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FirestormMike wrote:A Hornet tried to spoil the ride out yesterday, luckily i was only 10 miles from home when I got owned going into my favourite gooseneck, my straight through line was messed up too.
It don't half put you off your flow when you're giving it some, i can tell you. Ass still sore and red this morning so bike's staying in garage today.

How it might have been if it were a Hornet eh?

I know that feeling, I went out on a ride and got about a mile away from my house and felt what I thought was a splinter in my back, so I'm thinking 'that's a little uncomfortable' so rather than stop I was reaching around as far as I could and banging my back with my hand hoping to move the splinter it got more annoying and I had to stop, I dropped down the top half of my leathers to discover a wasp in the lining of my leathers and he'd been wandering around merrily stinging my back whenever he felt like it I'd been stung 5 times in total, I wasn't best pleased.

Another time (not riding related) I swallowed a wasp that had decided he wanted to go for a swim in my coke can, it stung me once in my throat and then again about level with the base of my sternum, it's pretty worrying when the inside of your throat starts swelling so now whenever I leave a can of drink open I always stretch a latex glove over the top of the can

Timbo wrote:

clayderman wrote: so now whenever I leave a can of drink open I always stretch a latex glove over the top of the can

Why would you always have a latex glove with you? I am curious, please tell Anything you need to confess?

I'm a mechanic..... aherm Honestly Obviously I wouldn't be walking round town with an inflated latex glove pointing skyward like a deranged loon

A bee hit me sraight in the adams apple yesterday as I was travelling at a fair lick. Only reason I know it was a bee is that it then flew up into my helmet. I quickly opened my visor and it thankfully got drafted out. It hurt like buggery but I was lucky that I wasn't stung.

A big ol' bumblebee hit me square in the visor once & nearly took my head off my shoulders. I thought I'd gone blind too as the bees technicolour insides had almost completely covered my visor