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My helmet sounds like a hail storm sometimes. I'm surprised there are any bugs left. I must wash a million of them off per year!

Yesterday I was on my ride home and I stopped where my fiancee works. I was walking around looking at things, and every 10 seconds or so I would hear a buzz sound coming from the shoulder armor in my jacket.
Turns out that, somehow, while I was romping around up in the mountains (I also learned that the SV is a completely competant off-roader) a very weird looking wasp/bee/fly thing got into one of the vents that protrude from the shoulder armor. After about 15 minutes of banging the jacket on the ground attempting to jar the insect loose from its hold; it finally came out. It didn't fly away either, it merely sat there on the jacket; looking at me. So I killed it . I must say though; that bug was made of something strong. It almost supported my entire weight before it succumbed to that which is my heel.

Well, since I basically just wrote a novel of a post; I'll stop

Edit** Here's a pic of my jacket so you can see the little humps on the shoulders....

I was stung on my knee last year while doing sixty, on the inside of my bicep a couple weeks ago while doing sixty-five, and on my chin a half-hour ago doing fifty-five.

I'm not only the RATUBBAW President.....I'm also a client!

Bees are a nuisance, not to mention just the sound all bugs make on the helmet at higher speeds.

A mnth ago I was motoring along with my leather jacket slightly unzipped, before I know it a damn sharp pain hits my chest. Not sure if it was a bee of some bug with a hard shell, but going at 70 it left a huge whelt for days.

Not just motorcycles I hit a bees nest when i was riding my uncles dirtbike. Thank God I'm not illergic to them.

When I was still a noob, I took a wasp right through the open faceshield of my helmet. I made it past the comfort padding and into my ear. It stung me a few times before I could get slowed down enough to pull over. I'll bet I looked pretty funny wobbling around and banging on the side of my helmet.

A few years later on an AZ highway ( the Beeline Highway, actually) I rode through a cloud of swarming bumblebees at about 60 mph. No stings, but man those things really hurt. I got hit from my toes to my neck (faceshield tightly closed this time !). It felt like dozens of shotgun pellets hitting all at once. I was pulling bee parts out of the cooling fins and other nooks and crannies for a couple of weeks. Over the winter I pulled the tank and found about half a dozen dried up ones under there.

RATUBBAW even has posuers like every other group.

Can I "bee" a member, too?
Anyway, I got a nice little sting on my adams apple one day, and then the other day on the way home from work I had one somehow manage to get through my jacket, under my shirt and to my back. He only managed to sting me once, but that was one time too many!
I also had a nice, BIG bumblebee hit me in the chest and then fly up into the inside of my helmet. Luckily, the hit either killed it or knocked it out so I didn't get stung. I pulled over to the side of the road, flipped the front of my helmet up an dropped slapped that puppy out of there. I don't like bees at all.