Clearly one answer to this is: wear glasses.
Another answer would be: the worst thing is when you crash because there’s a fly in your eye.

This is the worst year I’ve experienced for both breathing flies in and getting the critters lodged in one or other eye. I can’t get comfortable wearing glasses, I don’t even wear sunglasses. It seems that even the most firmly wedged fly washes out by itself after a short while, but is there any health risk to the fly being in there? Will I die? – Talking about UK local flies, not those funny-talking foreign flies.

what if it survives, living off your eyeball juice and lays eggs?

Racist

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Ah but its summer time so all those foreign flies are coming up this way now, and the really bad ones that stow away in Tescos banana shipments won’t get killed by the cold…

So… leave eyeballs at home and cycle by The Force then?

Bl**dy immigrants, coming over here stealing our egg laying locations, infecting our hosts, don’t know why they can’t just go home….

Put this on the bars

You’ll follow if with a spider, then something to eat the spider, and so on

You’ll follow if with a spider, then something to eat the spider, and so on

Why?

but is there any health risk to the fly being in there? Will I die?

It’ll burrow into your brain and live there eating itself into obesity.
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I can’t bring myself to posting up the sushi brain worm photo linky

I can’t get comfortable wearing glasses

It’s really worth trying. Go to an Oakley shop and try on everything they have.

It’ll burrow into your brain and live there eating itself into obesity.

Finally, a serious answer… poor thing will starve to death.

if the fly has been landing on poo prior to landing in your eyes, then the transferred poo germs will make you blind…apparently…and then you will crash and burn and die…. 😉

Go to an Oakley shop and try on everything they have.

then find Fakeley equivalents on dealextreme.com for £5

Ha, reminds me of a mate with homemade bike-lights, and battery. Down the hill we go, he swallows a fly, gagging, takes a mouthful of water (still on the go) spits it out on the exposed wires from the light battery, battery shorts out, plunged in darkness, plunged in large hedge.

See, flies can cause grievous bodily harm.

Stuey – what on earth is that???

Kryton57, you’re saying it might give me a buzz?

Lol, fake Radar’s for $11, really?

Now if they did some photocromic lenses I’d be tempted.

wordnumb – Member
Kryton57, you’re saying it might give me a buzz?

No – if you keep injesting flys through body orifices, you may become Wordnumbfly….. 😐

Finally, a serious answer… poor thing will starve to death.

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johnhe http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/maggots.asp

I got a fly in my eye at the top of a local trail recently. Rode it with one eye shut and found that totally f*****d up my perspective and managed to miss three drop offs, and to this day I have no idea how I managed to rescue myself each time without seriously crashing.

I must have looked like a total muppet if anyone saw.

i once got a fly in my eye about a mile from home on a ride..

I usually wear clear glasses but for some reason didnt that day.. 🙁

hurt like ****… got home.. checked it really well.. got the missus to check it.. she found nothing.. even washed my eye with an eye bath..

the pain faded away..

i lay down on the bed and promptly fell asleep due being knackered after the ride..

i awoke about 40 minutes later… with my eye gushing fluid everywhere..

ran into the bathroom and looked in the mirror to find a centimetre and a half or so long fly in my eye..!! must have been hiding behind my eyeball!

made me feel *quite* queasy!

havent ridden without eye protection since though… 😯

You’ll follow if with a spider, then something to eat the spider, and so on

Why?

like the old woman who swallowed a fly, that wriggled and wriggled and tickled inside her. Perhaps she’ll die

Why is it that flys are normal sized when in the air, but the size of a budgie when in your mouth?

corneal abrasion, conjunctivitis, ocular trauma secondary to stings etc. wasp/bee stings in particular have the potential for long term damage.

rule 36 followed by rule 5 I think

seadog101 – Member
Why is it that flys are normal sized when in the air, but the size of a budgie when in your mouth?

Now I know why my wife is reluctant…..

cerebral myiasis is something I wish I’d never googled

Yep stuey that post is both terrifying and fascinating at the same time!

Now I know why my wife is reluctant…..

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