Bee in your helmet - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

09-02-2004, 12:59 PM

Has anyone ever had a bee fly in the vents of their helmet. I had one a
couple of weeks ago. It didn't sting me. But my group said I looked kind of
funny smacking the side of my helmet trying to get it to go away. Finally
took the helmet off.

09-02-2004, 01:04 PM

"R Kroeger" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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> Has anyone ever had a bee fly in the vents of their helmet. I had one a
> couple of weeks ago. It didn't sting me. But my group said I looked kind
of
> funny smacking the side of my helmet trying to get it to go away. Finally
> took the helmet off.

Not on a bicycle, but on a motorcycle once. It happened on a freeway where
there was no place to pull over. I had to ride several miles with a stinger
in my neck, until the next off ramp. Hurt like hell.

Dave

09-02-2004, 01:04 PM

"R Kroeger" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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> Has anyone ever had a bee fly in the vents of their helmet. I had one a
> couple of weeks ago. It didn't sting me. But my group said I looked kind
of
> funny smacking the side of my helmet trying to get it to go away. Finally
> took the helmet off.

Not on a bicycle, but on a motorcycle once. It happened on a freeway where
there was no place to pull over. I had to ride several miles with a stinger
in my neck, until the next off ramp. Hurt like hell.

Dave

09-02-2004, 01:04 PM

"R Kroeger" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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> Has anyone ever had a bee fly in the vents of their helmet. I had one a
> couple of weeks ago. It didn't sting me. But my group said I looked kind
of
> funny smacking the side of my helmet trying to get it to go away. Finally
> took the helmet off.

Not on a bicycle, but on a motorcycle once. It happened on a freeway where
there was no place to pull over. I had to ride several miles with a stinger
in my neck, until the next off ramp. Hurt like hell.

Dave

09-02-2004, 01:04 PM

"R Kroeger" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
news:cYKZc.12890$[Only registered and activated users can see links. ].prodigy.c om...

> Has anyone ever had a bee fly in the vents of their helmet. I had one a
> couple of weeks ago. It didn't sting me. But my group said I looked kind
of
> funny smacking the side of my helmet trying to get it to go away. Finally
> took the helmet off.

Not on a bicycle, but on a motorcycle once. It happened on a freeway where
there was no place to pull over. I had to ride several miles with a stinger
in my neck, until the next off ramp. Hurt like hell.

Dave

09-02-2004, 06:18 PM

I had a bee fly down the front of my shirt when I was riding a moped to work
once, and although I was technically only stung once, the bee's stinger grazed
my stomach in about a half dozen places before it stung me and those grazes
hurt like a regular bee sting. It was like getting stung seven or eight times
simultaneously on my stomach.

Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man

"The likelihood of one individual being correct increases in a direct
proportion to the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
James Mason from the movie "Heaven Can Wait".

09-02-2004, 06:18 PM

I had a bee fly down the front of my shirt when I was riding a moped to work
once, and although I was technically only stung once, the bee's stinger grazed
my stomach in about a half dozen places before it stung me and those grazes
hurt like a regular bee sting. It was like getting stung seven or eight times
simultaneously on my stomach.

Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man

"The likelihood of one individual being correct increases in a direct
proportion to the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
James Mason from the movie "Heaven Can Wait".

09-02-2004, 06:18 PM

I had a bee fly down the front of my shirt when I was riding a moped to work
once, and although I was technically only stung once, the bee's stinger grazed
my stomach in about a half dozen places before it stung me and those grazes
hurt like a regular bee sting. It was like getting stung seven or eight times
simultaneously on my stomach.

Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man

"The likelihood of one individual being correct increases in a direct
proportion to the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
James Mason from the movie "Heaven Can Wait".

09-02-2004, 06:18 PM

I had a bee fly down the front of my shirt when I was riding a moped to work
once, and although I was technically only stung once, the bee's stinger grazed
my stomach in about a half dozen places before it stung me and those grazes
hurt like a regular bee sting. It was like getting stung seven or eight times
simultaneously on my stomach.

Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man

"The likelihood of one individual being correct increases in a direct
proportion to the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
James Mason from the movie "Heaven Can Wait".

09-02-2004, 07:07 PM

"R Kroeger" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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> Has anyone ever had a bee fly in the vents of their helmet. I had one a
> couple of weeks ago. It didn't sting me. But my group said I looked kind
of
> funny smacking the side of my helmet trying to get it to go away. Finally
> took the helmet off.

Try having a bee land on the inside of your sunglasses. Didn't happen to me
personally, but it did happen to my father (whom I was riding with at the
time) at the start of a long straight downhill on the Davis Double Century.

- Skip