“Independent” article on ticks and Lyme disease

https://youtu.be/RVca0LuEDaQ (NOT SAFE FOR WORK)
mainly due to the subtitles saying D**KS instead of ticks
Ticks horrid things but very interesting.
I’ve always used tick twisters as soon as possible.

@pk13
Thanks for that. Really good little film. Informative and entertaining. Well worth a watch. Pretty fascinating creatures really.

its been 15 years since I found ticks, so a lot of new information is good
And if I post something wrong it’ll soon get corrected

Agreed…posting to raise awareness is a good thing. The fact there are so many arguments about what is right/wrong suggests there is more than 1 way to sort this…

”those you don’t know about till the bite area starts to feel it. Twisting (always anti clockwise) works 99% of the time”

I’m curious about the ‘anti clockwise’?

Lefty loosey righty tighty. Avoid tick torque

Unless it’s on your bottom bracket.

Out of our riding group ticks and also midges if near water will go for me, but not my riding buddies. I use Tesco’s spray with 50% DEET which seems to work, have tick twisters in the car and home, although do struggle with small nymph ones so just ordered a pack of 3 of the tick key from Amazon. Thanks for the recommendation @ajantom

Unless it’s on your bottom bracket.

If you’ve got a tick in your bottom bracket, yer on yer own dealing with it.

Ticks are nasty. My partner gets them just looking at anything longer then a freshly mown lawn. I wander around the heather and get nothing. Until two years ago when I got bitten. Didn’t notice felt shit, a characteristic red mark developed and the dr kindly put me on a course of antibiotics . Then spent a couple of weeks trying not to get sunburnt because the antibiotics made me susceptible.

I’m a lot less blasé now.

Ticks don’t have threads on their face, the have three pretty delicate protrusions that they bury deep enough in to reach blood…