| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 3115.1 | | PCBUOA::KRATZ | | Tue Jul 09 1996 14:29 | 4 |
| 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
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| 3115.2 | | COOKIE::MUNNS | dave | Tue Jul 09 1996 16:17 | 6 |
| 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.
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| 3115.3 | | LHOTSE::DAHL | | Tue Jul 09 1996 18:06 | 3 |
| I've been stung once, about two years ago, on the thigh. Golly, was that a
surprise!
-- Tom
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| 3115.4 | ex | CONSLT::MCBRIDE | Idleness, the holiday of fools | Wed Jul 10 1996 09:55 | 12 |
| 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
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| 3115.5 | | UHUH::LUCIA | http://asaab.zko.dec.com/~lucia/biography.html | Wed Jul 10 1996 11:34 | 6 |
| 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
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| 3115.6 | bzzzz | ASDG::IDE | My mind's lost in a household fog. | Fri Aug 23 1996 08:35 | 7 |
| 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
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| 3115.7 | now it will happen again | SOLVIT::ALLEN_R | on the point | Fri Aug 23 1996 14:42 | 6 |
| 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
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