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Submitted by
Alan Boeve
a Weekend Warrior
from lowell,mi ,us
Date Reviewed: June 12, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$6.00 | | Purchased At: | meijers | | Strengths: | This product has worked great for me for many years untill this past year.I"t hasent lasted more than 20 minutes | | Weaknesses: | doesent last long at all. | | Similar Products Used: | never used different | | Bike Setup: | ? | | Bottom Line: | I love this product up untill this year when i picked up fishing. the last three cans i have bought have been worthless after 20 minutes.Unless something changes i along with many fishing buddies will no longer be an off client. I just wish fishing would be better without no bugs. Please do something about our problem. Please write back
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Submitted by
Sprocketeer
a Cross Country Rider
from Moved back to Astoria, Queens, NYC, USA
Date Reviewed: December 17, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | Sprain | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | Don't think I ever actually bother to pay for it myself | | Strengths: | Neato novelty flame thrower and temporary torch--though you can't manage to light anything with it. Finally found a good use for it. | | Weaknesses: | How has this product become the standard and most popular American bug repellant? | | Similar Products Used: | Similar to Off? Umm, I've never been sprayed by a skunk but I suppose that would be about the same thing. | | Bike Setup: | Right side up. | | Bottom Line: | I finally found a good use for Off while watching a show called "I Shouldn't Be Alive."
This totally unprepared guy is lost in the Amazon when a large predator approaches, hunting him. Being unexperienced in the outdoors, much less the Amazon jungle, he of course brought the most notoriously ineffective Off bug aerosol spray. So he waits 'til the big cat is close enough to attack, then lights the aerosol to scare it away.
Sure enough, he wasn't bitten. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Don
a Cross Country Rider
from Northeast, PA
Date Reviewed: February 26, 2005 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Works on everything but horseflies. | | Weaknesses: | DOSE NOT WORK ON HORSEFLIES -> OFF DEEP WOODS | | Similar Products Used: | YOUR FIREARMS ARE USELESS AGAINST THEM!!! and fly swatters | | Bottom Line: | Its good stuff, perhaps there is nothing to be done with horseflies besides riding faster and slapping them. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
tmk70
a Downhiller
from Normal, Illinois
Date Reviewed: November 15, 2004 | | Favoriate Trail: | The Kookamunga | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$6.00 | | Purchased At: | Super Walmart where Katana18 works | | Strengths: | Flavor, duration of protection | | Weaknesses: | No huge cans for keg parties/hooka pipe sessions | | Similar Products Used: | Borax, Nitrous Oxide, Rust-O-Leum Gold | | Bike Setup: | Yeah...Katana is riding it around Walmart | | Bottom Line: | One of the things I immediately noticed about Deep Woods Off was that it didn't sting when I sprayed it directly up my nose. Watering eyes weren't an issue, as the direct blast right to my head caused some momentary blindness. What I will say is that big economy sized cans of the Deep Woods flavor are hard to come by. I don't want that commie Orange Can weak stuff....that's bush league. If Off can come to its senses and make the cans of Deep Woods bigger for parties, weddings, bah mitzvahs, then I'll be a true believer! | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Always Dirty
a Weekend Warrior
from Bahstahn
Date Reviewed: November 15, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$5.00 | | Purchased At: | Some place that clearly overcharges | | Strengths: | Good, strong buzz. | | Weaknesses: | Somewhat bitter taste. Temporary loss of vision. | | Similar Products Used: | Strip-ease, glue, magic markers, white out | | Bike Setup: | Bike? | | Bottom Line: | After a long day at the office I like to kick back with a can of deep woods off and a brown paper bag and unwind. Real easy to use - just spray and huff. You get a good, long lasting light-headed feeling and I have yet to have any mosquitoes bite the inside of my throat or lungs! Having trouble remembering things lately, but that's probably from my custom re-routed exhaust system on my car. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mary Williams
a Cross Country Rider
from Worton, Md.
Date Reviewed: June 1, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | WALMART | | Bottom Line: | My dad died from West Nile Virus. I just want to let people know that using your product will help them to beat West Nile Virus!!!! PLEASE... USE Off to help aleveate West Nile Virus... Maybe you can save your lives.. Thanks to my dad.. James Alderson. Please get the message out that West Nile Virus is here! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mosquito Bloodworthy
a Racer
from That place you can't reach on your back.
Date Reviewed: March 19, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Buzzing around your ears while your trying to sleep and feeding on the veins in your knuckles. | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | Camping sights and backyards world wide. | | Strengths: | Smells good,
Tastes good,
It's the Don Perignon of bug "repellent."
Better than Kool Aid.
It covers up the scent of lady mosquitos I've been cheating on my wife with. | | Weaknesses: | My mosquito wife gets mad when I get home stinking of the stuff and she's there taking care of our over 300 children. She screams at me, "You've been out all night drinking blood, haven't you! You reek of 'OFF.' I can smell it all over you!" | | Similar Products Used: | Citronella, camp fire smoke | | Bike Setup: | Whatever those rolling bloodbanks come along on. And when they crash, WA-HOO!! All-you-can-eat buffet!!!! | | Bottom Line: | I love OFF especially because it makes the people I feed 'off' actually believe that my friends and I are not going to suck them dry, so they don't put up such a fight.
Then the smell and having it get in their eyes irritates them and that makes their temperatures go up, making them much more attractive all night drink bars.
Finally, the tingly feeling OFF gives to humans when they spray it all over themselves masks the feeling of me sticking my needle in them until the very last moment when I'm full and have left them with a big, itchy bump on some highly sensitive part of their bodies--such as their knuckles, ankles, and toe knuckles (I love toe-knuckles in particular).
It's and aquired taste, but well worth getting your pallette used to. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Matt Fulks
a Cross Country Rider
from Oklahoma City, OK
Date Reviewed: October 19, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Dirt | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$2.00 | | Purchased At: | Wal-Mart | | Strengths: | When you hold your lighter up and spray it, it makes a cool blow torch to burn bugs with. You can use the can to smack the mosquitos on your legs and arms. | | Weaknesses: | The actual spray doesn't keep the bugs off. Bugs seem to enjoy attacking me even when I use OFF spray. | | Similar Products Used: | Riding faster so the bugs can't catch me. Smacking the bugs. Riding in the winter time. | | Bike Setup: | Geez. I'm reviewing bug spray here. | | Bottom Line: | I remember my parents spraying OFF on me when I was a kid. Didn't seem to work then either. I hate the way it feels on my skin, the smell is awful, and I don't even notice a slight reduction in how many bugs are swarming around me. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Sprocketeer
a Cross Country Rider
from Narashino, Chiba, Japan (native of New York)
Date Reviewed: June 24, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | I like it rough and dirty, baby! | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$2.00 | | Purchased At: | I used OFF throughout my childhood, so I guess I'll say here and there. | | Strengths: | The smell--is it supposed to convince us that if we can't stand the odor then the mosquitos can't either? | | Weaknesses: | OFF works about as well at keeping bugs away as cough drops do at keeping you from coughing--unless you presently are stankin' of a fresh coat, it's no good once you leave the suburbs, and you have to absolute cover yourself in the stuff for it to work. | | Similar Products Used: | Ben's 100 | | Bike Setup: | 2002 Trek 8000, stock except for Shimano 959 pedals, cycling computer and such. | | Bottom Line: | OFF is awful (OFFul?). It's effectiveness is limited to the backyard of your average suburban home in the rolling hills of Westchester, NY--and even that is a stretch.
I've been around the world, and experienced all kinds of mosquitos--in the US northeast, Mexico, and the Far East--and I can tell you Worcheshire sauce might be more effective than OFF.
About the only way OFF is effective is when it makes your sweat so sticking that mosquitos are drowning in it. You literally have to cover every inch of yourself in it for even minimal effectiveness and keep spraying it on at regular intervals. Pretty soon it bothers you more than the bugs who, though they may be less in number, continue to feed on you.
Once I tried Ben's 100 I was hooked. You don't need to pour it over your head or spray it on--no decent repellent should need to be sprayed on--you just put a bit of it here and there and it works, so a tiny little pocket-size bottle of the stuff can last you until you misplace it a few years later and get a new one.
So go to a tackle shop or a real outdoor equiptment store and get yourself a little Ben's 100, which doesn't even come in large volume as far as I know because it doesn't need to--as opposed to the PINT spray cans OFF comes in. Put a little on your finger and put little stipes of it on your exposed skin areas. That's all you should need.
Happy trails. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
David
a
from Canastota NY
Date Reviewed: May 28, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$1.00 | | Bottom Line: | I have a hard time holding down the bugs to spray them with this stuff, but the ones I *DO* spray don't seem to bother me anymore. Problem is, there's just too damn many of 'em!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ashley Romania
a Weekend Warrior
from U.S.
Date Reviewed: February 15, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | Chiaum | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$5.00 | | Purchased At: | WALMART | | Strengths: | It keeps the bugs off and does it for a long time too!! | | Weaknesses: | It doesn't work for long enough. | | Similar Products Used: | I don't use any other item! | | Bike Setup: | I don't know! | | Bottom Line: | Off! is a great spray and I think every one should use it.
It works very well. And all of my family uses it when we go on camping trips and other things. It works just so well!
And My kids just love the disapearing purple stuff! they wear it every whwere they go! It's just like me when I was a kid! except I took my doll every where instead of wearing Off! everywhere! Any way it is a grest product and everyone should buy it!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Quizz
a Cross Country Rider
from Fajardo, Puerto Rico
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Keeps bugs off | | Weaknesses: | Keeps everybody else off, deet, oily skin and hands | | Bike Setup: | cheesy old Pacific Scorpio | | Bottom Line: | Works quite well, though after a month of living in PR you don't really give a hoot 'bout mosquitos, though on a camping trip, your life depends on it. Don't use it if you want to ride in the group, cuz noone really likes the smell. Some hypocondhriacs are scared of deet, but it hasn't affected me yet.
You don't want to put the rub off kind right before a ride, unless you use gloves, or if you like your hands slipping all over your handlebars.
Me? I preffer just using long pants and riding real fast to keep the bugs off. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Char
a Cross-Country Rider
from Minneapolis, MN
Date Reviewed: June 30, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
works very well | | Weaknesses: |
DEET very poisonous to children.
Strong Chemical Scent. | | Similar Products Used: |
Avon's BUG GUARD PLUS with new IR3535 | | Bottom Line: | DEET products work well, but I've found a better one that is safe for the whole family and works the same as OFF. It's Avon's Bug Guard Plus with IR3535, plant based..SAFE,SAFE,SAFE. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Adam
a weekend warrior
from College Park, MD
Date Reviewed: October 30, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
OFF is da BOMB! Spray that stuff, ignite it, watch bugs fry... and it works well when you use it for intended purposes, too. Just don't sweat a whole lot, and hey, ride fast and the bugs won't catch you anyway... | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Lee
a weekend warrior
from Mass
Date Reviewed: September 9, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
I found that off works better than all the other brands. I use the Skintastic kind, which I think feels the best. It isn't heavy or really oily, and it still works pretty good. It only lasts about 2 hours, and the deer fly's still buzz around your head, but at least they won't bite. And as far as I know, there's not DEET in skintastic. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tim
a weekend warrior
from Illinois
Date Reviewed: July 24, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
Have not used the new product and never will as my friend was just released from
ICU and on respirator. Nearly died from putting on regular OFF. He's okay now
but seizures can last up to one month. I am now on a mission folks stay away
from DEET products use garlic or citronella oil. Stay alive. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ryan
a weekend warrior
from Calgary, Alberta
Date Reviewed: December 3, 1997 | | Bottom Line: |
Deet Rocks! It's that simple. Whenever you find yourself riding through those bug infested forest trails, use the 100% deet Deep Woods Off Bug Spray. Deet may eat through some clothing so be careful where you put it. It is cheaper than aerosol, lasts longer than aerosol (about 8 hours), and it has 4 times more deet than aerosol. Most aerosol stuff has about 25% deet. The Deep Woods Off comes in a small bottle of about 100ml that costs less than 10 bucks, and will last you all year! My bottle is still half full from the spring and it's been worth every cent! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Gregor Smason
a weekend warrior
from Kafakville
Date Reviewed: November 15, 1997 | | Bottom Line: |
Bug Spray!? DEET is great, but I like the paint on my bike, the fibers in my shorts, the skin on my back. DEET will destroy these things, and we happily smear it on ourselves to save the discomfort of some bug bites. The Avon stuff works if you reapply it every thirty seconds (but your skin is sooooo smooth). For my money, nothing works as good as garlic. It is cheap: buy a bulb at the grocery and plant it - instant lifetime supply. It tastes good (debatable). It not only repels bugs, but people too. You get the illusion of being a better rider - nobody wants to keep up with you. It is non-toxic and will spare the finish on that new Jag you bought with your DEET budget. If all this does not convince you to renounce your DEET fetish, then try using the lower (35%) concentration DEET products. Army tests show these to be just as effective as the 100% repellents.
Or you could try a different approach: ride only in the winter.The original bug,
Gregor. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kyle
a cross-country rider
from California
Date Reviewed: November 11, 1997 | | Bottom Line: |
I find that this bug spray keeps away some of the mosquitos but I usually don't use it while I'm riding my bike. I use it while I'm camping and it doesn't do the job. I haven't found a bug spray that is comepletly foolproof, but the best one I have found is one I belive that is made by Avon. | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kyle
a cross-country rider
from California
Date Reviewed: November 11, 1997 | | Bottom Line: |
I find that this bug spray keeps away some of the mosquitos but I usually don't use it while I'm riding my bike. I use it while I'm camping and it doesn't do the job. I haven't found a bug spray that is comepletly foolproof, but the best one I have found is one I belive that is made by Avon. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Byron
a cross-country rider
from Milford, MA
Date Reviewed: January 25, 1997 | | Bottom Line: |
Wait a second, since when is bugspray considered riding equipment?Well, if you've ever ridden in the woods of MAINE, you'd know. DEET OFF bug spray works exelent for all those little demons of the air. Mosquitoes? HA HA HA, foolish mortal. Horseflies man!! Those things are smart and MAN can they take a chunk out of you. OFF keeps off all those little things. Spray it on your shoes, and it helps keep the ticks down very nicely. Sure, DEET might not be good for you, but just spray it on your clothes, not you.It might seem wierd to think of bugspray as at home here at a mountain biking page, but I don't think anyone can argue it's a vital part of the setup. And Deep Woods OFF is the very best there is. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jason Ross
a cross-country rider
from Minneapolis, MN
Date Reviewed: July 24, 1996 | | Bottom Line: |
Off is the best! Try Off Deepwoods 'unsecented', it still smells, but not as heavy. With Off, I've *never* been bitten or picked up any ticks. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Peter
a cross-country rider
from Boston
Date Reviewed: June 15, 1996 | | Bottom Line: |
Bugspray?
Oh, post all the reviews you want about the latest thing you're
not sure if you actually OWN yet, and all the chi chi that your
friend owns that you happened to have ridden once ( or fondly
gazed at through the glass counter), but when it comes down to actually
riding in the spring, you won't even notice your bike while you try
beat back the cloud of mosquitos that smelled you coming from 3 miles
out.
Off! 100% DEET comes in handy little bottle and will save you from
all kinds of little beasties. It lasts way longer than the aerosols that
have only 25% DEET, and smells just, just, like bug spray. DEET may
have nasty long term health side effects, though, so ask somebody
knowledgeable if you should risk it. Personally, I'm not convinced
I should worry since I'm not drinking it or bathing in it 100 times
a day.
Keep it away from your spandex lycra shorts, which it melts quite
nicely. BTW, Benadryl exrta strength itch cream works great for the
bites you do get. Happy writi-er-RIDING. | | Overall Rating: |
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