close call

[tapps]

since having the gtr1400 i've often had the screen up with my visor open,i took my xjr1300 out the other day,i had the visor up ,I heard something hit my full face hemet,with a fair old whack,when i arrived at my destination i took my helmet of to see something fall off my helmet,i was horrified to see it was a HORNET !!!!!! an inch or so lower it would have hit me in the face,LESSON LEARN'T.visor down at all time's.

[Lonewolf]

Yep, that would have been bloody painful! 

[O.C.]

since having the gtr1400 i've often had the screen up with my visor open,i took my xjr1300 out the other day,i had the visor up ,I heard something hit my full face hemet,with a fair old whack,when i arrived at my destination i took my helmet of to see something fall off my helmet,i was horrified to see it was a HORNET !!!!!! an inch or so lower it would have hit me in the face,LESSON LEARN'T.visor down at all time's.

I'm guessing that it was the insect type and not the CBF600 version which would have been exceptionally painful

[jonathan]

I'm guessing that it was the insect type and not the CBF600 version which would have been exceptionally painful

Or the F-18 version.

[viper]

a hornet hit me in the chest in Greece while I was on a XL250 doing about 60mph ( jacket slightly unzipped)  the bug hit me on bare skin, even tho the hornet was toast he still managed to sting me , the lump took over 12 months to completely go down

[Charlie747]

a hornet hit me in the chest in Greece while I was on a XL250 doing about 60mph ( jacket slightly unzipped)  the bug hit me on bare skin, even tho the hornet was toast he still managed to sting me , the lump took over 12 months to completely go down

Ouch.