Thread: Lesson 1021

Cheapscate, ya should have taken the car.


Al

Lucky for you it was only 1 insect.
Years ago travelling down the west Coast I drove through a swarm of bees. I saw them early enough and wound the window up.
Going the other way was a bloke on a motorbike who rode through the same swarm.

when my dad was a youngster he rode a motorbike. Tells the story of getting up early to go to work getting everything on starting up the bike, riding a little way down the road then putting the visor down to stop the wind. Greeted by a huntsman the size of his hand on the visor - on the INSIDE of the visor.

I'm tipping it was a pretty fast emergency braking procedure for that little doozy!!

When I was a kid, we had a locust plague in our area (North Eastern suburbs of Adelaide) in the middle of summer. I lived in a street that was on a slight hill and about 500 - 600 long, dead straight.

Me and my best mate had a competition to see how many bugs we could splatter somewhere on our body by riding as fast as we could down the street!

We couldn't stop laughing the whole time, so I reckon I ate about a dozen or so. But that was nothing compared to what mum did when I git home, covered in locust guts!

Ah! grasshopper!...

savage(Eric)

Originally Posted by DavidG

When riding a motorbike, do up the top button of shirt and zip up the jacket right up to the neck or you will get a stinging insect hit the exposed part of your neck and slide down inside your shirt, stinging you all the way down to near the navel.

SWMBO'll kill me if she finds out I told... but about 15 years ago she was riding pillion and copped the same thing. The first I knew about it was when she started whacking me around the shoulders and helmet.

I pulled over to ask what'd got her knickers in a twist but she was off before I stopped, stripping off her jacket, t-shirt and everything else above the waist. :eek:

She even got a few appreciative air-horns as truckies passed.

Try Nth Qld. hot weather, short sleeved shirt, zipping along doing lots of kph's and hornet up the sleeve which indicated it's displeasure by zapping one in the armpit, the arm stayed in that bike riding position for quite a while (but cauld still hold a pain killer or 6 or 10)
Arch

I found out I had acquired accumulative allergies to bees after a throat sting at speed, then there's riding at dusk, swarms of things (midges) covering the visor in seconds, the leathers can be a bugga to clean as well. Although insects I can tolerate, that stuff that used to come out of the back of tourist coaches was "interesting" and a couple of trucks with chemical signs displayed, leaking from the tank filler are also cause for concern, but I'm lucky almost got a wedge tail once it zigged & I zagged, but couple of my mates have worn ducks & roos and more than just their visors needed cleaning .