Attacked!

[dieselengine9]

Listen, I know that Spyders are different to some and are scary because they are different, but this is the second time I have been attacked on mine. Don't get me wrong, I'm a pretty good sized fellow and I have been in a scrap or two and come out on both the losing and the winning end but while I'm riding it is just purely ridiculous. It was touch and go for a minute but once I got stopped (on a hill and naturally due to the pain I couldn't get the parking brake set the first time) the tide turned in my favor. I got a picture of this jerk after I was finished with him. You tell me. I don' think he'll be messing with a Spyder Ryder again anytime soon.
















To his credit, he did eat me alive until I got my shirt off. Long sleeves with button cuffs, HOW DID HE FLY UP MY SLEEVE? This wasn't a loose cuff lol Once I got out of my shirt and shook it I saw this jerk trying to fly away. Well by that time I had high blood so I chased him all around the road and into the ditch and back onto the road. Finally knocked him down with my shirt and finished him off with a size 13 to the head. I can only imagine what a passerby might have thought to see a Spyder parked, running, and it's Ryder still in helmet running around swinging his shirt wildly in the air (all while yelling into the com system much to my wife's dismay, she did say that I cussed this creature more than I have anything else ever.)

The first time I encountered a stinging flying death monsters was on my 3rd time out on the Spyder and got a yellow jacket between my collar and my neck. THAT swelling went down after about 3 days. Today my arm has a constant dull ache but I'll live. Anyways, be careful out there.

[crazycanuck]

cool story

[vondalyn]

I had a cousin of his fly into my shirt and proceed to sting the heck out of me while I was yelling OW OW OW OW OW OW! into my bluetooth communication (my poor husband couldn't escape the shouts) until I could find a safe spot to pull over and remove my shirt (at that point I didn't care WHO saw what!). I think we counted 9 different stings all across my chest and shoulder.

I'm now an advocate of a bandana that hangs down to block access to shirt collars!

at least you got the fella who attacked you... I think my guy got away

[SPYD3R]

on my very 1st SPYD3R ride, i had a YELLOW JACKET fly into the right sleeve of my T-shirt... as you may know, YELLOW JACKETS can sting multiple times.... which he/she did... he/she got me 5 times before i could come to a STOP and beat the crap out'a him/her and myself.... 5 HUGE lumps in my arm-pit and upper chest area... NOT FUN may i add.... I have since acquired 1 additional sting since then... however, this price i'm willing to pay to keep riding my SPYD3R....
Dan P
SPYD3R

[ARtraveler]

Brings back the memories from the 70's when driving my Hondamatic down Ohio country roads. Beautiful, warm summer day. I had auto tranny and was somewhat invincible. No windshield. Wind in my face, jacket wide open to enjoy the summer breezes. I drove through a swarm of bees. Half of them ended up inside my t-shirt. I killed them by beating on them, but a lot of them got me first. Glad I am not allergic to bees. That would have been the end.

Lesson learned, no more open entries for critters to get in and do their thing.

[Bob Denman]

I'm glad to hear that you made it home alive...

[rustynail51]

More than once I have met with one of these angry fellows while riding but the most memorable was in my earlier days of riding before before I had a windshield partially open denim jacket light t shirt and large swarm crossing the road how I kept up right was a mystery to me but i got clear or the swarm and got my top half uncovered i don't know how many time i was stung because i couldn't count the welts on my back but i had at least seven on my chest and belly and many more on my back thankfully i had a face shield on my helmet or probably would have lost it.

[rmag]

Nasty little buggers! They sneak up on ya when you're enjoying the day.

[cptjam]

Glad you terminated it!
ATGATT - more die on my jacket than get in!

[Soldier]

Pretty good story dieselengine9! Been riding 2 wheels all of my adult life and experienced similar more than once. Worst was one of them sumb****es smacking my forehead above my eye at highway speed then falling down between my no foam around the edge riding glasses and my eye. Trying to haul it down with one eye closed tight as a drum hoping he didn't sting my eye. Luckily he died on impact with my forehead.

[Geep]

Not sure if a wasp or a spyder but....first ride of the season 5 or 6 years ago, get bike (back in those days) started up, put on jacket had been hanging up in garage all winter and went for 100 mile ride. On the way home i felt something up my left sleeve, gave it a swat or two and continued home. That night i had a painful swelling and redness where I got bite....continued to get worse to finally went to the doctor. It was starting to necrosis (rot) in the area of the bite. Quack doctor said it was nothing to worry about...I went home and cleaned up the dime size puss, eaten away area and applied Polysporn with a bandage. Eventually healed up and left a depression in my arm for about 2 years...to this day i have no freckles at this spot and looks white. We had wolf spyder in our garage which can bite if cornered....Rule of thumb always give your riding clothes a good shake before you put them on if hanging up in a garage or out door storage area

[Revalden]

Not sure if a wasp or a spyder but....first ride of the season 5 or 6 years ago, get bike (back in those days) started up, put on jacket had been hanging up in garage all winter and went for 100 mile ride. On the way home i felt something up my left sleeve, gave it a swat or two and continued home. That night i had a painful swelling and redness where I got bite....continued to get worse to finally went to the doctor. It was starting to necrosis (rot) in the area of the bite. Quack doctor said it was nothing to worry about...I went home and cleaned up the dime size puss, eaten away area and applied Polysporn with a bandage. Eventually healed up and left a depression in my arm for about 2 years...to this day i have no freckles at this spot and looks white. We had wolf spyder in our garage which can bite if cornered....Rule of thumb always give your riding clothes a good shake before you put them on if hanging up in a garage or out door storage area

I'll be getting a garment bag for my riding gear, for sure, now! And a Sting Relief Stick! Back in the olden days, I got a bee in my helmet and it stung me in the left temple. Glad it was only a honey bee, they only get to sting you once and they DIE.

[Peacekeeper6]

Reminds of the time I had the whole lake to myself on my Yamaha Waverunner.

I was all by my lonesome, hauling ass at close to 65 mph on the lake that was glass-smooth. I was in an aggressive, racing tuck position doing warp speed when a bee/wasp/stinging insect decides to jam itself between my bare back and PFD (Personal Flotation Device, or life vest). It got pissed and started stinging away. So here I am speeding across the lake, and I'm trying to kill this insect by hitting the back of my life vest with my hand, hoping to crush him somehow. Of course, that doesn't work. In fact, it pisses him off even more.

So what do I do ??

I bail out of my speeding waverunner. I skip across that lake not unlike a flat stone you would have thrown to see how many times you can get it to skip as a kid. Of course, he's still plunging his stinger into my back, so I just rip off my PFD. When he finally took mercy on me, I look around to see where my Yamaha is.

It was a good 50 yards away !!

Insect - 1, Me - 0.

[TicketBait]

So this spyderlover has a talent for telling a story and grabbing our attention.

However he hasn't been on in over a year and has not posted in two years

maybe someone should contact him and ask him to rejoin the group?

also in the photo is a blue chip! do you think that is from his blue spyder?

[LeftCoast]

I'll be adding some sting relief swabs to my first aid kit after reading this