General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sol75 on September 24, 2015, 06:57:52 AM
Title: Man the hell up
Post by: Sol75 on September 24, 2015, 06:57:52 AM
There comes a time in every man's life when you are required to man the hell up. A time where you need to stare the devil in the eyes and casually ask "Is that all you've got?", as he drags you through the 7 layers of hell. A time to say "The hell with the heliocentric model of the solar system, the universe in fact revolves around MY Andromeda sized titanium balls.". For me, that moment was today as I discovered there was a spider in my helmet at 90mph.
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Post by: Guppy35 on September 24, 2015, 07:06:10 AM
Screamed like a little girl didn't ya. 😀
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Post by: WaffenVW on September 24, 2015, 07:16:00 AM
:rofl
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Post by: Nypsy on September 24, 2015, 07:25:44 AM
Oh yeah. Once had a bee hit me on the forehead while riding in Florida. Nothing unusual about that, ride in Florida and you get used to eating bugs. But a moment later I hear a buzzing in my helmet, that bee was inside my helmet buzzing and crawling around. You never saw a bike stop faster or a helmet come flying off faster than mine did that day.
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Post by: Skuzzy on September 24, 2015, 11:12:32 AM
Oh yeah. Once had a bee hit me on the forehead while riding in Florida. Nothing unusual about that, ride in Florida and you get used to eating bugs. But a moment later I hear a buzzing in my helmet, that bee was inside my helmet buzzing and crawling around. You never saw a bike stop faster or a helmet come flying off faster than mine did that day.
Had the same thing happen to me one day. Only it was a Red Wasp. The bad boy parked itself on the bridge of my nose.
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Post by: mbailey on September 24, 2015, 02:43:27 PM
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Post by: Brooke on September 24, 2015, 04:53:15 PM
I was on final once in a Cessna 152, landing late in the day right into the sun (which was highly distracting), when a hornet came out of the left air vent and started buzzing around my head.
A spider in your helmet would be worse than that, though. :uhoh
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Post by: Wiley on September 24, 2015, 05:01:29 PM
*hugs his mostly sealed climate controlled cage* :bolt:
Wiley.
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Post by: jeep00 on September 24, 2015, 05:07:31 PM
Lmao sol, and all those who have experienced this bit of hell. Mine was a yellow jacket up my sleeve while riding. I near cracked my ribs trying to beat it to death, inside my sleeve, against my chest while trying to slow the bike with my right hand, so I had to coast while flogging myself. Great fun.
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Post by: Sol75 on September 24, 2015, 05:54:08 PM
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Post by: eagl on September 24, 2015, 09:27:14 PM
I was on initial takeoff in a T-37 with a student, and about 6 wasps came out from under the instrument panel right at liftoff. I managed to kill all of the ones buzzing around one by one including one that almost escaped by flying down the gap between my helmet, back of my collar, and parachute harness, but I got lucky and nabbed him first try with thumb/forefinger, and he missed his one stab attempt through the seam between the leather and nomex of my flight gloves. You know that saying that in air to air combat, the loser is the guy who makes the first mistake? Yea, that wasp made one mistake and I made him pay for it. I think there were one or two more crawling around that I couldn't find so we changed our gameplan and went up to around 22,000 ft to try to freeze and asphyxiate the remaining ones.
Stupid texas wasps... Leave your plane unattended for an hour and they're building nests up under every sheltered overhang.
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Post by: flight17 on September 24, 2015, 10:29:36 PM
And meanwhile I thought having to shut down an engine just after takeoff at MTOW yesterday was rough...
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Post by: Sol75 on September 25, 2015, 06:27:07 AM
I was on initial takeoff in a T-37 with a student, and about 6 wasps came out from under the instrument panel right at liftoff. I managed to kill all of the ones buzzing around one by one including one that almost escaped by flying down the gap between my helmet, back of my collar, and parachute harness, but I got lucky and nabbed him first try with thumb/forefinger, and he missed his one stab attempt through the seam between the leather and nomex of my flight gloves. You know that saying that in air to air combat, the loser is the guy who makes the first mistake? Yea, that wasp made one mistake and I made him pay for it. I think there were one or two more crawling around that I couldn't find so we changed our gameplan and went up to around 22,000 ft to try to freeze and asphyxiate the remaining ones.
Stupid texas wasps... Leave your plane unattended for an hour and they're building nests up under every sheltered overhang.
LOL Eagl, can't say ive ever had that issue on the ground, or air... wasps/bees would just piss me off.. spiders though..ugh.. freaking nasty things... NOTHING should have 8 freakin eyes!
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Post by: bustr on September 25, 2015, 04:00:02 PM
Years ago a friend of my father had a Stinson 108-3 Flying Station Wagon and liked to take his son and myself to a beach in Delaware. There was a private strip back of the dunes from the Atlantic ocean. It was a private beach with a better class of bikini's. July is peak time for a particular large and vicious deer fly in those dunes. So you land on the strip, park, and sprint through the dunes to the beach before the flys find you. Getting bit was as bad as getting stung by wasps and the flys were always hungry for blood.
We enjoyed our day with the bikini's and surf. Tired and carrying our cloths only clad in our breifs, we walked back to the plane. About half way through the dunes and a hoard of bites later, we sprinted for the plane. Opened the plane and threw everything into the back, untied and slammed the doors closed in 90 degree heat. The 108-3 had sat in that heat all day. We were melting all over the leather seats along with sand and blood from earlier bites. You could see the heat waves coming up from the runway and off the hood. And we almost died of heat prostrating killing three flys that got in with us. The rest were still buzzing around from scenting our blood when we were bit earlier.
The plan, kick over the engine and open the windows. That will blow the flys away. Instead the flys flew into the open windows to get out of the blast. Next plan, take off and hope they get sucked out the open windows. 20 flys and more bites later, we are not killing the flys and we are getting bit while jacking the 108-3 around in the air. Next plan, close the windows, grin and bear it until 7000ft, then all together open the windows.
That worked along with sucking some other items out from the thrashing around trying to defend ourselves from the deer flys. We still had to pull our cloths on in the cabin after all of that.
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Post by: BaldEagl on September 26, 2015, 12:06:40 AM
I was riding my Honda Super 90 to a neighboring town to take my motorcycle driving test when I was 16. I was cruising along about half way on my 30 mile ride with my mouth open when suddenly I felt something furry on my tongue. When I went to spit it out the damn bee stung me on the bottom lip.
The licensing tester guy was cracking up when I showed up with my lip swollen to the size of a golf ball.
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Post by: Groth on September 26, 2015, 03:38:04 PM
Not that long ago..was tooling along in my 260z at way too high a speed..windows open..beautiful day.....when I felt something on my sneakers. I looked and there sat a very large rat on my foot. Wasn't biggest I'd seen..but very healthy sized. An image of my Datsun being towed out of lake I was then rapidly passing with words"We don't know why he ran off road into the lake..?" and a rat swimming to shore passed through my mind. I shut off ignition, when I'd slowed set emergency brake and bailed. Opened both doors and bounced car, banging on side panels and much hollering. Never saw where it went, and never saw it again. JGroth
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Post by: Zoney on September 26, 2015, 04:23:14 PM
This is the thing that would completely freak me out! Watch at the very bottom of the video:
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Post by: morfiend on September 26, 2015, 05:54:23 PM
I was riding to work and running late so I was moving along,I passed a car and then it happened!
At first I thought someone in the car threw a bottle at me,I was hit in the right shoulder and it pulled my hand right off the bars.It was all I could do just to stay on the bike,I was going about 80 mph and was in a bad wobble because of what had just happened.Somehow I managed to get control and make my exit to go to work,as I got there and got off my bike I noticed blood all over my leathers. I took my helmet off and then I noticed the feathers,ya bird feathers! It appears I hit a bird just as I passed the car and when I took me leathers off I couldnt lift my arm as it was black and blue from my collar bone to the middle of my ribs.... as sparrow from the feathers!
I went into work and told them what happened,I was sent home in a cab and had to take a cab the next day to get the bike,I missed 3 days work...... because of a sparrow!
These days I shoot them on sight........ :devil
:salute
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Post by: BaldEagl on September 26, 2015, 06:42:53 PM
I borrowed my HS friend's 350 Honda one day to go riding with another HS friend who had a 650 Yamaha. We'd ridden to the public access of the local lake several miles out of town and were leaving to just go pleasure riding. There were two stop signs at intersections within a mile of the access and as we came to the second stop I needed to button up my jacket which I did as my friend took off.
I was behind by a fair amount now as my friend was out of sight and was pushing it pretty hard as I hit a set of S turns that lead into another set of S turns going the opposite direction of the first with a very short straight between them.
I came out of the first set of S turns doing about 65 mph when I saw a flash out of the corner of my eye. It was a deer leaping out of the woods. It appeared to be off the ground with all four legs spread as far as possible making a major leap to get across in front of me. My life literally flashed before my eyes. I've never had that experience before or since.
Then nest thing I remember was the bike shaking with the front wheel wobbling left to right to left and me holding on trying to get it to stop. By the time I got control of it again I was through the second set of S turns, bouncing down the rough gravel shoulder, still upright with an older couple in a station wagon pulling a boat going past me in the opposite direction yelling at me through their open windows for being a young idiot biker.
As soon as I slowed down I turned around to see what had happened. The deer was lying dead on the side of the road. The couple in the station wagon were out of the car and apologized as I rode up. The turn signals, pegs and everything along one side of the bike were bent back but easily straightened. My friend appeared a few minutes later.
While I can't be sure the best speculation was that I hit the deer squarely while it was in the air, that it was low enough not to hit the handlebars or at least slid down to miss them once hit, then slipped (mostly) harmlessly off the side of the bike. For sure it's neck was broken.
The DNR also showed up and, like with most accidently killed animals, I bought the deer for $10. BTW, I got another one the following winter on the same road with my car.
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Post by: MiloMorai on September 26, 2015, 07:05:51 PM
Came close to a skunk once at ~70mph. Had skunk hair on the foot peg and a stink that lasted a week. The bike was never washed and ridden so much in that week. Nobody would come near me when I got home.
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Post by: Sol75 on September 27, 2015, 05:45:21 AM
I was riding to work and running late so I was moving along,I passed a car and then it happened!
At first I thought someone in the car threw a bottle at me,I was hit in the right shoulder and it pulled my hand right off the bars.It was all I could do just to stay on the bike,I was going about 80 mph and was in a bad wobble because of what had just happened.Somehow I managed to get control and make my exit to go to work,as I got there and got off my bike I noticed blood all over my leathers. I took my helmet off and then I noticed the feathers,ya bird feathers! It appears I hit a bird just as I passed the car and when I took me leathers off I couldnt lift my arm as it was black and blue from my collar bone to the middle of my ribs.... as sparrow from the feathers!
I went into work and told them what happened,I was sent home in a cab and had to take a cab the next day to get the bike,I missed 3 days work...... because of a sparrow!
These days I shoot them on sight........ :devil
:salute
Hit a bird myself a couple years ago.. omg, I though I got hit by a brick...I seriously wound up going to the hispital, thought I craked ribs or something.. luckily nothing broken, just a very bad bruise....
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Post by: helbent on September 27, 2015, 03:04:43 PM
What about a spider on your gas cap???? Take a lighter to it?