Hit a deer on my motorcycle -- Yikes!

Well picture this!

I was over at my cousins house with a bunch of friends and we started talking about my bike. My cousin was the only one in the bunch that had ever been for a ride on a "crotch rocket" before and the others wanted to go for a ride. Well, it was 2:00am, cold, and dark... GREAT IDEA! So I went home and traded my car for the bike.

I got back and took the first person for a ride, out the main (country like) road to the highway, quick highway ride and back, no problem! Now for the next person! They got on, we went out the main road, up and back down the highway, and started coming back down the main road.

We were moving at a pretty good speed (90mph?, yeah, I know...) out the road. We took the first turn, got half way through, and I saw eyes in the road ahead. Hit both front and back brakes hard as I could but we couldn't stop in time. I swerved around to the right and it looked like we *might* miss it, but at the last second it turned around and *BAM* we hit it in the back end.

I have no clue how, but I managed to keep the bike up and on the road. Both of us were fine, not a scratch on us. We finished riding back to the house (a bit slower) laughing our heads off; "we hit a deer, and we didn't die!". We pulled back in to the driveway where everyone was waiting yelling "We hit a deer!". "I guess you did" they said, "look at the front of your bike!".

The bike has some pretty good damage but its nothing that can't be fixed. I'm just glad we are both alright. I've decided that from now on the bike will stay parked after dark. One close call was enough.