[Closed] Sick off swallowing flies!!

My nose

clenched teeth is the way forward.

[interesting fact]

If you clench your teeth and do a cockney accent you'll sound like an Australian.

Conclusive (ish) proof that the Australian accent came from transported cockneys keeping their teeth clenched to stop flies getting in their mouths.

[/interesting fact]

just try to think of them has a little snack whilst you ride. just try not to think of what they have just been sitting on 😀

it's the ones that go straight in and ping off the back of your throat that are worst. You end up ridign along trying not to retch and hackign up bits of fly at the same time.

I swallow a spider.

I knew an old lady who swallowed a spider.......

Swallowed a big fly, as opposed to the usual midgies, myself the other night and nearly choked but managed to cough it back up eventually. Next day clearly not having learned my lesson,I managed to suck in a big lump of manky mud which ,I am reliably informed ,can cause pneumonia if gets down your airway and into your lungs rather than down your throat and into your stomach 😯

flies,mud,dog eggs, whatever ,every mountain biker ends up eating some,don't worry about it.

I've got a mask made by Gore bike wear, it's ace for winter but I think it'd be too hot for fly denial. I'm more bothered about wasps & bees in my helmet vents. Only happened once but I always think about it when I put on my lid... 😯

Where do the flies go to when the weather is pump? Monday was honking down here all day with rain and not a fly, Tuesday was ok and the place was full of them again.

just try to think of them has a little snack whilst you ride. just try not to think of what they have just been sitting on

If they tasted good it would be better, but as most of them taste of what they have been sat on, I'd rather go hungry thanks!