and now for something completely different

[Eddie]

Recently, I have been removing my KLR & CBR covers only to find several dead yellow jacket bees on the seats, gas tanks, etc... My 1st guess was they are flying around looking for places to live, get up under the cover and try to fly up/away only to get trapped and die from the heat. {It's way over 100F under there} Thing is, not all of them are fully dead when I find them. Which explains how one wounded soldier crawled up off the ground, underneath my pant leg and tagged me on the back of my ankle. O U C H !!!!! I'm not allergic, thankfully. Still, it hurt and is worth passing along. I may have accelerated the bee count by placing the cat food bowls under the bikes for shade. The bees like the bits of food and flock to them occasionally. I realized this while working on a bike one afternoon and heard the "tink" sound of something hard falling on the nearby car hood. I looked, and there was a bee struggling to haul off a whole piece of dry cat food. (and I'd been blaming the cats for stuff I was finding on my car!) Beware of things that fly & sting, campers. They may be hiding under your bike cover! eddie [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Marc]

I ride in shorts all the time and at least a couple times a year I get stung from ? getting up my shorts. It's one of the joys of riding. We have tons on mosquitoes here and on rides on the weekends I have to stop every 100 miles to scrape the coating off my helmet just to see. The bike gets a good coat too. If I let it bake in the sun they eventually fall off. Marc ________________________________ From: eddie To: KLR650 list DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 3:39 PM Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Possible KLR content. =) Recently, I have been removing my KLR & CBR covers only to find several dead yellow jacket bees on the seats, gas tanks, etc... My 1st guess was they are flying around looking for places to live, get up under the cover and try to fly up/away only to get trapped and die from the heat. {It's way over 100F under there} Thing is, not all of them are fully dead when I find them. Which explains how one wounded soldier crawled up off the ground, underneath my pant leg and tagged me on the back of my ankle. O U C H !!!!! I'm not allergic, thankfully. Still, it hurt and is worth passing along. I may have accelerated the bee count by placing the cat food bowls under the bikes for shade. The bees like the bits of food and flock to them occasionally. I realized this while working on a bike one afternoon and heard the "tink" sound of something hard falling on the nearby car hood. I looked, and there was a bee struggling to haul off a whole piece of dry cat food. (and I'd been blaming the cats for stuff I was finding on my car!) Beware of things that fly & sting, campers. They may be hiding under your bike cover! eddie [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Jeff Khoury]

The local Africanized Honey Bee population here in So. Cal. has put up tiny little "wanted" posters all over the place with my picture on them. They like to flock to the red clover that grows in a particular area of my lawn. The problem is that they hover very close to the ground and are susceptible to being stepped on by the younguns in their bare feet. I have a pair of really nice bee-stompin' boots and some wasp-and-hornet spray and I take every opportunity to thin the herd. I know it has very little real effect on the killer bee population, but it makes me feel better.

----- Original Message ----- From: "eddie" To: "KLR650 list" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 1:39:25 PM Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Possible KLR content. =) Recently, I have been removing my KLR & CBR covers only to find several dead yellow jacket bees on the seats, gas tanks, etc... My 1st guess was they are flying around looking for places to live, get up under the cover and try to fly up/away only to get trapped and die from the heat. {It's way over 100F under there} Thing is, not all of them are fully dead when I find them. Which explains how one wounded soldier crawled up off the ground, underneath my pant leg and tagged me on the back of my ankle. O U C H !!!!! I'm not allergic, thankfully. Still, it hurt and is worth passing along. I may have accelerated the bee count by placing the cat food bowls under the bikes for shade. The bees like the bits of food and flock to them occasionally. I realized this while working on a bike one afternoon and heard the "tink" sound of something hard falling on the nearby car hood. I looked, and there was a bee struggling to haul off a whole piece of dry cat food. (and I'd been blaming the cats for stuff I was finding on my car!) Beware of things that fly & sting, campers. They may be hiding under your bike cover! eddie [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[RJ Kochen]

I ride in shorts all the time and at least a couple times a year I get stung from ? getting up my shorts. It's one of the joys of riding. We have tons on mosquitoes here and on rides on the weekends I have to stop every 100 miles to scrape the coating off my helmet just to see. The bike gets a good coat too. If I let it bake in the sun they eventually fall off. Marc To each there own, but do you really admit to riding in shorts "all the time"? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Marc]

Yes, and I've been riding since the late 70's. Guess you have been riding with all that gear for nothing! To be fair, I do sometimes ride with jeans on, but more often than not, I ride in shorts. ________________________________ From: RJ Kochen To: 'Marc' ; transalp1@...; 'KLR650 list' DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 4:56 PM Subject: RE: [DSN_KLR650] Possible KLR content. =) Message

>I ride in shorts all the time and at least a couple times a year I get stung from ? getting up my shorts. It's one of the joys of riding. > >We

have tons on mosquitoes here and on rides on the weekends I have to stop every 100 miles to scrape the coating off my helmet just to see. The bike gets a good coat too. If I let it bake in the sun they eventually fall off.

> >Marc > >To each there own, but do you really admit to riding in shorts "all the time"?

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[Ross J Lindberg]

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) - A motorcyclist who plowed into a minivan landed unscathed in the back seat, and the driver didn't realize it until he turned into his nearby driveway, authorities said. "We're calling this one a non-injury collision with a twist," Karen Hunt, spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County sheriff's Victorville station, told the Victorville Daily Press. The van was slowing to make a left turn when the motorcycle rear-ended it Thursday. Callers reporting the accident told authorities: "We don't know where the rider is," and there was concern he might have slid under the van, Hunt said. "That's when it started to sound ominous," she said. In reality, the rider had flown through the van's back window and landed in the backseat. The van driver continued to his home less than a half-block away, where he called out to his wife that he'd been rear-ended and needed to return to the accident scene. As he turned around to back out of the driveway, he saw the dazed biker. The rider's helmet absorbed most of the impact, and he only asked for an ice pack for his hand, Hunt said. He did not receive further medical treatment. Neither man was cited for the accident. Their names were not immediately released. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Jud]

You don't have to kill them all. Just identify the ringleaders, and make an example of them.

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Khoury wrote: > > The local Africanized Honey Bee population here in So. Cal. has put up tiny little "wanted" posters all over the place with my picture on them. They like to flock to the red clover that grows in a particular area of my lawn. The problem is that they hover very close to the ground and are susceptible to being stepped on by the younguns in their bare feet. > > I have a pair of really nice bee-stompin' boots and some wasp-and-hornet spray and I take every opportunity to thin the herd. I know it has very little real effect on the killer bee population, but it makes me feel better. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "eddie" > To: "KLR650 list" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 1:39:25 PM > Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Possible KLR content. =) > > > > > > Recently, I have been removing my KLR & CBR covers only to find several dead yellow jacket bees > on the seats, gas tanks, etc... > My 1st guess was they are flying around looking for places to live, > get up under the cover and try to fly up/away only to get trapped and die from the heat. {It's way over 100F under there} > Thing is, not all of them are fully dead when I find them. Which explains how one wounded soldier crawled up off > the ground, underneath my pant leg and tagged me on the back of my ankle. O U C H !!!!! > I'm not allergic, thankfully. Still, it hurt and is worth passing along. > > I may have accelerated the bee count by placing the cat food bowls under the bikes for shade. > The bees like the bits of food and flock to them occasionally. > I realized this while working on a bike one afternoon and heard the "tink" sound of something hard falling on the nearby car hood. > I looked, and there was a bee struggling to haul off a whole piece of dry cat food. > (and I'd been blaming the cats for stuff I was finding on my car!) > > Beware of things that fly & sting, campers. They may be hiding under your bike cover! > > eddie > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >