Result of hitting the twisties during sun down..*PICS*.

LoL it's not that bad but check it out, don't mind the yamaha sticker it's my dads helmet, i use this one till i can afford to get my Shoei Rf-1000 again in a month cause i crashed and trashed the last one.

As soon as the sun started to go down the little bastards came out in tons, Had to borrow my buddies oakleys so i could see.


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man i thought it was going to be pics of a wreck! glad it wasn't though!

i know how you feel. i get smothered when i ride at night here and not just with little bugs either. after some rides i see nasty splattered red/yellow/green/you name it bug guts on my jacket & helmet. it's a bitch cleaning it off too! small price to pay for the joys of riding though

I've seen that look before myself. Too bad too, sundown would be a perfect time to ride if it weren't for the damn bugs.

Thats bad, but nothing compared to the shit that i run in to around Lake Okeechobee, FL.

lol... looks familiar

I was bracin' myself for a wreck too, glad to see it was only bug splatters. LOL

clean the airfilter too? bet its got a dozen moths in there.

That's too funny.. same thing happened here yesterday. I had just washed my new bike, and while I was waxing it, these same little bugs started flying all over the place... once I was done, the bike looked dirtier than before...
I rode it back home, my brand new helmet looked just like yours (Shoei X11 Kayagama TC5)

Damn Florida and their bugs! lol

Keep wax on your helmet, your bike. It makes it far easier to get stuff off. Clean it right away after the ride too, cause the longer the guts stay on the harder to remove in some cases. Use 50/50 alchohol + water in a spray bottle on your headlights, and helmet visor. You won't believe how clean it gets them & how much easier to remove bugs.

A bat hit me the other night in the chest. I didn't see it after it was below my helmet upon impact, but fortunately it rolled off at speed. I'm glad he didn't stick, otherwise I might have had to use that 50/50 water and alcohol mix.

Toilet bowl cleaner seems to work pretty well for me. I just make sure to test it in a minor area to make sure it won't discolor what I'm going to use it on. I 've used it on my helmet, my headlights, windscreen, and practically anywhere else I've gotten bugs.

Ya, Montana is terrible all the time. My bike and helemt look like that from a 2 hour ride in the mifddle of the day!

back in my youger days, on a cruiser with no helmet, I ran into that a few times at night.   ahh, bugs, plenty of protein.  and all the bug juice is good for the complexion

yuk, that sucks man.. ive been there!

2 years ago in the summer, I was at a red light waiting to pull out with visor up right around dusk. Not 20 feet into my acceleration, a bug flew straight into my eye, thought I was going to wreck.  From that day on, I never started to accellerate without my visor being down. Glad that it wasn't crash pics.

HAHAHAHAHHHAHHHA!!! That JUST happened to me earlier tonight.

Two words:

Hydrogen Peroxide

Old thread Lmao, i didn't even recognize it was my thread......and as for the helmet that was a transition time from a highside(killed my rf100 diabolial2) and was using my buddies lid (hence the yamaha). spent all the money on repairing the bitch had to wait a month or so to get my Rf100 Joust...

new lid now your beating lambos haha just becareful

Hey,lol . I hate it when I run into the little swarms of the little buggers :)

I think there's so many on your helmet because the bugs were like "Yamaha?! Yeah, get 'im boys!"
 
Seriously though, the other day while riding, I want to say it was possibly a grasshopper (something friggin big and juicy whatever it may have been) whacked my arm so hard I thought it'd leave a welt, but no, it just left its insides smeared all over my arm hair!