Hit while riding
Road Captain
Joined: Apr 2006
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From: Tennessee
Besides the usual...Got hit by a june bug that drew blood and got infected. I've been stung by a bee that went under my sleeveless shirt and a hub cap that came off a car. That one hit my shin and I had to have 15 stiches.
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Joined: Oct 2008
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From: Bucks County, PA
I got hit by a deer while riding by bike (Not the Motorcycle). I was pedaling my road bike on a back road in New Jersey when a deer shot out of the woods and ran right into the back fo the bike. I managed to stay up. The deer shook it off and was off into the woods again.
Dave wiped a luggy off my jacket sleeve last Sunday. The sad part is we were just behind our group and there were no cars on the road. Eeewwww. I don't even want to know which one of our buddies hocked it. 
A couple of summers ago I was watching a hawk flying just above and to the front of us. All of a sudden Dave ducks his head and just about the same time I go "HUH?" a huge bug splats me in the middle of my forehead. He heard it hit me and started laughing! He got a slap in the back of his helmet for that one.
A couple of summers ago I was watching a hawk flying just above and to the front of us. All of a sudden Dave ducks his head and just about the same time I go "HUH?" a huge bug splats me in the middle of my forehead. He heard it hit me and started laughing! He got a slap in the back of his helmet for that one.
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Ohhhhh do I have a list fer you....
Sparrow in the chest at 60mph. Left me black and blue Nipple ta nipple and throat ta belly button..
Can't even count the number of Bee's, Hornets, Wasps and the areas they have stung me..
Ya-all Don't have ta deal with May Flies.. One trip along the River at night and yer head ta toe a squirming, gushy, mushy mess... Not fer the faint of heart even with a wimpshield, which ya wont be able ta see outa anyway..
Hadda Goose about broadside me.. I ducked, he skidded sideways across my back..
Got a cat bouncin between my front wheel and frame, till it left itself all over my engine and pant legs..
Got a plastic garbage bag hooked ta my left foot at 70mph.. Ummmm Found out ya can't lift up yer foot ta take it off, without it putten ya inna hi speed wobble....
Hadda huge gushy june bug hit the edge of my mirror at 60mph.. Looked like somebody took a smelly yellow paint brush and shook it at me...
Took a rock to the forehead on a backroad.. left a big ol welt..
Took another Big Ol gushy June bug right between the Glasses.. Had so much gush in both eyes, could barely see ta stop the bike..
This list could go on and on.. LOL
Best one was when My Road Captain hit a big ol snake that came loopin off his rear wheel and almost landed on Mama's lap, who was behind him on her RoadKing.. soon as she got stopped she was doin the "Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww" dance in the middle of the road..
Sparrow in the chest at 60mph. Left me black and blue Nipple ta nipple and throat ta belly button..
Can't even count the number of Bee's, Hornets, Wasps and the areas they have stung me..
Ya-all Don't have ta deal with May Flies.. One trip along the River at night and yer head ta toe a squirming, gushy, mushy mess... Not fer the faint of heart even with a wimpshield, which ya wont be able ta see outa anyway..
Hadda Goose about broadside me.. I ducked, he skidded sideways across my back..
Got a cat bouncin between my front wheel and frame, till it left itself all over my engine and pant legs..
Got a plastic garbage bag hooked ta my left foot at 70mph.. Ummmm Found out ya can't lift up yer foot ta take it off, without it putten ya inna hi speed wobble....
Hadda huge gushy june bug hit the edge of my mirror at 60mph.. Looked like somebody took a smelly yellow paint brush and shook it at me...
Took a rock to the forehead on a backroad.. left a big ol welt..
Took another Big Ol gushy June bug right between the Glasses.. Had so much gush in both eyes, could barely see ta stop the bike..
This list could go on and on.. LOL
Best one was when My Road Captain hit a big ol snake that came loopin off his rear wheel and almost landed on Mama's lap, who was behind him on her RoadKing.. soon as she got stopped she was doin the "Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww" dance in the middle of the road..
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Joined: Mar 2008
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From: Reno, Nevada
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: WIMBORNE,DORSET, GREATBRITAIN
i came round a bend yesterday am (4ish) i start at 2am,& ther was some cows in the road, i was in my truck not byk, i was brakin they were off on the hoof all i could see was this fat hairy butt( had to look twice to make sure i wasnt at home in bed) in front, the beast was lookin back un runnin i was hard on the brakes, when we made contact i was only a couple of mph fasterso i just pushed up on that butt n snowploughed it along. still pee mesel when i picture the cows face gettin pushed along! On a byk i hit a brick in the road on my chop i had midmounts on it n broke a toe its on ov those pains that brings tears to ur eyes
Road Warrior
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: Long Island, NY
got hit by an amarda of locusts once in Montana, it wouldn't stop, I even had one nail me so hard in the middle of the helmet that my head was ringing for a while. Looked cool though, looked like I had a bullet shot right in the front of the helmet.
Had a bee sting me in the neck after the effer got cut in half by my helmet strap
my mom, as passanger, got hit in the helmet by a bird after my dad, driver, ducked
Had a bee sting me in the neck after the effer got cut in half by my helmet strap
my mom, as passanger, got hit in the helmet by a bird after my dad, driver, ducked