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1Back to top Go down   Tink bugs Empty Tink bugs Mon Feb 04, 2013 5:23 pm

rosskko

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So while riding round without a fairing you get your fair share of roadkill. Not the big furry ones but the little flying ones.
I have noticed two types.
Tink bugs. These little buggers fly at your helmet, go 'tink' and are never seen again.
Splat bugs. These dirty little critters take delight in smearing themselves across the middle of the visor. Often leaving a wing or leg to flap and flitter in the wind.

Are these the same bugs? Could it just be the angle that they attack your face?
Quite often you get to see the Splat bug just before it hits the visor. I have never seen a tink bug attack. Only heard the result of their sudden change of direction.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Has anyone recognised any different types of helmet bugs?

rossco


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1986 K100RT VIN 0093801K100RT with summer fairing for a northern visitor

Basic/2 6308802K100CJ  05/1988

K1100RS 0194321
    

2Back to top Go down   Tink bugs Empty Tink bugs Mon Feb 04, 2013 5:27 pm

RT

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The ones that get in just under the chin guard are almost always a spikey grasshoppery thing, and the radiator core seems to wear the same insect (a leg, wing and baked gizzards).
RT


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3Back to top Go down   Tink bugs Empty Re: Tink bugs Wed Feb 06, 2013 7:47 pm

JimK

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Don't know about tink bugs.
Do know about 80 mph bumblebees, (about the size of the last joint of one's pinky finger), smacking right between the running lights, just over the sunglasses when wearing a half helmet.
Those are. "Ow! S***!", bugs.
JimK...on bugs and tears and a welt left... Laughing


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4Back to top Go down   Tink bugs Empty Re: Tink bugs Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:08 pm

Rick G

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But aren't those big B52 bugs delicious and crunchy.


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"Man sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."   Dalai Lama


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5Back to top Go down   Tink bugs Empty Re: Tink bugs Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:25 pm

klompy the grey brick

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Hit a Kamikazi sparrow once...was wearing an ARAI Astrovent with those nice vents in the mouthgaurd....thats where the internals of the sparrow went and its feet were pedalling and dancing across the plexiglass which was fortunately closed.

The helmet had bad breath for months....but I did imagine how things would have been different had I been wearing my open face....

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"Grace" 1984 K100RS Silver VIN 0019026 Mitt eine Staintune Zorst.
"Olivia" 1997 K1100LT Dark Grey VIN WB1052600W0237453.









Chassis number0019026
Vehicle code0503
SeriesK589
ModelK 100 RS 83 (0502 ( 0503 )
Body typeK 100 RS 83 (0502
Catalog modelECE
Production date1984 / 07
Engine0513)

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6Back to top Go down   Tink bugs Empty Re: Tink bugs Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:42 pm

larrikin

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All them bugs say the same thing in the end.
If I had the guts, I'd do it agian. Tink bugs 44271 Tink bugs 4232840684
and
The last thing that went through his mind was his bum.


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88 BMW K100RS

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7Back to top Go down   Tink bugs Empty Re: Tink bugs Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:48 pm

Stan

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I once hit a swarm of bees....they are called bess because they are bastards.....I am allergic to bees.


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1983 K100 basic vin 0003960 colour red  GONE
1987 K100RT vin 0094685 colour, orange peel, sorry, pearl..GONE
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