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I hear you on flying things. Although we dont have any thing that big any insect can be potentially dangerous. I was riding with my visor up and I went face first into a yellow jacket. Ever get stung in the face by a bee, its like getting a bucket of acid thrown into your helmet, also, I dont know if you know this but in Vancouver it rains, a lot, try doing freeway speeds face first into a rain storm, try doing it every day and maybe you will understand why I prefer full face helmets, hey, riding every day up here aint no duck walk.
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I had a yellow-jacket get under my leather jacket and try to sting his way out. I honestly thought I'd been shot [I have been shot once but, Razor has me beat]. Trying to stop the bike, open my jacket to look for the wound, take cover, draw my gun, and locate the "shooter" all at the same time should have been caught on video it was probably VERY funny [to anyone watching, I was in "considerable discomfort" and somewhat concerned].
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Vagrant wrote:I had a yellow-jacket get under my leather jacket and try to sting his way out. I honestly thought I'd been shot [I have been shot once but, Razor has me beat]. Trying to stop the bike, open my jacket to look for the wound, take cover, draw my gun, and locate the "shooter" all at the same time should have been caught on video it was probably VERY funny [to anyone watching, I was in "considerable discomfort" and somewhat concerned].
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right now in TX we are about to go thru the worst of it w/ insects- Mayflies, luv bug, f#ckbugs (whatever ya wanna call em) arent really painful to hit but if you are going on a ride for more than 1/2 an hour its like having 100 people w/ paintguns shoot at you the whole time.
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Shoot first, ask questions later...
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I was going to wait for another shot before returning fire if anyone had been there [in case the first was an accident] but if someone was shooting at me I had a .45 on my hip. Fortunately there was nothing but woods all around me. [That's why I considered the possibilty of an accident, maybe someone had shot at something and missed].
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mr blackjack - this isn't anything to do with motorcycles - but i used to race downhill MTN bikes - and i also got stung in the temple during a downhill run up in whistler - screaming down a jagged mtn side is no time to be reaching into your fullfaceblackjack wrote:I hear you on flying things. Although we dont have any thing that big any insect can be potentially dangerous. I was riding with my visor up and I went face first into a yellow jacket. Ever get stung in the face by a bee, its like getting a bucket of acid thrown into your helmet, also, I dont know if you know this but in Vancouver it rains, a lot, try doing freeway speeds face first into a rain storm, try doing it every day and maybe you will understand why I prefer full face helmets, hey, riding every day up here aint no duck walk.
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i was riding on a state highway and went through a swarm of honey bee's, i didn't know what was going on it all happened so fast. i was getting stung and looked down my shirt and there was a bee in my belly button. i got the bike slowed down enough to jump off and pealed my shirt off. only got stung three times but got all swolen up! yes i got one under my helmat once too, got it off before i got stung that time.
thuggin -N- buggin, that's how i roll!