Yes I have ridden a bike, I just didn’t inhale.
by timTis the season of riding. Excluding the rain the temps have been nice. I find that when I ride in the evening it seems to be the bug hour. I feel like a big bug catcher. I get those gnat things down my jersey, in my helmet, and don’t go with out glasses because they sting like hell when you get one in the eye. AND don’t inhale. It seems when ever I am at my most gasping moment I suck one of those bugs in. Oh Gad is that terrible. I couldn’t breath on the climb as it was and now I am trying to exhale everything I have in me to get rid of the damn bug I just inhaled. And they always get caught at the half way point. Not far enough to swallow but to far to hack back up. So you try to get up the remainder of the hill trying to hack a bug up or swallow some water to wash him down. My solution to all this in just don’t inhale. Exhale all you want, just don’t inhale.
But if you keep your mouth shut they fly up your nose. And you can’t squirt water in your nostrils to flush them out. Well, okay, you could but it doesn’t sound comfortable to me. Then again, small bugs zooming around in your nasal cavity isn’t so great either….
Hmmm… I totally forgot about the gnats!! They used to be EVERYwhere when rides were finished!