Bee stings & motorcycles.

[Big D]

I just got stung by a big motherfucking bumblebee the other day while I was out riding my mountain bike. God damn it hurt like a bitch.

Unfortunately I have an allergic reaction to bee stings (not the life threatening type), but I swelled up terrible and I've been itching like crazy. Embarrasing thing is it was on my shoulder and the swelling went all the way down below my nipple. So I've had one giant man boob all week. ughhh

[rjohnstone]

Absolutely! I didn't end up as bad (35 mph) crash on black cinders in coal country Pennsylvania (watch out guy's in the Spring time) turn, but my helmet was destroyed instead of my head. That was back when Bell was still (and now again) making helmets in the USA. They were a full service manufacturer. I sent my helmet back to them for evaluation, and it was not rebuildable. They sent me a new one, same model, for an $50 exchange charge. If it was just liner or paint damage it would have been repaired. Man, those were the days. Keep the Lid on and the Visor Down! I still do it in 103F heat! (Visor up at the Stop light though )

I was wearing a Shoei full face... can't remember the model.
Cracked it from the base of the back all the way to the front. I landed on the back of my head and shoulders blades after going over a car.
Almost broke my neck.
I gave the helmet to the store where I bought my bike. They had it on display for years as an example of why you should wear a helmet.
Haven't driven a bike on city streets since then (1988).
And yea... I've eaten my fair share of insects before I got the full face.
Mmmmm... tastey! Never stung though.

[FATKAT]

Yep!!!!!!!
It was a big RED WASP, Bastard got me 3 times before I could get stoped and get my shirt off.
I had a passanger and was running at highway speed. Dam near had a bad case of road rash from that one.

[Drsracing]

Shoei is the only way to go, I have 2. I have a Bell for motocross .

[Lorne]

A friend of mine had a Wasp enter the top air scoop on his Helmet,he said it was making a very angry noise,so he opened up the throttle on his Susuki GSX 750R to about 175mph and heard a very loud POP-no more wasp

[mm2002]

+1,000,000
Only reason I'm still here today.
My brain bucket kept my head from becoming a stain on the pavement.
Still got the shit knocked out of me, but I walked away from it... ok, was carried away, but two weeks later I walked out of the hospital.

+1 thousand million bagillion brother!
The only reason I'm here today was also because of a helmet. Matter of fact, I still have that helmet. It has gouges from pointy rocks so deep that they were way past the gelcoat and fiberglass, and into the liner. If that would have been my skull I can promise you I wouldn't be alive today. People who refuse to wear helmets are just fucking idiots. I know, because I used to be one of those idiots.

[Drsracing]

Me too, I only got a cuncussion!!!

But I tore up my bike and ankle, slightly remeber the wreck at least

[Flametop]

Haven't been stung on a motorcycle yet..happened on a bike one time. As far as the motorcycle goes, I have been "bugged" before. Been hit several times and once had a bugs guts burn like acid on the side of my face. I ride with my shield up 1/4 of the way at lower speeds. At 90+ degrees (as it has been for months), you over heat in a full face helmet. Full down at higher speed or after dark though. I went for a night ride about a month and a half ago and almost couldn't see by the time I got home due to all of the damn mosquitoes.

[blindmuddy]

My worst bee incident was on a dirt bike. I ran out of gas clinbing a hill on our property when I was a kid. Just happened to be on top of a bee hive in the ground. I apparently pissed em off pretty good cause I got swarmed and stung from head to toe. Glad I'm not allergic.

[VitaminG]

saw the thread title and thought this was about a C&W ode to small-breasted women on Harleys. How disappointing!

[Bengal65]

Shoei is the only way to go, I have 2. I have a Bell for motocross .

Yeah, great helmets including Arai (if you can afford one). The last Arai I had was on the Buell racing development team back in '97. It cost me $550 and that was team discounted. I have Arai, Shoei and Bell helmets for Street and Motocross. Bell is now making helmets (street) back in the USA again. You can't beat Shoei and Arai for fit though. They fit me like a glove.

[VitaminG]

You can't beat Shoei and Arai for fit though. They fit me like a glove.

what shape is your head?

[Bengal65]

what shape is your head?

Like Mr. Spock. Sometimes the ears get in the way though

[Chasbo]

I wear full gear most of the time, yet still got stung last summer when a honey bee hit a stip of exposed flesh on my neck between my coat collar and helmet. Yikes did it hurt!

chuck