I will never ever ride with my visor up while in a rural setting again!!!

[Jaysdee]

So, here I am, riding through a country a$s rural area of Northwest, VA and I decided to lift my visor so that I could "enjoy nature". As soon as I lifted it, a bug decided to make love to my face! It flew past my left eye and somehow nestled itself into my ear hole. I was desperately trying to find somewhere to pull off on this two lane highway that I happened to be on. There wasn't a shoulder present for at least a full mile! needless to say, I rode the rest of the way home with the visor DOWN!

 

[pashnit]

Visor up momentarily... bee got me right in the temple.

3 hours later...

Next morning... Couldn't see. Couldn't get my eye open.

Had to lead the Pashnit Tour with my good eye. Took two days for swelling to go down & all good.

I'm told this can be super-serious if you're allergic.

 

[Jaysdee]

@ pashnit OUCH!!!

 

[VaBusa]

Ouch Pashnit! That looks painful...

I had a bird at dusk fly up and hit my shoulder, and through leathers the sting was so severe, all I wondered is how do guys/gals ride with half-helmets and sunglasses?! I'd be knocked out and dead on the side of the road. I had a bruise on my shoulder from that tiny bird; if it had hit my face, I would have looked like I'd been in a bar brawl

Glad you didn't end up looking like Pashnit Jaysdee!!

 

[frisbee]

I ate alot of bugs everytime I lift my visor over the years

 

[VaBusa]

I ate alot of bugs everytime I lift my visor over the years

They're called snacks

 

[dadofthree]

Visor up momentarily... bee got me right in the temple.

3 hours later...

Next morning... Couldn't see. Couldn't get my eye open.

Had to lead the Pashnit Tour with my good eye. Took two days for swelling to go down & all good.

I'm told this can be super-serious if you're allergic.

I was told by a doctor that everytime you're stung you're one step closer to anaphylaxis shock. You might want to start carrying a pen.

 

[dadofthree]

Ouch Pashnit! That looks painful...

I had a bird at dusk fly up and hit my shoulder, and through leathers the sting was so severe, all I wondered is how do guys/gals ride with half-helmets and sunglasses?! I'd be knocked out and dead on the side of the road. I had a bruise on my shoulder from that tiny bird; if it had hit my face, I would have looked like I'd been in a bar brawl

Glad you didn't end up looking like Pashnit Jaysdee!!

Was Omar around

 

[1busa]

Visor up momentarily... bee got me right in the temple.

3 hours later...

Next morning... Couldn't see. Couldn't get my eye open.

Had to lead the Pashnit Tour with my good eye. Took two days for swelling to go down & all good.

I'm told this can be super-serious if you're allergic.

YIKES.....

I honestly don't know how the HD riders do it?? They ride around with skully's and sunglasses if that??? I've got my fair share of bugs and rocks 2 the visor and I thought 4 sure my visor was cracked! I own a Nightrod and guys give me a strange look when I pull up wearing a full face

 

[E Zurcher]

I was on my way to school one day when a very large bug hit the bottom edge of my helmet right at the chin. Had to go home and take a shower to get the bug guts off my neck.

I was riding my enduro down the road when I saw something way out there in perfect focus. It was a lovely hornet and I watched it fly right at me and hit me just below the bicep and sting the crap outta me. I almost crashed but managed to pull over and swat that bastard.

 

[RedBusarider]

In the Random Thoughts section we were taking about Helmet usage both for and against.

I had posted, that besides the safety reasons - bugs were a big reason that I still wear a helmet even though my state repealed the law last year.

So when I see someone riding with just sunglasses on (and no windshield of any kind) I think to myself "what an idiot", because
they must be getting hit with bugs all the time. I prefer not to eat bugs. Then there are also the guys that thinks shirtless is cool - can you imagine what that feels like!

Who here never has to clean bugs off of their bike, helmet, or jacket after riding for a short time? (unless you like the look of bugs on you or your bike )

So when it comes down to it, a helmet protects us from a lot of things.


Now when you are talking about the future you shouldn't use the word never as you don't know what the future holds.
Every once in awhile I will go through a school zone (at the wrong time of day) and you have to slow down (25mph here) and on a hot day I
would have no problem lifting my visor for a little cooler air. I'm sure there are other conditions that would allow the visor to be lifted too. JMHO.

 

[Poppy]

They're called snacks

Protein!!

 

[Poppy]

Whether I have the visor up or down, I always wear eye protection too! Just seems to make sense to me...

 

[MRLIVEWIRE]

Man I never ride without my helmet, a couple of times a rock hit my visor so I could imagine if that was my face it hit.

 

[VIPER]

pashnit if you had been allergic to bees you would have died from that sting.

 

[FlatlandBusa]

Some of the debris that has hit my helmet and face shield over the years really makes me wonder how anyone can ride at all without a full face helmet.

@ Pashnit,, WOW, that looks painful!

 

[Amode]

Bugs and Bees do not bother the Harley guys with beanie's . LOL

 

[majestic12]

Same thing happened to me. Bug hit then started crawling around and eventually in my left ear.

As this is happening scenes from "star trek 2 the wrath of kan" start running through my head.

 

[chrisjp]

damn tim....ouch...i ride with my visor up most of the time as its more air flow...but i am always wearing wrap arround sunglasses during the day or safety glasses at night...yes occasionlly i get a bug smacking me but its the price i pay i guess....actually had a bug in my beard at the bash...tasha thought it was hillarious lol

 

[newman]

I very rarely ride with my visor down, it feels to enclosed.
But once I got hit in the eye by something and it scratched it.
It took months to feel right again.
Kept on irritating.