Critters

[grog]

Nice couple of riding days, bike running perfectly. Got blown away in twisties by 125 KTM, he sure had it leaning. Trying much harder than me. Pulled up, jacket off, had a spider crawling around on shirt, whack and gone, critters. Wasnt small, guess i was lucky.

[Mick_J]

In the 80's when I had my GSX1100 I thought I was king of the road, nothing could get past me until I was riding to my mums thinking I was doing well when a Kawasaki Z200 overtook me on the inside of a bend and scampered off into the distance, I couldn't catch the little bugger, I stuck to straight roads after that, king again.

[Hooli]

I've found a wasp in my t-shirt before, which explained why I thought I kept getting stung riding down that Alpine pass. I've never stripped off as quick when I looked down & my t-shirt & saw it in the car park at the bottom.

[Eric GSX1400K3]

I've had a bee hit me on the cheek as I was riding with visor cracked open just a bit coming down our road. Stung me on the cheek as a parting shot,.  Before I got home and tried to get my helmet off my cheek had swollen so much i really struggled.

[Kiwifruit]

Just left home and there's a big cockroach starting tocrawl across my visor. No problem, brush it off but it just keeps on going .....across the inside of my visor.
Got stung by a wasp that managed to arrive in the tiny gap between the forehead and the cheek pads.

[Hooli]

Just remembered the worst one.

Before I wore earplugs & my first open face lid was a bit loose I got a fly inside my ear halfway through a quick S-bend. Very distracting & I was trying to rip my helmet off before I'd even stopped. Little sod kept going deeper & as I had no liquids on me I had to squash it, sounded disgusting. Washed a load of yellow goo out my ear later on with about a gallon of soap.

[KiwiCol]

Had a couple of the above incidents on bikes over the years, but the most memorable one was while driving.   
I was heading home from Kaikoura one summer weekend, it was hot & had the windows down. I was in a singlet & short running shorts (with a side split)  We're driving home, window down & whack a wasp (Yellow jacket / German wasp) hit the mirror & came in through the open drivers window, it landed right between my legs!  Fark I thought, hope that's dead, can't see it. Pulled over as soon as I could without moving body position.  Right, now how to get out of the seat without getting stung (if it's still alive) pulled on the steering wheel to lift myself off the seat (I was lighter in them days) & got 1 leg out the door. Once outside, there's the wasp, fully alive, madly stinging the seat, right in front of where my sack was when seated! Doesn't bear thinking about if it had got up the loose shorts . . .

I have the window open only slightly nowadays or use the air con.

[Roo]

Cheers KiwiCol,   had lots of fat blowflys and Bumblebees splatter my visor ! 

But the worst was on the straights before the Piecock Hill early one morning . zipping along at about 120/130kph and a Hawk flies out of a tree and tries to beat me across the road. Hit right under the headlight of the then 1200 Bandit (naked one), bones and guts and big wings sticking out , I carried on as I was late to meet mates......Picked him out in bits feeling bad,  he was a beautiful bird , shame..

[grog]

My worst was mid 70s. Spent morning tuning up old GT750. Out for a test run. Hitting top speed, maybe 180, plover flew up off road, hell go left, ill go right. He didnt know the plan. Hit banjo on brake master, i had brake fluid, feathers n blood from head to toe. Was maybe 20 k ride to home, so concerned about fluid wrecking bikes paint. Turned out no damage, just a big clean up. I have another, will find photo before post.

[grog]

I found my other bad one. Double post, sorry. Was up in Dampier, NW Oz, on the back of Mates old Ducati, open face lids of course. He yelled out duck, was a seagull not a duck. Hit me flush on the face, few stars for a while but not serious. Pic his cartoon of it, we still mention it 50 yrs later.