What the hell hit me?

[erkishhorde]

About a year ago I hit something similar, but this was in flight. all that was left were what looked like spider legs on my head light. Then about a week later in our garage I saw this spider like thing go running across our garage floor - really fast!!!!!

Turns out it was something similar to an Arizona wind spider. Not scary, but gross!!!! I couldn't even bring myself to kill it when I saw it run out of the garage because it was so wierd looking.

LOL. Next time though, it's dead like the one that hit my bike!!!!!

About once every other year we find one of these giant centipede things in the house. Think 4-6" long and about 1-1.5" wide counting the legs. Darts across a 20' room in about 3 or 4 seconds. Creepy little buggers.

I had a bee fly inside my helmet while I was cruising around  parking lot. Stung me right between my nose and my eye. 

[the_Journeyman]

Bumblebee - doing around 60 down a country 2-lane road, I saw him coming *WHACK!*  Sounded like a gunshot inside my helmet when it hit the visor.

Wasp - small but painful.  Had my jacket unzipped about 2" on a really hot day, puttering through town, headed into a higher speed limit & wind to cool me off.  Wasp hit me in the neck & down my coat.  Stung me 5 times down the chest & stomach.  I was trying to ride with one hand a beating my stomach and chest area with the other to kill the bastard before he got too far...

Opossum - technically I hit him, but pucker moment anyway.  Leaned over in a turn he waddles into my line and I can move around enough to dodge him.  *SPLAT* I go into a serious drift and manage to keep the bike upright ~

JM

[Raux]

worst for me as a Cicada at 30mph. those things are flying rocks.

[DLSGAP]

i was jokingly referred to as the bird killer for a while. I hit 4 in one season.. the first of which broke the visor mechanism on a Shoei...

the messiest though... here in texas we hae these giant cicada grasshopper things that are about 3-4 inches from end to end... and they swarm... on my old zx7 (wide front end) i was lucky enough to be the one to cut the path for the guys i was riding with while they tucked in behind me... i was covered and the bike was all but ruined... no light coming through from the headlights, one of the air intakes was completelly clogged... it was aweful

[Porsche Monkey]

I've taken out my share of deer while in my cages.  Had a deer go through the windsheild of one.  Once in my Wrangler with no top or doors, a buzzard flew in the passenger side and got intimate with my soon to be ex-girlfriend.  She didn't appreciate it as much as I did.  Lots of bugs on the bike and rock here and there but nothing major yet. 

[Spidey]

DanTheMan hit me once.  Well, kinda.  It was more like he and his bike got in the way as I was flying through the air.  I still maintain that he hit me though. 

[somegirl]

DanTheMan hit me once.  Well, kinda.  It was more like he and his bike got in the way as I was flying through the air.  I still maintain that he hit me though. 

I think he was trying to get you back after you threw knee pucks at him.

[causeofkaos]

riding the suzuki with a half helmet and a dragon fly nailed me right between the eyes thought for sure it split my Oakleys guts everywhere my eyes watering trying to get off the road without seeing anything was scary

[hcomp]

About a year ago I hit something similar, but this was in flight. all that was left were what looked like spider legs on my head light. Then about a week later in our garage I saw this spider like thing go running across our garage floor - really fast!!!!!

Turns out it was something similar to an Arizona wind spider. Not scary, but gross!!!! I couldn't even bring myself to kill it when I saw it run out of the garage because it was so wierd looking.

LOL. Next time though, it's dead like the one that hit my bike!!!!!

Do you mean a "Sun Spider"...? One of these gross looking things.. I see them all the time in Payson and they are gross looking...

[DucHead]

bee stings while riding really suck.  Nailed a big bumble right in the left side of neck, just underneath my MX helmet.

+1 Bee stings suck.

A few years ago, I was riding to Pittsburgh on the PA Turnpike, and I rode through a "cloud" of cicada.  When I arrived at my uncle's place in Castle Shannon there were about 25 of them stuck in various crevasses of the bike.   Cicadas don't splat: they're like little rubber bullets.   But my incident pales in comparison to DLSGAP's story.

[ducpainter]

A hawk.

It was scavenging something on the side of the road and took flight as I approached.

I hit it with the left clip on and it bounced and hit me in the shoulder.

[MAXdB]

my father just called me and had his side airbags go off after a huge rock was kicked but into his wheel well from his tire

[Mash]

When I was a teenager I had a friend who's family lived at the bottom of a big hill.  One day a local tractor tire company truck lost a wheel/tire from the bed of the pickup at the top of the hill.  My friend's mom was outside when she saw the wheel/tire come down the hill bouncing.  She said the tire was as high as the top of the tree in their front yard when it landed on the hood of her Opel.  Totalled the car.

[Tigermeat]

30 gallon galvanized garbage can came over the center divider on the Houston freeway.  I was doing 70 mph and I'm guessing it was doing about the same from the other direction.  In an instant everything over the signal lights was just gone.  Handlebars, instruments, headlight, faring, windscreen gone.  It took out the kill switch so the bike shut down and I rode it to a halt holding onto the signal lights.  Dumped it at the very end because I had no clutch to work with and really nothing to hold on to as we ground to an in-gear halt.

[A.B]

Riding through Deal's Gap at night a couple of summers ago, a big bat flew right into my chest.