Since the latest cicada brood is supposed to appear very soon, I wanted to ask the locals if they have had the pleasant experience of riding through a swarm? Is it anything to be concerned about besides cleaning the face shield when one of those effers hit you?
Icing the bruises if you hit them at speed.
Be sure to wear your leathers and gloves with hard knuckles. They weigh a good bit for a bug, so a hit can carry some force depending on your speed
Quote from: Slide Panda on May 20, 2013, 05:49:00 AM
Be sure to wear your leathers and gloves with hard knuckles. They weigh a good bit for a bug, so a hit can carry some force depending on your speed
and wear a surgical shield. they splash a good bit.
I'm ready!
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Quote from: Autohag on May 20, 2013, 06:31:43 AM
I'm ready!
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[clap] It kinda even looks like a cicada!
After spotting several of them in Fredericksburg this weekend, I started thinking about riding through cicada season. I don't have leathers so I'll just make do with my Rev'it Sand gear.
plastic rain suit... just wash off with the hose when you get home
Quote from: Raux on May 20, 2013, 08:39:35 AM
plastic rain suit... just wash off with the hose when you get home
or collect them for goulash
i was riding a moped one time, maybe 15mph, and got hit in the throat... thought i was going to die.
Quote from: Raux on May 20, 2013, 08:52:47 AM
i was riding a moped one time, maybe 15mph, and got hit in the throat... thought i was going to die.
wow, that would be like getting punched by a baby
I remember the last brood when I took one in the shoulder at 80mph just below the shoulder armor/padding in a 1st generation Joe Rocket Pheonix mesh jacket and that son of a gun hurt....
also...the splatter on your helmet/visor will be REALLY messy...if you have a visor wiper...have it ready at all times because at highway speed, your vision will be severely impaired really quick....this is in addition to have the cleaning stuff ready!
Quote from: ducatiz on May 20, 2013, 09:16:44 AM
wow, that would be like getting punched by a baby
ok maybe going faster... it was right on my adam's apple
Quote from: Raux on May 20, 2013, 11:32:43 AM
ok maybe going faster... it was right on my adam's apple
you'd have to be going much faster than 15mph!
if you "thump" with your finger, that's moving at about 50 mph
Quote from: ducatiz on May 20, 2013, 11:33:50 AM
you'd have to be going much faster than 15mph!
if you "thump" with your finger, that's moving at about 50 mph
i was 17, it was traumatic... leave me alone >:(
Quote from: Raux on May 20, 2013, 03:10:53 PM
i was 17, it was traumatic... leave me alone >:(
Awwwwwww
I'm pretty sure i hit one yesterday, on my visor. Not fast enough to turn the thing into omelette, but it was scary loud. I think i was doing 45. I didn't have my moto the last time those things came out of the ground, but i wouldn't even go pedal-bike riding with those things everywhere. just nasty.
Put a net on your bike somwhere and do this
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/04/130515-cicadas-recipes-food-cooking-bugs-nation-animals/ (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/04/130515-cicadas-recipes-food-cooking-bugs-nation-animals/)
Quote from: Raux on May 21, 2013, 03:26:06 PM
Put a net on your bike somwhere and do this
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/04/130515-cicadas-recipes-food-cooking-bugs-nation-animals/ (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/04/130515-cicadas-recipes-food-cooking-bugs-nation-animals/)
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