Had to spit out a grasshopper!

**blackhillsbiker** · 09-01-2009, 07:22 PM

EEEWWWWwwwwwww!!!!!

Deb

**Tuckervill** · 09-01-2009, 07:27 PM

Nasty!

**salsabike** · 09-01-2009, 08:27 PM

Ack! I have swallowed many a gnat and some flies but never a grasshopper. On Bike Forums, there's a very old thread somewhere about What's the Biggest Bug You Ever Swallowed on Your Bike?

Protein. I try to think of it as protein.

**blackhillsbiker** · 09-01-2009, 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by salsabike

Ack! I have swallowed many a gnat and some flies but never a grasshopper. On Bike Forums, there's a very old thread somewhere about What's the Biggest Bug You Ever Swallowed on Your Bike?

Protein. I try to think of it as protein.

Thankfully, I didn't swallow it.

**salsabike** · 09-01-2009, 11:05 PM

Originally Posted by blackhillsbiker

Thankfully, I didn't swallow it.

I got that...was just pondering further.

**cylegoddess** · 09-02-2009, 02:25 AM

I seem to prefer getting my protein, from gnats.
As the Prime Minister said, during a speech when a fly flew into his mouth( as you do here in Australia ) "MMmmm yummy."

**Norse** · 09-02-2009, 07:17 AM

On a ride a few weeks ago, my friend and I rode through an area that was just swarming with locusts - it looked like the plague. I was in front and the grasshoppers were flying off the road as I went through, left/right, smacking my legs, sticking in my spokes.... My friend said that I parted them for him so he didn't have it so bad, meanwhile, I had to peel them off my spokes.

**kfergos** · 09-02-2009, 07:24 AM

Ew. Could you feel its legs?? (Gross, I know, but inquiring minds want to know.)

When I did an MS 150 last year, there was one section of the ride where there were these huge bugs -- people said they were June bugs, but I don't know since I'd never seen them before -- that were flying and dying all over the place. They looked like smallish cockroaches. One rider got one in her mouth, and later they gave her a T-shirt. I'm not sure it's exactly a fair trade. Bleck.

**arielmoon** · 09-02-2009, 07:29 AM

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 09-02-2009, 08:08 AM

I had a little gnat for lunch just yesterday during my ride.

**beccaB** · 09-02-2009, 08:27 AM

I had to dislodge a big fuzzy something from the back of my bottom teeth and spit him out. I hope he hadn't been perusing the road kill recently. EEWWWW!

**katluvr** · 09-02-2009, 08:48 AM

So is this like a new thread...we have done what "What do you see", "What do you hear" and "What do you smell" on your bike ride.
Is this "What insect have you eaten?"
Here in Florida...we have "love bugs"--those swarming black bugs in May and (oh no) Sept. -ish. They will take the paint right off your car if you don't wash it right away. Anyway...I digress...
Bike thru a swarm/cloud of them one day. I keep my mouth TIGHTLY shut. They were clinging all over me and crawling on my face to under my glasses

**GLC1968** · 09-02-2009, 10:26 AM

*shudder*

And love bugs? Their very existence makes me thankful that I didn't pick up cycling until I'd left Florida. They were bad enough in a convertible at a stop light, I can't imagine biking through them!

Icky.

**Tuckervill** · 09-02-2009, 12:12 PM

We know June bugs as little pinkie nail sized burnt orange beetles that click and clack around the light at night...and die all over the porch in the morning.

What you described made me think of palmetto bugs--cockroach shaped, but much bigger--as big as a quarter--and their wings look glossy and dark brown, like a shell.

But I'm not insect expert. And there are billions more of them than there are us!

Karen

**Norse** · 09-02-2009, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by kfergos

Ew. Could you feel its legs?? (Gross, I know, but inquiring minds want to know.)

Yes. It was almost constant. Yucko!

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