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Good idea to keep your mouth shut
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pitmon
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OUCH! Had a bee get caught inside my shirt and was crawling around in there. Didn't sting me but believe me there was plenty of opportunity as I quickly stopped and did a strip tease on the side of the road. Good thing I had on an under shirt! Hubby was following and didn't know what to think! Guess those folks got a show so I am glad I don't know any of them! Got Benadryl in the first aid kit now too! I love my full-faced helmet because I am always getting hit in the face shield by bugs, just imagine what the shorty helmet would be like...
DynamoBT
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Being stung obviously happens fairly often if so many of you had had this experience. 
My worry about wasps and bees is that I have an over the top phobic reaction to the very presence of a stinging insect near me or stuck in a car I'm driving. I have everything I can do to get the car pulled over when nothing has even happened yet. I am concerned that if I am stung I will absolutely freak out and possibly lose control of the vehicle I'm riding. Granted, at least with the Spyder, I'm not going to low side. But I worry about just steering properly. Oh well. Nothing I can do I guess. I just hope it doesn't happen.
Just reading this thread has given me the creeps. I'm clearly terrified of bees and wasps. It will not be good if I am stung riding.
My worry about wasps and bees is that I have an over the top phobic reaction to the very presence of a stinging insect near me or stuck in a car I'm driving. I have everything I can do to get the car pulled over when nothing has even happened yet. I am concerned that if I am stung I will absolutely freak out and possibly lose control of the vehicle I'm riding. Granted, at least with the Spyder, I'm not going to low side. But I worry about just steering properly. Oh well. Nothing I can do I guess. I just hope it doesn't happen.Just reading this thread has given me the creeps. I'm clearly terrified of bees and wasps. It will not be good if I am stung riding.
Smylinacha
Yellinacha
That's a bummer! Would ice help the swelling and maybe numb it? I hate bees, hornets, wasps, yellow jackets - you name it. I pretty much hate anything that flys except for butterflies. I hate geese, birds that cr@p all over you car, pigeons - like the one who cr@pped on Roaddog in NYC when we were there. Anything that flies - I don't like.
Also hate centipedes. They don't fly but they are too fast with too many legs.
I know the feeling of feeling on fire - that's what my foot felt like when I stepped on one a few summers ago. Also got stung by yellow jackets when I was on a ladder once - that wasn't fun either.
Also hate centipedes. They don't fly but they are too fast with too many legs.
I know the feeling of feeling on fire - that's what my foot felt like when I stepped on one a few summers ago. Also got stung by yellow jackets when I was on a ladder once - that wasn't fun either.
I can add to this experience. Many moons ago I was riding a 125 Kawasaki Enduro. Just got done swimming in the nearby lake riding home with my shorts on. Yup you got it yellow jacket right up my shorts! The breeze was pushing the intruder towards me boys :yikes:. Pulled over dropped the bike then my shorts he did not make his destination but got me twice. Many spectators with horns blowing as they passed by.:2thumbs:
sabunim5
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Being stung obviously happens fairly often if so many of you had had this experience.
Just reading this thread has given me the creeps. I'm clearly terrified of bees and wasps. It will not be good if I am stung riding.
You make your own reality. If you imagine bad things happening, they will. See yourself acting responsibly and safely. See yourself getting to the side of the rode without any problems for yourself or others. It is kind of like target fixation. If you lock your eyes on that road hazard, you will hit it. If instead, you concentrate on the path around the hazard, that is where you will go. Positive visualization
hyea: Ryde Safe and Enjoy :thumbup:sabunim5 :spyder:
aubierules
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that had to hurt..im sorry but i laughed and laughed....and then i laughed some more.....i got the visual.....i too had a somewhat similar experience....a long time ago i had a honda rebel 250 and i was riding in the countryside at night....my shield was broken so i didnt have one..... all of a sudden i got this sensation like i had been shot between the eyes, both hands came off the bars and i almost wrecked.....pulled to the side of the road and i had beetle juice all over my face.....i was going about 50....man its funny now but wasnt then...i ALWAYS ride with my shield down or at most barely cracked....the other day when i was riding to pensacola to take my bike back to the shop, i had a huge bug hit me about a centimeter from the crack on my faceshield....man that would have been cute sucking him down:shocked:
You know they eat that stuff right?!?
aubierules
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on survivor they doYou know they eat that stuff right?!?
wildbill6565
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I was about 4 miles from home just having a good ol time when all of the sudden something big hit me in the right side of my mouth. I took my hand off of the throttle to flick it off but I was too late, it must have been a wasp because it got me a couple times on the lip and once on the tongue.
So now my lip is killing me and I'm kinda freaking out because I don't know how bad it's going to get. Then I get the feeling like someone just put a cigarette out on my right wrist. I wasn't sure the first time and hoped it would go away but then it did it again.
So now I take my hand off of the clutch side and try and figure out what's going on with my throttle side. Turns out when I flicked the wasp out of my mouth I flicked it into my sleeve and that sucker was biting the fire out of me.
Now if this has ever happened to you, you know that even after the wasp is long gone you still get these sharp pains as if he's still biting you. So spent the rest of my trip home smacking and scratching my arm and lip trying not to drive off into the ditch or into on coming cars as I made my way back home.
So now the right side of my face looks like I got hit with a baseball bat and my right wrist is hard as a rock from that guy biting or stinging the snot out of me. If I had had my flip helmet flipped down I would have been fine.
So keep your visor down and your mouth shut or you may look like me in the morning. Sorry no pics on this post, you guys would have way too much fun with this one.
Did it make you look any better????? SMILE!!! BIG SMILE!!!!!!!
Wild Bill
retread
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How about a June bug the size of your thumb in the Adam's apple at 80 mph? Couldn't talk, had trouble breathing for about ten minutes, almost lost control of everything - including the bike. Another time, a wasp got inside my jacket and stitched from my right side at waist level to my left shoulder before I cured his aging problem. So I use at least a wind deflector AND close my jacket now.:sour:
john
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