Just a word of yearly caution but the deer are starting to show up in increasing numbers. On my weekly trip to Deckers this afternoon I nearly struck a deer as a group of three darted out in front of me. Luckilly I was alone and only going about 60 when I saw the first and began looking for the others (I almost never see a deer alone so when you see one, look for his buddys).
Then on the way back home down 24, just after passing Manitou the truck infront of me hit a deer head-on. I didn't see the accident but rather wondered why a few cars would suddenly pulling off to the shoulder and then saw the dying deer in the middle of the lane (that's never a good sight, to see a mangled deer that's still alive and seconds away from death).
The deer in this case hit the pickup (a ford ranger) pretty much head on and the truck went over the deer; the guy's bumper and grill were destroyed but supprisingly that was the only visable damage. As I stopped to see if they were hurt / needed help another car (a small sedan) hit the (now dead) deer head on; I guess he didn't notice the other cars swurving around it and ran over the thing... kind of a gross sight as the car actually went airborne slightly and the deer flew up into the gear spinning it's legs everyone and puffing out a nasty blood spray (yuck).
Anyhow - my point for mentioning this is hitting a deer on the bike nearly always results in injury or worse so be midnful of a possible animal around that blind corner next time you take it at 90mph =/
-Clovis