Brought to you today... by the letter "B"

[ccogswel]

Once apon a time many years ago. A young man mainly me got a phone call early in the morning. On the other end was a friend saying help me! So the friend got dressed as quick as any one could. Stumpled out the door rubbing his eyes trying to wake up. Took off on the bike. Just as he got to third gear he had to yawn.

Need I explain more.

[GNEPIG]

.. about 20 years ago, i decided to go for a little blast down the road on my dirt bike, no helmet, no glasses [no brains!]. it was a little before dusk so i could still see- yeah, i could see alright- i could see the bee spiraling towards my face like he was zeroing in on me. i was going too fast and my reaction put my face right in line with that bee! i did react fast enough to close my eye before he hit me! the damn bee grabbed hold of my eye lid and stung me what felt like 2 or 3 times before i could rip him off. needless to say, my riding day was over and my eye swelled shut for a week after. i have other stories of bats, bugs and even a cat, but this is the only time ive been stung by a bee while riding.

[rwtrail]

try being hit in the chest with a bird. Years ago, a friend and I were riding and he started into a curve, I was behind and we were definitely over the speed limit. A bird, we never knew what kind flew out of a ditch bank and caught my friend directly in the chest. He almost wrecked the bike and after stopping. He did let it fall over, we had to sit a while until he could get his breath back, we laugh know but then it was pretty bad. Not a bee but started with a b

[prometheus578]

Hit him in the chest, huh?
Maybe it was a Titmouse, or a Yellow Breasted Sapsucker?

[Geezer]

This happend to me twice. The first time on an RD350 the little bastard hit me so hard it was too stunned to sting me. I brushed it out of my jacket at the next stop.

Some years later on my GT750, I got stung hard in the middle of my chest and almost crashed...

Both were long ago and I've been lucky since..

Geezer

[Dragonrider]

How about hornets?

(snip)
Rested and satisfied, I was finally ready to continue my journey. I picked up my trash and tossed it in the heavy metal trash barrel. Reflexively I reached down beside the path and picked up what looked like a very weathered tube/can—one of those cans for specialty potato chips—with the intent of throwing it away too. This was an almost unconscious action…it was trash and there was a trashcan handy.

It is interesting how profound an effect that even an idle action can produce.

As I opened the heavy steel trashcan lid I saw that in my other hand hornets were swarming all over the tube I had picked up. Dozens of them. Bright, menacing red and scrambling out of the tube. They were spreading their wings to take flight, and they were looking at me. Instantly I dropped the tube in the trash and slammed the lid shut. I also took off running, but I already knew it was too late.
(endsnip)

Long-ass story here...

[DiverRay]

Worst I've ever had was a Dragon Fly!! They DO have stingers, and they hurt like H#ll when they hit!! Well above the limit and got hit in the chest on a summer day. Just a "T" shirt, and a BIG welt/volcano from the hit!
Ray

[trbig]

Worst I've ever had was a Dragon Fly!!

I'll have to agree with Ray. When I was still a teen, I was wearing an open face helmet, (No glasses or windshield) going well above the speed limit.... I know, young and bullet-proof... and a dragonfly hit me on the edge of my right eye on the orbit bone... smeared goop into my eye and ear... and got the worst shiner I have ever had the priveledge of owning. I kept getting asked what happened to the other guy when they'd see my eye... lol. Never got stung though.

Second worst was when riding, again above the speed limit and with just a t-shirt, when a June bug hit me in the middle of the chest. I was sitting there whining about how bad that hurt, when another one hit me right in the upper lip! Smeared goo into my mouth and felt like I had been punched... serriously brought tears to my eyes. Suddenly.... the chest one wasn't feeling too bad.. lol.

I always ride with a windshield now. I have been peppered with sand, but I always have this image of when I am driving a car, and you see that one small rock coming... SMACK!! Right into the windshield where it would have hit you in the face... have even ducked from it! Always dreaded that on a bike...

Tod

[Wildkat]

Worst hits without getting stung

The most painful hit without getting stung had to have been a cicada... a couple of times (not the same bug). Cicadas are approximately 2.5 - 3 inches in length with a really tough exoskeleton which does NOT keep everything contained when hit at 65 MPH.
One of them got me just below my right eye when my shield was up, the other got me in the shoulder. (that one didn't hurt nearly as much as the first)

The most hits at one time... a swarm of locusts during the dry season (back when we just had a couple of months of dry season instead of the whole year). It was dusk and I never saw them until it was MUCH too late. Nothing to do but take it... took forever to get the remnants washed off... dries like glue.
ewwwwwwwww

The nastiest hit? John and I were riding on the highway when we started getting hit with droplets of water. I'm certain most of us have been sprayed with windshield washer fluid from cars in front of us and don't think much of it... we didn't.
As we got closer to the vehicles in front of us, we realized it wasn't from a car... it was coming from a horse trailer. Luckily, I put my shield down after the first drop hit and a quick burst of speed got us past the offending spray.
Nice long hot shower with LOTS of soap when we got home that day...

[prometheus578]

"B" related... but more aptly, "Bull sh*t"

Debated on writing this... but after reading Wildkat's posting....
Did a crash estimate on a guy's Triumph yesterday. He was going up a hill in one of the passes, following one of those large "cattle trucks".
As the angle increased, all sorts of bovine processed food came pouring out of the back of the truck. Skidded wildly for a while, before losing it, wiping the road like a denim and leather roll of Charmin.
Glad the bike was "air cooled"... or the sh*t would've really hit the fan!
($6,000 damage)

[Wildkat]

Better to be p'd off, than p'd on

That saying takes on a whole new meaning now... and I do believe it's true.
(unless of course, you're into that sort of thing... but I digress... often)

I'm guessing this guy wasn't happier than a pig in sh*t.

Sorry to change the direction of your post prometheus.
(honestly officer, the post JUMPED in front of my car)