I just found a really good reason not to speed

[dangerous]

So I just got back from my first Akaroa GP on the new bike, my RGV250.

haha... congrads man, TIE

Must be a s island thing

NA... its a lake Elsmere thing, Breading season of these wee buggers is a bitch, you can see tornados of the pricks swarming, quite amazing really as they are like a big black low flying cloud... they live.bread in the swamplands that runs aside the Akaroa H/W. They will all be gone in a month. Crusty wee buggeres sounds like a shot gun blast hitting ya but on the upside... they dont make much of a mess and clean of easy.

[varminter]

Bugs ? in the South Island ? Has the ice melted ?

[McWild]

your bike is beautiful. pepsi RGV's are awesome. that is all

Thank you, I agree!

[scumdog]

Bugs ? in the South Island ? Has the ice melted ?

Yes.

And all the polar bears have gone too.

[MVnut]

Yeah nice bike mate, saw it at LR, about 30 or more bikes there today...cool, and as for bugs....

[dangerous]

Yeah nice bike mate, saw it at LR, about 30 or more bikes there today...cool, and as for bugs....

a biger touring fairing do have their advatages LOL...

[PrincessBandit]

Yeah nice bike mate, saw it at LR, about 30 or more bikes there today...cool, and as for bugs....

Holey moley Bugman! That is so gross.

While we were in Raro recently I enjoyed the pleasure of riding without a helmet and one lovely warm evening was riding back from the takeaway (10km from our motel)...... I wondered what the little mild pin pricky things that kept "happening" on my face were.... Didn't take me too long to realise the answer to that Amazingly though there was no evidence on my face when I arrived back to the motel.

[EJK]

To avoid scratching your visor, wet a tea towel and cover over your visor for a few minutes. When the corpses get all mushy and moist, just wipe them and it's done.

Reference: From a UK motorcycle magazine.

[MyGSXF:Me]

To avoid scratching your visor, wet a tea towel and cover over your visor for a few minutes. When the corpses get all mushy and moist, just wipe them and it's done. Reference: From a UK motorcycle magazine.

Yep.. & good ole "Pledge" spray (I prefer the Orange scented one... ) is a brilliant cleaner as well. Spray it on & let it soak for a while, then wipe off. I keep a can in my tank bag, so I can regularly clean my visor. It helps prevent bugs sticking.. helps rain run off.. fills in fine scratches & helps prevent the inside fogging up too! (with all that multi-tasking ability.. it musta bin invented by a chick!!)

[ready4whatever]

damn. didnt really think of bugs as a huge problem. i had a mate who hit a flying blackbird and it ended up breaking his legs and ribs cause he came off

[pritch]

On my one and only Akaroa ride (so far) I struck big clouds of what I thought may have been the adult form of the willow grub, like a green and brown mayfly. (Used to tie my own trout flies so am interested in such things.)

I don't know if it was Elesmere but there was a body of water on my right with big trees on the side of the road.

"Big clouds" doesn't quite cover it, biggest densest clouds of insects I've ever seen.

[DarkLord]

Riding at night always seems to do it as well. In December last year I rode to Taupo from Auckland, leaving at about 6pm or so. Most of the trip was in the dark and the little blighters are attracted to your headlight. I could see the moths coming at me from miles away and could actually feel them bouncing off my helmet.

[Shadows]

Bugs.

Holy shit, the bugs. Any minute now, I expect Greenpeace will knock down my door and perform a citizen's arrest for what I have just completed, that is, the massacre of what must be half our entire country's worth of small, low flying bugs.

Yeah nice bike mate, saw it at LR, about 30 or more bikes there today...cool, and as for bugs....

Ahhhh. Those bugs. Clean those little fuckers off tonight or your gear and your bike will stink like fish by tomorrow.

[jrandom]

Warm soapy water to get rid of the bugs. Plexus on the visor.

Particularly unpleasant when it's a bee or a wasp and it hits you stinger-first in the neck as opposed to helmet or leather. Happened to me twice last summer.

Bird strikes are worse, though. I've had a hawk fly up into my shin at about 130 on SH22 (I swerved around it, but it flapped the wrong way). Thwack. Didn't feel like much through my armour, but I had to clean the blood off my boot when I got home. Requiescat in pace, birdie.

Also, a bird impacting a knee slider front-on at 200-ish on the bike ahead of you makes quite a stunning cloud of feathers to ride through.

Had a bird hit me in the chest as I rode through Ngaruawahia once. Dunno how the bird fared, but I wouldn't have liked to try that at three times the speed.

Flying critters is all just part of the game.

[munterk6]

Yeah I saw you and ya rgv at little river yesterday, nice wee bike! So good to see so many young fellas gettin into bikes....it seems every time the helmet comes off, its some crusty ol fella......like me.