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Started by Real Recognize Real, May 19, 2013, 06:46:58 PM

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Real Recognize Real

May 19, 2013, 06:46:58 PM
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?
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ducatiz

#1
May 19, 2013, 07:46:14 PM
Icing the bruises if you hit them at speed.
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Slide Panda

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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
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May 20, 2013, 06:02:29 AM
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.
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"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

Autohag

#4
May 20, 2013, 06:31:43 AM
I'm ready!

JoeP

#5
May 20, 2013, 07:48:05 AM
Quote from: Autohag on May 20, 2013, 06:31:43 AM
I'm ready!



[clap] It kinda even looks like a cicada!

tocino

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May 20, 2013, 08:23:57 AM
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#7
May 20, 2013, 08:29:36 AM
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.
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Raux

#8
May 20, 2013, 08:39:35 AM
plastic rain suit... just wash off with the hose when you get home

ducatiz

#9
May 20, 2013, 08:51:40 AM
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
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"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

Raux

#10
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.

ducatiz

#11
May 20, 2013, 09:16:44 AM
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
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zooom

#12
May 20, 2013, 09:24:44 AM
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!
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#13
May 20, 2013, 11:32:43 AM
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

ducatiz

#14
May 20, 2013, 11:33:50 AM
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
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