Well, you know that if you walk down through the woods during the summer time, you are going to see webs and spiders on the trail if you havent been down it in a while. Well, its pretty easy to avoid them if you are walkin, but if you riding, its damn near impossible. Such is the case in the following story.
Me and my buddies were out riding last summer on a trail we hadnt been down in a loooong time. Now, pretty much all of us have a deep fear of spiders and we do all we can to avoid them, including mounting old cb radio antennas on the front of the quads to take down the webs 'fo we hit them. Well, we didnt put them on there this time. It was basically just a ride we decided to take on impulse, we didnt even fully gear up, just helmet and gloves, the rest were plain clothes and tennis shoes. Im wierd about my helmet, I never fasten the strap , but everyone else does. I dont do it unless Im on a bike. Ok, got that mental pic? Just a casual ride down the woods in the summer. About 5 min down the trail, I ended up in front cuz I have the only sport atv of the group and I ride faster than the others. And by the grace of God, I caught a glimps of something up ahead of me. It didnt quite click with me that it was an intact spider web, fully equiped with a spider. I didnt notice till I was right up on it, Im talkin like 5 or 6 ft in front of me. I know that may not seem like its that close, but if you goin about 15 or 20mph through the woods, its damn close. When I saw it I didnt even think I just threw my hands down and laid back so that basically I had my helmet on the grab bar and was looking back at the others. When I did this, my buddy behind me thought I was just messin around and he didnt think about it being a web. He looked up just in time to know he hit a spider and web. This is where the funny stuff is. I viewed most of the following upside down. After the initial contact with the web, nothing but screams followed. Among the screaming was "GEDDIT OFF GEDDIT OFF" "OMG OMG". Somehow amongst all the screaming he managed to hit the brakes and slow down enough, but not completely, to jump off and almost catch his footing. He didnt land it, but he did do a nice roll on the ground. After the roll, he hopped up and proceeded to dance a funky lil sissy jig, scream, rip off his helmet(which wasnt easy cuz of the strap), shirt, and gloves all within about 15 or 20 second time frame. Meanwhile, I, as well as everyone else, were laughin so hard we could harldy see straight. I cant say I would have reacted any differently, but hey, Im not the one that got hit, and thats all that matters. I laughed so hard I almost threw up...thats how funny it was.
So how about the rest of you...I know you have some good ones.

 

LOL great story! Sad to say I may have reacted in a similar way [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

Glad we don't have to many trees where I ride [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

One time I was riding behind someone in the woods in TN. He hit many webs and ended up getting bit in the eye. Was not pretty!

 

.....Bit in the eye?......I didnt even think that was possible. My gosh...thats freaky. I take it he wasnt wearing goggles. After what happened to my dad we all started wearing them. He was on a ol' Big Red 3 wheeler we used to have and he was goofin around and he got slapped in the eye by a branch and it was nasty and right before christmas and he had to go around with a big bandage ove his eye....I wear my goggles all the time now...for obvious reasons.