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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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..

erbgottie wrote: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.

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.

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.