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Conference noted::bicycle

Title: Bicycling
Notice:Bicycling for Fun
Moderator:JAMIN::WASSER
Created:Mon Apr 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3214
Total number of notes:31946

3115.0. "Bee Stings" by ASDG::IDE (My mind's lost in a household fog.) Tue Jul 09 1996 12:24

    Has anyone else been stung while riding?  I've gotten stung on two
    rides this year, on my hand and my back.  Last night's incident was the
    worst, I was pedalling up the hill towards home and thought I felt
    something in my jersey; a few hundreds yards farther I got three stings
    on my back.  A couple of years ago I got a bad sting on my leg just
    after fending off a mean dog (maybe they were a team).
    
    All these stings were collected on the roads, I'd imagine that mtb'ers
    suffer more often.  There isn't much you can do about it except swear. 
    If you're allergic, don't forgot to bring your bee sting kit along on
    rides.
    
    Jamie
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3115.1PCBUOA::KRATZTue Jul 09 1996 13:294
    Actually I get stung more on road bikes than mtn bikes...
    usually you're going fast enuf on a road bike that they get
    pinned by the airflow to your body and then start crawling around.
    Kratz
3115.2COOKIE::MUNNSdaveTue Jul 09 1996 15:176
    While riding my mtb on the road last summer, a yellow jacket bee landed on 
    my upper thigh and my loose fitting shorts irritated him enough that he 
    (or she ?) stung me.  That taught me to always wear my lycra biking shorts.
    The pain was strong enough to send me home in a hurry for ice.  Thanks
    to that bee for not crawling inside my shorts and encountering other
    more sensitive parts.
3115.3LHOTSE::DAHLTue Jul 09 1996 17:063
I've been stung once, about two years ago, on the thigh. Golly, was that a
surprise!
						-- Tom
3115.4exCONSLT::MCBRIDEIdleness, the holiday of foolsWed Jul 10 1996 08:5512
    I was stung once, in the center of the chest.  The bee hit me square and
    went down my shirt.  It was one of the sting and die types not the
    the sting repeatedly types.  Hurt like the dickens it did.  The 
    only stings I have gotten on my mtb are from biting flies and skeeters. 
    I feel like a pin cushion after this spring and the black fly season
    which segued nicely into skeeter season and then deer/horse fly season. 
    I actually think the the latter are the worst for annoyance.  Hard to
    out run them and they won't land until they have done the insect
    version of the Indy 500 around your head.  Good incentive to keep
    moving in any event.  
    
    Brian
3115.5UHUH::LUCIAhttp://asaab.zko.dec.com/~lucia/biography.htmlWed Jul 10 1996 10:346
I got hit in the chest Monday night by a big ole bumble bee, but thankfully I
didn't get stung.  This is a good reason to keep your jersey zipped up.  My
closest encounter was a bee  getting stuck in the helment vent.  I popped that
baby off before I could get stung.

Tim
3115.6bzzzzASDG::IDEMy mind's lost in a household fog.Fri Aug 23 1996 07:357
    I picked up sting #5 this year on the way to work this morning.  This
    was a direct hit to my temple and it's throbbing away.  I keep hoping
    I'll pick up some superpowers from these stings, such as the ability to
    fly despite lousy aerodynamics.  All I've gotten so far is the ability
    to hover for long periods of time.
    
    Jamie
3115.7now it will happen againSOLVIT::ALLEN_Ron the pointFri Aug 23 1996 13:426
        I had forgotten already.  After reading this note I got my first sting
    by one of the little buggers getting caught in my helmet on a late
    evening ride.  I just chalked it up to him not being able to see me.
    :)

    rich