SPLAT!!! WTH Was that??!!

[Twizted]

We get them down here in Australia too. It scares the crap out of you when they hit your helmet because it sounds like someone is shooting at you. They hurt if you are wearing a mesh/textile jacket that I wear during the summer here. Its like having a rock pelted at you.

[rideserotta]

Here in SC there is no helmet law. Harley riders rarely wear helmets. I always wonder what kind of imprint those suckers leave when they hit smack between the eyes.

[Monster Dave]

We get them down here in Australia too. It scares the crap out of you when they hit your helmet because it sounds like someone is shooting at you. They hurt if you are wearing a mesh/textile jacket that I wear during the summer here. Its like having a rock pelted at you.

That's hilarious!! 

[fastwin]

Here in SC there is no helmet law. Harley riders rarely wear helmets. I always wonder what kind of imprint those suckers leave when they hit smack between the eyes.

I have always wondered the exact same thing. Like others have said when one hits you at highway+ speed it feels like a rock. Imagine that bug hitting you in the eye or cheek at that speed. It could put your eye out or at least cause serious injury. Damn sure would screw up your concentration which would have a negative effect on your riding ability/skills. I am always amazed at riders buzzing down the highway not even wearing sunglasses. One look at my bug covered faceshield makes me wonder how they do it. I guess it's just part of the Harley/cruiser cool factor.

[Drunken Monkey]

Many years ago I was cruising along at about 70 MPH and flipped my visor up to adjust my glasses.

POW POW. Two cicadas right between my eyes. I pulled over to make sure I didn't have a hole in my forehead and to otherwise clean up.

All I can say is it looked like a lobster suicide bomber had gone off in my face.

And I'm still questioning the timing: Two hitting me at exactly the time and place I was most vulnerable? I smell a conspiracy....

[Raux]

Many years ago I was cruising along at about 70 MPH and flipped my visor up to adjust my glasses.

POW POW. Two cicadas right between my eyes. I pulled over to make sure I didn't have a hole in my forehead and to otherwise clean up.

All I can say is it looked like a lobster suicide bomber had gone off in my face.

And I'm still questioning the timing: Two hitting me at exactly the time and place I was most vulnerable? I smell a conspiracy....

ooo I'm agreeing with that... who'd you piss off that week?

[ducatiz]

Many years ago I was cruising along at about 70 MPH and flipped my visor up to adjust my glasses.

POW POW. Two cicadas right between my eyes. I pulled over to make sure I didn't have a hole in my forehead and to otherwise clean up.

All I can say is it looked like a lobster suicide bomber had gone off in my face.

And I'm still questioning the timing: Two hitting me at exactly the time and place I was most vulnerable? I smell a conspiracy....

they were having sex..

hence the extra cleanup..

[fastwin]

Many years ago I was cruising along at about 70 MPH and flipped my visor up to adjust my glasses.

POW POW. Two cicadas right between my eyes. I pulled over to make sure I didn't have a hole in my forehead and to otherwise clean up.

All I can say is it looked like a lobster suicide bomber had gone off in my face.

And I'm still questioning the timing: Two hitting me at exactly the time and place I was most vulnerable? I smell a conspiracy....

Was there a grassy knoll and maybe a "magic cicada"??

[Doctor Woodrow]

I had a bat hit me in the forehead just below my helmet when I was riding my bicycle once at dusk when I lived in California for a little while. I was booking it along to get home quickly, so maybe between 12 ans 15 mph, and the thing flew right into my forehead just under the visor of my bicycle helmet. I had to stop and shake my head a bit to clear things up and recover. It hurt like heck, the thing seemed at least 9 inches wind-tip-to-wing-tip, but I did only get a glimpse of it RIGHT before it hit me so it might have been bigger or smaller, but it definitely was a bat.

The Doc

[Outlaw1100]

Not to take this thread to another level of grossness...but...it is my way...

Back in around 2003, there was a large brood that emerged in the midwest.  The local news guys were making a big deal about how dogs and other animals loved to eat them.  Then they went on to say that cicadas are actually very healthy to eat.

Well, I must have been inhibited by drink...or something like that...and so I opened my big mouth and said I would eat one.  My friends held me to that, and so we fried a couple up cajun style...and yes, I ate a big juicy cicada.

FWIW...it was disgusting, and I don't see myself ever repeating the feat. 

Mike B

[ducatiz]

We get them down here in Australia too. It scares the crap out of you when they hit your helmet because it sounds like someone is shooting at you. They hurt if you are wearing a mesh/textile jacket that I wear during the summer here. Its like having a rock pelted at you.

i thought you guys had flocks of parrots doing the same thing

[akmnstr]

Not to take this thread to another level of grossness...but...it is my way...

Back in around 2003, there was a large brood that emerged in the midwest.  The local news guys were making a big deal about how dogs and other animals loved to eat them.  Then they went on to say that cicadas are actually very healthy to eat.

Well, I must have been inhibited by drink...or something like that...and so I opened my big mouth and said I would eat one.  My friends held me to that, and so we fried a couple up cajun style...and yes, I ate a big juicy cicada.

FWIW...it was disgusting, and I don't see myself ever repeating the feat.  

Mike B

It is all in how they are prepared.  Everyone knows that you don't eat cicadas cajun style.

Raw, they are but survival food.

[Bun-bun]

Not to take this thread to another level of grossness...but...it is my way...

Back in around 2003, there was a large brood that emerged in the midwest.  The local news guys were making a big deal about how dogs and other animals loved to eat them.  Then they went on to say that cicadas are actually very healthy to eat.

Well, I must have been inhibited by drink...or something like that...and so I opened my big mouth and said I would eat one.  My friends held me to that, and so we fried a couple up cajun style...and yes, I ate a big juicy cicada.

FWIW...it was disgusting, and I don't see myself ever repeating the feat. 

Mike B

Yeah, you cooked 'em wrong. Fry 'em in butter, and serve with a ranch dipping sauce.
Yummmm

[zooom]

I remember the Washington Post doing a food section about recipes on cooking them and there was a curry recipe that sounded interesting at the time...

[speedknot]

Those damn martian bugs.  Never been hit by one but I'm sure just the shock of that thing whacking you would scare the make the beast with two backs out of anyone.