Deer me, that was close

I was coming home from the pub quiz tonight, we won £8 incidently.

Coming down the St Neots Bypass I can just about make out a small green light at the side of the road, at first I thought it was a broken bottle reflecting my headlight.

Then the bottle moves into my path and very rapidly turns into a deer. I slam the brakes on, the front of the bike dips enough for me to lose track of the deer in the headlights, as I come to a stop and the bike rebounds to it's normal position and there is the deer standing 1 foot in front of me.

I don't think it even knew I was there, it just carried on calmly walking across the road as is it was strolling though a field.

Stupid animal, but it was a perfectly executed emergency stop finishing in first gear without locking either wheel - perfect I tell you.