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Old 06-04-13, 08:35 AM
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Our deerflies are faster than the insects you have listed. We rent a lakeside "cottage" in central Ontario every year, and I do an 8-mile bike run on the gravel cottage roads every morning to pick up the newspaper from a marina at a nearby lake. I wear cotton rather than lycra, and hope like crazy I don't get a flat. The hills are steep so I get a few bites - escape velocity is probably more like 12mph but I'll check next time I go up there.

Last year my wife used a sticky insect patch on the back of her cap on her morning walk - she came back saying the files were just as bad, but the patch had a dozen or more stuck to it.
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