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Started by Gene, Oct 01, 2024, 10:13 PM

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Gene

 I've been stung twice when riding,  what about you?
1985 Honda CB 650sc with 17, 500

Larry Fine

Once, on my right cheek (face). My eye almost closed.
'72 CL450
'73 CB750
'82 CB750SC

'96 CB750ST
'01 ST1100
'96 ST1100
'07 ST1300

Pete in PA

In my 40+ years of riding, 250k+ miles on 2 wheels...Countless times. To include birds, a buzzard, close call on a turkey, 1 deer, etc. from the top of my head.
92 Honda 750 Nighthawk
Previously: 250 Nighthawk, FJ-09, ST1300, FZ-07, CBR1100XX, V65 Sabre, 83 650 Nighthawk.  Two XR650L's, KLX650C.

mollusc

Never.  A friend did get a wasp down his shirt when on a bicycle once; it stung him multiple times.
And I think someone on a prior version of this forum had a bird collision that left him with the tip of the beak impaled in his sternum.
I was riding pillion on a friend's 1980s Kawasaki early one morning when we had a collision with a VERY large tom turkey in the hills behind my childhood home.  To Simon's credit, he was able to grab it by the neck with his left hand and maintain control with his right, and eventually dropped it on the ground so we could stop.  By the time we had dismounted, the woman in the short business skirt and pearls who was in the car behind us had stopped and had her high heel on its neck as she wrung it.  "Great catch!" she said.
2015 Triumph Tiger Explorer ABS
1984 Honda Nighthawk 700S
2012 Honda NC700X
2005 Vespa GT200
1982 Yamaha Maxim 550 (sold)
2006 BMW R850R (sold)
1981 Honda CX500B (sold)