I think I crapped my pants...

Fast sweeper. Really fast. I'm leaned way over....

..moth gets caught in my helmet. It's all a-flutter betwixt my eyes and my visor. Yep, can't see!

A little bit of poo comes out.

Poo I mean TOO much information.

A few weeks ago, a damn big bug of some sort collided with my adams apple at about 75 mph. Thought I'd been hit by a sniper and had to stop and check. Boy was that a nasty welt for a couple days. Better than a bird I suppose. Made me reflect on the possibility of being killed by an insect. Currently shopping for a jacket that provides full throat coverage.

Spiders are worse. In autumn all the big, hairy, Huntsman spiders look for somewhere to hibernate. They think my bikes are just great for this. Come March-April I always have one or two rides made 'Interesting' by having one of these big buggers, (They can grow to five or six inches across but three or four is more normal.) run up your chest and over your face is always, errrr? Entertaining!

They aren't dangerous, although they can give you a nip. But they are large and hairy and generally unpleasant!

Pete

That's the shits! I hope the Grisos seat is ok?


Good to know you kept it upright most of all!

What's that pirate captain joke?
"Bring me my brown pants!"

DM

Had a wasp fly into the sleeve of my jacket on the freeway a few years back. Gave myself tennis elbow trying to kill it at speed.

A bird flew across my path while I was doin' a pretty good clip.  I didn't feel anything.  Thought, "Whew, that was close."  At my next stop, found feathers stuck to my front axle clinch bolt.

Pulling 200+ down conrod (XS1100 1979) saw a magpie and just said he's dead. Ducked me head and hung on, bird hit my shoulder and I tank slapped all the way to Hell corner. Ever since if a sparrow fly's across the road I nearly chuck it in the bushes in a panic attack.

Brown might be a good colour for my next set of leathers.

A rook once emptied its bowels from some tall trees over the road I was doing 60 or 70 on. The package hit me on the nose and splattered over the rest of my mush. It was an open faced helmet but I had specs on luckily,smelled like the shit had, had a shit. Nearby was a stream in a field, my missus on the back laughed her head off as I washed the stuff off

Just this past September, had a bee get into my helmet and got stung. Quite a sharp little pain for a minute or two.

Tooting along about 50mph on my Suzuki TS125 in the late 70's in northern Wisconsin near Superior enjoying the back roads. Classic gear at the time, gold fleck open face helmet, amber bubble that flipped up no less, t-shirt, jeans, shoes.

Anyway, one of those big juicy water beetles center punches me in the sternum. Ouch!

Have had the odd assortment of bees and wasps (and their stings) but this one stands out in my memory.

On a ride up in Alaska in 2003 , i had a Grizzly Bear come up to the side of the road as i was riding by and run along the ditch beside me for a couple hundred feet,before i could pass a truck in front of me .
I guess near misses don't count but it was exciting at the time,and i did squirt a little.

This past summer I have been stung by yellow jackets 6 different times. Sucks but its part of it I suppose. BK

A few weeks ago, on the way to our monthly Guzzi breakfast, I was leading the pack near the Boeing Airplane plant in south Seattle when up ahead I spotted a passel of crows and seagulls feasting on some fresh road kill. I hardly even bothered to slow down, figuring the blackbirds are pretty agile and wise enough to get out of my way before I got there... Indeed they were, but not so the gulls. One of the dumb fucks followed a crow on a safe trajectory away from the speeding flock of oncoming motorcycles only to suddenly reverse course and fly straight back at me. Luckily, at the very last possible moment he made a dive to get out of the way, but he flew head first into my right boot and did half a dozen cartwheels behind me before coming to his final resting place. I'm pretty sure some poo leaked out of him too, Beetle.

"Street- I'm pretty sure some poo leaked out of him too, Beetle."

I had a very near miss about 20 years ago with a read head. Thank fuck she cut me loose!

Harry, being half Greek and half Scotish is no excuse. You still half drunk?
What's a READ head? Some kind if intellectual book worm?
I'd be more interested in hair colour.

ghezzi wrote:

Harry, being half Greek and half Scotish is no excuse. You still half drunk?
What's a READ head? Some kind if intellectual book worm?
I'd be more interested in hair colour.

Completely drunk, thank you.

Don't even remember posting that. Or this.....
What?