Hit while riding
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From: Charlotte Area
Chevy cavalier and then a Honda accord or well really, I hit it. The usual collection of bugs and a cigarette, thrown out the window of a car. Next stoplight I pulled up and proceeded to fill their ear up.
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Bubba
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Bubba
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A couple of years ago saw something swarming in front of me. Looked similar to a cloud. It was bees...caught a couple in the chest and one in the strap of my helmet by the ear. It kept stinging me until I was able to stop and get it dislodged. My wife used her finger nail to dig out the stinger which was still pulsing....
Had an owl bounce off my forehead. Hit a huge buzzard this summer on our way to little Sturgis. Numerous small critters, opossum, armadillo, squirrels...
After a tornado this spring a clean up truck hauling debris hit a bump and unloaded a piece of brick. I saw the first bounce then lost site of it until just before hitting me square in the chest. Wimpshield went back on after that.
Had an owl bounce off my forehead. Hit a huge buzzard this summer on our way to little Sturgis. Numerous small critters, opossum, armadillo, squirrels...
After a tornado this spring a clean up truck hauling debris hit a bump and unloaded a piece of brick. I saw the first bounce then lost site of it until just before hitting me square in the chest. Wimpshield went back on after that.
Road Master
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: Inverness, FL
Besides the usual stuff mentioned, I was traveling through a construction zone and the wind blew one end of the yellow caution tape off in front of me and it wrapped around my neck. It almost yanked me off the seat before it unwrapped itself.
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From: East TN
Well...let's see...
...junebug to the forehead
...yellowjacket tangled in my sleeve and nailed me
...sumthin wet from a hog hauler...don't EVEN wanna know what that was
...empty cement bag...sho glad it 'tweren't a FULL cement bag
...retired postal worker in a '69 Impala
Been ridin since '70, so I'm sure there's more...jez can't 'member 'em all right now.
...junebug to the forehead
...yellowjacket tangled in my sleeve and nailed me
...sumthin wet from a hog hauler...don't EVEN wanna know what that was
...empty cement bag...sho glad it 'tweren't a FULL cement bag
...retired postal worker in a '69 Impala
Been ridin since '70, so I'm sure there's more...jez can't 'member 'em all right now.
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From: Montana & Arkansas
Biggest... 1959 Chrysler Imperial, black of course
. My body being airborne was pretty cool, but stopping by hitting a telephone pole wasn't!
Smallest...(But still big)... rounding a highway curve, yawned, biggest damn bug flies into my mouth all the way into top of throat. Gagging, 60mph, both hands clawing inside mouth for the bug, swerving, can't breathe
, dug it out and somehow didn't crash... sheesh!!
. My body being airborne was pretty cool, but stopping by hitting a telephone pole wasn't!Smallest...(But still big)... rounding a highway curve, yawned, biggest damn bug flies into my mouth all the way into top of throat. Gagging, 60mph, both hands clawing inside mouth for the bug, swerving, can't breathe
, dug it out and somehow didn't crash... sheesh!!
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Tourer
Joined: Apr 2006
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From: Maryland
Several years ago when the cicadas were swarming around here, we were cruising down the highway and hubby had one hit him on the cheekbone and then the wind pushed the guts up under his glasses into his eye. He rode with his one eye shut until we could pull off the highway. Ewww