Hit while riding
Road Captain
Joined: Jun 2008
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From: Oahu, Hawaii
Besides the typical road dust and debris. A cigarette butt was flung out a car window, I ducked my head the butt hit my helmet and part of the cherry went under my glasses and burned my eyelid. 2005 Ford F250 side tow mirror, we were in traffic and he was a retard. A 2007 Red Toyota Tacoma, I was stopped and he rear ended me. Not the same retard as the Ford but I think they are related.
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Joined: Sep 2008
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Usual rocks, bugs and the occasional piece of lost tire tread.
Was driving thru the desert in Spring a few years ago after Calif had a particularly wet Winter. There was this unusual amount of yellow moths everywhere. Pretty heavy thru the desert as well.
I was in the truck with my son when we hit a wall of these things.
Splattered all over the windshield and front hood. A ton of them. They were swarmed like a giant yellow cloud.
We get thru the horde. Windshield washer and wipers working overtime.
I look over to the oncoming lanes and there's a pack of about 20 bikes heading straight for the moth cloud.
Never knew if they ran through it but if they did I'm sure there were many moths consumed and some pretty interesting stories to tell.
Primo
Was driving thru the desert in Spring a few years ago after Calif had a particularly wet Winter. There was this unusual amount of yellow moths everywhere. Pretty heavy thru the desert as well.
I was in the truck with my son when we hit a wall of these things.
Splattered all over the windshield and front hood. A ton of them. They were swarmed like a giant yellow cloud.
We get thru the horde. Windshield washer and wipers working overtime.
I look over to the oncoming lanes and there's a pack of about 20 bikes heading straight for the moth cloud.
Never knew if they ran through it but if they did I'm sure there were many moths consumed and some pretty interesting stories to tell.
Primo
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Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Arkansas
Been hit by many things over the years but I think the worst although not the most painful was when a Big Black Crow deposited it's lunch all over the left side of my face including in side my left ear.
worst close call I ever had was almost riding through a Tarantula migration crossing the road in bumf**k Nevada. Got stopped less than 20 feet from it. would not have wanted to go down in the middle of all those big spiders!
worst close call I ever had was almost riding through a Tarantula migration crossing the road in bumf**k Nevada. Got stopped less than 20 feet from it. would not have wanted to go down in the middle of all those big spiders!
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From: Joliet, Illinois
Back in my Honda days, I decided to wear a light jacket, rather than leather, for a while. I caught a bird in my arm at triple digit speed - as in. beak first, stuck into my arm (briefly). Went right through the coat and tore a pretty nasty hole in my arm. Lost of blood. The whole thing rather sucked. Switched back to always wearing leather when I ride.
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A couple bee stings. The last one I almost died and had to be rused to the hospital. This was on the way bck rom Sturgis in Lemmon, SD - which if you know where this is, its in the middle of no-where. Luckily I was able to pull someone over to get me help cause I was passing out right then, there is no way I ould have been able to call, I barely could remember my wifes name. That was scarey to say the least.
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From: The Desert SouthWest
"[quote=RoadKingRon1;4045448]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...."
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OK nice to know I'm not the only one! I hit a bee swarm about 2 years ago on my 1100 V-Star (no windshield) at about 70 mph. I saw the swarm just about a second before impact and ducked/tucked my chin in and grimaced as I went through it... Sounded like a Mega-Load of buckshot hitting me. Somehow no stings though!
Barely missed two coyotes and one racoon over the past few years.
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OK nice to know I'm not the only one! I hit a bee swarm about 2 years ago on my 1100 V-Star (no windshield) at about 70 mph. I saw the swarm just about a second before impact and ducked/tucked my chin in and grimaced as I went through it... Sounded like a Mega-Load of buckshot hitting me. Somehow no stings though!
Barely missed two coyotes and one racoon over the past few years.
Road Master
Joined: Sep 2007
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From: N/W Pennsylvania
Lets See what all did happen???
Lets see, Raccoon, a bird between my wifes eyes into her glasses...Kinda made the glasses look like them straws you used to get that had the twists in them,you know the curly cue ones...A cat went between my front wheel and the back one I was doing MPH. and it took off my guardian bell, went under the bike about 3 miles per but out the other side well over 100 MPH I think...Wife still asks me why I ducked when the bird hit her....Passing thought, also had a bee sting me on the temple and within 15 minutes my eye was swollen shut,think it was white faced hornet...June bug hit me in the helmet and my wife said it sounded like a gun going off...had a deer jump across from a high bank just cleared my bike and I could see its hoofs in front of my face scary shi###....I guess thats enough I have been riding for 50 years now sooooooo many things have happened out there!!!!!
Jer
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