What Was Your Worst Bug Day?

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here is mine......around the year 2000.   350- 400 mile ride from Houston to Palestine, Tx area and back.


     

[Jess from VA]

Holy crap!    

I've never had a day close to that.  I have had some messes, and I'm not a clean freak, but I'll pull off and clean it up some so I can see.

My worst bug day was cruising through a yellow jacket migration heading over to the Morgantown Inzane.

Never saw it coming, and 70mph and Interstate protection (and short stature) resulted in many dead, but not one sting, and not one in my clothes.  I still pulled off right away, and danced around like an idiot for a while to make sure I didn't have any sleepers on me.   Ran into Shortleg Dave at the turnout.  

Then, there was the one bee that blew right in my half helmet, and when I started trying to poke him out of the helmet, he crawled right into my ear canal to escape.  Emergency pull off, more dancing, and no sting.  A bee with fuzzy legs crawling into your ear canal buzzing his ass off is creepy as hell.

I have been stung, but not those two times.

The worst mess I ever had was going under an overpass being sprayed with asphalt tar, and getting covered with that crap.

[f-Stop]

One time heading to the Gathering of the Fools, me and a buddy took a southern scenic route and came up through Angleton right at about dusk.  We ended up riding through some swarms of big black bugs which completely covered our windshields.  We had to pull over and clean up just to be able to see.  It was kinda crazy!

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Holy crap!    

I've never had a day close to that.  I have had some messes, and I'm not a clean freak, but I'll pull off and clean it up some so I can see.

My worst bug day was cruising through a yellow jacket migration heading over to the Morgantown Inzane.

Never saw it coming, and 70mph and Interstate protection (and short stature) resulted in many dead, but not one sting, and not one in my clothes.  I still pulled off right away, and danced around like an idiot for a while to make sure I didn't have any sleepers on me.   Ran into Shortleg Dave at the turnout.  

Then, there was the one bee that blew right in my half helmet, and when I started trying to poke him out of the helmet, he crawled right into my ear canal to escape.  Emergency pull off, more dancing, and no sting.  A bee with fuzzy legs crawling into your ear canal buzzing his ass off is creepy as hell.

I have been stung, but not those two times.

The worst mess I ever had was going under an overpass being sprayed with asphalt tar, and getting covered with that crap.

Manoman....tar.....bet that did make a mess.

[cagrote]

In the late 80's I rode through a swarm of grasshoppers near Tulsa, OK.  Headed south to TX.  When I took my shirt off, it looked like I had lost a paintball war.

[RainMaker]

From near Spearfish, ND to Hot Springs, Arkansas June 6 - June 7, 2015.  Trying to join the family at my father-in-law's bedside before he passed. 

[Mopaw]

Riding home from high school a couple years ago, no windshield, I caught a june bug in the middle of my forehead. nearly knocked me off my bike!

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Riding home from high school a couple years ago, no windshield, I caught a june bug in the middle of my forehead. nearly knocked me off my bike!

Bombers they be.

[Rocketman]

I don't have a picture, but near Nachitoches, LA, there was a swarm of lovebugs.  I was sitting fueling up, and a cop car pulled in with love bugs coated on his windshield about a half inch thick.  I probably should have rerouted, but I went the way he came from, and found them.  Didn't last more than a mile or so, but they were BAD.