oh my god!

[RooRoo]

was just riding home from my girlfriends, dark country roads, whats that tickling my face? is there some loose thread in my necksock? hmm..*ignore it for a while* god that itches, loads...must be something..*pulls over, removes lid, looks inside*
SHIT! THERE IS A BIG FUCKING SPIDER CRAWLING AROUND MAKING A WEB IN MY HELMET.

Morale of the story? Always check your helmet for stowaways...

[Rollins]

I had a bumble bee in my lid once.
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[instigator]

nasty stuff!!!

Wasps are right bastards when you get one in your helmet.

But I find bees are the worst. Was riding along one day and saw something in the sky. A black dot. Target fixation occured and I was staring at it for about 3 seconds, it was getting closer and closer....then wham....in my eye...feckin hurt.....that told me about riding with my visor up in winter!

Bits of bee all over ma face

[AcIdBuRnZ]

Bees in winter??? Those little bastards are getting tough!!!

Yeah, I once had a fly type bug crawling around in my hair - horrible, and I only noticed after being off the bike for 10 mins!!! Little fecker was just sitting there


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"Chickity China the Chinese Chicken..."

[stinkwheel]

Nah, it is the tiny little flies that get right inside your ear then sit there and BBZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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[aqualung1]

and even when you have checked they seem to come back


poor roo roo me i hate spiders
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[bish777]

helps if you wash occasionally........

[ZaphodBeeble]

Flies and various other bugs always seem to be able to aim (even at high speed) for the small air gap that I leave at the bottom of my visor.

I hate it when I get flies stuck in the back of my throat.
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[Smoto Bob]

[V4]

I got stung on the face under the eye by a wasp while taking a round about! Had to just sit and bear it, i could see the little shit out the corner of my eye!

LEON

[askew]

This summer I had a wasp inside my motocross goggles! I was flying down a county road when i noticed it very very close to my eye. "Surely", I thought "That can't be on the inside of my goggles!". After a quick glance in my mirror it hit me - "Oh shite! There's a wasp inside my goggles!" I jammed on the brakes and got to the side of the road, and undid my helmet very carefully. Then in one swift movement grabbed my helmet and goggles and chucked them to the grass.

I think I spent the rest of my ride out laughing my ass off about what had just happened.
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[RealNinja]

[map]

[Luke_Retrofly]

Hi
Holy fucking shit!

I would have crashed if i had found a spider in my lid, i hate the things, big time.

Luke

[synaptyx]

RooRoo:"SHIT! THERE IS A BIG FUCKING SPIDER CRAWLING AROUND MAKING A WEB IN MY HELMET..."
RealNinja:"I would have had a bloody gargantuan freak out there and then!"
I'd have fainted and fallen off I think. Spiders. Bleh! <shudder>

[stinkwheel]

I can just imagine the statistics coming out for that one. "A recent study showed that 4.35% of solo motorcycle accidents occur when the rider notices a spider in their helmet."

I demand a 10% discount off my bike insurance due to my not being arachnophobic.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[RooRoo]

I'm slightly aracnaphobic, they send shivers down my spine but I can touch them...if i'd of known what it was while i was riding I dont know what could have happened...

[stryker]

A few of the native UK spiders are VERY poisonous, the good news is they are too small or ill equiped to break a mammals skin when biting.
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[Robin]

My sister used to be sh1t scared of spiders (she's not too bad now).

One day she tried to get out of the car and walk because a small money spider dropped down from the rear view mirror.

Only problem is that she was driving at about 30 mph at the time, and I was the passenger.

All that went through her mind was spider=quick exit and bugger the consequences.

[mchaggis]

Pansies! Arachnaphobic? Next you'll be telling me you're squeamish and start wriggling and saying you feel sick when I describe what the surgeon did to my wrist...

Maybe it's just me, but I'm not really perturbed by anything I can think of like that. Wasps used to freak me out until I realised that if you leave them alone they'll eventually realise you're not edible and just fly off. Spiders are fascinating things imo. To see fully-grown adults squeal and panic when they see some miniscule eight-legged thing which can't possibly do them any harm is ridiculous.

Back ontopic... I had a fly sat on the cheekpad in my helmet for about half an hour a few weeks ago. It flew into my face when my visor was up, and I thought I'd killed it, but it started moving about and distracting me.

Funnily enough, once I was going a decent speed (50 or so) it stopped moving. When I flicked the fly out of my helmet afterwards, it just walked around for a while, seemingly incapable of flying. After a few minutes it flew away. Very odd.
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[Fallen Angel]

Listen to you big hardy bikers!! You're all a bunch of crap-bags!!!
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[Rob W]

LOL I would of shit myself too probably, I dont mind spiders but dont particularly like the idea of one crawling aound in my lid

[ProXimaCore]

[Fallen Angel]

[wantser]

Spiders aint the worse thing in your helmet...... anyone ever sneezed?

I wont go into details, but this morning I had to stop and wipe the inside of my visor clean! Damn morning sun getting in your eyes!

I f*cking hate spiders.......If one had been it my helmet I would have probably ripped it off and thrown it over a hedge........then stopped....reminded myslef that I am bigger than he is.....walked back...shacken the little sh*t out and replaced. Then carried on to my destination, looking around the helmet (as much as I could see) to make sure none of his mates were still having a party in there!

Spiders.....my only weekness...well that and gorgeous women!
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