Author Topic: Things that fly at you!!!! (Read 1662 times)

Tews19 · « **on:** August 11, 2011, 03:27:08 PM »

I have been putting plenty of miles on my bike as of late and since the fairing is removed; for some god awful reason I am getting beamed with bugs left and right... I do not mean the little kid that you barely notice... Im talking about the kind that hit you and feel like a rock hitting you... The ones that hit your glasses and guts splatted over your cheek or forehead... So it got me thinking today while I was driving and all the items, animals and bugs that I have had the great pleasure of running into while driving.. SO far I have been hit with half a front bumper that hit the front of my KZ and I was lucky enough to drive over... Driving at night two weeks ago I had a raccoon run out in front of me but seemed more like at me.. No joke I stood up on the bike and lifted my left leg in the air.... Today I was driving and saw a hub cap wobbling and barely hanging on for its life on a tire.. I was like phewww; when I passed it... I couldn't imagine getting hit with a hub cap, may end up decapitated... What are the things you have been hit by when riding? Oh yeah, i almost forgot... I have learned never to be behind a dump truck... Talk about thousands of razors hitting your face and unable to pass for a 6 mile stretch... SIGH

DRam · « **Reply #1 on:** August 11, 2011, 07:56:43 PM »

A full-face helmet keeps bugs off your face. And pavement out of your head - usually.

rbmgf7 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 11, 2011, 08:14:50 PM »

Let's see...

A trashbag full of trash, a queen size mattress, a dump truck here as well but he lost his load on the highway (as in the back hatch opened), a bird, millions of bugs and rocks (to include a june bug hitting me dead square in the right eyeball. Now I always wear glasses when I have the visor up)...luckily none of it hit me (except the bird and june bug) to knock me off.

Tews19 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 11, 2011, 08:17:27 PM »

Quote from: DRam on August 11, 2011, 07:56:43 PM

A full-face helmet keeps bugs off your face. And pavement out of your head - usually.

Honestly when I think of these Honda bikes, helmets do not seem right... I had my fair share of accidents... Helmet I will pass on... Im not a speed demon and watch out for other idiots... If it happens it happens..

BeSeeingYou · « **Reply #4 on:** August 11, 2011, 11:00:18 PM »

Junebugs really hurt.

The most memorable things I ran over where a muffler and a coyote.

Nothing screams 1970's more than a gold metal flake helmet so you could always look for one of those.

333 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 12, 2011, 05:44:34 AM »

First, I ride with a full face helmet, but usually have the visor open and wear glasses. One year i had not one, but two bees! The south end of them heading north, if you get my drift. And one time, on a CB125, I hit a squirrel. It was either the "lack"of motorcycle, or maybe I just hit his tail(didn't feel like that), but I did turn around and couldn't find a corpse.

flybox1 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 12, 2011, 07:15:03 AM »

helmets is law here, and if your visors' up, glasses are required.
i've had really close calls with deer and peacock. occasional dog, cat, rabbit, timber tiger, wild ferret...
anything smaller than a cat and i speed up

dna_level_c7 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 12, 2011, 08:54:13 AM »

I guess I've been lucky!

I have only been hit with small rocks and a few bugs. I have a full face and a half helmet that I wear when it's hot out. Even then I have a pair of motorcycle glasses and a a bandana on. I HATE bugs!

Greggo · « **Reply #8 on:** August 12, 2011, 09:42:25 AM »

One time, a giant bumble bee (fuzzy, fat, black and yellow) got stuck between my leather jacket's collar, and my shirt collar. It stayed with me from the parking garage, to the lobby, up the elevator, and finally started getting pissed off when I got to my locker. It was like a cell phone alarm going off on vibrate on my collar bone. When I got it out, it dropped, stunned onto the ground for long enough for me to smash it.

BeSeeingYou · « **Reply #9 on:** August 12, 2011, 11:58:31 AM »

Classic clip of things you don't want flying at you.

http://youtu.be/Dt1ABv53D3U

pknopp · « **Reply #10 on:** August 12, 2011, 12:47:10 PM »

Luckily I've never hit an animal. It does seem that I've been drilled by more bugs this year than all the rest of the years I've rode combined.

I ride with an open face helmet but I always wear glasses that do a good job of covering my eyes. I can't ride without them. My eyes water too much otherwise.

dave500 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 12, 2011, 01:51:11 PM »

somehow i got a giant wasp walking around on the inside of my visor,i calmly slowed and stopped and watched it cross eyed for 5 seconds hoping it would find its way out then just ripped the helmet off with out getting stung.

dna_level_c7 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 12, 2011, 02:35:59 PM »

Dave500

You are a much better man than I am. I probably would have totally freaked out!

CrankyOldGuy · « **Reply #13 on:** August 12, 2011, 03:03:58 PM »

Low flyer .... German Shepherd. I am the lucky one ... still here to talk about it.

Harry O.

Retro Rocket · « **Reply #14 on:** August 12, 2011, 04:15:45 PM »

Hit a duck once, looked like i had had a pillow fight mid ride.....

dave500 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 12, 2011, 07:38:22 PM »

Quote from: Retro Rocket on August 12, 2011, 04:15:45 PM

Hit a duck once, looked like i had had a pillow fight mid ride.....

did anything get quacked?

Randy · « **Reply #16 on:** August 12, 2011, 09:40:24 PM »

I hit a rolled up area rug in the fast lane.....Just had to hang on lean back and gas it at the last second... the guy next to me eyes were like golf balls, and and a big thumbs up... Dumb ass didn't give me any room to dodge it..So I flipped him the one finger victory salute and shook my head..

dave500 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 13, 2011, 02:26:57 AM »

ive also ridden between two cars towing,the tower decided to go,the towee decided to stop and the rope snapped as i went between them with smoke of the rear wheel on my old vf750,also had a sheet of say 8x4 ply board fly of a semi going in the opposite direction and land flat on the road and i rode straight over it,three or four seconds either way there and who knows?

cb750f-2010656 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 14, 2011, 04:34:58 PM »

Most notable is a bumble bee. Bounced off of my chin to hit and sting my chest. I was going ~70.

Duke McDukiedook · « **Reply #19 on:** August 14, 2011, 04:58:38 PM »

Flying monkeys, hated 'em since the Wizard of Oz. Yech.

72 yellow · « **Reply #20 on:** August 14, 2011, 06:33:45 PM »

Many years ago my dad and I were riding up I-75 in Ohio and at about 80mph a dark cloud appeared in front of us. It was a swarm of insects of some kind. He had a windshield on his bike, I was wearing a open face helmet with a flat comp shield. I had my leather jacket on and I just had enough time to jam my shield down to my jacket. We hit that swarm and sounded like someone beating on a drum. The shield and my jacket looked like someone had shot small paintballs at me.

Don R · « **Reply #21 on:** August 14, 2011, 09:56:18 PM »

I had an old bubble shield and a bumble bee hit my chest and did a couple laps inside the shield before falling out. Hit a bee stinger first on the arm once. My first road ride I was following my brother, it was fall and the road was covered with grasshoppers, when he went past they would jump and I would collect them. I was too nervous to close the gap and get next to him.

cb750f-2010656 · « **Reply #22 on:** August 14, 2011, 11:50:18 PM »

I also cought a yellow jacket in an unbuttoned shirt once. Got me in the lower left side. Took rwo weeks for that spot to dissappear.

72 yellow · « **Reply #23 on:** August 15, 2011, 04:47:51 PM »

A non-living things flying at you. In my riding days before I got married, a friend and used to go out trolling. We spotted a couple of ladies in a car stopped at a light. We said hello, wanna go for a ride, etc. They ignored us, so as the light turned green, my buddy said they were ugly anyway. They heard him and at about 35mph they emptied the ashtray out the window. This was in the early 70's when you could put carton of ashes in the tray. We both got a faceful.

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Author Topic: Things that fly at you!!!! (Read 1662 times)