Close call! Glad you and the bike were mostly unscathed. I had the pleasure of hitting a six-point buck whitetail on my Bandit with my wife on pillion at about 60mph. The laws of physics intervened and I had to lay it down.
It just seemed to appear out of nowhere and I had enough time to mutter an obscenity as I panic-braked and slammed into it square in the gut. Scary stuff! Luckily, my wife and I were okay. The gear saved us, for sure. Wife was done riding after that! It was just getting dark when it happened, about 5 miles from home, and it took me a while to be okay with riding after dark after that.
