| Author | Message | ||
     Reepicheep |
Well, we are probably only a few weeks away from a full scale insect invasion... time for the Cicada's here in the Ohio Valley. How big a deal are they? I was not riding 17 years ago the last time they were here, but Cincinnati was THICK with them. I know if I take a grasshopper to the helmet at speed, it sounds like I just got shot, I imagine a Cicada would only be worse. I am always in pretty full gear anyway, but anyone have any memories of how bad it really is? I'm gonna chuckle when I seeing all the cruiser "I am too cool for a helmet" guys with bleeding foreheads... They are the ones I am REALLY worried about. Hate to think about taking a Cicada to the throat at 80 mph. | ||
| Darthane |
-=shudders=- June bugs and Japanese beetles are bad enough - though I've also taken a bird to the nonggin' (thankfully at low speed). The good thing about cicadas is that they tend to fly to a tree and then stay there - they don't just wander around much. | ||
| Bomber |
I was, and they can be brutal -- however, as Darth sez, they don't fly around much . . .. they are far more of a hazard to pedestrians (all that goo on the sidewalk) | ||
| Spiderman |
A bird I have seen two my self that would be a total of three LOL | ||
| Darthane |
I've actually hit 4 birds on the bikes, but only one to the head (explains a lot, though, doesn't it?). A squirrel, too. I've never hit anything in the one car or two pickups, though. Go figure. LOL...goo on the sidewalk. Nothing like cicada spunk to liven up your evening stroll! edited by darthane on April 28, 2004 | ||
| Spiderman |
So your the guy in that squirrel story ! Explains why the cops have a vendetta out on our street. | ||
| Buckinfubba |
its gonna be one big gooey mess this year....any one hungry! | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Best I had was a deer that I hit with a ten ton truck. Tasted real nice on the barbeque.  | ||
| Darthane |
That squirrel story...oh, God, I have to dig that out and read it again. Had me rolling. | ||
| Aydenxb9 |
I was! Working for Tri-County H-D in Fairfield at the time. You haven't lived til you've been hit by amorous Cicada! I feel for you, I really do! | ||
| Road_thing |
http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/37/36416.jpg | ||
| Aydenxb9 |
Those are normal bugs. These things are like flying walnuts! | ||
| Bomber |
I'm thinkin I'm gonna: 1. lay in a stock of spare face shields (for when I wear my full face lid) 2. put off some upcoming dental work (cuz I sometimes wear the open face lid) | ||
| Reepicheep |
Ayden... Fairfield Harley huh? Decent and nice folks, but not (as of late) particularly reliable to get things right (either in Buell parts or Buell Service). They have a good reputation as a Harley dealer though. If nothing else, these things are gonna be MESSY! | ||
| Newfie_buell |
We don't have either kinds of those bugs up this way!!! However you hit a moose in a car can be really messy!!!!!  | ||
| Kevyn |
Hit a cicada(we could tell by the debris sprayed across my face) riding through a corn field. Damn thing broke my riding glasses, temporarily blinded me and ended up blacking my eye! To this day, I'm a huge fan of full face helmets! | ||
| Socoken |
ive hit one bird, right in the damn forehead, (70mph)and hit a lot of those damn asian beetles. those things suck, they taste horrible, and they sting like getting shot with a BB gun. thats why im riding the wheels off my bike before it gets warm enough for all the bugs to come out. i really should wear my helmet more often..... | ||
| Cyclonemick |
I once had a bird smack me in the face Without a Helmet on but luckily it rolled off my face onto the top of my wifes head and then onto the road. My wife thought for sure I was hurt but not a scratch. The same summer I broke a cats back when it ran underneath my front tire. The guy behind me said I was lucky because they usually get wound up in the fender. I now where my helmet I don't want the next one to be a cage or a deer (which I see everynight on my way to work). | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
Hit a large Dragonfly once. Made quite an impression on me! When I was a kid in Lubbock, Texas, I massacred the cicada population in my neighborhood with my Benjamin pump. Even had a bird-dog that would run up and "crunch" them when they fell, if they were still moving  . Always felt kinda guilty 'bout killing 'em because, even though they were bugs, they were my elders at the time (17 year locusts). It seems like they were never as numerous after a couple of years of my "small game" hunts, even 17 years later... Ah, vicious youth! HellBuelly J http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hellbuellies/ "Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls." --Stirling MossBuelly | ||
| Blake |
I had the pleasure of riding behind Loki a few weeks ago in the Ozarks of Arkansas. We were doing about 70mph and from my perspective as a bird decided to swoop down in front of him it seemed to instantaneously turn to powder. Bryan didn't even flinch. In fact, I think he wanted to kill that poor little bird. | ||
| Honu |
The Love Bugs are here now, you don't even feel them, make they make a mess on anything that hits them. Out of curiosity how far North have these Amour Bugs been sighted? | ||
| Josh_ |
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/04/29/cicadas.pets.ap/index.html | ||
| Wyckedflesh |
I was struck by a large hardshelled flying bug that went unidentified while riding in SC. I was cruising about 80 with traffic when it felt like I was shot all over again. Hit me so hard my left arm dropped as if it had gone dead. When I pulled over to the side of the road I was seriously expecting to see blood...The bruise was bigger then my fist and from what I could tell of the beast smashed to my shirt, it was atleast the size of my palm. | ||
| Aydenxb9 |
Reep, don't hold it against me or anything buddy. I worked there a long time ago, and if the same clown still owns it, the service will change everytime he fires/hires a new crew  I also worked for Ferd and Thelma at H-D of Cinti. in the early eighties. As matter of fact, my first full time job was with them working the parts counter. Hey do me a favor, go have a five-way for me, I can't get there til July |
