Oh my god, did I get FREAKED out this morning!!!!

[Road_Clam]

It's 5:10 AM, and I am suiting up for my commute in on the Clam bike, and everything is going smooth, I drive about a mile up the road, and I notice a friggin' HUGE hairy spider crawl down my helmet shield!!(AHHHHHHHHHHH !!!) I try to swat the behemoth freak, but it's on the INSIDE of my shield! I fully open my shield, and tip my head way back so as to blow the monster off my shield, I lower my shield, and GREAT the ba$tard is gone. A mile further down the road, he'es back, and he looks like he is pi$$ed at me, and ready to fight, so I now skid my bike to a frustrated stop, and whip off my helmet and discard once and for all my hairy hitch hiker......

 

[chiphead]

Great story!
Came back from a ride last weekend stuck my hand in my pants pocket and came out with a bee. Both the bee and I weren't too happy.

 

[Zooks]

I stopped by a tree the other day, when I was going for a ride, so I could have a pee. I stuck my hand in my trousers and pulled out an enormous one-eyed snake.
No problem. I do it all the time.


He's generally a friendly fellow.

 

[Guest]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaahhaaaaaaa!Try feeling a little queasy and vomiting in your helmet WITH the visor down.Cheers,Simon.:-D:-D:-D

 

[bonanzadave]

HUGE hairy spider crawl down my shield!!(AHHHHHHHHHHH !!!)

Look like this ?

 

[earlfor]

I'll deal with a alligator first anytime. Never found any of them in my helmet.

Earl

It's 5:10 AM, and I am suiting up for my commute in on the Clam bike, and everything is going smooth, I drive about a mile up the road, and I notice a friggin' HUGE hairy spider crawl down my helmet shield!!(AHHHHHHHHHHH !!!) I try to swat the behemoth freak, but it's on the INSIDE of my shield! I fully open my shield, and tip my head way back so as to blow the monster off my shield, I lower my shield, and GREAT the ba$tard is gone. A mile further down the road, he'es back, and he looks like he is pi$$ed at me, and ready to fight, so I now skid my bike to a frustrated stop, and whip off my helmet and discard once and for all my hairy hitch hiker......

 

[buttonhook]

I was riding through the gap between townsend and maryville(some of you may have been through there) with the face sheild open on my full face helment one super hot night and hit a BAT right in the visor! The bad thing was when it hit, my head snapped back and the visor closed!! So it was just me and the bat in that helmet. And of course I had gloves on and in my panic, I couldn't get the visor open or get the helmet off.....

I don't remember how it came to be, but me and that bat somehow came to an agreement. That if it didn't bite me before i could get pulled over, then I wouldn't have to run into a tree and kill BOTH of us.

Of course the bat did die (60 mph impact with my face) and I had bat blood/$hit all over my face and a huge bruise between my eyes for a week or two.
I have to tell you there is nothing like a live mammal trapped in your helmet to get you to apprecate a good june bug every now and then.


My friends still laugh about that one.

 

[earlfor]

Hmmmm, sounds like a memorable time was had by all. LOL I once came within four inches of having the same thing happen with a vulture.

Earl

I was riding through the gap between townsend and maryville(some of you may have been through there) with the face sheild open on my full face helment one super hot night and hit a BAT right in the visor! The bad thing was when it hit, my head snapped back and the visor closed!! So it was just me and the bat in that helmet. And of course I had gloves on and in my panic, I couldn't get the visor open or I couldn't get the helmet off.....

I don't remember how it came to be, but me and that bat somehow came to an agreement. That if it didn't bite me before i could get pulled over, then I wouldn't have to run into a tree and kill BOTH of us.

Of course the bat did die (60 mph impact with my face) and I had bat blood/$hit all over my face and a huge bruise between my eyes for a week or two.
I have to tell you there is nothing like a live mammal trapped in your helmet to get you to apprecate a good june bug every now and then.


My friends still laugh about that one.

 

[buttonhook]

Hmmmm, sounds like a memorable time was had by all. LOL I once came within four inches of having the same thing happen with a vulture.

Earl

That might have taken longer to talk yourself out of

 

[bubbabland]

pheasant anyone?

pheasant anyone?

Riding through Central Illinois...had a pheasant come through fairing windshield and hit me in the chest. I was going 70 mph...he was probably going 15. Only thing that kept me on the bike was that my feet literally caught on the handlebars as I was rolling off the back of the bike. Sat up and managed to get the thing stopped. Couldn't see anything because of all the feathers and blood on helmet visor. Car saw it happen and came back to assist. They thought I was seriously injured because of all the blood...but only had a bruise the size of a basketball on my chest. Gotta love NATURE!!! Took up pheasant hunting (with shotgun...not bike) that fall!

 

[seuadr]

I have to tell you there is nothing like a live mammal trapped in your helmet.

that is totally going in my signature line

 

[Dogma]

that is totally going in my signature line

Bagged it for my quotes file.

 

[buttonhook]

Glad I could help. Even the blind squirel finds an acorn every now and again.


The story is even funnier in person(hand gestures, prop rubber bat, and all). I don't tell it in front of my friends who were there anymore, because I fear for their health. They tend to start making some high pitched noises, quit breathing, and fall on the floor. I'm afraid one of them is going to blow a gasket.

Really at the time I didn't think is was that funny. I was following some friends of mine. They said they saw my head light go straight up, down, left, right, left, then no head light then straight up again, off road, on road. They thought I was having some kind of seizure. When I got stopped and took my helmet off, the bat come out and they all just fell on the ground laughing uncontrollaby. I was like thank for you concern you SOB's. Who needs enemies..........

I really can't describe the feeling of a bat flopping and clawing against your face inside your helmet while still trying to keep the perfect line through the twisties with on coming traffic on one side and a cliff on the other
you know once bitten.......

 

[jola]

Wow. And I thought bugs splatting my visor was bad. :shock:

 

[Billyboy]

I have to tell you there is nothing like a live mammal trapped in your helmet to get you to apprecate a good june bug every now and then.


My friends still laugh about that one.

HAHAHAHA!!!!:-D:-D
LOLed

 

[Guest]

Riding through Central Illinois...had a pheasant come through fairing windshield and hit me in the chest. I was going 70 mph...he was probably going 15. Only thing that kept me on the bike was that my feet literally caught on the handlebars as I was rolling off the back of the bike. Sat up and managed to get the thing stopped. Couldn't see anything because of all the feathers and blood on helmet visor. Car saw it happen and came back to assist. They thought I was seriously injured because of all the blood...but only had a bruise the size of a basketball on my chest. Gotta love NATURE!!! Took up pheasant hunting (with shotgun...not bike) that fall!

Same thing, except a crow hit me square in the chest at 75mph. Damm that hurt. Almost knocked me off the bike. I had to pull over and get my breath back. At first I did not know what happened until I saw all the feathers stuck in my jacket.

 

[PAULYBOY]

Last time i took a New England vaca, back to my fatherland, i got bit by something big and venemous on the shin. Didn't think much of it at the time, but a week later my leg swelled, I had a 103 fever, and it finally started to seep through an open wound. 30 days off work on my back, lotsa pills, permenent crater in the shin, and i didn't even own a motorcycle at the time. Dammit, thats what was missing! The bike!

 

[Karl]

I was riding through the gap between townsend and maryville(some of you may have been through there) with the face sheild open on my full face helment one super hot night and hit a BAT right in the visor! The bad thing was when it hit, my head snapped back and the visor closed!! So it was just me and the bat in that helmet. And of course I had gloves on and in my panic, I couldn't get the visor open or get the helmet off.....

I don't remember how it came to be, but me and that bat somehow came to an agreement. That if it didn't bite me before i could get pulled over, then I wouldn't have to run into a tree and kill BOTH of us.

Of course the bat did die (60 mph impact with my face) and I had bat blood/$hit all over my face and a huge bruise between my eyes for a week or two.
I have to tell you there is nothing like a live mammal trapped in your helmet to get you to apprecate a good june bug every now and then.


My friends still laugh about that one.

Alot of these stories freak me out (esp. the BIG birds), but I gotta tell you, if this had happened to me I would have crapped my pants and had a heart attack and falling off the bike would just be incidental. You are a man, buttonhook!

 

[buttonhook]

Alot of these stories freak me out (esp. the BIG birds), but I gotta tell you, if this had happened to me I would have crapped my pants and had a heart attack and falling off the bike would just be incidental. You are a man, buttonhook!

I don't know about that. I can tell you there was no way I was falling off...because the seat had sucked so far up my butt. PUCKER FACTOR WAS HIGH! I have to tell you the after taste of seat vinyl still lingers with me a little bit.

I think that story is one of the reasons I bought he HJC FS-10 helmet this time. (it has a second shaded shield inside)

 

[Jethro]

Oh christ, that would have freaked me out too! I keep all my gear in the man room downstairs, which is cool and good spider grounds. I check my gear before putting it on just becasue of this!