Motorbike experience

Roddy23

Just wondering was anybody travelling past the garda station just before Terenure on the road from Walkinstown, on Tuesday at 11.15am?
The reason I ask is because I was headin into work on my motor bike, when I saw from about 100/150 yards away what looked like a swarm of midgets on the road. It was only when I came right up to the "midgets" that I realised what it was.
Just in front of me was a 40ft Truck, which had ploughed through the swarm.
unfortunatley for me it was not a swarm of midgets but a swarm of bees, whose hive had been knocked from a tree above. I had my visor down, but they were fiarly p1ssed off bee's as a truck had just knocked the crap outta them. Because it was fairly busy traffic, I was unable to get off the bike until after the lights in Terenure village, and then i started dancing like a lunatic trying to get them off me. If anybody saw me, they'll now understand what i was up to.
It was a good thing I has my visor down, as If I had left it up, I dont know if I would be still walking today, as I was doing about 30mph when I hit them.
Does anybody else know what happened, or did anybody else have any experience witht them when they were travelling in their car/ bike that day??



Sorry if its in the wrong forum, wasn't sure where to put it

Alun

I assume you meant midges (small buzzy flying things) and not midgets (vertically challenged people)

Roddy23

Thats a roger- midge

Rippy

you were lucky! I had a wasp get into my helmet once at 100 mph+ on the motorway. Basta*d seemed panicked as he flitted around my face.emergency stop on the hard shoulder, yanked my helmet off , and as I did the fecker stung me on the lip . I had my visor down too, so he must have got in the bottom.

DubTony

Rippy wrote:

you were lucky! I had a wasp get into my helmet once at 100 mph+ on the motorway. Basta*d seemed panicked as he flitted around my face.emergency stop on the hard shoulder, yanked my helmet off , and as I did the fecker stung me on the lip . I had my visor down too, so he must have got in the bottom.

I'm not surprised he seemed panicked. There he was, flying around minding his own business and suddenly he's trapped inside this windowed cage and tearing along at 100 mph. Either that or you're really ugly and you scared the crap out of him

seamus

Crazy.

Lucky you kept your head. There are plenty of people who might have lost it and crashed into oncoming traffic or something.

De Hipster

seamus wrote:

Crazy.

Lucky you kept your head. There are plenty of people who might have lost it and crashed into oncoming traffic or something.

...while breaking the speed limit on a 'two-way' stretch of motorway!

saobh_ie

Of course it was closed at the time... in fact it hadn't even opened yet... and Zippy is a specialist civil engineer who tests road surfaces for undulations and the likes...

Wasps/bees in the lid sound pretty terrifying. They're not something that would usually worry me but having them trapped in proximity to ones face while they're pissed couldn't be good.

I have/had a Schubert lid which I always ride with the visor fully closed, even in the rain (its just that good), but its only flaw is in high speed cross country trips when you wipe out fifty flies per mile (at fifty miles per hour, for five hours) the odd one manages to get eaten by the vents on the top and spat down in a messy pulp down your face. Erugh!

peasant

I can offer experience of colliding with a bumblebee at approx 100km/h.

I saw it coming, went straight for my left eye. Thankfully the visor was down.
Produced an almighty bang, a big splat and a small crack in the visor.

Puh ...did I get a fright ...

Riding a chopper, insects have another way of entry. With your arms stretched, jacket sleaves are inviting them in and wind pushes them right up.

Ever since I had an uninvited wasp sting me under my arm, I make sure to wear gloves that go OVER the jacket.

CJhaughey

You are lucky I heard of a guy who lost his eye riding along visor up and a bumblebee hit his eye.
Pop. No more left eye.
Always wear some kind of protection on a bike good quality safety glasses will do the trick.
It is the same as using a grinder or powertool without glasses..stupid, just think if a stone came off a car tyre or something?

spockety

Once had a small bird fly into my neck at about 90mph in France, had to pull over to catch my breath

fletch

lol...i wish i hada seen this .....sounds classic!

The Termignator

Try headbutting a crow at >120mph. Nearly took the head o' me. Messy too. :mad:

echomadman

haha, driving motorbikes in thailand i got so many bruises from crashing into giant beetles, it's like getting punched in the chest when one hits you and all you have on is a light longsleeved top.
Driving home at dusk is always fun too, i think harley riders must be some species of whale, straining nourishment out of the air with their teeth as they putter around in open face lids.

KingEric

Had the same experience as Rippy. Had the visor down but wasp still somehow managed to get into the helmet. the little b*****d stung me in the neck!

causal

M U R D E R E R S

- won't someone please think of the insects

I've had the large bumble-bee off the visor on the motorway experience - BOINK - mind you the last thing the bee ever saw was me going :eek:

I also a stone flicked up by a truck - that impact knocked my head back slightly and only scraped the visor - luckily it was 'only' a glancing impact and not head-on.

causal