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little bugs/insects getting in to a full face helmet while riding.

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has anyone else experienced this? i think i snorted one and inhaled another. also a couple of bigger bugs splattered by the front vent (chin/mouth vents) and the freaking bug juice went thru. bitter. hahaha.

i think the smaller ones got in the same way, thru the mouth/chin vents.

i just thought i'd share.

ride safe.
 
Scariest for me as I ride witht he visor open around town, I had a damn wasp come in the one time. Definitely expirienced threshhold braking (Luckily I knew there was no one behind me) and I have never taken a helmet of that fast.
Luckily he was stunned and didn't sting me.

Also taken some Junebugs of the knee/thigh area and those suckers hurt on the highway lol.
 
Smoked a bird off my left collarbone, at the end of the front straight at Cayuga, right when I popped up for breaking. Poor lil guy, wasn't too much left of him. It felt like a damn hardball.
 
The worst, in terms of mess, is some sort of green bug. Preying mantises maybe? When it splatters, it's bright green, opaque and sticky and can block a good third of your visor. A pain to clean off without water.
 
I rode through a swarm of grasshoppers once, luckily my visor was down. it felt like I was being shot by paintballs. the biggest thing that's ever hit my visor was a dragonfly. that was an interesting experience
 
One can only imagine how it must feel to wear an open face helmet and ride through Muskoka in the summer season right after a rainy day....

By the way...how did this thread get 5 stars already??
 
try riding through Saskatchewan... 10 hours of endless big bugs

Not only was my helmet covered in bug juice my bike and jacket was covered in it
 
And I still don't know why the blasted insekts only stick to the front of my helmet and a bit of the sides.
 
Have eaten and snorted many bugs over the years, that's why I now have a Shoei Multitech Helmet with a 'Chin Curtain' to keep those pesky buggers out :D
 
Recently I've had a bumblebee fly into my helmet and get stuck between the helmet pad and my face. That was a freaky few moments while it kept crawling around and I pulled over so fast and shook my helmet out. Phew!! It flew away
 
Omn Nom Nom =O =| =O (><) *gulp*
 
The worst, in terms of mess, is some sort of green bug. Preying mantises maybe? When it splatters, it's bright green, opaque and sticky and can block a good third of your visor. A pain to clean off without water.
Very bad.Had one splatter on the bridge of my glasses years ago.The juice got into my eyes and i had to pull over and puked for 10 min.( ya..i had my visor open)
Brown bugs can have a nutty sort of flavor.Esp flying ants.That's why trout like em so much! ;)
 
My poor black and white bike was yellow after riding around all day yesterday in the Kawartha Lakes region. Those butterflies splatter a nice yellow all over. I cleaned my visor three times with water throughout the day.
 
The big vent on the top of my Shark could suck in an entire bumblebee and it'd survive, intact to fly around inside my helmet :( I took a kitchen sponge and cut it up and squished it into the vents. Still got good air flow, no more bugs :D

-Jamie M.
 
I wouldnt want a bee or wasp in my helmet, once I was in the car with the window down and a bee flew right into my shirt and stung me on my back. lol I had to pull over because it was so unexpected and I find if you get the stinger out it helps with swelling. I have been stung a fair bit of times, first time when I was about 10 years old I was throwing rocks at a wasps nest, those ****ers have a nasty sting.

I think I will get something like a skii mask to wear, should keep the bugs out of the helmet.
 
try riding through Saskatchewan... 10 hours of endless big bugs

Not only was my helmet covered in bug juice my bike and jacket was covered in it

Been through that! Next day I bought a bottle of windex and paper towels and hooked it up to my luggage where I could quickly pull over and clean the shield when necessary..
 
a trick I picked up because it gets annoying peeling off the bugs with my glove while riding is to immediately turn your head sideways once the bugs splatter against your visor/helmet.
 
Scariest for me as I ride witht he visor open around town, I had a damn wasp come in the one time. Definitely expirienced threshhold braking (Luckily I knew there was no one behind me) and I have never taken a helmet of that fast.
Luckily he was stunned and didn't sting me.

Also taken some Junebugs of the knee/thigh area and those suckers hurt on the highway lol.

Had a big bee fly into my helmet in North Carolina. The road I was on was narrow, twisty, and had absolutely no shoulders whatsoever. I didn't want to stop and get flattened by a local in a pickup, so I kept going until it widened up a bit ... by that time the bee had already got me though. My nose swelled up pretty good, lol
 
This got my GF when we were up in the Manitoulin islands:

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Yea, that ain't no little bug!
 

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