FlexyTJ
Racing Slipper Enthusiast
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use their last conscious movement they can make on this planet, to make a last minute correction to fly directly into my visor? I mean, these are healthy, rather large insects, that have led an otherwise successful life. I imagine they have been there, and done that. They've seen some stuff and have some life experience. Yet somehow, in the vast three dimensional expanse of the Sonoran Desert and neighboring mountains they seek to yeet themselves directly into my visor.
This is more than a naked bike thing or simple aerodynamic phenomenon. In many of these incidents I can see the insect flying across my line, at least 100-200 ft out. I watch it make small corrections to its flight path, and it homes in and steers towards the visor at the last second. I **** you not. Sometimes I'll turn my head, or duck, and yet still it will find its mark. If it made ANY other move in that last moment, it would not have made any contact.
It's worse with mirrored visors. Currently running gold, but silver is also bad. I don't notice this last minute steer towards the visor effect with dark/smoke (non-tinted) visors. Is the sight of a shiny gold/silver flash that irresistible to them? Where do they think they are going? Serious question. Wasn't there a bug guy on here at one point?
We didn't get that cold this winter so the bugs are out of control. I'm seriously bugging out. Thoughts?? Similar experiences? Tell me I'm not alone.
use their last conscious movement they can make on this planet, to make a last minute correction to fly directly into my visor? I mean, these are healthy, rather large insects, that have led an otherwise successful life. I imagine they have been there, and done that. They've seen some stuff and have some life experience. Yet somehow, in the vast three dimensional expanse of the Sonoran Desert and neighboring mountains they seek to yeet themselves directly into my visor.
This is more than a naked bike thing or simple aerodynamic phenomenon. In many of these incidents I can see the insect flying across my line, at least 100-200 ft out. I watch it make small corrections to its flight path, and it homes in and steers towards the visor at the last second. I **** you not. Sometimes I'll turn my head, or duck, and yet still it will find its mark. If it made ANY other move in that last moment, it would not have made any contact.
It's worse with mirrored visors. Currently running gold, but silver is also bad. I don't notice this last minute steer towards the visor effect with dark/smoke (non-tinted) visors. Is the sight of a shiny gold/silver flash that irresistible to them? Where do they think they are going? Serious question. Wasn't there a bug guy on here at one point?
We didn't get that cold this winter so the bugs are out of control. I'm seriously bugging out. Thoughts?? Similar experiences? Tell me I'm not alone.
Those are the worst.
