So apparently I've been branded a war criminal by the MLA (Mosquito Liberation Army) for my genocidal crimes against their species. Feh, living on a big damned lake isn't always all it's cracked up to be. Worst part is always the smell.

This is by far not the worst it has gotten, night rides around the lake are umm, interesting, at least what you can see of them. Least the june bugs aren't out yet and I've avoided the deer. Speaking of which, anyone seen Louis CK's skit about deer? I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

 

Heh, yeah, far worse. That was from last night, I couldn't find the pic from last year where you could barely even see the helmet, just a big buggy outline.

Worst part is easily when I'm wearing my contra, it's a serious pain to try to clean bug guts out of mesh. I tend to try to wear my leather on night rides. Crazy part is they move in swarms, so when you hit them it's like you just drove into a dense hailstorm of doomed bugs. You then get to clean them off your jeans, jacket, bike, helmet, everything, they get freaking everywhere. As much as I like night rides around the lake it's almost not worth it.

 

Seriously. I see what my lids get like while riding and then go out and see the bucket brigade out here on their cruisers wearing at best a peanut lid and at worse the skulldana. Lids are just as much about comfort to me as they are safety.

 

That's a pretty good approximation of the smell. I carry a small trial size squirt bottle of tint-safe window cleaner (works great) and a microfiber in that joke of a trunk the rr has. That, a pair of safety glasses in case of lid damage/theft, a tire gauge, plug kit and a pc3 and my "trunk" is done for. Would never go anywhere without the cleaner and cloth tho.