Ever get stung while riding?
Road Master
Joined: May 2007
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From: Milwaukee, WI
Years ago I was about midway across the Mackinaw bridge and was hit by something on the left side of my neck. Within a minute I was in pain and my neck was swelling up. My neck was so swollen you couldn't see my jaw line. It took a couple days for the swelling to go down.
Three or four years ago my wife and I were riding down a country road. It was a hot day and I was only wearing a tee shirt. A bee went up my right sleeve and the stinging started. By the time we stopped and my wife looked at my back I had been stung three times!
Three or four years ago my wife and I were riding down a country road. It was a hot day and I was only wearing a tee shirt. A bee went up my right sleeve and the stinging started. By the time we stopped and my wife looked at my back I had been stung three times!
Road Master
Joined: Jun 2008
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From: Texas
Had a Yellow Jacket latch on to the bottom of my right foreman on a curvy road at 70 mph.
Damn that took some concentration !
Didn't start getting bee stings until I started using Lemon Pledge.I swear that stuff attracts bees in the dead of winter.
Damn that took some concentration !
Didn't start getting bee stings until I started using Lemon Pledge.I swear that stuff attracts bees in the dead of winter.
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Joined: Mar 2005
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From: Southern Colorado
Yup, last summer....while riding down the highway something BIG hit my FF helmet. I didn't think much of it until I stopped in town about 5 minutes later. Felt a 'tickle' on the back of my thigh...squeezed it...and the sumbeotch stung the **** out of me. Bad thing was the bastard landed tween my legs and crawled down my chaps. Everyone on the street was laughing their butts off as I danced around trying to pull my chaps off and my pants down.
I was out for a Saturday ride one day to clear my head. Don't know how it happened, but all of a sudden I felt this searing pain in my abdomen, right between my belly-button and belt buckle. I grabbed at it, and it happened again! This time, I felt the little bugger under my hand so I squeezed real hard.
By the time I got pulled over and dumped my shirt out, I was really hurting. Turned out to be some kind of yellow-jacket wasp or something (he was kinda mushy by then) and looked to be about 2 inches long!
I had a welt for a week!
By the time I got pulled over and dumped my shirt out, I was really hurting. Turned out to be some kind of yellow-jacket wasp or something (he was kinda mushy by then) and looked to be about 2 inches long!
I had a welt for a week!
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Joined: Mar 2010
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From: South Lake Tahoe, Ca
First ride ever after I officially got my license. Well, not me, but my brother.
We filled up with gas and started talking about how if we ever get stung we will just have to wear it.
On the way home, bee flew up his jacket, got stuck in bellybutton and stung the crap out of him. He wore it like a champ though.
We filled up with gas and started talking about how if we ever get stung we will just have to wear it.
On the way home, bee flew up his jacket, got stuck in bellybutton and stung the crap out of him. He wore it like a champ though.