Man, I seemed to have pissed off the bug kingdom with this thread!

Saturday I'm about 12 miles into a 41-mile ride and I get to my first big downhill, after a fairly epic climb. The thing about this downhill was, that I'd pumped my tires up to 100 psi for the first time- up from about 65 that I had been running, lacking a floor pump or gauge.

So the bike felt faster and twitchier, and I'd been telling myself I needed to be a little careful on the first big descent until I got a feel for it. So with that in mind, I crest this be-atch of a hill and start to fly down the other side... wind through my helmet... breeze cooling my wet shirt... the karmically pure bliss of a well-earned downhill.. ahhh... wait, GAAAA! A bug goes down the front of my shirt via the neck opening and gets tangled up in my chest hair! Easy now.... remember the 100 psi... don't do anything spastic... might not be a stinging bug anyway.... GAAAAA! It starts stinging my chest. Mustn't... ****... out... aww, to hell with it, I take a hand off the bar at what must be 30 mph and start beating my chest, fluffing out my shirt, anything to make it stop!

Lol.... well, as stings go it wasn't bad initially but MAN has it been itchy! Driving me crazy.

I'm riding another 30-40 today; we'll see if my luck holds.