F*ck!ng Wasps!!

[JamesMio]

Halfway through my lesson yesterday on a 500cc, nicely going round a long bend at 60ish when Splat, closely followed by "sting sting sting!!"

Right in my bloody neck!! Bugger me it hurt, oh and not to mention just a 'tad' unsettling when I'm trying to get used to a bigger bike!!

I knew I hated those little sh!ts for a reason!!

[Pedrosa]

Being a Roman Catholic, I totally agree with you.;):p

[the_lone_wolf]

poor obs...

;)

better than what happened to a friend of mine, going along and collected a wasp between her head and the helmet lining, just hit perfectly to get wedged in there and was buzzing like mad:D

[Keith1983]

Unlucky that, you werent riding a Hornet were ya? hahaha sorry couldn't resist!

[ivantate]

I got one the other day go down the collar on my jacket, trying to squash it was a bad move as it just stung more.
Had to stop when it had worked its way down to belt height.
Stopping on the side of a busy italian a-road or an angry wasp in you pants is a hard call.

[Bluewolf]

When riding to work one morning recently I cracked my visor open a wee bit to stop it from steaming up... and two wasps flew straight in, bounced off my face and disappeared! I don't remember pulling over, parking up or removing my lid. I do remember seeing a lot of bemused faces turned in my direction once my frantic struggles and hysterical squealing had stopped however...

So if you were the guy on the black Triumph going the other way and wondering why that sv rider was breakdancing at the side of the road in full leathers..? Well, now you know... :oops: :oops: :oops:

[scorpion]

So if you were the guy on the black Triumph going the other way and wondering why that sv rider was breakdancing at the side of the road in full leathers..? Well, now you know... :oops: :oops: :oops:

So it was you! great dance moves mate. I'll try and pick up a couple of wasps next time I go clubbing! :smt030

[Pedro68]

I hate them too ...

Was sat out in a friends back garden once having a spot of lunch when 2 wasps having a fight (either that or vigourous amour?!) stopped an inch in front of my nose as I was about to take a bite on a sandwich ... I yelled some expletives and leapt up & BACK ... breaking the flimsy plastic B&Q garden chair in the process :oops:

Also got hit by one during a DAS lesson - although thankfully I was only in the car park doing 20mph at the time. Instructor asked me why I'd taken my lid off and when I told him he just laughed and said "that'll teach you to keep ya visor shut" :rolleyes:

[Bluewolf]

So it was you! great dance moves mate. I'll try and pick up a couple of wasps next time I go clubbing! :smt030

Careful, you might come up in hives...

[Ratty46]

had a bee land on my eyebrow while doing my DAS, right big bugger..

its didnt sting me thank god, but it did unnerve me a bit, i had a pair of shades on, so it didnt get anywhere near my actual eye:smt119

for some reason i seem to be a pigeon magnet!?

hit me on teh side of the lid(headbutt!), once in the chest twice in both shoulders! oh n i nearly headbutted a bloody seagull the other morning...it was 'kin huge!

[furkuk]

All the previous posts are looking at it from the riders point of view! Put yourself in the position of the wasp, happily flying along, looking at the scenery when some lunatic in leathers atop of a big mechanical beast tries to turn them into a splodge. If I was a wasp I would sting you all.........

Either that or wait until reincarnation to a human then I could buy one of those mechanical beasts......;)

[stevie]

I think it's happened to us all. How about a mate of mine, wasp bounces off visor onto crotch.....I'll leave the rest to your imagination. Nurse for goodness sakes stop the pain, ohh but can you leave the swelling ooer missus.:smt119

[ASM-Forever]

"F*ck!ng Wasps" you say.

Whilst intuition tells me its not anatomically possible....i would be prepared to watch(and laugh) you give it a go.

Besides how to deal with the stinger......

[mary]

Ouch! Doesn't sound like fun. Last weekend one flew in between the visor and chin bit, it splatted off my face without stinging me - I scraped it off the inside of my visor (and face :) ) when I got home.
My dad got one in his jacket, couldn't pull over so it kept stinging him until he squashed it. Shortly after he was taken to hospital with anaphylactic shock. (He was fine later).
Damn the little blighters...

[Ratty46]

Ouch! Doesn't sound like fun. Last weekend one flew in between the visor and chin bit, it splatted off my face without stinging me - I scraped it off the inside of my visor (and face :) ) when I got home.
My dad got one in his jacket, couldn't pull over so it kept stinging him until he squashed it. Shortly after he was taken to hospital with anaphylactic shock. (He was fine later).
Damn the little blighters...

ouch! good to hear your dads alright tho!

sod that while riding along,visor down!

[StreetHawk]

I got stung by a bee the other day.............

£20 for a jar of honey.... Rip off!

[ASM-Forever]

I got stung by a bee the other day.............

£20 for a jar of honey.... Rip off!

:)

[stuartyboy]

Right in my bloody neck!! Bugger me it hurt

SNAP!!!!

Yesterday riding home. Thought I'd been hit by a bit of gravel in the neck. Seconds later - feck that's REALLY sore. Seconds later that's REALLY REALLY sore. Got home a few mins later - took lid off and my neck swolen up like a massive blister about 6 inches wide. Started feeling sick and dizzy. Straight round to next door - luckily my neighbours are both GPs - sorted.

Could not believe how painful it was.

[phil24_7]

Came home today after a ride to find my girlfriend in the hall way, scared to go into the lunge. I thought she'd found another spider so walked in, still fully kitted up, to find a wasp going absolutely nuts!

Put my visor down and took a glove off and began to try and smack the little bugger which just infuriated it. This dance went on for a few minutes before a gust of wind took it out the window!

Also had the biggest, steroid munching hornet (was about 2 inches long) in my pub a couple of weeks ago which had a few of us big hard men trying to kill it without getting too close.

One guy smacked it with a rolled up newspaper and the thing didn't even flinch!!! In the end I opted for long distance killing and squirted it with some very strong cleaning chemicals untill it was drenched and couldn't move, then squashed it. It made one hell of a popping sound!

I love opposable thumbs!

[Jackie_Black]

On my first rideout on my brand new SV Sport a Bee hit my neck and was blown inside my helmet (at 70 on the dual carriageway) it lay stunned on the lip behind my visor flailing about while i practised my first real emergency stop!! I had to do high speed lid removal by the roadside and remove the bee which promptly flew off.