bee up the pants leg!!

[Eddie Fulmer]

Wow, been riding a good while and this is the first time I ever had a bee in my pants. Riding along minding my own business and pow!! One got me on the right leg about the knee on the outside. Grabbed that bugger and rolled him good in my blue jeans. Thought I got him but about 3 minutes later he got me again on the inside of my knee right in the bend. After I stopped and shook out a big ole red wasp I didn't feel to good about getting my feet up on the highway pegs. But I did anyway. What if someone came up with a little filter to put over your pants leg to let in the wind and keep out them critters? Wind sure feels good running up them britches!!

 

[mtman]

I been had by one of them before... know how you feel.. ooouuch

[pegscraper]

I got pounded by one in my leg so hard last summer that I wound up in the ER over it. I was having an extreme allergic reaction. I've been stung before and it was basically nothing, but I wasn't going 60 mph either. I don't know why I reacted to that hit last summer like that. I got hit again this year in my arm while riding, and it swelled up pretty good for about a week. It kept going and I almost went to a doctor over it, but then it finally started going down. I can still see the spot where the stinger was. Needless to say, I'm getting pretty nervous about getting hit again.

[hipshot]

i had to do an "under the house plumbing leak repair" today, so i was wearing some old blue jeans with holes in the knees.

i walked out into the shop, to get a couple of pipe wrenches, bumped an old cardboard box, and immediately got hit in the kneecap, and on my right hand, between the first knuckle joints.knee is still a little sore, hand is still swollen, but i got my revenge.

carb cleaner, is the answer, for quick knockdown, and killing the nest.

i sure do hate yellow jackets!

lol

just jt

[Dano]

OUCH. Got hit in the elbow by one at work last week. Can't imagine what you went through.

[juggler]

I had a bee tag me at last years Pork in the Pines while on our Saturday ride. I was leading the ride when all of a sudden I get a shot of pain right above my right boot top. The pain was huge. It was all I could do to stop safely and get that dang thing out of there.

[Yammer Dan]

Hornet in the helmet is not fun!!

[petekadish]

I ride with my feet up on highway pegs all the time, and twice this summer I had something fly up my pant leg and sting me - I hate that! And, one of the very first times I road a motorcycle, I had a Mud Wasp fly inside my shirt (no windshield then). I was stung about three times by that one until I managed to pull off to the side of the road, shake it out and then stomp-out my revenge on it. The wasp felt like I was hit by a 2x4.

 

These days I always ride with one of those bee-sting treatment sticks (I think that it contains ammonia), and some Sudafed tablets. Both are the recommend treatments for (non-emergency) cases of serious insect stings - like wasps, hornets and yellow jackets. I just stash them in my saddlebag or trunk for just in case. I figure that I will want relief as quickly as possible when it happens again to me or to possibly another rider I might be with.

 

Of course, anyone who knows that they are allergic to insect stings, ought to be prepared appropriately as possible for that possibility when riding.

 

Oh yea ..., I ought to mention this also ... Lemon Pledge (when used as a polish for your bike - here in Utah anyway), tends to attract yellow jackets.

 

Bee Safe!

Pete.

[BurgyMon]

Have to be careful about riding in loose fitting shorts. "Bee" bad if one made it "all the way up"!!!

[Eck]

 

Hornet in the helmet is not fun!!

 

 

 

Yep, know this very well...same thing happened to me except the bugger landed in my ear, then started crawiling "inward" ..he couldnt get back out so he stung me on the inside of my right ear...OUCH...

just couldnt get the helmet off fast enough

[beckyanne19]

I had one on the inside of my helmet visor yesterday. I was riding with the visor up, and then closed it and there he was, crawlin over the inside. Pulled over and gently lifted the visor and flicked him out, but very scary.

Got a new black leather jacket this year, and the sleeves don't keep bugs out. Had something crawl up the arm, under the armpit, across my .... then down my tum. I was doing corner guarding for my club, and had to wait for my turn at an intersection. Then I unzip the jacket, pull out the tee shirt, and out he comes. This is the third time something flew up my arm.

I'm thinking of getting those bicycle rider pants straps and putting them on my arms. Would work for pants but don't get the air cooling though.

-Becky

[BigBoyinMS]

I got hit by a mutant red wasp on my leg once. Sting was so bad that it scabbed over and when the scab came off it left a crater that you could set a BB in.

There was a nest of them in my barn that I tried to kill with the 20ft spray but it just pi$$ed them off. Gasoline in a sprayer did too. I finally got some foaming spray that stuck to their wings and when they fell I could stomp them.

[SaltyDawg]

As me and Krome Rose were coming back for the Biltmore I had a big ole bee smack me in my chest then drop down to my nether regions and start walking around on my jibblies, well you can ask Krome Rose about how fast I stopped that bike and bailed off of it to get that bad boy off of me. It had to have been a funny sight to the folks driving behind me. I was doing a jig on the side of the road smacking at my groin. :rotfl:

[Eddie Fulmer]

Rethinking all this, I used to run a tractor and do bushhogging, plowing and such for people. I understand that you can become allergic to stings even though you have been stung many times before. One time while I was plowing up a greenfield for some hunters(way out in the middle of nowhere) I dropped the brake plows in the ground and plowed up a huge yellow jacket nest. Needless to say they ate me up. I don't know how many times I got stung but it was a bunch. After that I went to my family doctor and got a prescription for an injection kit that you cold use if you had a reaction. Might not be a bad idea to keep one of those around now. If you know you are allergic and don't then you ain't the sharpest tool in the shed!!

[Iowawegian]

"walking around on my jibblies, "

 

Jibblies...now that's a new one!! Never heard that description before. :rotfl::rotfl:

[KingSizer]

 

carb cleaner, is the answer, for quick knockdown, and killing the nest.

 

 

What kind of carb cleaner did you use? I tried spraying some Sea Foam on them once but it only made them fly faster. That stuff is awesome!!!

:rotfl:

[petekadish]

Everyone knows that bees are fuel-injected!

Pete.

[rod]

We have a friend and a few years back he got stung on almost every ride he took. He started wearing a mask over his lower face and they got in his shirt anyway. Rose found a bee pin on one of our trips and bought it for Gary. We called it his "bee-coy". He pinned it to the mask and he stopped getting stung. Rod

[dynodon]

Was riding 20+ years ago with a regular short sleeve shirt on and got a bee up my sleeve. Was approaching a country 4-way stop and slid the bike to a stop, put the stand down and ripped my shirt off right in front of a couple carloads. I think they might have recovered by now! LOL

 

I try to ride most days with a long sleeve shirt with knit cuffs, that stops that problem. For pants, I bought some Velcro strips from a sewing supply house. Overlap and stick one side to the other side and you have a neat velcro strap to wrap around your ankles. I use them mostly on my chaps in colder weather when they tend to flap when I am on the forward pegs. Not pretty, but they work, and are cheap and no sewing.