTrapp on, the interesting claim still holds true. I'm beginning to feel invincible, although I do take every instance as a potential hazard.

The latest case in point: Last week there were three different deer crossing or standing on the road along a 250 mile stretch of road I was on, mostly mountainous canyons. Two of them got into the bushes long before I made it to the area where they were. Same M.O. They wanted nothing to do with me. The third ended up running down the road away from my bike, in a complete panic. I pulled along side it as it was scurrying along in the roadside ditch. I just gave it some gas and passed. There were some steep walls along the roadside and blacktop is like ice to their hooves, preventing it from darting up the embankment.

[kz550]

I have changed a couple things on one of my SuperTrapp equipped Ninja sportbikes, I've added two additional plates and raised the main jets one-half step. The result is the dB exhaust note is that much more pronounced than before. Mind you, not straight pipe Harley Davidson loud, but relatively in tune loud.

Anyway, I think I've found a location where I can find a consistent stream of evening deer to film. It's at the base of one of the mountains outside town. The deer don't seem to have a fear of people or cars, which are sometimes also present and there are nearby ranch style residential homes.

I was passing by that area just out enjoying the springtime weather in the early evening a couple of days ago. One of the deer had already crossed the road, another was crossing a ditch to get onto the road up ahead with another behind it. I couldn't have been more conspicuous had I been wearing a mountain lion suit by the looks of it.

I was only cruising at about 30 MPH at the time (near residential) and I did kinda point the bike in the direction of the second deer getting ready to follow the first across the road. All of them had gone from simply walking about focused on what they were doing, to heads straightly focused on me coming up the road towards them. The just froze. When I was within about 300 feet I downshifted so the dB from the bike sounded even meaner. That was it! They had been staring me down and had that look I've seen from deer before them. They didn't want any part of what I was bringing. Their flight mechanism must have tripped. They turned in unison and ran back to the safety of the hills and cover. I didn't have to break stride. Wow, that was badass!

Gonna have to go back there and post up a video of it so there's evidence of what I've been talking about for years now. The lighting won't be ideal, but hopefully it'll be just good enough that you can see them, hear the bike's exhaust rumbling, and have footage of them fleeing, as though they were my prey.

[kz550]

While I stuck to the sunny side of a windy foothill route I'd pass one pasture after another with either cows or goats or whatever. On up ahead I could see what looked like one of the goats had gotten out and was by appearance wanting to cross the road from my right beyond a fence line, the higher side on the windy roadway. A few seconds later the animal's shape gave way and was, in fact, an adult deer. Spotting me approaching still from some distance away, it turned away from the road it looked to cross and began trotting in the same direction I was headed in parallel to the path of the roadway. Only, if that was its plan of escape, I had a good 30 MPH closure on it as it hopped alongside my inevitable path.

It was at about the point that I was still about 100 feet behind it, that it turned its head back to see me gaining on its position rapidly that it abruptly turned right and leaped over a 6 foot barbed wire fence, kicking the upper wires with its hind legs and racing away into some trees beyond. I don't know what fear looks like on a deer's face, but that definitely looked like fear on its face or in its wide crazy eyes.

That was some impressive leap! Wish I could have captured that on film. Would have been cool to share. Just so glad it was mature enough to know that the sound of my Ninja ZX-9R's SuperTrapp presented danger and not the other way around. So thus far, only newborns have been the ones naive about road crossing dangers.