Another thing to pack along with the tool kit and tire repair kit... ant spray

 

I left my helmet on the back porch overnight a few weeks ago. The next day I checked it before heading out. A few moments later, I was riding down the road and a wolf spider started crawling on the shield. It was a hairy situation...

 

You guys are crazy, I live in Phoenix Arizona, ride in 108-120 degree temperatures every day during the mid-late summer, and I never ride without full gear (unless I go around the block after washing her.) It's really not all that bad, in fact it doesn't bother me a bit... Don't understand why people ride without it... Just man it up, I mean if you're gonna ride a bike you should at least be man enough to tough it out with the proper safety equipment in any weather :P

 

But are there a bunch of ants in your jacket biting you while you ride in that 108-120 degree weather??

 

MMM lets not get into the man it up and wear safety gear no matter what. All in all its a choice you make and live with. I know about heat to. Its 100+ degrees and humid as can be here. Its like living in a sona.

And something biting you isnt the best to try and get over as you do 50mph. lol

 

It doesn't seem like it would take THAT long to get all the ants out of a jacket.... mesh or not.
And I would have wanted every last one of those crawly little bastards to pay, so I would have made it happen.

 

I really cannot stand bugs hitting my face or inside my helmet, i wont even leave my gear in the garage overnight cause i've heard stories of spiders in helmets and what not i'd of either shook the crap outta the stuff or dunked it in the lake and drowned the bastards ;D

 

Haha, that sounds like that one guy, snowboarding82, or something, posting about how he would drop the stylus from his PDA into the toilet where he was sitting ... or how he got a new tire and put the wheel on backwards ... or how his shoelaces got wrapped over his footpeg and he dropped his F4i because he couldn't get his foot to the ground. He had a blue bike I remember.

 

Sounds like that dude had some badluck.

But yeah as for placing my helmet and jacket - assuming i'm not fearing they are going to get stolen I always leave stuff on my bike, not the ground.

 

Word.