Bug through the eye.

Seriously, if a bug hits ur eye at 70 mph with no helmet or eye protection... itl go through your eye. litterely ...
you could lose your eye, why would anyone do this?

 

bugs hitting skin at that speed dont feel too good anywhere

 

Imagine what a small rock would do. I had rock it me today in my truck that would of put hole right through me, no matter where it hit.

 

freedom, stupidity, think that they are proving a point, etc. i wouldn't personally but i was wearing just glasses one time and they fell off. had to duck below the windscreen one time. it sucked.

 

I got stung on the neck today.

 

I had a dream the other day that i was running from a wasp. i dont recall but i was tryint to kill it, i think even tried to climb my porch.

 

ive got some socks in my closet

 

That right there is the thread quote of the year for VFRW....that is funny shit. That would make a good signature......

 

I once got stung in the eye, while riding and getting hit with a big rock while being chased by a fluffy pink elephantat 175 miles an hour on my bike with now helmet on....

Ok not really but I have been stung in the eye.... Scouts honor

 

that happened to me a couple months ago. Good thing I was only minutes to my destination, and that I'm not allergic!

 

...this one time at band camp...

 

I used to leave my helmet in my garage. Until one day about 4 miles from home I had a spider drop down right in front of my eyes. I tried to squish him on my visor, and then realized he was inside the helmet. I hate spiders.

 

I wet the bed until I was six.

 

Some one please go to GoForRide's house and take him to a movie or out for a few beers. Please :frusty:

 

...a moose once bit my sister...

 

I lost my ass in a card game once,,,

 

But seriously, it is a real issue. I have been hit by all sorts of bugs and objects in my 40 years of bicycling. We have some amazingly large insects in the southwest. I did take a large bug to the eye once and it was painful for several days. I have inhaled insects before; a very odd feeling! I cannot imagine motorcycling without a full-face and all the gear.

 

Back when I was young and stupid, and had just started riding, I wasn't wering a helmet and a June bug hit my forhead at about 40MPH, nearly knocked me off the damn bike. I actually had a black and blue mark from it.

And next time you get off your bike, look at the bugs impalled on your helmet and visor, which is round and doesn't get as many bugs as the air flows around it better than your face; why would you even look at that and go, "yeah, need some protein in my diet!"

Look at the dings on your car hood too, from rocks and such, do you want that in your face?

 

seriously, there is no way I'd go without a helmet, even if I lived in a place with no law on it. I've caught rocks, bugs, cigarette butts, small twigs... Even caught a chunk of apple once when a crate of apples fell off some :asshat:'s truck... My lid has saved my face (and as a result my ass) on multiple ocassions... I'd never roll without it.

 

I've been tagged by a couple of birds. Once in the forehead, once in the chest.