flys wasps etc

[Liverpoolrobb...]

little buggers when your cruising around with your visor up cause its hot and the little shits fly in to your eye!

ive had to clear 2 from my eye 2day not impressed

[Steve H]

I've suffered from hayfever for years so always have a little bottle of eye drops with me. Something like opticrom or optrex (Approx 3 quid over the counter at a Chemist) will easily fit into a small pocket or even under your seat and is handy should you get something on your eye whilst riding.
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[dransy]

i was stook in traffic the other day was goin about 20-25 mph so gentle pace had visor up as was a nice day and i got a midge straight in my eye my eye waterd up like crazyso i had to close it!
was very hard riding with 1 eye as there was no where to pull over i shit meself lol
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[Akiraprise]

the little ones are annoying, I have to pullover, take off my fgloves and attempt to get the bugger out lol.

I tell you what nothing's been as bad as a bee that flew into my eye the other day THAT hurt, like a big thud and my eye poured out water, lol nasty.

[stinkwheel]

Wraparound shades
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[doggone]

Shades are quite good I agree!
Some of those midge-like ones must produce an irritant designed to stop things eating them, they can really sting in your eye.

[dransy]

[stinkwheel]

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[JonB]

One of life's mysteries...

Why, when your preliferal vision is confined to quite a large area does EVERYTIME a fly manages to find it's way into the middle of your eye?
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[nick_surty]

a bumblebee hit me today, luckily i had my visor down and was only doing about 45 on my ped. hit like a bloomin stone though!

[Visitor Q]

Blink and hold

Crush the fucker to death

Besides, if you see my helmet or anyone else on a big bike, youd never ever ride with your visor up. Im gonna get a sticker saying flyswatter on it.

As for glasses, i loathe riding in them, fucks with your peripheral vision. Sunglasses are quite naughty, ask Steve H about injuries in crashes.
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[stinkwheel]

[DEN MONKEY]

Ok so most of you have had a close relationship with the odd fly or 2 and I do enjoy riding with my visor up every now and then.
However this thread got me to thinking..... Yeah yeah it happens every now and then.
A little while back I was following a truck in my car and must have been about 30-40 feet behind it, but it still managed to shoot a small stone out the back and leave a big dirty arsed crack in my windscreen. Hit the screen with a god almighty CRACK and I near shit meself.
So 2 questions I guess.
1. Any one ever been hit with a stone shot out from a tyre or heard about it?
2. If the response to q1 is no then how do you suppose a standard visor or glasses are goin to stand up to that sort of ammo??

My guess is not real ferkin good.

[mchaggis]

It's worst when one goes right in one eye, and then while you're furiously blinking and trying to clear it, something else smacks you in the other eye. I was only doing about 40, so it was a case of hazard lights on and trying to get stopped without crashing, which was fun. (I've since learnt my lesson, keep the visor down at anything above about 25..)
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[stinkwheel]

It bloody hurts! Got hit in the knee with a big huge one when I was over in Ireland a couple of years ago. I reckon my visor would have stopped it though.

My mate got a right good black-eye from a stone, he had "split windscreen" style goggles on at the time which also stopped it.
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[mosdelln]

Once in the country road i was doing a steady 70 and the na small bird went straight into my arm, wobbled me abit but i thought bloody hell, i wonder how the bird felt lol

[ali-b]

Following a mate at about 70, a stone got flicked up from his bike and hit my visor on the side and pinged off...no damage at all...I guess it'll depend on speed and angle of 'attack' of the stone...

[biggerjohn]

I shot one of my brother’s old lids repeatedly at point blank range with an Air rifle many moons ago and it stopped every thing just fine.

And this was with a knackered old abused lid and visor

I also learn that catching a ricocheting pellet with a bollock really sodding hurts

[headlamp]

However frustrating it is in this weather to ride with the visor down, I'd always recommend it. In dry conditions, gravel and other bits from the road do tend to fly up - and if you are hit directly in the eye at say 40mph you are more than likely going to get permanently blinded!

Secondly flies, wasps, bees etc are so annoying! Even when going slowly they will fly into your face - and make their way to your ear - especially if you are wearing a full face helmet. I have had a number that have somehow got under my visor (slightly open for ventilation purposes), then casually flown into my ear. For the rest of the journey you are accompanied with a buzzing sound and an interminable itch as the creature tries to extricate itself from your ear wax!
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[lilredmachine]

My dad got a brick from between the rear wheels of a big truck through the windscreen of his Dutton a few years ago. Kept driving and got home covered in glass and flies

A bloody great huge bee hit my chinguard on my helmet today- BANG- really surprised me.
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[Liverpoolrobb...]

1 of the lads has a old lid and was having a boxing match with a mate needles to say the lad who was punching hurt his knuckles many a time

[Gazdaman]

I had a stone hit me right between the eyes once. That was pretty scary.

I've also had some massive flies commit suicide on my visor. They leave THE biggest splodge of dead fly crap you have to stop and wipe it off.

Gaz