Q2. Have you had any interesting experiences with bugs or insects while riding?
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Q2. Have you had any interesting experiences with bugs or insects while riding?
(Inspired by a discussion with @Brownian_motion and @MartyCormack many BikeNites ago)
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2. I've been stung by some sort of insect I think 3 times now.
Once on the chest.. some wasp-like insect (it was small, had stripes - I have the incident on video!) hit my knuckle and then tumbled onto my chest and stung me before falling off. I haven't been hit with a BB gun, but that's what I imagine the sting felt like.
I've been stung on my knee and eyelid as well, though I don't remember hitting the insect first before being stung.
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Q2. Have you had any interesting experiences with bugs or insects while riding?
(Inspired by a discussion with @Brownian_motion and @MartyCormack many BikeNites ago)
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2 I had what was probably a bumblebee smack me in the face and bumble on, at least once #BikeNite
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@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2. The time a gnat flew into my eye and got stuck was not very interesting, but it was educational. I’ve never ridden without glasses after that.
EDIT: found the photo! The most charming experience was the time a fuzzy little SPIDER with emerald eyes decided to come for a ride on my handlebars. I tried to dissuade it, but it was determined and stuck with me for several miles. Maybe it just needed a lift? #BikeNite
@ClimateJenny What a cute spider!
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Q2. Have you had any interesting experiences with bugs or insects while riding?
(Inspired by a discussion with @Brownian_motion and @MartyCormack many BikeNites ago)
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite a2. I think we're all probably members of the ISAF club (shout out to the Judy Blume fans)
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@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite a2. I think we're all probably members of the ISAF club (shout out to the Judy Blume fans)
#bikenite@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite Stands for "I swallowed a Fly"
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@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2. The time a gnat flew into my eye and got stuck was not very interesting, but it was educational. I’ve never ridden without glasses after that.
EDIT: found the photo! The most charming experience was the time a fuzzy little SPIDER with emerald eyes decided to come for a ride on my handlebars. I tried to dissuade it, but it was determined and stuck with me for several miles. Maybe it just needed a lift? #BikeNite@ClimateJenny @ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite
I get spiders hitchhiking like this all the time. One from a year and a half ago.
"A male Pelegrina sp. I'd guess probably Pelegrina proterva." according to someone on a spider ID group elsewhere.
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@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2: Not while riding, but I was walking up the hill from the bus stop one day and this big hornet just came through the air in a big long arc out of nowhere, ran straight into the middle of my forehead, stung me instantly, and fucked off. It was like an intentional hit-and-run by a bee just because it could and I was all like YOU FUCKER
@moira @ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite
Sounds premeditated.
Guilty of sting,your honor.
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@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite
A2: Hornet stuck in my cycling glove and kept on stinging me. Had to get my wedding ring surgically removed
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Q2. Have you had any interesting experiences with bugs or insects while riding?
(Inspired by a discussion with @Brownian_motion and @MartyCormack many BikeNites ago)
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack #BikeNite A2 A drawback to biking in the evening for us is lots more bugs hit our face. We definitely wear protective glasses to keep them out of our eyes. @bikenite
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Q2. Have you had any interesting experiences with bugs or insects while riding?
(Inspired by a discussion with @Brownian_motion and @MartyCormack many BikeNites ago)
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2. Once while in the middle of a mildly intense technical downhill, a bee flew into my helmet and started stinging me. I made it through, uncrashed.
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@lopta @ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite that’s what I was wondering too
@genex @lopta @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite Q1 was tagged in draft form but otherwise didn’t exist at all
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@MarkBrigham @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite @wanderinghermit I always thought the mesh was ridiculous until I heard that people actually do get stung on the head.
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@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite
A2: Hornet stuck in my cycling glove and kept on stinging me. Had to get my wedding ring surgically removed
@harold @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite ok that terrifying!
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@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite #BikeNite A2. Recently, I had a bee land in my mouth while I was riding and fortunately I spit her back out before she had any thought to sting me for eating her. I started carrying Benadryl after that (someone here on Bike Nite mentioned that was a good idea... I now agree, lol).
@ai6yr @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite *in* your mouth?! Yikes!!
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@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2: Not while riding, but I was walking up the hill from the bus stop one day and this big hornet just came through the air in a big long arc out of nowhere, ran straight into the middle of my forehead, stung me instantly, and fucked off. It was like an intentional hit-and-run by a bee just because it could and I was all like YOU FUCKER
@moira @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite hornets sound like jerks!
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@moira @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite hornets sound like jerks!
@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite IT DID THAT ON PURPOSE BECAUSE IT COULD
also probably thought it was funny
little asshole
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@ai6yr @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite *in* your mouth?! Yikes!!
@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite LOL at least I didn't swallow it
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Q2. Have you had any interesting experiences with bugs or insects while riding?
(Inspired by a discussion with @Brownian_motion and @MartyCormack many BikeNites ago)
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @Brownian_motion @bikenite
#BikeNite A2:
Late in the ride of "Rock n Roll the Lakes" in Albert Lea Minnesota, I was stung by a bee in the hand and it blew up like a balloon. Fortunately the nurse at the end of the ride administered Benadryl. I was a bit loopy, but the swelling subsided. -
Q2. Have you had any interesting experiences with bugs or insects while riding?
(Inspired by a discussion with @Brownian_motion and @MartyCormack many BikeNites ago)
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite
#BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes
A2. Being a baldy makes scalp stings much more likely - I get stung by insects (bees wasps) which get stuck in the vent of my helmet. Not pleasant
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Q2. Have you had any interesting experiences with bugs or insects while riding?
(Inspired by a discussion with @Brownian_motion and @MartyCormack many BikeNites ago)
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
#BikeNite A2 rolling along with the teenager and she said "thbbt! A bug hit my lips!", I said "did it hurt or just taste like pollen?" Seriously though, I have gotten a bee or something stinger-first in the shin at 20mph and I wish I had stopped to do something to it before riding another ~25min, like I rode past a grocery store and could have gotten baking soda or something. Probably even had bandages & antibiotic spray with me (cargo bike dad kit.)
