Things in your helmet!

essex-commuter

This year more than ever I seem to get nasties fly inside my CRASH helmet, it makes for a very uncomfortable feeling and can induce slight panic due to it being a UFO...and therefore could be a wasp/bee. I keep thinking it would be a good idea if helmets had a fine mesh covering the vents but this seems quite rare....isn't it?

lost_in_thought

Aha!

I KNEW there'd be evidence that helmets are dangerous eventually...

andy83

where a cotton cop, also stops sweat going in your eyes

doesnt matter that i have no hair so if i didnt wear a cap under helmet id have some funny lines on my head

rjsterry

It's the ones that fly behind my glasses that really bother me. Insect mesh is pretty unusual, but I don't recall ever getting an insect buzzing around inside my helmet. They normally just collide and bounce off.

Alphabet

had a moth fluttering around in mine for about 20 minutes on the dunwich dynamo this year. each time i thought i'd freed it i'd feel it fluttering about 20 seconds later. drove me nuts. not enough to actually stop though.

lost_in_thought

Here you go...

craker

I found a slug in my helmet last week. I had rather lazily left my helmet on the lawn overnight.

Actually, I found in slug in my hair after a commute last week and my supposition was that it had come via the helmet.

andy83

i had one go down my top the other day, zip half down and little bugger flew in and stung my chest

essex-commuter

andy83 wrote:

where a cotton cop

Is that like plastic Police?

Does a cap not make you hotter? I have a number one crop but still verge on getting too hot when it's above 15 degrees or so. I wear a bandana in the Winter (can pull it over my lugholes as well), maybe I should try that?

Jay dubbleU

Butterflies don't half sting when they hit you going downhill at 20+ without a helmet :oops:

hisoka

Am I the only one thinking about Super Mario with that helmet pic?

DCowling

hisoka wrote:

Am I the only one thinking about Super Mario with that helmet pic?[/quote

Didn't realise Mario was so erm chunky in the flesh, he has moobs, must be the red overalls that hide them

dondare

Is this going to turn into a real helmet debate? If so, I'll stick around. I've got a few views on the subject .

Big Wib

dondare wrote:

Is this going to turn into a real helmet debate? If so, I'll stick around. I've got a few views on the subject .

not in this forum

dondare

lost_in_thought wrote:

Here you go...

Someone's giving me a very saucy look.

prawny

I found a hideous massive thing inside my helmet when I got home last night, my head! :P

SimonAH

I've got one bee-atch of a sprint-hill on my daily run. At the top of which you go past a dairy farm.

In other words just as you're spitting lung after going for your pb up the hill, all you get to breath is a light brown miasma of cow fart and evaporated flop.

.....and of course the bluebottles.

On two occasions I have snorted bluebottle. Unlike many other things that have disappeared up nasal cavities around the world over the years I can catagorically state that you would have to have the mother of all addictive personalities to get hooked.

lost_in_thought

dondare wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

Here you go...

Someone's giving me a very saucy look.

Ain't me!

But she does look rather saucy.

And it's meant to be a 1-up mushroom.

Clever Pun

GregT wrote:

I found cheese in my helmet

The Chingford Skinhead

Maybe it's an East London / Essex Insect thing as I have had more than my fair share of insects flying into my helmet - usually on canal tow paths where the opportunity to panic is limited by the fear of ending up in the water. Of course, you also know that said insect is about to go into panic mode as well.

I thought it was just me!!

Mind you, it is better than the alternative. I had an insect hit my face and dart up my nostril and then sting me last year. Now that :!: hurt!!!

Animal100

Just for info I have a Met Duello which has mesh in the front four slots. Did'nt stop a bee getting stuck in the strap and stinging the side of my face though, that hurt for ages. But does stop the bugs getting at whats left of my hair.

Zombie_donkey

I didn't like it a few weeks back when the ants were flying.

EKE_38BPM

+1 for the Met Duello, its what I use.
For those of you that don't know what it looks like, here it is.


Comfy helmet, I like it.

lae

My girlfriend got a bee or wasp in her mouth when cycling and it stung her on the tongue. I had to try really bloody hard not to laugh...

Anyway. I believe the classic solution to our problem is putting a cabbage leaf between your head and your helmet. Keeps you cool too, apparently. And if you're gunning it, you'll have a tasty snack of sweat-braised cabbage to keep you going - anything to take away the taste of coconut-flavour Powerbars eh...

emdeef

I was stung on the top of my head by something last year, not sure what, the bugger had gone by the time I got the helmet off. It's the downside of efficient venting I suppose. That mesh filter looks a good solution. Does it collect flies like a car radiator grill?

EKE_38BPM

I've never found anything stuck in there, but I've never had anything hit my scalp since I've been wearing it either. Maybe insects get scared of it and swerve off at the last moment? I've heard/felt many things hit the main body of the helmet, but nothing for the mesh.

Good idea though and what sold it for me.

emdeef

Yes, I'll definitely be looking at that one at lid replacement time

EKE_38BPM

I think you may have missed the boat on that one. I know Wiggle no longer stock it and I haven't seen it in any shops for a while, but I wouldn't be surprised if Met don't have a new model out with a mesh in it too.

Big Wib

Jay dubbleU wrote:

Butterflies don't half sting when they hit you going downhill at 20+ without a helmet :oops:

beetles at 30mph + are worse and its just not a good look.

Mrs BW: You're bleeding, what happened?
Me: Headbutted a beetle :oops:
Mrs BW: oh