So, What is your biggest bug Lunch in 06

[mrich12000]

Hi Thought I'd ask what is the yukiest bug you have :eat :eat munched on while enroute to your destination..:buds :clap

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Mike R..:laugh :laugh

[glwestcott]

R1100RT - windshield+faring+faceshield = no eat bugs:p

[OUTBACKUFO]

i lifted my lid for a bit of fresh air and within a minute i had a half of a grasshopper i think... had some green chunck on my check when i stopped for gas..


:laugh

[BubbaZanetti]

dragonfly, right in the mouth, when i was first riding with the half helmet and goggles

[jdmetzger]

My full face helmet and a "Nation Cycle" shield on my airhead keeps me mostly bug free. One night riding home from "bike night" on the slab, I came upon a swarm of moths.. or something large. I had just enough time to lay down on the tank behind my small shield. I think if I hadn't, I would have needed to pull over to try and clean my face shield. Yuk! :sick

[SNC1923]

I momentarily lifted my face shield to adjust my glasses and an unknown critter smashed into my cheek. I thought I had been shot with a BB gun. Ouch.

The only other incident was a sparrow who dove in front of my bike and couldn't pull out in time to avoid getting caught under the lip of my windshield. A bloody mess. I'm sorry to report that he didn't survive.

[snoone]

Here's a lesson for never putting your helmet on the ground or if you do, look inside it before you put it back on.

I had been up to the observation tower at Bear Mountain and put my helmet on the ground for about 1/2 hour... Somehow when I put it on I didn't crush the critter but as I was riding about 3 miles later I felt something crawling in my hair within my helmet.. Talking about creepy.. I pulled over , ripped my helmet off and found a huge locust in my hair.....

[RandyB]

There is some bug here, which I've only seen a split second before impact, that is so big and juicy it completely covers the shield.:sick

The only bird strike I've had I discovered about 5 a.m. when I stopped for gas. Smell? Found the little critter stuck between the lower fairing and the left cylinder, sizzling away.:eat

[barryg]

Wiped out a dove back in '88 on my 74 R90, blood everywhere. The only other thing I remember about it was that it tasted like chicken. :eat

[crazydrummerdude]

a wasp.

[flymymbz]

Closest thing I come to inhaling a bug was when some large, unidentifiable thing that smacked my Nolan in the middle of the exterior shade visor. Cracked it in half and left a hell of a mess behind. I almost barfed.

[hondarider]

Zipping along at 50+mph on some twisty road in New Hampshire...lifted my face shield to itch my nose...right then I got hit, with what I can only assume was one of those Lunar Moths, right in the face...fortunately, I was wearing sunglasses and my hand was covering half of the exposed area but the other half felt like I was just hit in the face with a custard pie...blind in one eye, I freaked out and the moth continued to flutter as I coasted to the side of the road and ripped my helmet off...there was yellow custard and wings on my cheek, my nose, and my forehead...there were pieces packed into the corner of the helmet padding...it was truly gruesome...LOL

[hlothery]

Seems like every spring in Texas, north of Houston, there is an infestation of little bugs which fly united (if you get my drift!), hence the title Love Bugs. They are small in size, but the quantity makes them a real big problem. And they are the devil to clean off once the debris is dry.

In addition, we had a butterfly migration near San Antonio for about 3 months last fall - really a mess on every ride. :hungover

[henzilla]

like these B'flies? had them everywhere! taste like chicken!:yum
looked like leaves falling...except nothing but cedar trees in area

on the "lovebugs" I used to spray the front of my jeep with PAM cooking spray so they would wash off before taking your paint with them...you can see the swarm in front of you while driving....SPLAT!!

[hlothery]

like these B'flies? had them everywhere! taste like chicken!:yum
looked like leaves falling...except nothing but cedar trees in area

on the "lovebugs" I used to spray the front of my jeep with PAM cooking spray so they would wash off before taking your paint with them...you can see the swarm in front of you while driving....SPLAT!!

I hate it when they start to smell, as that oil cooler cooks them.....yuk. I'll have to think about the cooking spray......does that increase horsepower any?

[henzilla]

on a 80's CJ jeep, anything probably increased HP! I used to hide behind 18 wheelers on the interstate to do the speed limit on windy days. I somehow avoided the lovebugs this year while on the bike...the PAM def works on grills,bumpers & plastic parts...washes right off...the windshield is another messy issue though! Never enough fluid in the sprayer :violin

[hhshort]

Riding the Seward hyway near Moose Pass, no shoulders, hilly. curvy, limited line of sight, I became aware of a bee crawling across my cheek, under my Nolen face shield. The Nolen is the older two handed chin bar. Opening the face shield didn't seem to effect the bee as he crawled across the outside of my left glasses lense, over my nose and under my right lense and across my eyelid. I'm riding with one eye, trying to open the chin bar, first one side and then the other. I'm looking for an approach or wide spot to pull off and 2 miles seems like 10 as I have slowed down some. My wife is on the back. Had we an intercom she could have opened my chin bar but she could only wonder what was going on.. By now the bee is on my right cheek and there is an approach to pull off on and I can stop and open the chin bar. The bee lived only to wonder why he could't find home.,and when I got home I bought a new Nolen with a one handed Chin bar. HaroldS

[mrich12000]

Riding the Seward hyway near Moose Pass, no shoulders, hilly. curvy, limited line of sight, I became aware of a bee crawling across my cheek, under my Nolen face shield. The Nolen is the older two handed chin bar. Opening the face shield didn't seem to effect the bee as he crawled across the outside of my left glasses lense, over my nose and under my right lense and across my eyelid. I'm riding with one eye, trying to open the chin bar, first one side and then the other. I'm looking for an approach or wide spot to pull off and 2 miles seems like 10 as I have slowed down some. My wife is on the back. Had we an intercom she could have opened my chin bar but she could only wonder what was going on.. By now the bee is on my right cheek and there is an approach to pull off on and I can stop and open the chin bar. The bee lived only to wonder why he could't find home.,and when I got home I bought a new Nolen with a one handed Chin bar. HaroldS

[QUOTE=mrich12000;183336]Hi Thought I'd ask what is the yukiest bug you have :eat :eat munched on while enroute to your destination..:buds :clap
WowI think you are one mean beasty munch. Godon ya for the live release:thumb
Mike R..:wave :wave
:stick Mid Winter bla teaser.:bottle :bottle

Mike R..:laugh :laugh :thumb

are there more like this this ?
Mike R..

[woodgrain]

In the vein of hhshort. I had just departed the ferry from Newfoundland in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, when a hornet flew over the windshield. It stung me on my left cheek. Needless to say, the pain was intense, but it also affected my ability to speak. When I tried to order breakfast at a restaurant later that morning, I sounded like I had either suffered a mild stroke or had succumbed to too much novacain at the dentist. I also had limited vision in my left eye due to swelling. It made riding interesting for the rest of the day. I probably would have been better off if I could have eaten the little creton!

Woodgrain

[CTHalk]

On Cape Cod one summer evening, sans helmet (years ago before I smartened up) I caught what I am pretty sure was a praying mantis in my mouth. I still remember the feeling of the bug's arms and legs trying to push itself out of my mouth while the wind pushed it back in. I quickly attempted to assist the bug out with my tongue. I think the mantis took my attempts as an attack, and fought back with those two grabby front arms. You have not truly lived until you have felt a praying mantis grab your tongue! I finally turned my head sideways, pushed, and exhaled a blast of air, and expelled the critter. I still get shivers when I relive that incident. All I could think of was what it would feel like if it started to go down my throat! AAAHHHGGGG! It wasn't painful, but was a sensory rush for sure. The most painful was a big fat bumblebee hitting my throat at speed.......I would have thought I was just shot, if I hadn't seen it in the last second. Thankfully no sting.

[Jamming]

Gosh, I don't know what it was, it was big. I had the shield up and yawned. The critter flew in and I swallowed...reflex action. Wasn't hungry for a couple of hours.:laugh Didnt get sick, no harm, no foul.

Worst thing that I got hit with was a rock, right between the knuckles of the ring and pinky finger. Damn!!! that hurt, right thru my deerskin gloves, my whole hand went numb. Clutching the bike hurt for a week.

Roger

[IAMBOB]

There is some bug here, which I've only seen a split second before impact, that is so big and juicy it completely covers the shield.:sick

The only bird strike I've had I discovered about 5 a.m. when I stopped for gas. Smell? Found the little critter stuck between the lower fairing and the left cylinder, sizzling away.:eat


I got smacked in thh chest by something BIG late at night on my way home.. Luckily I was only going about 40.. this is what I found on my bike the next morning...


http://itsbob.smugmug.com/photos/37001335-M.jpg

[IAMBOB]

WHOOPS, that was in 2005.. sorry, guess that doesn't count..

[mrich12000]

[Mike R..:wave :wave
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Mike R..:laugh :laugh :thumb

are there more like this this ? I t:wave think that you can qualify . :thumb
Mike R..[/QUOTE]


mark this thread as bug :brad death:wave :banghead :banghead Thanks to all who replied.

Mike R..
VE3CEH
All these stories were teriffic..and some scary dangrous..:wow