Ow

[Rawwr]

I discovered today that it really hurts quite a lot when someone throws an apple core from their car window and it hits you on the side of your lid.

There really are some cocks out there.

[chilli]

B'Stards......Any chance of retailiation? Any red mist? I'd have gone mad!

[Rawwr]

There may have been hand signals. How's the R6?

>> Edited by Rawwr on Monday 20th February 14:16

[rsvmilly]

In the summer you'll also learn that Bees hit you with quite some force

[chilli]

Rawwr said:

There may have been hand signals. How's the R6? >> Edited by Rawwr on Monday 20th February 14:16

Yeah, love it thanks. Still can't ride though. I'm taking it up to this guy to set the suspension set up for me. Aparently, they come out of the factory with a kinda race set-up, which I've noticed is rather hard. Probably best fortrack days etc, but not for when I commute!

[tycho]

rsvmilly said:

In the summer you'll also learn that Bees hit you with quite some force

Yep, a bee doing 100 mph (on a track) hurts quite a lot and will leave a bruise like a paintball!

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

tycho said:

Yep, a bee doing 100 mph (on a track) hurts quite a lot and will leave a bruise like a paintball!

I think you'll find that it would be you, and not the bee doing 100mph!

[Mikey G]

tycho said:

rsvmilly said: In the summer you'll also learn that Bees hit you with quite some force Yep, a bee doing 100 mph (on a track) hurts quite a lot and will leave a bruise like a paintball!

They're not much more comfortable when they hit your visor square on either like i did last year
I can imagine the apple would hurt considerably, had a few stones hit me when following lorries in my kit car
And dont get me started on FAG ENDS

[Carrera2]

I remember a beetle type thing hitting the mouth vent of my helmet in the summer and atomising. All of a sudden my lips were covered in a slimy substance.

[rsvmilly]

Carrera2 said:

I remember a beetle type thing hitting the mouth vent of my helmet in the summer and atomising. All of a sudden my lips were covered in a slimy substance.

Yep. Had this happen too. Fortunately, my mouth was closed at the time. By the time I stopped and parked up I had this dried insect over the side of my face.

Ah the fun of riding on Summers Evenings. The temperatures have dropped a bit. You can appreciate all the smells of summer as only a motorcyclist can. Traffic dies off. And then the bugs come out to play.

On my way down to Le Mans in 2004 I rode my bike down the Alecon-LM Peage at around 10-11pm. At one stage I was the only vehicle on the road, with no road lighting. Just me on my bike . Until, half a million small flies came to play. I had to pull over twice just to clean my visor.

[desmo]

I had a similar problem riding back to paris from the world supers at Brands several years ago, only two bikes and late at night, so many bugs hit the visor, and being a bit less experienced at the time I wiped the visor with my glove; couldn't see a bloody thing after that. Stopped and cleaned the visor at the services. Then spent the next week cleaning the flies of my leathers. Still a great day out all the same.

[bennyboysvuk]

A couple of years back I noticed a wasp flying around in the space I was about to occupy as I rode along the road. I got closer and it dawned on me that it was gonna hit me on the neck, which it did. However it dropped down the top of my leathers and then proved it was still alive by stinging me on the chest a couple of times. Cue lots of King Kong like thumps to my chest trying to kill the bugger.

[peetbee]

Overtaking a gritting lorry hurts too, but the sound that a bee makes when it hit's your visor is incredible, you'd think that someone had let off a firework inside your helmet!

[iguana]

Rawwr said:

I discovered today that it really hurts quite a lot when someone throws an apple core from their car window and it hits you on the side of your lid. There really are some cocks out there.

Ah, this is when car driver discovers a bike glove with carbon weeve really hurts when it whackes 'em the jaw!

[m1spw]

I've been hit in the face by a small piece of airborn corn, you know the little spiky bit at the top? About 2cm long, hurt like hell when it hit me just below my eye, and ended in me riding like this for about 10 minutes ->

But then again, I enjoy riding with my visor up

>> Edited by m1spw on Friday 24th February 22:58

[Mikey G]

m1spw said:

But then again, I enjoy riding with my visor up

Do you go fast enough to require it to be down?

[m1spw]

Mikey G said:

Do you go fast enough to require it to be down?

Yeh - a cloud of flies is much more annoying at 30mph than say 60mph - it takes a lot longer to get through them

And anyway, I got a whole 39mph once! down a realllllly big hill

[Matthew C]

m1spw said:

Mikey G said: Do you go fast enough to require it to be down? Yeh - a cloud of flies is much more annoying at 30mph than say 60mph - it takes a lot longer to get through them And anyway, I got a whole 39mph once! down a realllllly big hill

I was on my (push) bike in a wooded area doing about 30mph - got flies in my eyes, mouth and up my nose. I imagine it's quite a bit worse at higher speeds. Unfortunately I agreed with my parents I'd wait until I'm 21 before getting into bikes.

[desmo]

a very funny story told to me by ex-work mates Dad, He was riding his old AJS back in the 60's, not wearin a helmet, just a cap turned bacwards, catch's up with a cattle truck, full off cow's, as he starts to overtake, a jet of piss came through the wooden slats. Soaked him! Needlees to say we all fell off our chairs when he told us! stayed on the bike though, good chap. At least it wasn't number two's.