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« on: July 08, 2009, 05:30:09 AM » |
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This guy came around the wind blast of the windscreen this morning and made more of a thud than a splat. Either way, he's dead. It's a big as they get in Kansas summer time four winger Dragonfly. I saw him fly up off of the cattail plants just to meet me. Good thing I had the shades on I guess, kinda juicy. Anyone else got any good splat pictures or stories? Raymond  |
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« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2009, 05:34:08 AM » |
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I hit a big indiana horse fly once. Saw him come at me right over the shield. Bam right under the nose on the upper lip. Splattered him. Smelled like grass for miles!
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« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2009, 05:37:35 AM » |
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I had something tasty for breakfast this morning on the ride in...that will teach me to stop singing to the music...cough cough...  |
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« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2009, 05:59:53 AM » |
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Hey Raymond... I'll second ya on the Dragonfly mess... Took a big juicy one off the left cheek, a few weeks ago, and about filled my left ear with the goo (half helmet)  Black Dog |
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« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2009, 06:12:06 AM » |
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I was wearing my half beanie with a visor and a big ol' bug richocheted off the top edge of the w/s and hit the front edge of the beanie visor. Big splat on the forehead and glasses. Amazes me to see idiots riding without a w/s and NO glasses. They'll prolly lose an eye!  |
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« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2009, 06:13:48 AM » |
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Does an owl count? His body stopped, but his head kept going.  |
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« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2009, 07:04:46 AM » |
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This happened in 08 coming back from Cheaha....
Highbinder,Valkhound,Bandit was a witness to this yucky mess...
It was about 10 pm ... A big ole Junebug !!!
I did wipe my glasses and face while still heading down the road...
I had a red mark for a few days......
Highbinder and I have many stories..
This is the only one we have a pix ......
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« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2009, 07:21:28 AM » |
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The owl picture wins! Anywho... before I got my shorter windshield, I could comfortably ride with my face shield up. A bee came around the windshield and into my helmet and behind my sunglasses... here's the bee marks on the inside of the glasses... glad I didn't get stung on the eyeball!   -Mike |
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« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2009, 07:23:01 AM » |
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I took a BIG dragonfly in the forehead when I was boating once. splattered all over my face.
Does that count?
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Black Pearl's Captain
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« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2009, 07:47:13 AM » |
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... A big ole Junebug !!!
I did wipe my glasses and face while still heading down the road...
I had a red mark for a few days.
HMMM, what is brown juicy and inside of a big ol Junebug??? Nice splat Tracy. Raymond |
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« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2009, 08:13:52 AM » |
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I feel your pain, Tracy!! Many years ago in Arizona, on a planet far, far away,(but I digress) I was having a, hmmmm, spirited ride in the summer desert when, helmetless, a junebug smacked me in the middle of my forehead about where my 3rd eye used to be. Think I saw my arsewhole for arf a mo!!  |
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« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2009, 08:41:01 AM » |
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Its been a while since I took a real hit. But back in my 20's (1982) I was riding the hills of Kentucky, helmet visor up. Suzuki GS1000G, hitting the twisties pretty hard. A relatively large bug, big enough that I saw him for the last 20 feet of his life, just over the wind shield, just under the visor. BAM!, right where my shades crossed the bridge of my nose. Bug guts in both eyes, blinded, middle of a fast sweeper, Scary black shut down. Ended up in the soft grassy shoulder but still upright! Thank the stars I had the road to myself and didn't pack it in. Took about ten minutes to recover (change of underwear, just kidding, but close) Scatches to left eye healed up a few days later. Hint: If you see a bug coming, avoid eye contact. |
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« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2009, 07:56:06 AM » |
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This one cut off its posterior parts on my visor while its anterior portion became embedded in the padding of the helmet. I saw it coming, but since it stuck outside my field of vision I didn't realize that it was still with me. Some fifty miles later when we stopped for fuel I took off my helmet and wondered why there was blood splattered all across the right side of the visor.
When I first saw it it was imprisoned by the helmet's padding and wriggling its legs frantically. I could almost hear its tiny voice crying out, "Help me! Help me! Somebody help me!"
After I freed it from the foam grip it walked around on the ground for a bit, made two failed attempts to get aloft, and, on the third try, sprang into the air and flew rather unsteadily off and out of sight.
I believe it was a very large deer fly.
It's not the biggest thing that has hit me, but it was one of the most interesting.
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« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2009, 09:29:06 AM » |
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I had a Pheasant, hit my Trike Radiator and almost went through it. It's head was embedded in the middle of it. Poured some pepper in the rad to stop the leak, left the head in and bungeed the carcass to the radiator to get home, was about 5 miles away on the 4 lane bypass slab. Won't say how fast I was going, except it was well over the limit.
Many moons ago, when I'd got my 1st assignment as a CHiP, we were riding the test track, at speed, under 100, but over 85, that was top out on a Harley, I got a big old juicy Bumble Bee in my mouth. Tried to spit him out, but he stung me, this is gross, he got chomped up and swallowed. Have worn a face shield of some kind pretty much if not behind a shield since then.
Dem b*stards taste awful.
3 days later on the same track, I got a hard shelled bug full blast on my front teeth and upper lip..... That taught me to keep my mouth shut while riding.
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« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2009, 11:46:18 AM » |
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No pictures but I have had 2 run ins with birds. First one was about 25 plus years ago. Riding to work and Lizzie driving behind me. I was on a 78 750, no windshield but a full face helmet. Saw the bird coming from the left as a pretty good clip. He went under my left arm and turned right into my chest. Blood and guts all over my jacket and visor. Continued on to work, Liz pulled in behind me. She walks
up and asked if I missed the bird. I turned around. She said it looked like I had been shot. She also asked why I hadn't stopped. Asked her what was the point, bird was dead.
Second bird story. I was riding with my RT buddies to Marsailles Illinois to work at the Illinois Freedom Run. Again, I see a bird comng from the left. He dropped down and hit the primary cover on the Harley.
Again, blood and guts all over the side of the bike. I keep the Honda spray cleaner in the bike, so wipped it down before heading home.
Also had a bee get in my helmet riding home from the midnight shift. Had the visor up and in he came.
He didn't sting me til I put my finger in to get him out.
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« Reply #15 on: July 10, 2009, 01:08:38 PM » |
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No pics, but in around '90, I made the Laughlin run out of SoCal to Laughlin NV. About 17K bikes (all spread out), mostly hogs but not dressers. Now every year at this time in early spring, a bazillion monarch butterflies are treking North. So you get the picture, thousands of mostly no-shield Hogs running at 80 across the Mojave Desert East, a bazillion butterflys running North. I am talking streaming, cooking bug guts. And the old school bearded tatooed hog riders with injured and dead butterflys in foot long beards. One of the funniest things I ever saw. I was riding my full dress FXRD, and was only yellow down the front of the bike, top of my helmet, elbows and lower legs. There's only one little burg with six gas pump at the half-way point everyone has to stop in, and a bunch of these guys were grumbling they'd have to get a shield next year.
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« Reply #16 on: July 10, 2009, 03:38:21 PM » |
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A couple of years ago we had thousands of cicadas flying around. They felt like rocks when they hit you. They would leave a pretty good bruise if one got you.  |
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« Reply #17 on: July 10, 2009, 04:23:33 PM » |
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A buddy of mine did the "Lawman 1000" last year. He got hit by a hummingbird right in his goggles....all that remained was the beak imbedded in the right lens. Yowzah. Grazed the side of his face - talk about lucky!
They stopped at the next bike shop and the guy said he'd give him a pair free if he could keep the beakey ones.
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« Reply #19 on: July 10, 2009, 09:42:21 PM » |
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I was on my Goldwing with a vent in the windshield, and while I always wear a full-face helmet, I usually leave the shield up, even in winter. Well, it was a warm day, the face-shield was up, and the vent in the windshield was open. I didn't even see the yellow-jacket come through the vent and get blown right up to my helmet. He got stuck between the cheek pad and my glasses, and he was not happy! Little bastard stung me in the same spot two or three times before I could pull over and get him out. I later rigged up some screen-door material over the windshield vent. It's stopped some pretty good size bugs since then.
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« Reply #20 on: July 11, 2009, 05:09:13 AM » |
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I was on my Goldwing with a vent in the windshield, and while I always wear a full-face helmet, I usually leave the shield up, even in winter. Well, it was a warm day, the face-shield was up, and the vent in the windshield was open. I didn't even see the yellow-jacket come through the vent and get blown right up to my helmet. He got stuck between the cheek pad and my glasses, and he was not happy! Little bastard stung me in the same spot two or three times before I could pull over and get him out. I later rigged up some screen-door material over the windshield vent. It's stopped some pretty good size bugs since then.
Basically, the vent pulled about the same thing on me, but it was a HOT piece of asphalt that has just been put down and a car in front of me flipped through the vent. The screen in the vent reminded me of this one. I still carry the scar on my lip from it, and that was like in 1988 or 89. |
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« Reply #21 on: July 11, 2009, 05:35:13 PM » |
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East Texas: Love Bug season a few years back.
They can swarm and sound like rain hitting the helmet.
Teach me to ride with my visor/mouth open.
Little buggers grabbed onto my uvula on the way down, and would not let go.
ack...gak...tthhuuupppttt, a little smoky but not too bad.
Took a good single malt to get the taste out of my mouth tho.
Had to wash my helmet in bug tar remover every night.
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« Reply #22 on: July 11, 2009, 08:17:26 PM » |
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It was about a month ago I had just washed my cycle, a bird crapped right in front of my windshield and made a disgusting mess. Thankfully I was only going about 30mph and I have a windshield!
On my old bike, without a windshield, I hid a June bug on my helmet, those things are loud!!
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« Reply #23 on: July 12, 2009, 06:56:47 AM » |
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Last year coming across The Foothills Parkway in Tennessee I hit some kind of wasp/bee/hornet that got me right under the eye by the time I made it to the other end of the Parkway my eye was swelled shut  Just this last wednesday coming back from The Cooler Run in north Georgia I hit the KING of june bugs it caught me right in the corner of the mouth . Until the day I die I'll never forget what a june bug tastes like |
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« Reply #24 on: July 12, 2009, 10:04:42 AM » |
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Whats the last thing that goes through a bugs head when it hits your windsheild?
Its ass.
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« Reply #25 on: July 12, 2009, 05:22:42 PM » |
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ate a very large grasshopper come'in off the hill to a mile long bridge over lake palestine one summer long ago (76-77)... taste like sh*t ...  same bridge a season or two later a bumble bee hit me under the right eye ... felt like a ballpeen hammer ... my right hand came loose ... sugar yells "what the *uck" ... here recently ... headed up to visit the dfw vrcc folks ...i got a big glop of buzzard poop on the right lens of my safety glasses... hummm ...what waz that ... its cool but i can't see out of my right eye ... damn burds ...  |
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« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2009, 07:48:03 PM » |
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About 20 years ago I was riding my Kawi 750 between Charleston and Beaufort SC a couple hours after sundown in the fall and had an encounter with a drowsy bird! There seems to be this particular bird species that like to sit in the middle of the road on the rural stretches to warm up. I'd seen a lot of them before, but usually they'd fly up off the road well before I got close. On this particular evening I was doing about 75 on a straight piece of road when I noticed a little red-brown speck close to the centerline. As I got closer I recognised it as one of the birds, still not moving. About 10 yards out he seemed to explode into flight, right toward me at about a foot off the road!! The thing didn't know what hit him; He hit the trailing side of my front spokes and it looked like I'd stuck him in a blender! I had bird parts all over me and the smell coming off of the engine was horrendous!! I was about 15 minutes from my brother's house in Beaufort and the horrified look on my sister in laws face when I pulled up and got off that smoking, stinking bike was priceless!
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