Creepy crawlies in your helmet

[Hard Nut]

Whats been the worst Bug/Spider story thats happened to you while riding thats got into your helmet between your face and the visor:eek5:

Not sure if this has been done before sorry if it has.

[ready4whatever]

hmm no bug just the damn ear peice on my 6R falling out and being annoying

[Hard Nut]

This happened to me not long ago......
Seems to only happen at high speed and it was the Biggest Dragon Fly I have ever seen and up that close I could taste it:eek5:

Would have been 80 mm long tip to tail, I felt it hit my chest like a 45 caliber bullet and for some reason didn't think to much of it just coughed lol until I heard it doing the clatter clatter bang and hey presto there it was, me looking at it .....it looking at me, and then it was on.

It's trying to get out, and i'm trying to let it out! Trying not to laugh I could only open the visor up partly (Didn't want to lose my head) and all this did was to make it more upset, it rolled and tumbled in the wind stream hitting my face until I wiped enough speed off to open the visor fully.

What a time we had, one of those Kodak moments, never to be forgotten.

Nuts

[Hard Nut]

Or another time.....not in the helmet but in the jacket.
It was a spider, not just your ordinary little spider, this was as big as a adults hand (Give or take a mm or two)
Was in a hurry to get somewhere... on with the jacket ran to the bike zipped it up......felt a lump and touched that lump and it moved:eek:

Unzipped my jacket and opened it up slowly, this seemed to happen in slow mo......this spider as big as a small dog walked out and stretched its legs and jumped thats when I did the tanty dance and spun around lol

Yep funny now!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[kasper]

Went to grab my lid from its usual place in the wardrobe, to find it covered in ants eating all the dead bugs on the helmet from the previous ride. EWWW!!!!

spent about 30 minutes removing all the ants from the helmet. only to discover i had not got them all 30 minutes in to the ride.
Now i HATE creepy crawlies at the best of times, worse when i get surprised by them, I don't know how i avoided crashing.

the next day I had the same problem even though i had moved the helmet across the room. EWW
Until i moved house i got in to the habit of tapping on the helmet 30 minutes before riding, It seemed to solve the problem, and i got a clean helmet out of it too.


-- Kasper

[Hard Nut]

But you did avoid crashing and now you do thing's differently hey, lesson learnt and remember to clean your lid before putting it away:Oops:

I dont hang my gear up in the garage anymore either.......for good reason:eek5:

Nuts

[Elysium]

For me it was an angry wasp getting into my helmet while riding with visor open. Fucker stung me close to my right eye.

[scracha]

Wasp in England somehow got inside my shirt on the motorway. Stung me about 7 times. Thought I was having a heart attack.

[YellowDog]

In England you get Mayflys. Perfectly harmless, but big and noisey.

I was taking a long bend on a country road when one squished right in the centre of my visor. My vision instantly went from 200m to 5cm and I was still leaning through a long bend. I stopped as quickly as I could and finshed up on the grass.

[Ragingrob]

Halfway round the coro loop I got a bloody bee in my bonnet, that was a bit of a worry lol! Managed to get it blown out without being stung thank god, wasn't liking it near my eyes and nose one bit!

[slofox]

Pre full face helmet days. Zooming into a swarm of bees...world record for fastest stop and removal of helmet. Still stands I believe...

[javawocky]

When I was a younger lad still in high school in saffer land was heading home on my AE50. 'Twas a hot hot day, so coming down one of the longer downhill sections I flung my visor wide open, took my hands off the bars and relaxed to enjoy the cool flow of air. Suddenly out of the corner of my eye -wack! A giant locust jumps directly into my face and hits me square on in the eye - felt like someone punched me, wobbled badly and grabbed the bars.

Didn't fall off, but had a blue eye for a couple of days, you should have seen the other guy :bleh:

[fatzx10r]

i had a wasp get into my jacket once, and the bugger stung me 4 times on the chest. and i had a bumble bee that flew into my helmet and got stuck when i was ridding along, that gave me the shits, i had my helmet off before i'd even stopped lol

[davebullet]

The worst I've had in mine was a raging case of head lice... couldn't itch. Was annoying.

[vifferman]

Nothing as exciting as what's been posted.
I used to ride with a clear visor and sunglasses, usually with the visor up at speeds less than 100km/h, and one morning got all of half a km from my house when a bee hit me in the nose, and went in my helmet. Seemed to take forever to stop, take the bike out of gear, take off my gloves, sunglasses, helmet, and get the bee out.
In hindsight, there was no need to panic - it had already stung me in the nose, so it was spent. (Of course, I didn't know till I stopped whether it was a bee or wasp). Luckily, either it had been stunned hitting my proboscis, or because it was the tip of my nose where the skin/flash is thin and there's cartilige close to the surface, but there was little damage.

Another time, I was riding to Coromandel (with Zed, actually) early in the morning, and near Kaiaua it was misty, so I cracked open my visor to stop it fogging up on a slow part. A couple of midges flew in, so I though, "No problem - I'll just blow 'em out!" and opened the visor wide, just as I rode through a cloud of them. :doh:
I had midges everywhere - in my eyes, up my nose, crawling all over my face. Luckily, apart from the one under my eyelid (which I had to blink out), I managed to blow most of them out in a midge-free piece of air.

I'm glad I haven't done Slofox's trick of riding through a swarm of bees, as I drove through one once near Inglewood, and it completely plastered the windscreen. Made a huge shitty mess that even emptying the windscreen washer didn't shift. Plus there were bees crawling all over the wipers, etc.

[CookMySock]

Only a couple of wasps. Open visor and they're gone. I did stop and check though.

Steve

[Goblin]

Can relate to Kaspers ants. I retch from the smell of ants. Once left my lid in a mates shed then when I put it on the ants started crawling all over my face. EEEEWWW!
Once had a wasp crawling around the inside of my visor but it didnt sting me. Had several bee stings on the neck...Murphy's Law, only time I dont wear a scarf I get stung.:doh:

Worst sting was a bumble bee up my sleeve. My arm swelled up from the knuckles to the elbow. :pinch:

[Naki Rat]

Two incidents in the same ride. Outward bound to Waiiti for a coffee and discovered a wasp walking across the inside of my visor :shit: Head turn, open visor and out it went.

Returning from same ride and a bump at throat level turned out to be a bumble bee which got a few stings in through my tee shirt (inside my jacket) before a very quick stop to eject the intruder.

Yes, BiK3RChiK and nunesvaz it was 'that' ride :laugh:

[sunhuntin]

i had a bee fly up inside a full face helmet i was borrowing. dunno how the hell it did it, but it suddenly appeared in my view as it came up from the chin piece. pulled over and stopped, trying to work out how to take the lid off without getting stung or hurting the bee. eventually i just opened the visor and it flew out again. lol.

i did have one wedge itself between the padding and shell of my open facer at 100k. went to flick it out while wearing fingerless gloves and got stung. its really hard to pull the clutch in when you are minus a main pulling finger. had another get me in the neck when i stopped at a giveway and turned my head to check, and another got between my knee and the tank and got squished. all 3 attacks were treated with honey. no pain and no swelling.

grossest ive gone up against was a white butterfly that smacked onto my sunglasses, right on the bridge. spread its guts over most of both lenses. had to stop at bulls and wash them at the bp. lol. white butterflies are yellow inside. :sick:

[mister.koz]

Twice now i've had a wasp somehow fly in one side of the helmet, traverse across the visor from one side to the other and then fly out the other side, lucky. Of course being that its 20mm from my eyes they were the size of jumbo jets.

Had the worlds largest bumblebee hit my right on my adam's apple, coughing like buggery. Another time i had a Puriri moth dive straight into the middle of my visor and explode in to 100 pieces with goop spread all over 0 visibility! all i had was a couple of serviettes from the previous coffee stop.. Looked like green paint...

Sparrow in the chest at 160 - near knocked me off...

[Dooly]

A cockroach walked across my face from the inside of my helmet while I was waiting at the side of the road for the group to arrive.:eek:

[vifferman]

Had the worlds largest bumblebee hit my right on my adam's apple, coughing like buggery.
:confused:
Um... two things: what does a bumblebee cough sound like? (I would've thought it would be kinda ultrasonic, and hard to hear...), and what similarity does it bear to sodomy?

Your comment about the puriri moth reminds me of when I was 17, and took a ride in the country at night, just after dusk, wearing an open-faced helmet. Face took a fair splattering from all the insects flying around, some of which felt very large and very juicy.:eek:

[mister.koz]

:confused:
Um... two things: what does a bumblebee cough sound like? (I would've thought it would be kinda ultrasonic, and hard to hear...), and what similarity does it bear to sodomy?

Your comment about the puriri moth reminds me of when I was 17, and took a ride in the country at night, just after dusk, wearing an open-faced helmet. Face took a fair splattering from all the insects flying around, some of which felt very large and very juicy.:eek:

its quite cute really, its kinda like a quiet baby's cough with a subtle fizz sound at the end :bleh:

Yeah bug splatter really is a drag!

[The Pastor]

a wasp appared on my face once, i crashed

[Hard Nut]

For me it was an angry wasp getting into my helmet while riding with visor open. Fucker stung me close to my right eye.

Those euros are a real problem..........I could be waiting for the light's to change and would have like half a dozen hanging around........cage drivers watching me swiping at the little suckers, laughing.........bastards:doh:

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[Hard Nut]

Wasp in England somehow got inside my shirt on the motorway. Stung me about 7 times. Thought I was having a heart attack.

Yeah had that happen too...........thing is though, a burning cigarette down the jacket is not much fun either:no:

Nuts

[Hard Nut]

Can relate to Kaspers ants. I retch from the smell of ants. Once left my lid in a mates shed then when I put it on the ants started crawling all over my face. EEEEWWW!
Once had a wasp crawling around the inside of my visor but it didnt sting me. Had several bee stings on the neck...Murphy's Law, only time I dont wear a scarf I get stung.:doh:

Worst sting was a bumble bee up my sleeve. My arm swelled up from the knuckles to the elbow. :pinch:

We have these ants that stink like piss once squished.......hence the name "Piss Ants":laugh:
Dont know about these Bumble Bees, though i have heard about them.......nasty little suckers by the sounds of them.

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[klingon]

I did my basic handling test (also my first ever time in control of a motorbike!) in November 06. With all my gear on like a good newbie biker, out in the sun in the car park it was prett hot and sweaty.

At one point I took off my helmet and jacket and put them down on the gound while I rested in preparation for the next gruelling test of riding around the cones. Unfortunately I put the whole lot down on an ants' highway. When I put them back on there were ants everywhere! Crawling up my neck, down my back, over my face, in my hair & ears! :doh:

Of course I took everything off again and shook & brushed them off, but for the rest of the day I kept finding more ants tickling me all over - made it very hard to concentrate!

[Hard Nut]

[QUOTE=vifferman;1129404675]

Another time, I was riding to Coromandel (with Zed, actually) early in the morning, and near Kaiaua it was misty, so I cracked open my visor to stop it fogging up on a slow part. A couple of midges flew in, so I though, "No problem - I'll just blow 'em out!" and opened the visor wide, just as I rode through a cloud of them. :doh:
I had midges everywhere - in my eyes, up my nose, crawling all over my face. Luckily, apart from the one under my eyelid (which I had to blink out), I managed to blow most of them out in a midge-free piece of air.

Can relate to this too............go to move off from a set of lights....visor up just about to close the flap and then:doh:.........midge right in the corner of the eye.

Within a second or two the eye has puffed up watering, itchy and takes hour for the eye to clear again.

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[Big Dave]

Of course I took everything off again and shook

This works for me.

[crazyhorse]

Went on a ride to a cafe. We all put our helmets and jackets down on the deck. When it was time to go - they were completely covered in ants :angry:

Was a good ride though :yes:

[klingon]

This works for me.

LOL yes I can just imagine you doing a naked belly-dance in the middle of a car park BD. :bleh: Is that how you got your basic handling certificate?

[Hard Nut]

I did my basic handling test (also my first ever time in control of a motorbike!) in November 06. With all my gear on like a good newbie biker, out in the sun in the car park it was prett hot and sweaty.

At one point I took off my helmet and jacket and put them down on the gound while I rested in preparation for the next gruelling test of riding around the cones. Unfortunately I put the whole lot down on an ants' highway. When I put them back on there were ants everywhere! Crawling up my neck, down my back, over my face, in my hair & ears! :doh:

Of course I took everything off again and shook & brushed them off, but for the rest of the day I kept finding more ants tickling me all over - made it very hard to concentrate!

Not so funny hey...........a friend of mine did something similar.
Hot day we all stopped for a break, she took her jacket off and dropped it to the ground, we go to leave later she puts the jacket back on and within a minute or so she is doing this dance with the arms in the air spinning all around screaming, jacket comes off and this time chucked to the ground and she proceed to jump all over it:laugh:

She did over react just a little but got the job done.

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[Big Dave]

Is that how you got your basic handling certificate?

Well M'deah - when I got my licence it was on an XS1100. There were no size limits.

The handling test involved the instructor walking beside you for 20 yards, then watching you ride around the block.

He walks outside, sees what I'm riding and says 'you can handle that?' and looks to the heavens.

[Ender EnZed]

First time ever riding on tarmac on my trail bike when I was 13 or 14 I got a bee inside my visor at about 90kph (very fast at the time). I spent about 300m clawing at my face with both hands before I managed to get the visor up.

A couple of months ago heading up the Rimutakas I saw movement out of the corner of my eye, a massive cockroach, about the size of an average cellphone, was walking up the handle bar. I got it off with the second punch but if that hadn't done it I probably would've had to abandon ship.

I don't like bugs.

[Ender EnZed]

Went to grab my lid from its usual place in the wardrobe, to find it covered in ants eating all the dead bugs on the helmet from the previous ride. EWWW!!!!

The ants weren't interested in my bug splattered helmet. They went for the armpits inside my jacket...:blank:

[Hard Nut]

The ants weren't interested in my bug splattered helmet. They went for the armpits inside my jacket...:blank:

Juicy tasty armpit sweat:shit:

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[Elysium]

How do those Harely riders cope I wonder?

[mister.koz]

How do those Harely riders cope I wonder?

Sweaty armpits probably aren't an issue when you are only wearing a leather vest :eek:

[Elysium]

Sweaty armpits probably aren't an issue when you are only wearing a leather vest :eek:

I'm refering to thier open faced helmets. Bet they have a good time riding in the evening and encountering a swarm of sandflies.

[mister.koz]

I'm refering to thier open faced helmets. Bet they have a good time riding in the evening and encountering a swarm of sandflies.

Nah, those skullcap helmets are totally chuck norris, the bugs wouldn't dare go near for fear of an ass-whipping...

[Hard Nut]

How do those Harely riders cope I wonder?

Just need to look at there teeth to see if they are enjoying it lol.

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[Hard Nut]

Sweaty armpits probably aren't an issue when you are only wearing a leather vest :eek:

And Chaps I hope lol

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[mister.koz]

And Chaps I hope lol

Nuts

Stubbies man, c'mon where's the safety?

[Ender EnZed]

Stubbies man, c'mon where's the safety?

Ever seen anyone riding in stubbies? I can recall a couple of photos from the 70s of it, maybe, but thats it.

[Hard Nut]

Stubbies man, c'mon where's the safety?

Shit yeah......Stubbies and a vest.........great look and a bow tie to set it off lol

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[Hard Nut]

Ever seen anyone riding in stubbies? I can recall a couple of photos from the 70s of it, maybe, but thats it.

No......but I have seen a chick wearing a bikini on a gixxer lol

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[mister.koz]

seen the odd dude in boardies around hams, most of the roads i frequent outside of towns are populated by sports bikes and tourers rather than cruisers :)

[Vern]

Ever seen anyone riding in stubbies? I can recall a couple of photos from the 70s of it, maybe, but thats it.
Yeah back in the 1970's I always rode in my stubbies and steel caped boots. It's good but you have to be on guard in case one of those nasty's is crawling up where he is not aloud to go. Vern:doctor:

[Hard Nut]

Yeah back in the 1970's I always rode in my stubbies and steel caped boots. It's good but you have to be on guard in case one of those nasty's is crawling up where he is not aloud to go. Vern:doctor:

Vern that would be a worry, something stinging or biting on the meat and two veg, not cool at all lol


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[mossy1200]

My wifes gloves are so small they fall out of her helmet so i keep them under mine when we go walking.I all ways forget and put the helmet on with her gloves inside.Does this count.

[ManDownUnder]

How does a swarm of bees sound?

Not so much IN my helmet as bouncing off the outside of... but shit scary all the same.

A bee is bad enough, a couple are a pain - but the whole fucking SWARM???? ... tres bad.

[Hard Nut]

My wifes gloves are so small they fall out of her helmet so i keep them under mine when we go walking.I all ways forget and put the helmet on with her gloves inside.Does this count.


Nope, dont think that counts mossy:doh:

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[Hard Nut]

How does a swarm of bees sound?

Not so much IN my helmet as bouncing off the outside of... but shit scary all the same.

A bee is bad enough, a couple are a pain - but the whole fucking SWARM???? ... tres bad.


And this is scary shit, you never know how your going to come out of it:doctor:


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[mossy1200]

Nope, dont think that counts mossy:doh:

Nuts Are you sure cause they feel like someone has put a small animal in your helmet.

[Hard Nut]

Funny as Mossy:laugh::laugh:
Two flattened rats :laugh:...............Tiny, cant even use um as a wally warmer:doh::laugh::laugh:

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[Naki Rat]

Funny as Mossy:laugh::laugh:
Two flattened rats :laugh:...............Tiny, cant even use um as a wally warmer:doh::laugh::laugh:

Nuts

Maybe, but hands that small are bound to make your pecker look impressive :lol:

[mossy1200]

Maybe, but hands that small are bound to make your pecker look impressive :lol:
And horses are measured in hands.By most hand standards Im a donkey but with the wifes hands I feel like a Clydsdale .

[Hard Nut]

Maybe, but hands that small are bound to make your pecker look impressive :lol:

:laugh: and isn't great that females are blessed with small hands:2thumbsup

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[Hard Nut]

And horses are measured in hands.By most hand standards Im a donkey but with the wifes hands I feel like a Clydsdale .

Hehehe........Hahaha, good one mossy!

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[Manxman]

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