The first time a big bug hit me square in the middle of my visor with what sounded like a gun shot i swore i would never even try riding without a helmet on. Aside from all the other risks.
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The first time a big bug hit me square in the middle of my visor with what sounded like a gun shot i swore i would never even try riding without a helmet on. Aside from all the other risks.
I may be slow at getting things but..... no wait I'm just slow.
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yep ive had that. 30 seconds after putting my visor down. Now that scared me.Originally Posted by RED YZFR6
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I'm preety sure there should be atleast one here on KB whos got bug-slapped on his/her face...
Well yeah, bugs hurt like hell even when it hits your chest... I mean big ones
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Its worse when a bee finds it way in, and then stings you in the neck while trying to escape.
One hell of a ride.
Oooh a bee! How terrifying. What will we ever do.
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Dunno...Bee there or Bee square??
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well, lotsa replies seem to fall into the category of visor up/down rather than lid/no lid. As far as helmet wearing is concerned, I was about to say I always wear mine but there was one incident (shock, horror, a whole one time) when out with bandit girl where we had to move our bikes about 50 m up the road from a carpark area to just outside the shop we were stopped at. Neither of us wore our helmets but judged the risk factor low enough to not worry about it; short distance, low speed and all that. But bug splat alone would put me off riding without a helmet. Some of those big things make such a huge mess on the visor that the thought of that on my face is pretty disgusting. The whole "what if bike and i part company" is another complete issue, and that safety message is taken care of on other threads.
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my aunty (in india) went to pick up my cuzzie from school, she had a faceless helmet on. on her way back a guy on a bicycle cut her off and she stoppied, flew over the handle bars and my cuzzie landed on her back. she face-planted and had a fair bit of damage to her face and she knocked a lot of her front teeth out....moral of story......when you ride you're in charge of you....shit happens so its up to you to be prepared as you see fit.....
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Done a ride in asia a few moths ago....
Helmet on..visor up..and this flying bug.about the size of a piper cherokee.slams into the side of my helmet.....
Hate to think if it had coped me in the face......
visor down.....and kept riding..
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I prefer to wear one, I hate getting bug's in my eye's
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Taranaki, North bound past the NP crematorium Lake Mangamahoe... bumblebess square in the middle of my forehead at 100(ish)kph! FARK - felt like I copped a gold ball (fuck it hurt!)
Got to my (then) girlfriends house with what looked like the pimple from hell suddenly erupting front and centre on my face! NEVER EVER AGAIN!
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I got sconned in the eye by a bug... had visor up as just pulled outta drive, got about 50m down the rd n *whack*... right on my eyelid... shit it stung really bad!! I pulled over straight away n told fireball to get off (pillion) n pulled helmet off real quick!! ended up with a bruise & a scab on my eyelid... not so nice!!
on another note....
I was at A&E on botany road last night... went out to the truck at about 11.15... saw too 'bikes' coming down the rd... so I watched... one was a red GN250 (i think) & the other was a black scooter...
BOTH bikes had pillions with no helmets...stupid tossers... I thought to myself... 'they'll be here soon if they bin'
also as well as no helmets & no gloves... the chick riding pillion on one of them had jack shit clothes on... I was horrified to see such stupidity!!
Shook my head n hoped not to see something in the paper about an accident killing two people with no helmets/gear on. learner bikes... prob with learner riders with learner or no licences... after hours... no L plates n pillion's...
If I didnt have to stay at the A&E I would've gone n given them an earbashing n offered to take their pillions in my ute safely to where they were going.
anyways... rant over
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