My mouth is shut!

[Hip Priest]

Embrace it. Pretend you're playing Pac-Man.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

It's when they go up your nose....

tis not my nose I worry about, though one did manage to get up my nose yesterday as well. I had to extract large quantities of insects from elsewhere off my body never have I been so glad it was a quiet country lane and the bugger was still alive... I could feel it crawling around (YUCK)...

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

I can tolerate errant flies ending up in my gob; what I really hate is when they're hellbent on flying into my eyeballs.

 

[MontyVeda]

The ones with long legs or wings are easier to spit back out than the little biddy ones... i discovered today.

A hat like this makes a good plough for the swarms...

...I don't leave home without one.

 

[downfader]

It's when they go up your nose....

I think theres one still up mine from yesterday...

 

[Berties]

I ride up throughout the test valley the home of many mega expensive trout fishing banks most days,and with the may flys out now at twilight they stick to your jersey,glasses helmet arms legs ,you look like the result of a fly explosion

 

[ufkacbln]

There is nothing like the "ping" of an errant insect bouncing off the fairing and over your head!

 

[stuee147]

i remember hearing or reading somewhere that on average we all eat 8 spiders in our sleep as they walk/fall in our mouths while we sleep lovely thing to remember lol

 

[Peteaud]

My cycle route out of town goes past a sewage works. Last summer a particularly juicy, very large fly that had a nutty flavour went down my throat. I had to drown the bastid with 1/2 a bidon of water.

Mrs Aud meanwhile was rolling about with laughter.

 

[Brains]

Swallow a spider to eat the fly
Simples!

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

Had one last year hit my helmet strap then get its own back by stinging me on my ear - within 20 minutes I had a blinder headache and the right side of my face was numb.

Also one time large bee/ways size thing hit me on my teeth, one half split off and went in my mouth - tasted blooming fowl and I proceeded to look like some demented idiot at the lights trying to spit out the disgusting tasting bits - yuck.

 

[NormanD]

We cycled through masses of them lurking in the shadows of the over hanging trees .. the most annoying being the one that got into my ear ... Passing cyclists must have thought I was a nutter as I cycled past banging the left side of my head, trying to dislodge the fly out of my right ear

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Got hit by something big today in a soft patch of flesh (think female) and it has left a bruise!

 

[CopperCyclist]

Do you wear a yellow cycling jacket like your avatar? That attracts flies! Went out with the father in law and wife once, father in law wore yellow and he had a crowd of flies following him for one stage through a wooded area - it was like Perished from Peanuts. The wife in pink, and me in white /red /black didn't have one.

 

[jack smith]

Bees and wasps along with other necter wanting insects are attracted to me, something to do with sugary skin, the last ride alone I swallowed a bee, got one stuck in my helmet and one down my jersey, though the path I cycle is surrounded either side by those big purple things they love!