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« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2016, 01:32:17 PM » |
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I thought those fellas had to ride H-Ds [ or American ].
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« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2016, 02:22:38 PM » |
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I've been told the "nomad" element can ride what ever they want
for what its worth
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« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2016, 02:33:11 PM » |
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I enjoyed how 'matter of fact' the narrator was!
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« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2016, 04:46:46 PM » |
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I thought those fellas had to ride H-Ds [ or American ].
1973 and England. An H-D would have been rarer than hens teeth. |
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« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2016, 06:04:29 PM » |
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It's funny, the most shocking thing to me was seeing folks riding in the UK without helmets...
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« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2016, 06:36:42 PM » |
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It's funny, the most shocking thing to me was seeing folks riding in the UK without helmets...
The good old days. I used to as a teenager until I got whacked in the forehead with a big bug at about 50 mph. Never again. |
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« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2016, 07:07:44 AM » |
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It's funny, the most shocking thing to me was seeing folks riding in the UK without helmets...
The good old days. I used to as a teenager until I got whacked in the forehead with a big bug at about 50 mph. Never again. how big was the bug Britman ? the dragonfly that hit my face was about 5 inches up by Mt Rainier 2012  I never included insects in my road kills, maybe for him I could make an exception dan |
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« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2016, 07:37:37 AM » |
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Interesting for sure. Thanks for posting that.
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« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2016, 08:30:28 AM » |
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It's funny, the most shocking thing to me was seeing folks riding in the UK without helmets...
The good old days. I used to as a teenager until I got whacked in the forehead with a big bug at about 50 mph. Never again. how big was the bug Britman ? the dragonfly that hit my face was about 5 inches up by Mt Rainier 2012 I never included insects in my road kills, maybe for him I could make an exception dan Big enough to leave a large bump in the center of my forehead. |
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« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2016, 01:07:13 PM » |
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Big enough to leave a large bump in the center of my forehead.
Not so, Paul. There's not much weight behind that one. The ones that provide significant impact are based upon weight and the rigidity of the exoskeleton. In this country cicadas, june bugs, and roaches may be notable. None of them are capable of inflicting really serious pain and the collision hurts the insect a great deal more than it hurts the motorcyclist. |
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« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2016, 02:12:24 PM » |
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Big enough to leave a large bump in the center of my forehead.
Not so, Paul. There's not much weight behind that one. The ones that provide significant impact are based upon weight and the rigidity of the exoskeleton. In this country cicadas, june bugs, and roaches may be notable. None of them are capable of inflicting really serious pain and the collision hurts the insect a great deal more than it hurts the motorcyclist. UNLESS It's extremely juicy and runs in yer eyes!  A B-29 moth got me a lot of years back and the crud that came out of that moth lit my eye on fire-felt like-and swelled my eye shut fer a couple days.  NOT a fun time. RIDE SAFE. |
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« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2016, 02:17:44 PM » |
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for what its worth ive had stinging insects INSIDE my glasses at least 1/2 dozen times
never got stung was able to clear them out on the run
had a grasshopper trying to jump out off of my eyelid trying to take my glasses with him
oh the pleasures of the road
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« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2016, 02:22:00 PM » |
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Big enough to leave a large bump in the center of my forehead.
Not so, Paul. There's not much weight behind that one. The ones that provide significant impact are based upon weight and the rigidity of the exoskeleton. In this country cicadas, june bugs, and roaches may be notable. None of them are capable of inflicting really serious pain and the collision hurts the insect a great deal more than it hurts the motorcyclist. Mine was a large bee or yellow jacket. |
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« Reply #14 on: February 18, 2016, 02:30:43 PM » |
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I had a bumblebee lodge in the bridge of my glasses once with a helmet on (me not the bee). I was doing about 35 on a country road coming up to an intersection, nice summer day so I had the visor up. It came in at an angle, missed the windshield and the visor and got wedged between me and my glasses right between the eyes. He apparently was as unhappy being there as I was that he was there because he stung the crap out of me. Took what seemed like hours to get 100 feet up the road to a place to pull over and as soon as I pulled my glasses off he flew away. I rode home without the helmet because I was afraid my head would swell up and I wouldn't be able to get it off (the helmet not my head) by then.
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« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2016, 02:47:14 PM » |
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When I was young, a non-commissioned officer of the USMC, and pretty well invincible I was riding the backroads of Maryland wearing a pair of cutoff blue jeans. I saw an insect in the path ahead of me apparently traveling the same direction as I but at a much slower pace. Seeing one in that situation gives one the optical impression that the bug is hanging in the air swaying to and fro in the breeze. It was a yellow jacket, obviously a female. She contacted my body midway up the left thigh where my leg had formed a vee, a wind funnel, with the tank of the Honda 305. Contact was apparently made by the rear of the stinger which embedded itself well below the skin of my leg. I looked down and slapped away the majority of the beast's carcass.
It hurt. The impact of the animal wasn't all that bad, but the sting was excruciating. I dug out the end of the stinger later that night with a pocket knife.
I'd like to tell you I never rode in cutoffs again but I can't. I'd like to tell you I learned a deep lesson that day but I didn't. I will tell you I suffered no grief over the termination of the life of that flying being that suffered the unwarranted fate of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I've been hit by bugs that got my attention. I was hit in the forehead by a small bird that almost took away my consciousness. I still ride without a shield and I prefer to always expose my face when I ride.
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« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2016, 02:50:09 PM » |
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"Honda 305"
was that a Honda 305 superhawk willow ?
my dad had one back in the day....before me
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« Reply #17 on: February 18, 2016, 02:56:16 PM » |
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"Honda 305"
was that a Honda 305 superhawk willow ?
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It was indeed. Honda marketed it as the Honda 300 Superhawk be we seldom, if ever, chose to be cheated out of recognizing those last five cc's. My first born is approaching forty-three these days. |
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« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2016, 04:46:13 PM » |
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Murphys law, I had a bug hit me between the eyebrows above my sun glasses below the helmet edge with a full size hondaline windshield. Go figure that one.
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« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2016, 07:24:48 PM » |
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Related to the severe stinging of the eyes, when I was much younger, I once made the mistake of putting sunscreen on my forehead during a hot sweaty day. NEVER again.
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