Has anyone here ever vomited with a full-face helmet on ? It's a scary prospect , I tell thee ..... it's going to fill up really quickly ! I was heading towards "that London" once , at a reasonably exciting speed , when a crow took off from the central reservation and flew straight into my head . The impact was stunning , but that wasn't the main problem . The crow unfortunately burst on impact , and there were innards sliding around my visor . My stomach already felt a bit below-par ( the previous night's "refreshments" had included "some" beer and a hot curry ) . The urge to do The Big Spit came upon me almost immediately , but luckily the traffic was light , and I was able to quickly get onto the hard shoulder , whip the lid off , and do The Liquid Laugh , without too much drama ....... Please feel free to share any similar experiences .....
I was on an unfamiliar country road back in the 80’s in the pitch dark looking for a road sign. I had my visor open so I could see better when wham….flutter flutter… a bat, with leathery wings, hit me straight in the face.
At the second Donington round of the BSB last year, Christian Iddon went down with something on the Saturday night but refused treatment so he could race on the Sunday. During the long race, he puked several times. That’s commitment. Andy
Yeah I did -because I had already been told thats what you have to do- but its super weird. You think about pulling out your reg and drowning, puking into the reg, blocking it and drowning, all in the milliseconds whilst you are about to spew... The feeling of relief when its done (five seconds later) is massive!
Many years ago a friend was the passenger in a car travelling along the then new M42, when a swan mistook the carriageway for water and came into land and went straight through the windscreen. The windscreen smashed and he said there was blood & guts everywhere inside the car, it even reached the rear parcel shelf, and needless to say a good proportion of it ended up all over him. He said it was in his nostrils, on his lips, in his ears and all over his face & chest... and it was the only time he was glad of wearing glasses.
Riding my bike with swim shorts on in india and a hornet flew up the leg and stung me multiple times around my nether regions, felt like I was getting tazered lol Stood up on the pegs, slowed to the side of the road, jumped off the bike and off came the shorts stamping on them with my arse hanging out for all to see. Moral of the story, don’t ever ride in shorts (for more than one reason!) .
It is wonder they were discontinued because along with it's practical nature it also has some style...
All this talk of splattering birds reminds me of one of the goat replica lids (and was ridiculously over priced as a consequence). Don’t think they did one with a swan on it though
