Originally Posted by
Barry2
Brilliant and stupidly cheap solution but who needs 100 unless you are running a grammar school cafeteria? Maybe give them away as Xmas gag gifts.
Originally Posted by
MntnMan62
I had a similar thing happen to me. I was cruising down a steep downhill section (road) and I see an insect flying along and headed straight for me. I tried to dodge it but it flew right into one of the holes in my helmet and landed directly on my head. The next thing I know I feel a sharp pain where this thing had landed. Turns out it was a yellowjacket and it had just stung me on my scalp. I stopped my bike and took off my helmet to get the thing off my head. I then realized that I am allergic to bees and had some good sized hills ahead of me to get home. I figured that continuing my ride would only serve to spread the venom faster so I called my wife to come get me. Once home I took some Benedryl. It hurt for a while but I lived.
Hope you now carry a tab in a baggie on your cycling adventures since stings have a cumulative effect within certain people.
Originally Posted by
athix
And now I think I jinxed myself by starting this thread. Or it's 2020. I was happily whizzing along on a freshly paved and very smooth section of road today when some type of stinging insect (Murder Hornet?) hit me in the face and stung me instantly.
I want to use this opportunity to remind all the young riders out there... always wear eye protection! In this case the fiend got me in the exposed flesh between the top of my Oakleys and the rim of my helmet. I shudder to imagine what might have been. As it was, I'm sure passing motorists were wondering what in the 9 Hells was going on with me in that moment.
It's evening now, and it still hurts.
This just happened to me three weeks ago. Add it to the list of chin, right cheek, lower lip (ouch!), neck, 2 down the jersey.
For me this has been a record year catching airborne critters with my helmet. Has to be one every third ride.
I remember when cycling helmets first appeared, with no outer hard shell, they all had cloth covers with screening over the vents. Man we’re they hot like wrapping your gourd in plastic wrap.