Ticks and Lyme Disease: Advice for Mountain Bikers

[CassidyAce]

Lyme disease can be a nasty one so if you don't know what to look out for, have a read: https://singletrackworld.com/2020/06/ti ... in-bikers/.

 

[M-Power]

Re:

Scary read but been aware of this for years where I ride, due to lots of roaming deer.

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

had 2 this year, low so far... normally pull 5-10 off the dog every evening.

 

[hamster]

I keep a tick tool in my puncture repair kit. Lyme Disease is endemic in the New Forest.

 

[M-Power]

had 2 this year, low so far... normally pull 5-10 off the dog every evening.

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

had 2 this year, low so far... normally pull 5-10 off the dog every evening.

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

1-2 hours walking in the New Forest most nights.

Worth the risk

 

[al-onestare]

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Got my first tick this week. Horrible little things.

 

[mattr]

My first ever tick bite left me with a bullseye rash and 10 days of antibiotics......

 

[al-onestare]

My first ever tick bite left me with a bullseye rash and 10 days of antibiotics......

This year the mosquito's have been brutal, far worse than I can remember. I was bitten daily throughout most of late May and June, leaving really big-old angry blisters. Thankfully they've buggered off now.

 

[dazdc5]

My first ever tick bite left me with a bullseye rash and 10 days of antibiotics......

This year the mosquito's have been brutal, far worse than I can remember. I was bitten daily throughout most of late May and June, leaving really big-old angry blisters. Thankfully they've buggered off now.

To be replaced by the dreaded Horsefly....