I imagine the experience was equally as unpleasant for the bug as it was for Moon.
I thought maybe the bug was going with the traffic just slowly and Moon caught up with it but then Moon doesn’t ride fast enough.
Very timely. I’ve been having lots of issues with little bugs on the commute lately. The worst was yesterday and Monday, when the grass fields along parts of my route were being mowed. This always drives out the bugs. I try not to open my mouth too much, and I feel the bugs bouncing off my cheeks, etc. It’s always as soon as I do open my mouth, though, that something decides to hop in.
Worse than a bug in the mouth that you can spit out, or even one you swallow, is when they head down towards your lungs – especially if they get caught on the way where they tickle your throat but can’t be coughed up.
apropos of nothing, I want to share this link with my fave bike community: http://failblog.cheezburger.com/thereifixedit Thereifixedit is a cheezeburger site, sorry, but today they posted up a video showing a conversion of a junked frame to fancy fixie. Personally I don’t know why I’d eschew the modern tech of gearing (and just when are we getting automatic transmissions for bikes?) I find even with my seven gears I’m still sometimes spinning too fast or standing on the gears of my giant pink hollywood cruiser. The frames they used are all very slick looking racing frames, so that’s interesting. They don’t bother to paint/clean/scrape or otherwise fix up the frames so you get a real frankenbike effect with the new bits they put on.
Oh yes, I have an 80s road bike in my attic, waiting for restoration (well, as soon as I have nothing better to do…). (One of my friends wanted to throw it out some years ago, so I saved it from such untimely death). However, what I “plan” to make it is no fixie, but a proper old school road bike. Just bring it back to life, actually… as it once was a beautiful bike in itself.
I’m pretty sure there have been automatics for bikes at various times, but none ever worked too well, and the mechanical losses associated with most ‘automatic’ systems overcome the benefits of gears, I suspect.
Don’t spit it out! That’s free protein!!
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Bugs aren’t known for the size of their brains.
I imagine the experience was equally as unpleasant for the bug as it was for Moon.
I thought maybe the bug was going with the traffic just slowly and Moon caught up with it but then Moon doesn’t ride fast enough.
Rather unpleasantly like being drunk.
Hitchhiker’s Guide reference?
“Ask a glass of water”
Let’s meet the Meat!
The last thing that goes through a bug’s mind as it collides with cycle goggles is – its ass!
Could be more truth in that than expected – if I remember my school zoology correctly, I think insects have annular brains.
A clever title.
The worst are swarms of gnats. They get EVERYWHERE…and when you get home, your face resembles a windshield.
Is Yehuda hung over? Glad he hit a bug and not this: http://tinyurl.com/cngl5k4
Very timely. I’ve been having lots of issues with little bugs on the commute lately. The worst was yesterday and Monday, when the grass fields along parts of my route were being mowed. This always drives out the bugs. I try not to open my mouth too much, and I feel the bugs bouncing off my cheeks, etc. It’s always as soon as I do open my mouth, though, that something decides to hop in.
Ack…
Actually, Yehuda was riding against the flow of flying insects.
Worse than a bug in the mouth that you can spit out, or even one you swallow, is when they head down towards your lungs – especially if they get caught on the way where they tickle your throat but can’t be coughed up.
Yeah – I know I should keep my mouth shut.
apropos of nothing, I want to share this link with my fave bike community: http://failblog.cheezburger.com/thereifixedit Thereifixedit is a cheezeburger site, sorry, but today they posted up a video showing a conversion of a junked frame to fancy fixie. Personally I don’t know why I’d eschew the modern tech of gearing (and just when are we getting automatic transmissions for bikes?) I find even with my seven gears I’m still sometimes spinning too fast or standing on the gears of my giant pink hollywood cruiser. The frames they used are all very slick looking racing frames, so that’s interesting. They don’t bother to paint/clean/scrape or otherwise fix up the frames so you get a real frankenbike effect with the new bits they put on.
Oh yes, I have an 80s road bike in my attic, waiting for restoration (well, as soon as I have nothing better to do…). (One of my friends wanted to throw it out some years ago, so I saved it from such untimely death). However, what I “plan” to make it is no fixie, but a proper old school road bike. Just bring it back to life, actually… as it once was a beautiful bike in itself.
I’m pretty sure there have been automatics for bikes at various times, but none ever worked too well, and the mechanical losses associated with most ‘automatic’ systems overcome the benefits of gears, I suspect.
I call B/S here. NO cyclist on recorded history has \ever successfully spat out an insect that has forcibly entered their mouth.
Ever.
…in recorded history…
Slalom not salmon methinks
Salmon, a BSNYC reference:
http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2009/05/smoked-salmon-lock-your-bike-dont-lox.html