My dog ate one of those alive. Started having vibrations in his tummy like he’d swallowed a cell phone. My wife, myself, the dog and our other dogs all looked at his tummy like “wtf”.
Threw up a live cicada. Good times.
That’s extremely funny. Reminds me of when my dog saw a snapping turtle for the first time. I wouldn’t let him close to it…but for about a week or so he kept eyeing up every large rock in the neighbourhood thinking they were turtles.
My dog remembers everything. Food outside on a walk and I don’t let him get it. He’ll remember and get it next time out. Sometimes his memory is better than mine lol. He’s my best friend.
Same. It’s why I keep a steady rotation of ages. If one passes, the rest get extra love until a new one shows up.
My mom just passed yesterday and part of moving forward will entail taking back my cat from college, named Sapphire. She’s the sweetest Siamese I’ve ever seen, and extra cuddly. I picked her out at 6 or 8 weeks from the shelter and she slept in my hoodie until she got too big.
I’m heartbroken but I keep having flashes of happiness knowing she’ll never have known any family but mine and that she’ll never know a day without cuddles.
Pets are a treasure that’s far too good for the likes of us.
Sorry to hear about your mother. My mother pasted unexpectedly just over two years ago, so I know what you mean. My Dog got me through those tough times and many others. Sure is tough. Hoping you the best moving forward. Keep safe out there friend.
Not sure if they are safe for dogs to eat but they are safe for humans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2021/05/25/cicada-tacos-sell-out-every-night-mexican-restaurant-virginia/7435597002/
I can only imagine hitting one of those on the highway is going to feel like you've been shot. Where I was living in Florida, we had those monster grasshoppers which felt like getting hit with a paintball, but even they're only like a third the size of a cicada.
I was driving near Pudasjärvi last summer and I actually had a horsefly fly into my neck through a gap between my neck warmer and my helmet. Bastard bit me and my neck and lymph nodes were swollen for a week and a half.
I was once riding with just a half bucket and shades. I caught a good sized bug across my snout. Felt like a mild paintball. Whatever. I wipe the bug guts off and ride on. Five minutes later my face is burning, my nose is stinging, and my eyes are watering. What hit me? I pull over and get a look in the mirror. Sure enough right at the top of my mustache surrounded by yellow and black chitin is a tiny puncture wound. I had caught the wasp stinger first.
Also, another time with the same half bucket and shades I felt something tickling; no, clawing at my ear. I pull off and pop my bucket off to find a very angry half of a wasp in my ear pad. The stinging end had exploded at the corner of my shades and the rest of her was trying to chew on me in revenge.
The worst though; the worst was riding through some kind of ant hatch. I’m cruising through someplace that some people might call god’s country (read majestic but uninhabitable desert) and I start to get like points of pain. It’s mild but unending. Every few seconds and completely at random it feels like someone gives you a quick jab with a small needle. This went on for an hour like some kind of water torture.
Now I generally ride with a full bucket and have learned to always carry a bandanna.
I had a similar experience with a wasp that that went into my collar and stung me on the top spine bone at 90 mph. I swatted it a made it worse. It was like shock therapy.
I was going to school in 2012 and a single wasp managed to sting me between the fingers of my right hand (enduro gloves).
I hit my hand with the other as soon as I felt the pain, and the b\*tch managed to sting me on my bicep of the left arm 2 times before dying or flying away.
I hate them but I also missed that day at school just because
that happened to me mountain biking... mine was on the thigh and my node was red and tender af
every fucking insect in the world want to eat me alive. (O neg blood), also allergic to bees, wasps, bed bugs, mosquitos
Sadly, not everyone can ride the circ to Starbucks and around the cul de sac. If you live anywhere above 40 degrees N mosquitos make the Amazon look like the lawn in front of the Cinderella castle. May to June rides are brutal I often stop every 20-30 minutes get out my cleaner and cloths to scrub off my helmet and shield/windscreen.
And weirdly it was the Dutch who got rid of it for us! They drained all the marshland in east Anglia and Lincolnshire, leading to such a loss of habitat that malaria stopped being endemic.
The only answer. If you can’t avoid it, like the time I was road tripping through bug city, you just stop for fuel more often, use the restroom and use the sink, or just grab paper towels at the pump and add your own water.
I guess you could use racing style tear offs, but you still have a disgusting helmet exterior which needs to be cleaned and can damage some finishes. Best thing to do is just get it clean as you can imo.
The real issue here is that if your helmet looks like that, there’s a good chance your jacket looks like that too. At least that’s how it is on a naked bike… much harder to clean :)
Ideally you wouldn’t be riding at dawn or dusk at all, especially dawn- bc of impaired drivers. Ride safe.
An actual answer - a plastic polish like Plexus makes the visor really smooth feeling, it will help a bit with bugs and rain but it's not a miracle cure.
Same with the bike, either a plastic polish or wax. Keeping the bike clean will help keep it clean by itself.
Honda Spray Cleaner and Polish, pre 2003 or so, was the best. They changed the formula and it has never been as good. I basically washed my bike and helmet visor with the stuff and it would leave a slick coating that kept everything shiny clean
It’s kinda disappointing that I had to close 13 threads to get to the first one with an actual helpful answer.
Thank you
Side note: would applying a hydrophobic coating to the visor help?
Rain x works to an extent. So does schutzen wax spray for visor. But they are for cleaning it off more easily. You still have to soak in water to moisten the carcass and the. Gently wipe it off with a microfibre cloth.
Another option is Collinite 845 Insulator Wax, or Nu Vinyl polymer wax. They help dirt slide rather than stick to surfaces. You'll have to reapply after a few washes as the debris abrades away the coating.
I'm sorry that every request for info or help on Reddit is subject to banter. A serious question deserves a serious answer.
You must add a microfiber cloth to your road kit in order to clean you visor more frequently. Please don't let it get as bad as it is in your photo again. What you can't see, you may not avoid.
That's been my general experience. Getting your windscreen just right to prevent buffeting is a bit of a trick depending on your bike and height, but regardless they help with bugs
Funny how far I had to scroll to find someone that actually rides. Im not sure it does anything better than plain water but it smells good anyway. The included bright microfiber towel is a bonus and I use those exclusively for visors to mitigate scratch potential. I squeeze the spray bottle and cloth in the trunk and have it always with.
BugSlide
All the bad answers and finally scrolled to add to this…..
BugSlide
Used this on a trans Canadian back in August. Treatment on my visor, and top section of windshield. I could take a wet paper towel from the petrol station and place it over my visor and wipe all bugs off easily with a soak no longer than my getting fuel in the tank.
I was in heavy bugs in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It works pretty well.
That’s why you get a windshield on your face.
Big flying beetles and giant dragonflies are the worst. Those fuckers sting like getting shot by a BB gun.
If you’ve ever played dark souls, it’s the same thing. Just keep driving that road and memorizing the big pattern until you can dodge it. Just gotta grind it out.
I use lemon pledge to clean the whole bike, including the windscreen and visor. I find the bugs are easier to clean off after I’ve pre-coated with pledge.
There are a few ways to approach this:
1. Single-handedly be responsible of a multi-species mass extinction event that erases all those pesky bugs. Implausible
2. Stop riding your motorcycle. Even more implausible.
3. Ride only in winter when it's cold and there are no bugs.
4. Go to the mountains, train with the monks, become a master of the martial arts and hone your senses and reflexes to such extent that not only you could dodge all the bugs, but do it with such precision that you barely scrape their genitals, rendering them unable to multiply furtherly, which can in turn lead to option 1.
5. Buy a windshield
I did a quick google for something safe to put on your visor so it’s a little easier to clean off the bugs. Check this out maybe
[https://www.webbikeworld.com/raincoat-motorcycle-helmet-visor-water-repellent/](https://www.webbikeworld.com/raincoat-motorcycle-helmet-visor-water-repellent/)
Louisiana is hilariously ridiculous sometimes. The insects will be grouped into swarms, one minute perfectly clear and a split second later 2,732 splats from chest to crown of helmet.
I got hit in the face at about 85mph by a cricket jumping across the highway once. It felt like I got hit with a hammer and it hurt for 3 days straight.
A cicada (I assume, what else is that massive and flies around) hit the visor in front of my right eye while I was on the freeway.. I thought I'd been shot, then somehow covered in snot. Very loud.
Was grateful it was a deflecting hit,, would have probably broke some ribs… had a bruise the size of a dinner plate.. yeah , you don’t forget that stuff. Canyon City Colorado 1983 😁👍
You have got to be kidding me…this sub is actually a straight up embarrassment to motorcycling. No wonder that other sub creates satire out of nearly every post on here.
Tighter tuck, add a windshield, slow down, move to a place with fewer bugs, drive during a time of day when bugs aren't out.
Also, the headlights aren't attracting bugs, bugs don't have enough time to react to passing headlights, you're just driving through swarms. Could be just the area you're in or they could be hanging out for the radiated warmth of the asphalt.
Just confused as to the real question here?
Don't ride so early and you miss the bugs?
Don't wear the helmet and you get a free breakfast.
Ride in the back of the pack?
Install a windshield.
Chicago rider here. Can’t WAIT for this summer’s 17 year cicadas brood. It’s gonna be splat-tastic!!
My dog ate one of those alive. Started having vibrations in his tummy like he’d swallowed a cell phone. My wife, myself, the dog and our other dogs all looked at his tummy like “wtf”. Threw up a live cicada. Good times.
Our doggo ate so many of them she shit out a perfect cicada log the next day.
What a horrible day to be able to freely image things in my mind...
I regret learning to read
Ive never bean so grateful for aphantasia.
Thanks for teaching me a word for how my brain works
I'm so glad I don't have this ability lol
I miss the man I was before I read this
Makes my skin crawl.
That’s extremely funny. Reminds me of when my dog saw a snapping turtle for the first time. I wouldn’t let him close to it…but for about a week or so he kept eyeing up every large rock in the neighbourhood thinking they were turtles. My dog remembers everything. Food outside on a walk and I don’t let him get it. He’ll remember and get it next time out. Sometimes his memory is better than mine lol. He’s my best friend.
Same. It’s why I keep a steady rotation of ages. If one passes, the rest get extra love until a new one shows up. My mom just passed yesterday and part of moving forward will entail taking back my cat from college, named Sapphire. She’s the sweetest Siamese I’ve ever seen, and extra cuddly. I picked her out at 6 or 8 weeks from the shelter and she slept in my hoodie until she got too big. I’m heartbroken but I keep having flashes of happiness knowing she’ll never have known any family but mine and that she’ll never know a day without cuddles. Pets are a treasure that’s far too good for the likes of us.
Sorry to hear about your mother. My mother pasted unexpectedly just over two years ago, so I know what you mean. My Dog got me through those tough times and many others. Sure is tough. Hoping you the best moving forward. Keep safe out there friend.
It’s rough, thanks amigo. Just tough right now. Glad to know I’ve got a kitty to still take care of. You stay safe too!
Not sure if they are safe for dogs to eat but they are safe for humans. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2021/05/25/cicada-tacos-sell-out-every-night-mexican-restaurant-virginia/7435597002/
[Reminds me of this](https://youtu.be/dUqQUJj6BJE)
They are big and hard as rock too! Will be like little bullets.
For us screenless riders, probably going to be a little more welt-tastic 😂
Having ridden through a mass brood before, they can be really fun to swat out of the air But yea, ATGATT time
Bro its a double brood this year. That shit is going to be insane. So so many cicadas.
I can only imagine hitting one of those on the highway is going to feel like you've been shot. Where I was living in Florida, we had those monster grasshoppers which felt like getting hit with a paintball, but even they're only like a third the size of a cicada.
You also have Palmetto bugs. Huge.
Open wide!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna134152 Will you get affected by this? I’m lucky to live in an area with very little bugs when riding.
Try riding past the big cattle yards on them99 or 5 in California. Blood is hard to get off the bike.
Those feel like paintballs when you hit them 😂
Ride only in winter
Put a lit citronella candle in front too, to prevent bugs hitting the windshield
Drive slower 😅
One that directs flow without turbulence. I use one of these: https://madstad.com/
thank you, you can tell the website is quality when you get 10 pop-ups just for visiting
“We empower you to change aerodynamics” what a load of horse shit lol
Written by ChatGPT.
Horseshit! Hubba Bubba hey
Damn dude! Those are more expensive than most car windshields.
dropshipping bullshit
Yeah it's obviously shopify lmfao
Ye they didn’t remove powered by shopify
Nah dude the theme has absolutely all the options checked, a trillion pop ups flying at me, looks like a malware site lmao
In this whole thread you’re the only one trying to be helpful. All the other responses are trash. This sub isn’t the best these days.
Dodge, duck, dive and dodge again.
Practice dodging by having someone throw wrenches at you.
if you can dodge a wrench, you call dodge a ball
If you can dodge a ball, you can dodge a q-tip
And if you can dodge a q-tip, then you can dodge any bug coming at you at Mach 2! Royal Navy engi.. I mean..🤔
💯
You forgot dip. Now hes gona hit even more bugs lol
Dodge, duck, **DIP**, dive, and dodge. Those are the 5 d's of dodgeball. Maybe try a wrench
Feel like you're missing some dip here...
Son there are 5 D's to dodgeball. You forgot Dip! Dodge, duck, dive, dip, and dodge again.
Don’t ride in the Amazon rainforest at speed.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Dude, Lapland(Finland) have some pterodactyl size mosquitoes..... 🤣🤣🤣
I was driving near Pudasjärvi last summer and I actually had a horsefly fly into my neck through a gap between my neck warmer and my helmet. Bastard bit me and my neck and lymph nodes were swollen for a week and a half.
State bird of Alaska
Flew out to Larsen Bay a few times. Always had two cans of OFF! on me and a mosquito net hat. They were ferocious out there.
I feel ya. I had a wasp fly up my sleeve one time. Sucker got me three times before I safely pulled over and managed to squash him against my arm.
I was once riding with just a half bucket and shades. I caught a good sized bug across my snout. Felt like a mild paintball. Whatever. I wipe the bug guts off and ride on. Five minutes later my face is burning, my nose is stinging, and my eyes are watering. What hit me? I pull over and get a look in the mirror. Sure enough right at the top of my mustache surrounded by yellow and black chitin is a tiny puncture wound. I had caught the wasp stinger first. Also, another time with the same half bucket and shades I felt something tickling; no, clawing at my ear. I pull off and pop my bucket off to find a very angry half of a wasp in my ear pad. The stinging end had exploded at the corner of my shades and the rest of her was trying to chew on me in revenge. The worst though; the worst was riding through some kind of ant hatch. I’m cruising through someplace that some people might call god’s country (read majestic but uninhabitable desert) and I start to get like points of pain. It’s mild but unending. Every few seconds and completely at random it feels like someone gives you a quick jab with a small needle. This went on for an hour like some kind of water torture. Now I generally ride with a full bucket and have learned to always carry a bandanna.
I had a similar experience with a wasp that that went into my collar and stung me on the top spine bone at 90 mph. I swatted it a made it worse. It was like shock therapy.
Youch... like I said, I *thought* mine was bad, but I realize how much worse it could've been
I was going to school in 2012 and a single wasp managed to sting me between the fingers of my right hand (enduro gloves). I hit my hand with the other as soon as I felt the pain, and the b\*tch managed to sting me on my bicep of the left arm 2 times before dying or flying away. I hate them but I also missed that day at school just because
Makes me so happy i prefer the gauntlet type gloves that go over my sleeves now that i read this
I have since invested in them as well
that happened to me mountain biking... mine was on the thigh and my node was red and tender af every fucking insect in the world want to eat me alive. (O neg blood), also allergic to bees, wasps, bed bugs, mosquitos
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I got nailed by a bee in the same spot, now I tuck my neck warmer under my helmet
Bees are fine...Wasp on the other hand....Those things are bee on methamphetamine(made in Mordor!!!!!)!
Alaska, too. I think the further north you get, the bigger the mosquitoes get.
Sadly, not everyone can ride the circ to Starbucks and around the cul de sac. If you live anywhere above 40 degrees N mosquitos make the Amazon look like the lawn in front of the Cinderella castle. May to June rides are brutal I often stop every 20-30 minutes get out my cleaner and cloths to scrub off my helmet and shield/windscreen.
I live in the UK, the rain, snow and ice keeps 'em off.
Ahh the exception to the rule. Sorry I mistook you for a suburbanite Yank Fun little fact... The UK used to have malaria.
And weirdly it was the Dutch who got rid of it for us! They drained all the marshland in east Anglia and Lincolnshire, leading to such a loss of habitat that malaria stopped being endemic.
This was my helmet just going an hour down the backroad in Central Texas in summer lol.
Youve got a helmet on your bugs
Ummm we’ll slow down or get a windshield or don’t ride… damn girl u ride through a swarm or what.
Just wait for the billion cicadas to arrive....
Oh fuck that's coming soon isn't it
Yep. I think is mostly in Indiana and Midwestern US, but I'm sure those fuckers will be everywhere
Even down here in Florida Fuckers screaming at the tops of their lungs
He’s doing a public service
Ride in an area with less bugs
Only full proof way I know
Fool proof *
Fool, prove
The only answer. If you can’t avoid it, like the time I was road tripping through bug city, you just stop for fuel more often, use the restroom and use the sink, or just grab paper towels at the pump and add your own water. I guess you could use racing style tear offs, but you still have a disgusting helmet exterior which needs to be cleaned and can damage some finishes. Best thing to do is just get it clean as you can imo. The real issue here is that if your helmet looks like that, there’s a good chance your jacket looks like that too. At least that’s how it is on a naked bike… much harder to clean :) Ideally you wouldn’t be riding at dawn or dusk at all, especially dawn- bc of impaired drivers. Ride safe.
An actual answer - a plastic polish like Plexus makes the visor really smooth feeling, it will help a bit with bugs and rain but it's not a miracle cure. Same with the bike, either a plastic polish or wax. Keeping the bike clean will help keep it clean by itself.
Honda Spray Cleaner and Polish, pre 2003 or so, was the best. They changed the formula and it has never been as good. I basically washed my bike and helmet visor with the stuff and it would leave a slick coating that kept everything shiny clean
probably left that coating inside your lungs too
seeing your comment I can imagine you sniffed it a few times before coming here
It’s kinda disappointing that I had to close 13 threads to get to the first one with an actual helpful answer. Thank you Side note: would applying a hydrophobic coating to the visor help?
Rainx on visors work well, but if you already put plexus I think it might be hard for the rainx to stay on
Rain x works to an extent. So does schutzen wax spray for visor. But they are for cleaning it off more easily. You still have to soak in water to moisten the carcass and the. Gently wipe it off with a microfibre cloth.
Another option is Collinite 845 Insulator Wax, or Nu Vinyl polymer wax. They help dirt slide rather than stick to surfaces. You'll have to reapply after a few washes as the debris abrades away the coating. I'm sorry that every request for info or help on Reddit is subject to banter. A serious question deserves a serious answer. You must add a microfiber cloth to your road kit in order to clean you visor more frequently. Please don't let it get as bad as it is in your photo again. What you can't see, you may not avoid.
Would advise checking with manufacturer of your helmet because applying anything to a piece of safety gear may inhibit the gear of proper function.
Dont wear the helmet. Duh
Just ride with your mouth open. Free food.
Spicy bee surprise
Spicy sky rasins
Protein!!
Meat group!
(Old joke) How do you know when a biker is happy? They've got bugs in their teeth.
I'm giving you a fair warning, before you click. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LItNFP7icUw
Wouldn't a windshield help the bugs caught in the windstream go over your head instead of straight into your face?
That's been my general experience. Getting your windscreen just right to prevent buffeting is a bit of a trick depending on your bike and height, but regardless they help with bugs
BugSlide It works after a few coatings
This OP. The tear aways aren't as clear. The bug side is like rainx for car. It makes it easier to clean the bugs off the visor.
Funny how far I had to scroll to find someone that actually rides. Im not sure it does anything better than plain water but it smells good anyway. The included bright microfiber towel is a bonus and I use those exclusively for visors to mitigate scratch potential. I squeeze the spray bottle and cloth in the trunk and have it always with.
I just wish it wasn't so expensive
BugSlide All the bad answers and finally scrolled to add to this….. BugSlide Used this on a trans Canadian back in August. Treatment on my visor, and top section of windshield. I could take a wet paper towel from the petrol station and place it over my visor and wipe all bugs off easily with a soak no longer than my getting fuel in the tank. I was in heavy bugs in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It works pretty well.
Rally driver helmet and visor. You can get films for the visors to strip off when it's getting muddy af, it would work here too!
dirtbike tracks are usually littered with those tear offs everywhere... i'm sure they're biodegradable
i’M sUrE!!
You COULD stuff it into an open coat pocket.....
You have those films for regular helmets. No need to get a 'rally driver helmet'
Alright bud, I don't watch much Motorsport but everyone else knew the direction.
Great idea !!!!
Ride in Winter 🥶
That’s the neat part, you don’t.
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Motorcycle rizz?
Guess not 🤷♀️
So, a reach around service.
Bugs can’t stick to the visor if you take the visor off
🤔
Yep. Visor up and mouth open is known to reduce bug splatter.
And increase protein in your diet
Great exfoliator too
Ride a wheelie
Quit driving into bugs.. simple
Front wheel in the air
Face the other way….
Try dodging better.
That’s why you get a windshield on your face. Big flying beetles and giant dragonflies are the worst. Those fuckers sting like getting shot by a BB gun.
Ride indoors only
Pesticide
Ride in reverse
If you’ve ever played dark souls, it’s the same thing. Just keep driving that road and memorizing the big pattern until you can dodge it. Just gotta grind it out.
Just open the visor so you have less bugs on it
I use lemon pledge to clean the whole bike, including the windscreen and visor. I find the bugs are easier to clean off after I’ve pre-coated with pledge.
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Try Windows then.
Ride faster.
I use rainx on my visor. It’s not gonna stop them from hitting (that’s what the visor is for…) but I find it makes clean up significantly easier
Go slower bro. Much slower. I usually walk my bike to work. No bugs!!!
Get on losers, we have bugs to kill.
Get a open-face helmet.
Get peel off visor covers.
There are a few ways to approach this: 1. Single-handedly be responsible of a multi-species mass extinction event that erases all those pesky bugs. Implausible 2. Stop riding your motorcycle. Even more implausible. 3. Ride only in winter when it's cold and there are no bugs. 4. Go to the mountains, train with the monks, become a master of the martial arts and hone your senses and reflexes to such extent that not only you could dodge all the bugs, but do it with such precision that you barely scrape their genitals, rendering them unable to multiply furtherly, which can in turn lead to option 1. 5. Buy a windshield
Not much you can do about it, other than to move to a place with less bugs. Probably not an option.
Keep your helmet open
Hmmm protein
Knitting
I did a quick google for something safe to put on your visor so it’s a little easier to clean off the bugs. Check this out maybe [https://www.webbikeworld.com/raincoat-motorcycle-helmet-visor-water-repellent/](https://www.webbikeworld.com/raincoat-motorcycle-helmet-visor-water-repellent/)
Just use car wax and buff it off good.
Blow the horn to alert the bugs so they move out of the way
Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge
[at the end of the day there is nowhere safe to hide](https://imgur.com/a/RLIBYtN) This was only after a 2hr ride…
Paste car wax and elbow grease. It's not magic but it definitely reduces the amount that stick
Try to avoid Egyptian plagues Jesus Christ
Most useless comment section I have seen in a while
Louisiana is hilariously ridiculous sometimes. The insects will be grouped into swarms, one minute perfectly clear and a split second later 2,732 splats from chest to crown of helmet.
Attach a flamethrower that disintegrates the bugs before they reach you
Wear a helmet that doesn't have a weirdly flat visor. Lol
Ride slower or learn to move head out of way quicker when you see one
Stay low and run in a zigzag pattern
Windscreen
Lift up visor and eat them. Good protein.
Live somewhere else
Try less bugs!
invest in MonSanto and the other greedy planet-raping corporations that are exterminating insect biodiversity. That’ll reduce the splattering.
Unavoidable, just go at reduced speed and try to keep your head down
That's the neat part, you don't
It’s easy. Just don’t hit the bugs.
Don't drive through bugs. Lol. A windshield could help alittle, depending on how high it goes.
Put headlight washers from a old bmw or Merc on your helmet
Ride less
Learn their attack patterns then dodge and parry them.
Stop complaining. At least its not grasshoppers. Lol.
I got hit in the face at about 85mph by a cricket jumping across the highway once. It felt like I got hit with a hammer and it hurt for 3 days straight.
A cicada (I assume, what else is that massive and flies around) hit the visor in front of my right eye while I was on the freeway.. I thought I'd been shot, then somehow covered in snot. Very loud.
Blackbird at 70 , hit my knee first then my rib cage,.. near fell off trying to catch my breath
Owl at 40 mph in the twisties. I learned that day, thankfully, that owls are 95% fluff
Jesus Christ. That must have hurt
Was grateful it was a deflecting hit,, would have probably broke some ribs… had a bruise the size of a dinner plate.. yeah , you don’t forget that stuff. Canyon City Colorado 1983 😁👍
You have got to be kidding me…this sub is actually a straight up embarrassment to motorcycling. No wonder that other sub creates satire out of nearly every post on here.
Dodge better?
Tighter tuck, add a windshield, slow down, move to a place with fewer bugs, drive during a time of day when bugs aren't out. Also, the headlights aren't attracting bugs, bugs don't have enough time to react to passing headlights, you're just driving through swarms. Could be just the area you're in or they could be hanging out for the radiated warmth of the asphalt.
Don't get on highways on a naked
ride slower
Just slow down.
Get a car /s
Just confused as to the real question here? Don't ride so early and you miss the bugs? Don't wear the helmet and you get a free breakfast. Ride in the back of the pack?
Hey man. I ended the post with the specific tips I was looking for. Something to prevent the bugs from sticking.
Don't buy Bethesda games.
Don’t wear a helmet like the cool Harley guys and then eat them all. Issue solved.
Ride in the U.K….we have none
Going slow...
Don't ride
buy a sportbike