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.
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09-01-2009, 08:27 PM #1
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"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks
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09-01-2009, 09:09 PM #2
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Thankfully, I didn't swallow it.
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.
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09-01-2009, 11:05 PM #3
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I got that...was just pondering further. Originally Posted by blackhillsbiker
"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks
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09-02-2009, 02:25 AM #4
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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."Conquering illness, one step at time.
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09-02-2009, 07:17 AM #5
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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.
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09-02-2009, 07:24 AM #6
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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.
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09-02-2009, 01:29 PM #7
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Yes. It was almost constant. Yucko! Originally Posted by kfergos
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