Hit while riding
Tourer
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From: South Dakota
Took a mourning dove to the chest about 20 yrs ago. This summer had a bee hit me in the neck *** first, that one hurt up to my ear. Once had to dodge an extension ladder that fell out of a pickup ahead of me, that was a shorts filler. I guess that is about it with the exception of the usual road debris that we all deal with.
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Other than the usual bugs and rocks, had some sort of big soft bug hit me in the glasses. Completley obliterated my right lens and I could feel the bug guts dripping down on my cheek. Was a busy road so took awhile to find a place to turn off. Guts were all sorts of colors and had a clump of hair sticking out of the middle - still can't figure out what that was.
On that same road, had a bee fly up my sleeve and sting me in the armpit.
On that same road, had a bee fly up my sleeve and sting me in the armpit.
Road Captain
Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Pine, Colorado
Did the deer total your bike? How did you fair?..........a friend of mine hit an elk just a few minutes from my house....killed the elk, totalled his bike and put him in the hospital.........I always keep a sharp eye, especially at dusk and dawn.
Cruiser
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From: West End,NC
Riding through Montana one year and hit a June Bug doing about 80. Felt like a 3 pounder, cause it snapped my head back so hard. When I pulled over, I had bug guts all over the front of my helmet. It was really a size of a 50 cent piece, but it sure felt bigger.
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From: The Peach State
I've heard that bumble bees and beetles can be particularly bad on the smaller end of the spectrum. I'm not looking forward to getting bee stung while riding but am expecting that. I did have a sparrow kamikaze into my front wheel over the summer.
We had a lady here in Georgia killed a couple of months ago when a horse threw it's rider, ran up to the highway and ran into her on her bike. Very bad. Talk about your number being up. Her husband was riding in front of her and saw the tragedy unfold behind him. I guess the moral being that bugs, birds and even nasty tobacco juice aren't so bad or at least, it could be worse.
We had a lady here in Georgia killed a couple of months ago when a horse threw it's rider, ran up to the highway and ran into her on her bike. Very bad. Talk about your number being up. Her husband was riding in front of her and saw the tragedy unfold behind him. I guess the moral being that bugs, birds and even nasty tobacco juice aren't so bad or at least, it could be worse.
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From: Milwaukee, WI
Several years ago I was on the Sporty in Wyoming and got nailed by a bird in the left shin. It left a big bruise and hurt like I’d been hit with a baseball bat.
A couple years ago my wife and I were riding on a hot summer day near Milwaukee, WI. I had on a t-shirt and jeans. Somehow I scooped up a bee in the shirt sleeve. The thing ended up in the back of the shirt. I pulled the shirt out of my jeans and got ride of the thing. When we stopped at friends a few minutes later the wife looked at my back and I had 3 big red areas where I had been stung.
Riding across the Mackinaw Bridge 30 years ago I got hit in the neck with some kind of stinging insect. By the time I finished crossing the bridge the side of my neck was swollen so much you couldn’t see my jaw line.
When I left Loveland, CO it was in the 90’s. The higher I went on 34 the colder it got. I could see one black cloud in the sky. I thought for sure that I would never get close to being underneath it. Well, I heard few “tink, tinks” and then got hit on the lower lip with a damn hail stone. It split my lip!
I was riding with a buddy. We were in Michigan so we had helmets on. He wore a ¾ helmet with a face shield. All of a sudden he’s tearing at the strap to get the helmet off. As soon as the strap is undone the helmet goes flying through the air. When we stopped I asked, “What the hell, are you nuts?” He told me he had a bee in the helmet and it was stinging him!
A couple years ago my wife and I were riding on a hot summer day near Milwaukee, WI. I had on a t-shirt and jeans. Somehow I scooped up a bee in the shirt sleeve. The thing ended up in the back of the shirt. I pulled the shirt out of my jeans and got ride of the thing. When we stopped at friends a few minutes later the wife looked at my back and I had 3 big red areas where I had been stung.
Riding across the Mackinaw Bridge 30 years ago I got hit in the neck with some kind of stinging insect. By the time I finished crossing the bridge the side of my neck was swollen so much you couldn’t see my jaw line.
When I left Loveland, CO it was in the 90’s. The higher I went on 34 the colder it got. I could see one black cloud in the sky. I thought for sure that I would never get close to being underneath it. Well, I heard few “tink, tinks” and then got hit on the lower lip with a damn hail stone. It split my lip!
I was riding with a buddy. We were in Michigan so we had helmets on. He wore a ¾ helmet with a face shield. All of a sudden he’s tearing at the strap to get the helmet off. As soon as the strap is undone the helmet goes flying through the air. When we stopped I asked, “What the hell, are you nuts?” He told me he had a bee in the helmet and it was stinging him!
Last edited by GT_RoadGlide; Oct 28, 2008 at 12:48 PM.
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From: Lady's Island SC
I hit the deer going about 60. I tucked down and hit the throttle. When I woke up I was staring at the stars. The Fatboy slid 160+ feet down the road, total loss. At the time PA had a helmet law. All I had was some SERIOUS road rash. Ground down the toe of my right steel tip engineer boot. Nothing broken , just sore as heck for about a week. The deer was some thoroughly tenderized venison. The deer just jumped right in front of me, very little time to react.
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From: elsewhere
I've been hit a bunch of times by June bugs, those things hurt. Last fall, I almost got a turkey. He flew and I swerved all at the right time. Lucky. The nastiest was going down the Interstate and flew right into some bird crap. It totally covered the left lens of my glasses and there was a bunch on my face, too. Must have been a big bird.