A Bee flew into my lid... Not an urban myth anymore

[Philiptigerrice]

I've heard it said - and I've had various critters bounce off my face / neck over the decades... but this weekend I finally did sufer the ignominy of having a bee, fly into my lid - get wedged between sponge and skin - and proceed to fire everything it had into my face


He then broke his own abdomen off - and buried it in the side of my lids sponge - whilst I desperately tried to find somewhere to stop - whilst not falling off - with my wife on the bike - doing about 80mph up the A90.




Striped little tw*t! Lol

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[Nigel]

To be fair he was just flying along minding his own business when some lunatic on a bike hit him at 80 mph :whistle: :laugh:

[FAT MATT]

Are you admiting to riding at speeds in excess of the national speed limit? Or were you referring to wasp doing 80mph?

Or maybe combined collision speed?

[boboneleg]

My wife has had to pick the sting out of my face before now, that'll teach me to keep the visor down :unsure:

[Philiptigerrice]

I'm estimating that the bee was doing 10 mph

[xengibez]

Happened to me this weekend to by St Marys Loch in Scotland, pulled over quickly and removed my helmet before the bugger stung me...

[Rangoonruns]

Worse thing had me
yep a wasp !!
on the rare occasion i didnt put the neck tube buff thing on it crawled around the jacket collar which freaked me out, made my wriggle and the bloody thing stung me repeatedly till i squashed it against my neck, i had lumps for weeks after!!
i go everywhere with a buff now ! no more rare occasions, ever.

[scouse]

Hit a wasp in an open face and got stung on the cheekbone and also had a bee get blasted under the internal dark visor in an Xlite and sting me on the forehead just above my eye...but the worse was playing on a small dirt bike when I was younger at a rally in an open face and hitting a bumble bee giving it some bifters - me doing 30 BB doing approx 30 MPH - combined impact of 60MPH on my cheek bone - head snapped back and let go the bars and flew off the back... bike carried on and wedged in a hedge with no damage and stalled - I had a black eye and had to ride home with roadrash on the buttocks... dangerous things these flying thingies... and the Bee...well lets say that had to be cleaned off before I could even start to open my eye as it wa s glueing it shut!

[Arthur Pint Motor]

Maybe the bee thought you were a nice orange flower?

[cowling]

Ah!
Was expecting to see some of the damage the little blighters had
Caused to the human skin, just as a reminder to wrap up