Topic: What's the most painful thing to hit you while riding?

[Retro Rocket]

I hit a duck once, looked like i had just rode through a pillow store...

[dave500]

you shouldve ducked.

[trueblue]

A wasp in your chin strap always wakes you up, especially when you are halfway through a corner which you are almost dragging metal on, it makes you prioritise real quick, sore neck or taste bitumen and wreck a fresh paint job and what ever else gets taken out, needless to say I had a sore neck.  The other good one I had was a rhino beetle in the left shoulder at about 120kph, felt like a rock hit me even through leather, they make your june bugs look like tiddlers.

[Retro Rocket]

you shouldve ducked.

So sh1tting myself was the wrong course of action....

[TrueSpin]

Aside from the various insects to the chest and arms during normal rides, the worst for me was getting stuck behind a gravel truck on a freeway. Felt like needles stabbing me repeatedly in any exposed skin. I ended up having to cover my neck with my left hand to stop the constant onslaught of gravel. I ended up cutting into the traffic on the left... apparently a frantically waving motorcyclist tends to get people's attention.

[the technological J]

you could have just slowed down!

[70CB750]

you shouldve ducked.

So sh1tting myself was the wrong course of action....

ROFLMAO!

[Duke McDukiedook]

Reality, and it does bite. 

[dave500]

A wasp in your chin strap always wakes you up, especially when you are halfway through a corner which you are almost dragging metal on, it makes you prioritise real quick, sore neck or taste bitumen and wreck a fresh paint job and what ever else gets taken out, needless to say I had a sore neck.  The other good one I had was a rhino beetle in the left shoulder at about 120kph, felt like a rock hit me even through leather, they make your june bugs look like tiddlers.

those rhino beetles are dangerous!if they get down your collar they inject their eggs through that horn into your neck then they hatch out of your ears.

[myhondas]

A wasp in your chin strap always wakes you up, especially when you are halfway through a corner which you are almost dragging metal on, it makes you prioritise real quick, sore neck or taste bitumen and wreck a fresh paint job and what ever else gets taken out, needless to say I had a sore neck.  The other good one I had was a rhino beetle in the left shoulder at about 120kph, felt like a rock hit me even through leather, they make your june bugs look like tiddlers.

those rhino beetles are dangerous!if they get down your collar they inject their eggs through that horn into your neck then they hatch out of your ears.

but that's only after they have feasted on your brains and turned you cranium into mush

[nccb]

Junebug on my neck at 80mph.  These suckers are hard as a rock.

I had my face mask up the other day enjoying the weather and one of those things nailed me in the eye.  literally felt like being punched.  and those things are so hearty it probably knocked itself out then got back up.

[ChuckG750f1]

A wasp in your chin strap always wakes you up, especially when you are halfway through a corner which you are almost dragging metal on, it makes you prioritise real quick, sore neck or taste bitumen and wreck a fresh paint job and what ever else gets taken out, needless to say I had a sore neck.  The other good one I had was a rhino beetle in the left shoulder at about 120kph, felt like a rock hit me even through leather, they make your june bugs look like tiddlers.

They should be called Biker Bugs...'Cause they sure are horny little suckers

[srbakker]

A bird (sparrow) hit me in the chest about 70mph, I thought it was a brick.

This.

I had one try to impale my face.  Didnt scratch the shield, but I'm sure glad I was wearing a shield.

[Retro Rocket]

you could have just slowed down!

TJ, if that comment was meant for me, i was approaching a car that i was going to overtake when the driver slammed on the brakes, i went around him only to quickly discover why he had skidded to a stop, to avoid the duck that i subsequently turned into a feather cloud, worst part was cleaning all the "cooked" duck from my engine. {and washing my underwear}   

[CrankyOldGuy]

A wasp in your chin strap always wakes you up, especially when you are halfway through a corner which you are almost dragging metal on, it makes you prioritise real quick, sore neck or taste bitumen and wreck a fresh paint job and what ever else gets taken out, needless to say I had a sore neck.  The other good one I had was a rhino beetle in the left shoulder at about 120kph, felt like a rock hit me even through leather, they make your june bugs look like tiddlers.

Geez ... now I know why I live in the cold north. 

But then again we have the ultimate hazard ... the moose ... eyes don't reflect in your headlights , the legs are grey-white to match the pavement, and the upper body is black to match the night sky.  Usually have a casualty (i.e. death) or two each year here on mc's.

Harry O.

[CrankyOldGuy]

Sorry about the double post.  Below is a link to a video where motorcyclist, wearing a helmet camera, hits a deer at 85 mph.  Around the 30 second point in the video ... upper right corner.  May be fake ... but shows you how fast things can happen.  I hit a deer one night with a van ... first thing I saw was the deer looking at me through the front window!!

Harry O.

Motorcycle Hits Deer @ 85 mph | Helmet Cam

[HondaMan]

Hurrying home one evening, just after dark, and a kid in a car full of drunks, coming toward me in the other lane, leaned out the driver's side rear window and KO'ed me (on purpose) with his empty quart beer bottle. I have to say that was a good shot, missing the Vetter and getting me...if it hadn't hurt so bad, I would have done a Police turn and chased them down, then pulled him out of that same window before stuffing him back in, headfirst, with something broken. I had to pull over, couldn't even sit up. 

[TrueSpin]

you could have just slowed down!

TJ, if that comment was meant for me, i was approaching a car that i was going to overtake when the driver slammed on the brakes, i went around him only to quickly discover why he had skidded to a stop, to avoid the duck that i subsequently turned into a feather cloud, worst part was cleaning all the "cooked" duck from my engine. {and washing my underwear}   

I assume he meant me RR. But I tell ya, I'm not doing anything to make myself remotely inconvenient for another motorist... One step outside what they expect, and kabam, you're a hood ornament. I don't take any chances I don't have to.

[70CB750]

A wasp in your chin strap always wakes you up, especially when you are halfway through a corner which you are almost dragging metal on, it makes you prioritise real quick, sore neck or taste bitumen and wreck a fresh paint job and what ever else gets taken out, needless to say I had a sore neck.  The other good one I had was a rhino beetle in the left shoulder at about 120kph, felt like a rock hit me even through leather, they make your june bugs look like tiddlers.

those rhino beetles are dangerous!if they get down your collar they inject their eggs through that horn into your neck then they hatch out of your ears.

I am safe than - no brains, no danger.

but that's only after they have feasted on your brains and turned you cranium into mush

[dave500]

if you ride over one of those youll get a puncture,,we use dead ones as metal scribers,you can cut glass with that horn.

[ChuckG750f1]

if you ride over one of those youll get a puncture,,we use dead ones as metal scribers,you can cut glass with that horn.

Are they Marsupial too?

[dave500]

no but if you hold one upside down they work as a bottle opener.

[ChuckG750f1]

Looks like you could field dress a kangaroo with it while you drink the beer you opened.

[dave500]

they should include a dried one with every swiss army knife!

[ChuckG750f1]

they should include a dried one with every swiss army knife!

I like the way you think!