Well that's pretty creepy!

[Kram]

Windscreen wipers of some sort would be nice.

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Many years ago (6 volt headlight, so speed not that rapid) I was riding along in the dark and saw a small creature crossing the road ahead - the next second I found myself fending off a large owl shaped object which appeared from the night, and I thought they were meant to be wise!

 

[zeppelin builder]

Just been out for a ride on the bike, weather's marginal but I still go up to Middway cafe in the a41 for bike night every Thursday. On the way back, it's dark, loads of oncoming traffic so I have my visor flipped halfway up to see better. Something hard whacks me in the cheek, and I see it bounce off towards my screen, small, black, then it's gone. Stings like hell but feels like there's itchy stuff on my cheek and ear. Pulled over, had a look by streetlight, thought maybe it was blood, but I can see nothing.

I've just arrived home and had a good look and found half dozen tiny little brown crablike things scurrying about on the edge of my helmet lining and a couple on my face. Maybe 1.5mm across.


What the hell are they? What hit me that flies and carries baby crabs? A flying crab? I've sprayed me helmet with bug spray now, and I feel itchy all over. Ewwwwwwww..

its a large black and orange striped carrion beetle they ,feed on road kill etc had one flew in the window one evening was flying about like a drunk bumble bee horrible thing about an inch long sqaushed it when it settled on the window and was amazed to see lots of wee i presume its young scurrying out from under its wings

 

[Kram]

On another occasion a large bird, crow or rook made a large deposit on my visor, thankfully closed!

This pic after most had been washed off by heavy rain, but not heavy enough!
Riding about 40mph approaching a village with trees arching above the road and I have no idea what it was, but the bike felt it!

 

[zeppelin builder]

With the fine road spray coming off the tyres of a hundred trucks the visor soon gets pretty opaque.
Windscreen wipers of some sort would be nice. Riding bikes is hazardous at best, suicidal at worst, so you have to take the good with the bad. Creepy crawlies included.

after driving past a country loch one balmy late summers eve on a ducati 851 my visor instanly went all gungy with flies , no probs visor up ,iwas giving it big licks nearing home when a bat flew inside my ear , well rapid down changes and neary stoppying to a halt a few thou off a wicker fence i ripped the helmet off and dead offender fell out , at the time it was in the papers that a guy got rabies from a bat bite in an english lab , so i was saying to myself please dont bite me you b,,,,,d

no meat loaf jokes please !

 

[Morrisman]

its a large black and orange striped carrion beetle they ,feed on road kill etc had one flew in the window one evening was flying about like a drunk bumble bee horrible thing about an inch long sqaushed it when it settled on the window and was amazed to see lots of wee i presume its young scurrying out from under its wings

This thing looked the size of a small grape, from the brief glimpse I got as it bounced off my face and back into the screen. It was definitely a hefty thing. And definitely left some of its offspring behind.

 

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This pic after most had been washed off by heavy rain, but not heavy enough!
Riding about 40mph approaching a village with trees arching above the road and I have no idea what it was, but the bike felt it!

Might have been a rare flying pig...

 

[Cobbler]

Might have been a rare flying pig...

Can’t be, they are all in Westminster at the moment!

 

[R Kraft]

Back in the 80's a friend of mine caught crabs, told us what he had done to get rid of them, shaved his sack, washed in petrol, then in bleach. I got them a few weeks later.... bottle of Prioderm, job done. It's used for head lice, nits, on kids. So it works on nuts too

Wash in petrol, dry with a match,100% cure rate, plus immunity.

 

[cardiffrob]

Closest I've come is flying at Mach 0.82 straight into the hail coming off the top of a big CB cloud. Rattled the glass a little bit.

Hit a few seagulls over the years. They kinda explode.

 

[stuvy]

Some years ago my other half managed to close her visor with a wasp on the inside. We’d got up to speed when she realised the wasp was crawling up the inside of the visor. Much screaming and pounding on my back until I stoppe. On another occasion a large bird, crow or rook made a large deposit on my visor, thankfully closed! I’ve also hit both a pheasant and a heron, the heron was a hell of a thump I was doing about 50 at the time.

My mate hit a pigeon on his 125 snapped the screen, broke his visor and threw him in the scenery

 

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I once hit a pigeon on the M40 while doing a "little" over the speed limit. I was very glad I was in a car - I don't think it had noticed my speed and it decided to fly a little late...there was a thump as it hit the front lip of the bonnet, went flying over the car, and all I could see in my mirror was the most enormous cloud of feathers. I can't say I recommend it as a means of high speed plucking.

 

[Morrisman]

I once hit a pigeon on the M40 while doing a "little" over the speed limit. I was very glad I was in a car - I don't think it had noticed my speed and it decided to fly a little late...there was a thump as it hit the front lip of the bonnet, went flying over the car, and all I could see in my mirror was the most enormous cloud of feathers. I can't say I recommend it as a means of high speed plucking.

I once had a sparrow hit me square in the face, through a 1970's 1mm £0.80p visor, at well over 100 mph, (private road, professional rider) ....it bent the visor in, broke my nose, and never even stopped to see if I was okay.

 

[Cobbler]

A colleague of mine, now sadly departed was in a Ford 110e I think it was, hot day doing about 60 with the quarter light turned right round (old style air conditioning) & a huge bumble shot in through the window hit him smack on the forehead. This stunned him completely & he was alongside a lay-by with a cart selling strawberries. He lost control shot into the lay-by & this was the last thing he remembered, when he came too he was led out in the car as the seat had collapsed red strawberry goo everywhere & the strawberry seller peering in through the remains of the screen saying “are your all right” Both the car & the strawberry cart were a right off.