whilst cruising through a country village with the visor up I see this insect fly or get sucked in my helmet & could fell it walking around on my cheek, I tried to open the front Up for it to blow/fly away but didn’t so had to stop took my gloves off & helmet but couldn’t see or feel it anymore so thought it had gone, put my helmet & gloves back just getting back on the bike & I walks back over my eye. Let’s just say I wasn’t impressed
I hate wasps with a passion. Got stung in the mouth twice on different occasions drinking red bull in between races.
One thing I've noticed about the X-Lite lid I bought last year, the vents are bug vacuums and I seem to get far more creepie crawlies inside than I did with my old Shoei. The X-LIte is better in every other respect but I do tend to carry more passengers now.
Got a wasp in my lid back in nz and the fucker stung me 5 times around my eye before I could stop and kill the can't. .. Scary as hell as there was no hard shoulder and lots of traffic but I just had to stop. Also had the world' s biggest bug smash me in the eye when riding with no lid in Thailand. Don't know what it was but it exploded into like a gallon of the most rancid smelling green goo
Mate of mine got smashed in the eye by a stag beetle. He pulled over, took off his helmet and it was sat there, clinging to the inside of the jaw guard of his lid. Matey ended up with a decent shiner, as you can imagine.
When I was younger riding my cagiva mito with just a t shirt on I got stung across my chest , that bloody hurt.
I had a wasp hit me in the throat and drop down the front of my textile jacket. The fecker proceeded to sting me in the stomach. Wasps are proof that Satan won the War in Heaven, not Goat.
