I was riding today and got a bee in my mouth and it instantly stung me before I could spit it out. Luckily I had a minor reaction. I had to ride about 12 miles with the stinger in my mouth because I couldn’t reach or see it. I stopped and ask a motorcycle gang stopped next to the trail and borrowed a needle nose pliers and used the rear view mirror on a motor cycle to get it out.
Before today it never even occurred to me that this could happen.
by craigi53
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Dang wtf, hope you’re doing okay tho
Wow that’s bad luck. I thought it sucked when a bee got stuck under my helmet strap and stung me in the face. This seems WAY worse.
I also had one fly into my mouth and tag my tongue before I could spit it out. Feeling the fuzzyness off the bee when it flew in was wild. I mildly react to them and was about 10 miles from home. Hustled home by the time I was home tongue was big enough that swallowing was hard. Never blocked airways luckily.
I had a bee sting inside my ear canal whilst cycling.
Also, one hell of a way to also find out that i was anaphylactic.
Now this is why I visit reddit from time to time… what the hell man 😂
Holy eff! I used to get stimgs on my motorcycle… and I occasionally swallow bugs, but to inhale a bee is a whole other level.
there is some motorcycle sub right now where the top post is like “yall aint gonna believe this shit…”
I got one behind my sunglasses last year and looked like I lost a prize fight. Also had about 15 miles to go.
Ouch
I have been chased by bees up a cat 1 road climb (the same climb) on 3 separate occasions. Always in the last 3rd of the climb, after about 9km of climbing with about 3 left to go. On the worst occasion, I got stung 3 times on my butt through my bib shorts.
There’s a flat section at the top of this climb for about a kilometre before you reach a ski lodge. This is how I learnt that bees can fly at 30+ kph if they’re sufficiently mad at you.
I’d say this is far worse.
That’s why I stopped eating bees
UGH, NO. One went down my shirt the other day and got me. It’s really making me lose confidence in bees. Although, I’d still rather have 1 sting than any little flies fluttering around my face when trying to climb up a hill.
Ouch….
I also got stung in the mouth on a ride. I gotta admit…. It tasted good like honey. But the sting sucks..