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Don't wear baggy T-shirts in summer

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  • Started 13 years ago by Greenroofer
  • Latest reply from spitfire

  1. Greenroofer
    Member

    Had a full-on sensory experience on the way home tonight. A wasp flew down the collar of my (not particularly baggy) T-shirt, and stung me on my middle. On the towpath and going at a fair clip (I was inappropriately commuter racing the chap on the fixie in front of me) it prompted some rapid decision making about priorities. I decided that getting the wasp out and not ending up in the canal was more important than catching him up*.

    It's still tingling three hours later.

    Don't wear baggy t-shirts. If you do, don't tuck them in...

    *caught him in the end, though, even after the enforced stop.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. spytfyre
    Member

    Ouch, you have my sympathies
    also, plug the holes in yer lid (if you wear one) got a wasp stuck in my helmet and went over the handlebars trying to get lid off and hitting wrong brake... talk about embarrassed
    Mind you I totally freak out around wasps, got stung inside the ear aged 4 and have phobia of the little b@$*@**$...

    well done on the race too though

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. gembo
    Member

    vinegar for vasp stings bicarbonate for bees

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. Min
    Member

    Spytfyre, are you married to me? So far, every physical description you have posted has fitted my husband (including blue hybrid) and I was thinking to myself on reading the first post that I would post the anecdote about him getting a wasp in his helmet, then there you go and post the same thing.

    Mind you, I'm fairly sure he doesn't have a wife and family elsewhere in Edinburgh.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. spytfyre
    Member

    ...
    uhhhh, nope, just the one wife and kid (and mortgage and in laws) I think that's enough for one guy to handle. I have already gone bald, please tell me that doesn't match too...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. Min
    Member

    Hehe, yep it does! I am not to blame for that though, he was bald when I met him. :-)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  7. spytfyre
    Member

    crikey so was I...
    stop this. you are freaking me out a little :P

    Posted 13 years ago #

  8. Min
    Member

    I'm freaking me out too. ;-)

    On a serious note, insects can be a real problem and not just the stingy ones. I bought clear glasses last year and about a week later was riding along when an insect about the size of a basketball smashed into the right lens. Almost ripped my head off and the CRACK made me think it had broken them. Soooooo glad I was wearing the glasses! I wear them most of the time in insect season now. Only problem is, they often climb inside and walk about on the lens.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  9. spytfyre
    Member

    Yup - I always wear glasses, bought a set with 3 sets of lenses clear in the winter and darker ones for the summer. Cheap as chips from chainreactioncycles.com

    Posted 13 years ago #

  10. wingpig
    Member

    I discovered I was allergic to wasps and bees when one somehow stung me on the neck heading along the path beside Canonmills Tesco a few years back. By the time I got home (going the long way round) I was redder and more swollen than usual after summer-evening-exertion but found some antihistamines which had mostly sorted it by the time I got to the doctor. Subsequent tests confirmed the allergy (and also suggested that what I thought had been breathing difficulties and a panic attack thirteen years ago must have been post-double-wasps-sting anaphylaxis).

    Perhaps the baggy-T-shirt risk is why fancy-material cyclewear-tops always fit very snugly round the neck, significantly reducing their ability to make sweating less unpleasant. My helmet has little mesh filters at the back of the front vents but even on Flying Ant Days there's never been anything in there at the end of a ride.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  11. spitfire
    Member

    ooooh you said the h word...
    I need to fit mesh to my new lid

    Posted 13 years ago #

  12. amir
    Member

    Where can you get mesh from?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  13. spitfire
    Member

    I was going to rip up a wee mesh bag I got a swimproof mp3 device in or steal some from a bag of oranges

    Posted 13 years ago #

  14. chdot
    Admin

    "ooooh you said the h word..."

    Word is fine.

    It's when it's mixed with other words and posted here and then someone re-arranges the words and turns the thread on its head that 'we' get problems...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  15. amir
    Member

    Needs to stop those wee flies that get in then crawl around - aagh!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  16. chdot
    Admin

    "Needs to stop those wee flies that get in then crawl around - aagh!"

    Old tights?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  17. spitfire
    Member

    rob a bank then make a quick bike getaway (faster than car through town)
    some of the green netting stuff you get in gardening shops

    Posted 13 years ago #

  18. wingpig
    Member

    My Giro Indicator came with little mesh panels in the main front vents. Tights might not be too good for airflow (seeing as they seem to be able to protect hairless skinny legs from weather cold enough to make me very grateful for my hairy-leg genes) but one of those mesh laundry bag things ought to work against anything thunderbug-size and upwards. Garden netting might be a bit large-holed, assuming it's sized to block pigeons but permit the transmission of insect-beasties for pollination purposes.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  19. spitfire
    Member

    I meant the kind that can be used as a screen for wind much tighter holing

    Posted 13 years ago #

  20. spitfire
    Member

    1mm x 1mm mesh
    or some old tent fly guard

    Posted 13 years ago #

  21. Min
    Member

    I'll be well impressed if anyone gets a pigeon trapped in their h****t. :-)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  22. wingpig
    Member

    If it screens wind it might also attenuate cooling draughts... might be good for making a sort of midge-in-the-eye prevention-veil, or mesh panels for a visor...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  23. steveo
    Member

    midge visor?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  24. spitfire
    Member

    @Steveo - rofl (that made me glad I returned)
    @wingpig - I'd rather do without a cooling breeze than get stung on the napper as has happened before with my old lid which had even less space for the sodding wasp to make it in, little sod scored a complete bullseye AND that was on the same day after I had taken an over handlebars spill trying to remove said lid once one of the wee bar stewards got stuck in the strap of the lid
    sometimes I take the lid off when I am on the railway path between the trees

    Posted 13 years ago #

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