A bloody fly, y'know one of those little fruit fly things.. flew up my nostril, I sniffed outwards and i think its out, but i am freakin out a bit, i am sure its still in there, flapping... GROSS!!!! I am dreading the day something really scary gets into my lid, i'll crash! Whats the worst that happened to you while riding.. Insect/animal related
Since owning my TT legends "October" I have three bird strikes. The most recent was on the Sundays Northeren run. A bird came from the left out of a hedge, nearly hit Gblade then I hit it on my left hand. I hope, I really do, that as we were just leaving a 30mph I only knocked it unconscious and it recovered?
You sounded like you were having a....crisis there for a moment Mel. I've had that one. Tiny black speck getting bigger and bigger too fast to do anything about it, then Thwack! Bumble bee in the tear duct of my left eye. The old joke about the last thing through a bugs mind when he hits you being his arse is true. Unfortunately this bastard had a stinger on his arse. I looked like the last scene in Rocky.
Mel, it was probably one of these: [video]http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=bot%20fly&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CE4QtwIwBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEqV 1MCDLcMM&ei=rwj2T9OKOajF0QXz7oCDBw&usg=AFQjCNFd_O85fcOEUj3_uIZaz0tTN-me1A[/video]
Took a wasp full pelt in the neck at about 120 (on track of course ) had my leathers zipped down a little and it dropped straight in, stung me six times on the way down before I could pull over and get it out before it got low enough to be serious!! As they pulled up My pals thought me hopping around getting stung and trying to pull my 1 piece off in some blokes drive was most amusing.
Oooh, just remembered. Back when I were a lad, a dog ran out at me. Not by accident , the nut job liked chasing bikes. I swerved and came off, slithered off down the road with the bloody dog barking like a twat at me. The owner comes running over to me and ...he's a Satan Slave. Bloody great! Anyway, he pulls me up, dusts me down and checks me for hurts, drags the bike up and wheels it back to his house, offering to have the poor dog put down, which really scared me. There was no way I was going to be responsible for having the poor mutt killed. He checks my bike, makes a note of all the broken bits, orders them and fits them all on for me. We stayed on nodding terms for years, then he turned up again as a friend of a friend. Still a scary bugger though.
SI!! thats horrible.. *puke* oh man, i am gagging, don't ask why i felt the need to watch all of that video just for that, if you've never googled blue waffle, go for it
Jesus H Christopher! I've never seen one that angry. I'm not going anywhere near that Rice thing, I'm going to have enough trouble sleeping after the gangrenous badger picture.
Last year I hit a wood pigeon on my R6. I was doing about 80mph and it was coming the other way at full pelt. I took it square on the left shoulder. It yanked my left hand clear off the bars and knocked the wind out of me. I saw the pigeon spinning off into the undergrowth at the side of the road in two pieces and it left my leathers covered in blood and guts. Fortunately it was a nice wide, practically-deserted, dead straight piece of local dual carriageway so the subsequent lane wander didn't cause a problem but it didn't half make me think. Like what would've happened if it had hit me in the throat or full frontal into the helmet
Wheeltrax tour before last, one of the chaps got a wasp in his lid (left visor open a smidge) and it stung him 6 times in the face before he pulled over. Me? Small sparrow type bird to the chest at 100+, big ass bee in a top vent in the helmet, followed by bee blood & guts flowing on to my head. Rode through a swarm of flying ant & swallowed a couple (before I started using a chin curtain on my lid). Never snorted a midge though. Hardcore Mel. Go home & blow your nose.
