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Yesterday I was cruising around at lunch, and since it's been hot here, I was riding with the visor of my helmet up. Well, what do I then see coming at me - a nice large bug, I'm pretty sure it was a bee/wasp, it hits my raised visor and bounces INTO my helmet.

I thought it bounced back out, but next thing I know, I'm seeing movement out of the lower right of my peripheral vision - but if I look that way, I can't see anything - but looking straight ahead I can just barely make out the movement. This goes on for 10 seconds or so, then I start to see it in my normal vision - at this point I've slowed down a bit and I'm shaking my head trying to get the dumb thing out, but it holds tight to the helmet liner.

And of course it only gets worse; it crawls across my sunglasses, up onto my forehead, and is apparently enjoying the view from my head. I couldn't take it anymore, I rip my glasses off (bending them in the process) and manage to get the thing off me. All while riding of course.

I think this tops the bee that flew up my sleeve last year and stung me on the elbow - luckily that one happened right as I was backing into the parking spot at work. But I still had to have someone pull the stinger out.

Pesky BEES

Used to have acorns (or something similar) ricochet off of my helmet visor (sounding like a gunshot in the process!)in South Carolina, along with bees and big fat blood-gorged horseflies. I LIKE my visor!!!

Once a bug hit me right in the corner of the mouth, I was going fast enough to make it splatter and it dripped into my mouth, it was so gross...

Had a bee fly up my nose once, took 2 days for the swelling to go down. Hate grasshoppers and other roadbugs that get lodged in the Beard. That's why I wear a Visor now.
Hoffo

Went for a trip through the Rocky Mountains last weekend and took 2 dragon flies that were attached together in the mouth at 120 km/h.

I've been riding with my face shield up a lot more (at lower speeds) since I got my windvest. Luckily for me when this happened it was just a big horsefly, and it was stunned or dead on impact. But it came to rest on the chinbar next to my right cheek. I "had a moment" initially trying to ascertain what the creature was.

I been on a 6 day ride and I had everything from litle bugs crawling around inside my helmet( slam the breaks and rip helmet of to scratch the noggin like a physko with "voices" in there) to a rader large stone crossing my path..stone luckuly came in low and got me in the knee..oh I had a rader large bug hit my handle bar and it splattered all over my visor(some greenisch stuff..yuuk!)
I saw a small bird eye to eye, think it missed me by an inch or so..daaaamn lucky..Oh..do I use a visor..OH YEAH!!
I only got one eye left so Im kinda scared of loosing the other one also..DOUGH!

I had a cigerette butt fly into my helmet once, it got stuck between the side padding and my cheek. Burnt like a mother i can tell you. I had some choice words for the son of a B who flicked it out the car window when i pulled up next to him at the next light.

Visor up and a wasp flew into my helmet. Ripped the helmet off - thought we parted ways. He slid down my shirt and nailed me between the shoulder blades 5 minutes later while standing in line at Brahms for an ice cream. Had to get a lady to pick the stinger out.

Had a giant grasshopper splatter on the mirror post- while laughing- only wearing a half helmet. Way too much sodium in those...

The worst so far this year was a June Bug on the cheek. Over the windshield then swooped down under the partially raised visor to smack me. I got a good look at him, I think he was smiling.

I have had various bugs hit me in the face. When they hit you at 50+ miles an hour they don't need stingers!

Didn't happen to me, but I guy I ride with was passing a driving range and got hit in the shin with a golf ball!!
Yikes, that would hurt right away!!

In the last 3 1/2 years of riding my trumpy the more notable bug-related incidents have included two bees (on different occasions) landing in my helmet and sting my face, a wasp of some sort which flew up my jeans and stung my leg & knee about a dozen times before I could squash the little bas*&#rd, and a giant grasshopper that run into the leading edge of my helmet and splattered all over my cheek.

I don't think any of these top the time when I was young & foolish and riding around on my old honda CB100 in shorts & a tshirt and a bee landed in my crotch and stung me in a particularly sensitive area through my shorts. My girlfriend at the time was most amused.

forward the video to about 1:26....I was dying when I saw that!
Wild Hogs bug splat

Years ago I had a wasp find its way into my shirt and ended up down by my belly button. Stung me about 12 times before I could stop, rip my shirt of and stamp on the b$%£$d 12 times in repayment.

I got stung on my right ear, the little hard part at the opening. Two years in a row. Hurt like you know what.
I love riding

Last summer I learned not to wear scoop neckline shirts on the bike. TWICE I had bees get into my shirt and into my bra. And yes both times I got stung. OW!

I remember back in college I was riding my mountain bike (my only form of transportation at that time) and a bee flew into my mouth and stung my inner lip. THAT really sucked.

Not bug related, but today I hit the reserve on the freeway, going at least 75mph and didn't get it switched over quick enough - so the bike died while I was in one of the middle lanes and I had to quickly coast across three lanes to the side of the road in heavy traffic (I tried restarting while coasting, but no luck...).

I think I would take the bee in my helmet over that happening again...

At LEAST once a year during risding season, a bug hits my helmet and/or face guard (AKA 'sunglasses') to remind me that wearing a helmet isn't just to protect my head when I fall down and go boom, it's also handy for avoiding bug concussion as well. 'PLOCK!!!'