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Out on a club road ride and sitting in the wheels at the back when we come to a set of road works. We pause at the red light and as it goes green and set of I feel an enormous stinging pain at the top of my head, wtf I'm thinking then suddenly am convinced I've been stung by a wasp.
It was agony, and I was forced into an effort to get to the front to ask the ride leader to stop for me (which the group did). At this point the little ****er is still stinging me, I can feel him having multiple goes at my scalp. I whisk off my helmet, see the little stripy bastard drop to the ground but too late!
I'm sitting at home with a very lumpy head and a feeling like an intense ice cream headache.
Little shit.
That is all , I needed to get it out there 😀
very lumpy head and a feeling like an intense ice cream headache
All the downsides of pudding but with no pudding. 🙁
I think I'd rather get dropped by the group and get the little bastard out quicker.
That would have been an option if i knew where i was...
I got the same a few weeks ago, flying down hill, it seemed to take an age of being constantly stung to get stopped and take my helmet off!!!
Always on a downhill!
I got stung on the forehead this summer. I ended up on steroids and antibiotics after presenting at the walk in centre looking like a klingon.
Hope yours heals quick.
Matt
And I've always thought every helmet should have a fly net covering every vent. Seems a no brainer. My old Rudy Project helmet had one.
Guess it's easy enough just to line the helmet yourself.
Anyway heal up. It'll itch a lot soon so don't scratch at it.
I use a bandana,keeps them off my baldy scalp.
Could have been worse,one time riding my motorcycle,full face helmet I had one of the stingy blighters crawling over my face & trying to get up my nostril!
...and you're to blame
Yep itchy head now.
The annoying this was i took off a cycling cap about 30 mins before.
Both myself & my m8 have been had on the face this year, though I’ve managed one on my lip & one above the eye @ different times. Swelled up ridiculously, so we both looked like I’d taken a beating. I do hate the stripey barstewards
Another reason why helmets are dangerous. If you didn't have a helmet on to trap the poor innocent beastie you wouldn't have been stung.
*runs away and hides*
Poor guy! That’s really not cricket.
Wasp sting is alkaline? So add vinegar to the sting next time to neutralise it.
I once got stung by a wasp on my head, I nearly passed out and thought i was a gonner. A friends son died of a reaction to a wasp sting, he did not know he had the allergic reaction till it was too late, he was mid 40s.
It is a specifically intense pain in your head imo. You’ll now need a theraputic use exemption for the Swinley race/meet up.
😉