Anyway, as you can expect from the title, I have collided with a deer on my poor 2011. I was on the interstate headed to work and it was a beautiful morning. 20mph wind at my back, 50-60mpg reading on the LCD, and the sun was just high enough that my tinted visor was giving me perfect vision.
It was a full size doe that came out of the tall grass in the median. The gentleman that stopped to make sure I was alright said that he didnt see the deer until it was right next to me, so that makes me feel a bit better that I didn't see it either. Anyway, as you can tell from the picture, the head hit the corner of my headlight and the body swung around and hit the bike. I kept the bike up, and was able to get it safely off the road. The deer then swung around behind me (maybe already dead, maybe not) and was then hit by a semi... red jello.
Tore basically the entire left side off the bike. The front air-intake as you can see is gone, the headlight is busted, footpeg/bracket/shifter linkage are all tore off. The front blinker is sitting just behind the cylinders, and the tail section is also busted up. There is some stress cracking on the right side of the bike as well, but nothing missing. I am fine, bruised leg, bruised tibia/fibula, brused ego, but I am alive and writing this, so its not all bad.
I do have some questions for you guys, what kinda damage do you think Im looking at (cost wise), the bike has full insurance and will be completely fixed, but do you all think Ive got totaled numbers on my hands? Im thinking almost all the plastics will need replaced, headlight, left saddlebag and mounts (yes the bags were on when this happened... in this picture its back a 100 yards or so on the interstate), and the blinker mounts, shifter linkage, footpeg bracket, and maybe a radiator mount/radiator, glovebox.
P.S. - bought the bike in October, love it, and just rolled 3,700 miles on her.