General Cycling Discussion - Spider infestation

I got back from a two-day business trip last night and earlier today when I went to grab my bike from the garage, I was shocked to find that a whole family of baby spiders had built webs all over my handlebar. I hit them with the lysol in hopes of driving them off and then promptly began to clean off the webs and remaining spiders with a rag. However, all throughout my ride, I had the creepy-crawlies...

It seems that spiders just love bikes because there are so many jutting parts in which to build webs across. It also doesn't seem like it takes them too much time (overnight) to take a liking to a sitting bike. Anyone else have this problem?

Oh my gosh! What the heck are you doing leaving your bike in the garage?! ;)

I dont have much of a problem with spiders, as i do with praying mantis's. Last year, I must have pulled of a half dozen off my bike. At that time, i was leaving the bike in the basement. I honestly never saw another praying mantis in the basement. They where always on the bike.

I just found a snail on my handlebars.

Originally posted by Joe Gardner
Oh my gosh! What the heck are you doing leaving your bike in the garage?! ;)


I know... I know... Usually I keep it upstairs in my office if I don't plan on riding it again the very next day. But I was lazy and I was in a rush to get cleaned up for dinner... and then I forgot and went out of town... I guess this'll learn me! :(


Originally posted by Joe Gardner
I dont have much of a problem with spiders, as i do with praying mantis's. Last year, I must have pulled of a half dozen off my bike. At that time, i was leaving the bike in the basement. I honestly never saw another praying mantis in the basement. They where always on the bike.

Wow... I wouldn't have thought those things liked basements. I guess there's plenty of other crawling things down there for them to eat... Hey! Think you can throw a few of those things in a perforated cardbox box and send them to me? :D

During the 1890's, some journalist referred to cyclists as, "ghosts of departed spiders."

Perhaps the spiders feel at home.

:eek:

I used to leave my trail bike outside and one day, when riding away a big spider got detached from it's web in the cowling and was blown into the open visor of my full face helmet.

I freaked!!

I day I rode to school, and by the end of the school day a spider had built a big web on my bike! It's creepy... are there others hiding in the handlebars? :eek:

they're just infesting the trails around here :(

The path I frequent on my daily ride runs along side a river. A river of sorts more like. Its flat there, the water doesn't move so good. As a consequence there are a disproportional amount of gnats along this otherwise smooth, cute jogging lady inhabited path. They're thick like Biblical plague thick. Some days goggles don't even help... these are smart gnats trained on your eyeballs and nostrils. So maybe what I need is more spiders. They'd have to be on the ball to intercept those gnats though.

skdsl,

I've been down there. Most of your spiders are too big fo fit on a bicycle!!!!

There was a huntsman running around in the house and I was standing up on the couch like a little girl. It must have looked real manley at 6'1" 205 lbs. The thing was (with NO exageration) as big as my hand.

Originally posted by Avalanche325
skdsl,
There was a huntsman running around in the house and I was standing up on the couch like a little girl. It must have looked real manley at 6'1" 205 lbs. The thing was (with NO exageration) as big as my hand.

OMG! Could you imagine waking up and finding one staring you in the face! I'd die!

yeah, the huntsmans aren't usually a problem as they stay under the house and hide in the carparts I keep there. I don't see them much, but I know they're there. The ones on my favorite trails are a problem though as they are building webs across the singletrack (not huntsmans) and they are about the size of my hand too. Of course you don't see the web until it's wrapped around your face and you're flapping your arms wildly wondering where the thing is that spun it.:cry:

Eeeeeeew, you guys! Now I'm gonna itch all day....

Originally posted by Inkwolf
Eeeeeeew, you guys! Now I'm gonna itch all day....

No kidding! Ick!