| Author | Message | ||
     Swordsman |
So I had a great ride home yesterday. BEAUTIFUL weather, and I was still on the "new-respect-for-my-bike" high that I got after test riding a Nightster. I made it all the way home, and was sitting in my driveway waiting on the garage door to open. My driveway is, oh, maybe a 20 degree decline leading down to the garage. I have the bike in first, holding the clutch and the front brake, with both feet down. My leg hurts. SHIT! Suddenly there's a flaming icepick wedged into my left inner thigh, that softest bit for those of us with a little extra padding. A F'n WASP has decided that I'm on his turf, and has managed to land his stinger through my mesh overpants and shorts. I have NO idea where it came from, since my driveway is a good 30' from anywhere there might be a nest. Whatever the case, I don't have enough appendages to deal with it at the moment. I'm still in gear, and my shifter leg is the one under attack, so I can't get it into neutral, and my left hand is full of clutch. I'm now balancing on my right leg, so the back brake is no good, and outta' reflex, my right hand (knowing I HAVE to keep the clutch pulled) starts trying to pry the wasp outta my femoral artery. Oops, now I'm coasting downhill, trying to hold myself up on one leg. Crap. I dislodged the wasp, but I'm literally hopping down the driveway, and the bike is going over, over, oveeeer.... Crunch. Down on the right. Blasted bloody sunova....!!!! Tell ya what, frame pucks are worth 5 times what they cost, at least. Right puck looks like it went up against an industrial grinder, and my both my Crossroads peg and stock passenger pegs are scuffed, but there's not one bit of body damage. My Tuono mirror swung out of the way without a scratch, and I got some scuffing on my bar end slider. The only thing that took a real hit was my front brake lever... broke clean off at the base. The mount is unharmed, luckily. All in all, it coulda' been a lot worse, but still, I dropped my bike aver a freakin' bug! Either it's been awhile since I got stung, or it really pumped me full of venom, because my whole body was shaking from the pain. Little bastard. I don't even think I killed it... couldn't find the body.  ~SM | ||
| Glitch |
Is this a good enough excuse to drop my bike? No  | ||
| Miamiuly |
That is a lot going on, but the kill switch could have helped. The pucks are a good thing. | ||
| Borrowedbike |
TOUGHEN UP! Drop a bike over a sting... You should foresee things like this and have the drive leveled. | ||
| Jimduncan69 |
what a sissy! that is the most ridiculous story i have ever heard. my 8 year old daughter would have handled that better. , but i would probably dropped it also......lol | ||
| Buellfighter |
Dropped your bike from a wasp sting. I'd hate to think what would happen if you were on the highway when a bee flies in your helmet.  | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Got stung by a wasp on the way to work last week. Flew up my helmet and made me swell like the Elephant Man. I had my Epi pen and nailed it through the jeans, went to work, picked up my other epi, went to the ER, got more meds, went home. Not my idea of how to get a day off from work. G-d lil f'n thing, I cant wait for an extinction on Wasps and Yellow Jackets, they get no sympathy from me. Banish the whole species for all I care. | ||
| Hexangler |
Not good enough excuse, bummer days bro. I'd hate to think what would happen if you were on the highway when a bee flies in your helmet. Been there, done that, didn't have to lay her down. | ||
| Darthane |
...if only we could convince them all to turn into honey bees, the world would be a much better place. The last time I was stung was actually on my way to take my road test on the Blast. Little %^@#@$%@ got me right on the right bicep - but it actually hit me in the face first, so I consider that pretty damned lucky. | ||
| Badlionsfan |
Hey Swordsman, does your husband ride too?  | ||
| Rick_a |
I had this happen with a cracked open face shield in heavy traffic. Stings swell me worse and for a longer period every time, so I don't take the little bastards lightly. I opened my shield and turned my head and the wind blast sucked it out. Most surprising was that I didn't panic. That sucks what happened to you Swordsman, but...it could probably only happen to you  | ||
| Ducxl |
Right puck looks like it went up against an industrial grinder, I've felt tortured for years running bare,without the pucks.Now i think i want to park my Xb before i DO scuff the precious frame.I never liked the protrusion of the pucks.I'd better not fall down? I looked at your profile and feel glad the bike survived well. The Bee? Well,As "Chopper Reid" would say..HTFU | ||
| Doon |
the worse sting I got was riding the cruiser. OUt in the middle of the country, a snow bee (at least that is what we called em. White and black and ginormous) got in between my glove and leather jacket, and stung me right in the crook of the elbow. Coming around a corner whole arm goes numb. Pull over, wife hops off the back, I rip the jacket off. the back 1/4 of the bee is attached to the stinger, still pumping into my arm, and the rest of the bee is crawling out. Thank goodness I not allergic or that would have been bad. had to stop and rest for a while. (But I did manage to keep the bike upright even with the passenger) | ||
| Hexangler |
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| 2008xb12scg |
Swordsman, Is there ver a good excuse to drop your bike? I dropped mine in the driveway. Don't think I had the kickstand all the way down. Expensive lesson. But I won't ever get off my bike again without putting down the kickstand and wiggling it a little just to make sure. Even when the guys are laughing... | ||
| Ratbuell |
Sorry to hear about it, but **it happens. Practice this, though: Kill switch Engine dead, drop clutch lever Both hands free; engine off in gear holds bike on the hill It was counter-intuitive for me the first few times I tried it, too...but I've used it on numerous occasions when I needed 2 hands all of a sudden and wasn't going anywhere. | ||
| Ulynut |
H.T.F.U. MAN!!! I dropped mine because I got scared of a spider! | ||
| Rainman |
Well, a spider! I can understand that. Those things are scary. | ||
| Paint_shaker |
H.T.F.U. MAN!!! Yeah!! . I'd probably dropped it too.... | ||
| Etennuly |
HTFU! It didn't sting ya in the MAN parts now did it? Oh yeah, iffin' ya give it up for a bee sting in the leg ya probably don't have Man parts! When my father-in-law was 75 we were golfing when he took a sip of his drink, got a bee in his mouth. It stung the inside of his lip several times, he bit the bee, spit it out, finished his drink and the last eight holes of golf with a lower lip the size of a golf ball! He didn't tip the cart over!  | ||
| Froggy |
Odds are i would of just released the clutch, causing a bit of a jump but a stall. From there i would of beaten the crap out of the bee.  Anyway be glad it didn't get you when you were moving | ||
| Danger_dave |
Try wearing a thicker petticoat. :-P | ||
| Beachbuell |
Hit the kill switch and squash the bitch. Harden the f*ck up! | ||
| Swordsman |
LOL! You bastards!   Earl Small's in Marietta a brake lever in stock (be amazed!) that now has my name on it. Looks like I'll be back on the road in no time. ~SM | ||
| Lost_in_ohio |
Back when I was still invincible and didn't ride with gear I had one go down my shirt and left 8 stings across my chest and side. I didn't go down or drop the bike. I also had one sting thru mesh pants, I was riding 555 near devertown, 4 stings up one leg, he got caught in a wrinkle and was walking up it and stinging as he went. My leg looked like a sausage by the time I got to Marietta. I didn't drop it or go down and still put another 200 miles in that day. | ||
| Rainman |
One time I had these yellow jackets actually building a nest under the seat of the Blast and when I was doing some hairpin turns on the Blue Ridge Parkway the vibrations of the engine sent them all into a stingy fit and they stung me 60-bazillion times until I swelled up so that I looked like a watermelon riding a razor blade. But I didn't fall down. Wuss. | ||
| Beachbuell |
OMG! I almost fell outta my chair with that one Rainman! | ||
| Cochise |
A bee stung Chuck Norris once. Said bee was the first reported Chuckanized bee, ten times more feared than Africanized Bees. Chuckanized Bees don't swarm either, and they don't just sting, they roundhouse sting you with ten stings to the face and one to the gonads. (Message edited by cochise on September 19, 2008) | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
they stung me 60-bazillion times until I swelled up so that I looked like a watermelon riding a razor blade. But I didn't fall down. And we have a winner | ||
| Badlionsfan |
Swordsman's new and improved ATGATT  |
