The weather this March is being simply incredible around here, feeling more like mid-May. The forecast is looking quite good for the long term so today I de-winterized the summer cars and motorcycles - basically just removing the covers, unplugging the battery chargers, checking the tires and oil, reinstating the insurance, and firing them up to get the juices flowing again.

Had to run an errand this afternoon so it seemed right to get on the motorcycle. And then it seemed right to go visit the folks about 25 miles away. Had a quick visit and headed toward home, with a stop by my wife's workplace to meet her when she got off work. On the way back, maybe 2 miles from the parents' house, I see what looks like a big bug headed right at my head. Not much you can do at 60 MPH so I just took it. Turns out it wasn't a bug, but instead bird droppings. I'll be damned but it hit the visor on my helmet perfectly right between the eyes.

I was thinking what a nasty surprise that would be without a helmet, a turd landing right on the bridge of the nose at highway speed and glooping into one's eyes. Anyway, met the wife at work and she commented that it simply confirmed what she's always known: that I'm a bit of a shithead.

I'll try to get a photo tomorrow - that bird couldn't have been more accurate with a bullseye on the helmet and a 10x scope mounted on its ass.

I guess that's "ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED" for that bird. Nice shot.
But really, one of those fuckers shat right in the centre of my head quite some time ago. You'd almost think that they're doing this deliberately.

That was one ANGRY bird. ;)

Better the turd than the bird.

I rode up through most of the winter. Rain, snow. bitter cold, till I caught the pneumonia. :P

Until recently people never wore helmets here (and everyone rides bikes or mopeds). I know of at least 2 people who have had serious accidents from having things hit them in the face while driving including one guy who got had to have a piece of gravel surgically removed from his head......

Wear a helmet folks, or better yet, get a car :P

Ha! Great story. :)

My "bike" is a 50cc scooter (though it gets over 100mpg). I'm curious to see the picture as I've only been hit on my jacket while riding.

That's because we have Offensive Driving courses around here and if you don't knock a pedestrian or a bike rider down once a day it's considered bad form :D.

Tough to get a picture, what with the reflections and all. It's attached anyway.

Firm believer of ATGATT ("All the gear, all the time"), and this is partly why; crashing isn't the only hazard out there. If it isn't the oblivious driver not seeing my nuclear-powered tennis ball-yellow jacket, it's some bug or bird doing their best to smack me in the head. I've been hit on the Adam's apple, below the helmet and above the jacket, and that is certainly no fun. Getting nailed right in the face has to be worse.

Be safe out there fellow riders, and enjoy the weather.

"If a pedestrian does not appear to be getting the hell out of your way, prepare to surmount the obstacle."

EDIT: I'm trying to get a Honda CBR250R here in the states, and it is not going well. Hopefully I'll have one by the beginning of May, if nothing goes wrong with my order...

What a coincidence, I just got shat on my head by a bird yesterday as I walked under a pole (those large poles with electrical wiring on top, not a polish pole).

Maybe this is part of a conspiracy. Maybe unbeknown to us, birds are actually pro-DRM and they hate GOG with a passion. Maybe those of you GOGers who've never been shat upon have simply been lucky the birds missed their shots and you never noticed, but they're out there, watching, waiting... and recalibrating their anuses.

Yummy! Hard to go wrong with a Honda sport bike. I was hoping to get my wife on a Ninja 250 but she likes the cruisers better and settled on a Vulcan 500. Myself, I'm bumping around on a Kawasaki ER-6n, aka "Ninja 650 without the body panels".

Im sure you're aware, but there are plenty of Ninja 250s around. You might consider those if you haven't already.