Wasp in ya lid at 50! Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Just read the thread http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0... Made me smile so I thought I would open another one of those "biking can be a pain in the asp" moments that I had!
Hot day, leathers feeling like they are bonding to the skin, visor open trying to cool down, doing 50 then a wasp decided it wanted to visit the only gap in the padding of my helmet allowing it to get into that special zone that gives air flow around your ears.
I have never taken my helmet off at 50 with no hands on the bars! Just a reaction....Ended up launching it stage left.
Had to stop the bike, turn around and retreive my helmet from some old dears front garden flower bed! Helmet now in the bin....minus the wasp!
Is it me??? Or has anyone else had a wasp in lid encounter?
Bzzzzzzzzzzz!
Mark
Hot day, leathers feeling like they are bonding to the skin, visor open trying to cool down, doing 50 then a wasp decided it wanted to visit the only gap in the padding of my helmet allowing it to get into that special zone that gives air flow around your ears.
I have never taken my helmet off at 50 with no hands on the bars! Just a reaction....Ended up launching it stage left.
Had to stop the bike, turn around and retreive my helmet from some old dears front garden flower bed! Helmet now in the bin....minus the wasp!
Is it me??? Or has anyone else had a wasp in lid encounter?
Bzzzzzzzzzzz!
Mark
F308 MAN said:
had similar, but a lit fag end ... not funny.
always curse drivers flicking cigs ends out of their windows.
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Oh fluke! always curse drivers flicking cigs ends out of their windows.
d
Some people just don't think....... at all!
By the way Dave you should have been on the Château run with us this year. It was for the Lambo club. We where in a TVR Tuscan but there was a Ferrari there, couple of Porky's, MG and an American muscle car.
Keep a look out on events as they are doing another one and it is good fun.
Mark
Edited by makatya on Thursday 9th August 15:48
makatya said:
I have never taken my helmet off at 50 with no hands on the bars! Just a reaction....Ended up launching it stage left.
Had to stop the bike, turn around and retreive my helmet from some old dears front garden flower bed! Helmet now in the bin....minus the wasp!
have another few Had to stop the bike, turn around and retreive my helmet from some old dears front garden flower bed! Helmet now in the bin....minus the wasp!
I've been hit by an apple at 80mph. I've also had a wasp hit my neck at 60mph then drop into my leathers. Riding along at 60mph punching my own chest trying to kill the t
tting thing wasn't a fun experience.
It stung me right on the tit. Stopped quickly, chucked off my lid and started stripping at the roadside to get the bastard out.
tting thing wasn't a fun experience.It stung me right on the tit. Stopped quickly, chucked off my lid and started stripping at the roadside to get the bastard out.
Rawwr said:
Riding along at 60mph punching my own chest trying to kill the ttting thing wasn't a fun experience.
It stung me right on the tit. Stopped quickly, chucked off my lid and started stripping at the roadside to get the bastard out.
I'm on the floor here, tears down my face hitting the floors to go laminate to stop me from laughing. tting thing wasn't a fun experience.It stung me right on the tit. Stopped quickly, chucked off my lid and started stripping at the roadside to get the bastard out.
Blimey.......You win!
makatya said:
Just read the thread http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0... Made me smile so I thought I would open another one of those "biking can be a pain in the asp" moments that I had!
Hot day, leathers feeling like they are bonding to the skin, visor open trying to cool down, doing 50 then a wasp decided it wanted to visit the only gap in the padding of my helmet allowing it to get into that special zone that gives air flow around your ears.
I have never taken my helmet off at 50 with no hands on the bars! Just a reaction....Ended up launching it stage left.
Had to stop the bike, turn around and retreive my helmet from some old dears front garden flower bed! Helmet now in the bin....minus the wasp!
Is it me??? Or has anyone else had a wasp in lid encounter?
Bzzzzzzzzzzz!
Mark
Hot day, leathers feeling like they are bonding to the skin, visor open trying to cool down, doing 50 then a wasp decided it wanted to visit the only gap in the padding of my helmet allowing it to get into that special zone that gives air flow around your ears.
I have never taken my helmet off at 50 with no hands on the bars! Just a reaction....Ended up launching it stage left.
Had to stop the bike, turn around and retreive my helmet from some old dears front garden flower bed! Helmet now in the bin....minus the wasp!
Is it me??? Or has anyone else had a wasp in lid encounter?
Bzzzzzzzzzzz!
Mark
Rawwr said:
I've been hit by an apple at 80mph. I've also had a wasp hit my neck at 60mph then drop into my leathers. Riding along at 60mph punching my own chest trying to kill the ttting thing wasn't a fun experience.
It stung me right on the tit. Stopped quickly, chucked off my lid and started stripping at the roadside to get the bastard out.
tting thing wasn't a fun experience.It stung me right on the tit. Stopped quickly, chucked off my lid and started stripping at the roadside to get the bastard out.
stop, stop, i'm pissing myself
not funny at the time - but .... hahahahahahaah
makatya said:
By the way Dave you should have been on the Château run with us this year. It was for the Lambo club. We where in a TVR Tuscan but there was a Ferrari there, couple of Porky's, MG and an American muscle car.
Keep a look out on events as they are doing another one and it is good fun.
Mark
sorry for the hijack mark ...Keep a look out on events as they are doing another one and it is good fun.
Mark
but this years Le Mans tour took in Millau Bridge, Gorges du Tarn, Ardeche, Alps, Route de Napoleon, Monaco & Paris.
june's trip will prove difficult to beat, but i'm gonna try again next year !
dI was riding through a village once when this cockatoo came out of a side street, flying too low and too fast for the prevailing conditions. Rather than pulling up to allow traffic with the right of way to proceed unimpeded he (or perhaps she) failed to give way and did a header into the bike. Exit stage left one cockatoo. A little later I thought I'd get a bit of fresh air into my lid so opened up the visor. Somewhere nearby there was a bee and this particular bee obviously thought that my big red helmet looked awfully like a bit red flower and that my open visor was just a big invitation to come on in and taste the necter. Well imagine its disappointment when it discovered that it had been led on under false pretences. So it promptly stung me on the side of the noggin. Cue sharp stop, helmet off and emergency surgery to remove the sting.
Nature has its revenge!
Nature has its revenge!
I past my bike test four years ago and i did something in my helmet i had never done before,and i was completely confused about what to do,what was this highly confusing dilemma?A sneeze!Yes,the humble old sneeze.Only trouble is my sneezes are humungous and tremendously powerful,i just didn't know what to do,it really made me laugh.I tried to point my mouth in a sideways direction away from the visor one way,then the other,it didn't really matter i thought what i do,it's going to splatter everywhere.I didn't know whether to risk getting something in my eye by opening the visor,or risk being tempporarily blinded by a heavily snotted visor(75 on a motorway!)
What a coincidence, I've been riding since the mid 60's and I was stung for the first time today.
It wasn't a wasp but I couldn't quite tell what it was from the bits on the floor after I'd finished ripping clothes off.
It had gone inside my shirt and just as I pulled up in my garage I felt this almighty pain in my side under my right arm.
I rushed into the house pulling off my helmet and trying to rip my clothes off finding that the sleeves of my jacket don't actually go over my gloves so everything took longer than I would have liked.
Discovered a huge welt with a black barb sticking out of it in a position that I could only just reach with tweezers to pull it out. All I could find of the culprit that was still recognisable was a round, brown piece of it's body so I was hoping it wasn't anything rare and poisonous.
Seems to be subsiding now so it's probably OK (I hope).
It wasn't a wasp but I couldn't quite tell what it was from the bits on the floor after I'd finished ripping clothes off.
It had gone inside my shirt and just as I pulled up in my garage I felt this almighty pain in my side under my right arm.
I rushed into the house pulling off my helmet and trying to rip my clothes off finding that the sleeves of my jacket don't actually go over my gloves so everything took longer than I would have liked.
Discovered a huge welt with a black barb sticking out of it in a position that I could only just reach with tweezers to pull it out. All I could find of the culprit that was still recognisable was a round, brown piece of it's body so I was hoping it wasn't anything rare and poisonous.
Seems to be subsiding now so it's probably OK (I hope).
I`ve had a fly manage to get in to my halmet when on my bike, that wasnt pleasent, but it was more preferable to a wasp being in there.
Once at rugby training I was wearing jogging bottoms and a wasp managed to get trapped in the fabric behind my knee when I was running, I ended up stinging myself in the back of the knee several times, I tried slowing down, but in the end I just chucked myself to the floor. My team mates were full of sympathy (for the wasp at least) bastards.
Once at rugby training I was wearing jogging bottoms and a wasp managed to get trapped in the fabric behind my knee when I was running, I ended up stinging myself in the back of the knee several times, I tried slowing down, but in the end I just chucked myself to the floor. My team mates were full of sympathy (for the wasp at least) bastards.
was up in wales for a few days last weekend. was riding around country roads on the old bonnie with my jacket half open for a breeze. flew into a cloud of flying ants & my jacket filled up with them, must have 20+bites now the buggers. then to top it off a few hours later a few birds (with feathers) appeared from a hedge & flew across infront of me while i was doing 40-50ish - last birdy cut it too close & almost as soon as i saw it it smacked me on the chin with a sickening crunchy squeakly thump - oh the joys of openface lids. thankfully it didnt burst.
seems a week for bikers against nature?
seems a week for bikers against nature?
My dad has been quite unlucky with bees and wasps. A wasp once stung him right beneath his eye while he was riding along and decided to get stuck to its sting so was buzzing about just below his eye. He pulled over and got rid of the bee and the sting and tried to get home before his eye swelled up. He also had a bee hit him in the eye, it didn't sting but it did leave alot of pollen there and then he got stung in the balls doing about 85ish. I have only ever been stung once in my life lol.
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