Bugs, bugs, oh glorious bugs.

[inpayne]

Havent started riding yet, but for cleaning your lense try using plexus....great stuff, works wonders for paintball masks.

[Duffy]

I leave for work everyday at 4am and take the interstate. When I get to work there is a large collection of mosquito's and other wing'd ickies plastered to my helmet. I have to bring my helmet into the ladies room and wash it down. So disgusting. Then I have the great pleasure of wiping off the splattered corpes off the bike when leave, right when they are all hard and crusty.....bleh.

[slimcolo]

This year I have to clean my face shield about four times as often as in the past few years. You know Lot of snow and rain>>>more weeds >>>>more bugs. And logic would add >>>>>more fish. But logic don't always happen or maybe>>>>>>>more fishermen.

[buckwheat15]

I have little wet wipes for glasses and they are individually packed!

[erbgottie]

has anybody ever hit a bird?? because one flew right into my left arm riding the other night

[AGMorgan]

Lately around here the big problem is swarms of nats.
Ten miles of riding near the lake, and when I took of my helmet, the visor looked furry from all the tiny little wings sticking out from it.
I guess this is what windshields are for.

[Marilee]

What kind of bug splats green.. big huge gobs of green... on my sheild.. I didn't know there was green guts in bugs.. unless its a green grasshopper..

[ceemes]

has anybody ever hit a bird?? because one flew right into my left arm riding the other night

Nope, but I did ride under a Seagull once just after he let go a slimy bowel bomb....and I had my visor up at the time........I'll take a bug hits over having that happening to me again anytime.

[Kaiser Soze]

I hit a seagull in the head years ago on the highway. I almost came off the bike. Had a headache for 4 days.... majorly freaky.

I hit *some* kind of bug 3 days ago, too. It hit my ring finger on my right hand, just below the knuckle. I was going about 170km/hr so the impact was pretty wicked. It looked like a friggin' dark golfball with wings, so I have no idea what it was. I yelled like a banshee until I pulled over to look and my finger was already swollen. The whole finger is bruised, my knuckle is swollen enough to hide the bone, and it hurts like a "dog" still.

It was either 4 huge bees having a flying orgy or, well, I don't know what the hell else it might have been.

My gloves even have a little rubber pad right there. Must have been one hell of a bug.

[olebiker]

The june bugs we get here are like being hit with a rock specially in the face. I have never hit a bird many close calls but a friend of mine did and it cleaned him off the seat and left him setting on the road at 70 mph.