question about helmets

[DDH]

You girls are cracking me up!!!

Thanks for all the good advice and helping me to not feel like I am being strange or something. LOL

Although, I can be a little out there sometimes.

[Denise223]

Hi Everyone!

Since this is about helmets, and I too was interested on how best to clean my helmet.....

We have two Giro helmets from 2003, and I am thinking of getting us a couple of new ones....
My head measures 23" (big!), and my husband's head is probably 23&1/2".

I want a good coverage helmet, and was looking at the Bell Alchera helmet, and it received excellent reviews.

What do you all think??

Thanks!

Have a great day.

Denise

[fatbottomedgurl]

And here I've been thinking about rinsing down my bike in the shower.

I stay away from washing my bike with water like the plague! Water is not good for bikes! When I get home from a ride my bike is coated with dust, mud, bits of trail flora and occasionally cow pies. I let it dry and then take a variety of scrub brushes, cheap paint brushes, tooth brush, etc. and dry "wash" the pedals, chain, crank, derailers, gears, wheelset and everything else crusty. I wipe the frame down with a damp rag and then lube the drivetrain and pedals. The bike looks squeeky clean when I'm done. The only time I use water is when I've ridden through something particularly nasty like the big squishy pile of dog poop I ran over the other day which splattered all over the back of my bike.

[Fredwina]

I have a Limar 911 ( http://www.bikemine.com/proddisplay.asp?prod=2005 ) I haven't had for a ride yet (darn arm in sling!). it has a removeable pads, which most do. The pads are made to be washed. The only caution with Limar is that they won'tone fit on a Large head. I can bearly get a Medium Bell or Giro(Bell actually owns Giro) on, and with Limar, I'm an L.
Another thing, Ideally you should have another helmet to use a Backup in case you wreck. I have an old Giro Havoc that I use for that. I view helmets like shoes, I wouldn't buy one without trying it on.
Another good site to take a look at is www.helmets.org, which is the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute

[GLC1968]

Hi Everyone!

Since this is about helmets, and I too was interested on how best to clean my helmet.....

We have two Giro helmets from 2003, and I am thinking of getting us a couple of new ones....
My head measures 23" (big!), and my husband's head is probably 23&1/2".

I want a good coverage helmet, and was looking at the Bell Alchera helmet, and it received excellent reviews.

What do you all think??

Thanks!

Have a great day.

Denise

Hey Denise!

Talk about more coincidences...I used to have an older Giro helmet and I also have a HUGE head! I purchased the Bell Alchera at the beginning of this season and I really like it! (Is it bad that I purposely picked out the dark grey so that it would make my head look smaller...dark colors are slimming, right? )

I give it a thumbs up!

[SouthernBelle]

Now we're worrying about fat heads?

[Bruno28]

I can just see it I'll come home from a long ride, yank the wheels off the bike, yank everything off of me but the helmet, climb in the shower with the bike and helmet...

I think there are specialist sites for this type of thing...but thanks for sharing

[Geonz]

Gosh, I *love* seeing how much sweat crust I can get on the straps... that and my camelbak straps. It's really gross when I do two rides on a hot day - but I'm not sure warm and soapy would be any less gross.

[Kalidurga]

Originally Posted by Kalidurga:
I can just see it I'll come home from a long ride, yank the wheels off the bike, yank everything off of me but the helmet, climb in the shower with the bike and helmet...

I think there are specialist sites for this type of thing...but thanks for sharing

Sorry, I had just seen the thread titled "Hip angles and max thrust"...

[Kitsune06]

*BRILLIANT!*

It's been *cough, cough* entirely too long since I've washed my helmet (so THAT explains the post-ride acne breakouts....) I have an older Bell helmet which is a few years old and beat-up enough that I could justify getting a new Giro Skyla (DGF and I each got one)... but now I even know how to CLEAN it. I only use Dr. Bronners soaps, but I do occasionally get tea-tree oil shampoo. I wonder how that would affect the pads? I'm sure it'd leave that nice mint/piney smell...

[KnottedYet]

I only use Dr. Bronners soaps

Girl, I'm gonna have to start calling you "Mini Me"!

I've been using Dr. Bronner's since Hmmmmm, 1970 or so. Hippie-child on the commune, bathing in a horse-trough filled with creek water and using Dr. Bronner's peppermint. <no kidding>

Nowadays I use eucalyptus and lavender.

[Kitsune06]

I really got into the Tea Tree, but haven't found it since Eugene... Lavendar is nice, but I'm using peppermint right now b/c it feels *nice* after a long ride... with tigerbalm. mmm

Mark Twain said something along the lines of Adam being lucky- he was the only man to be able to say anything of wit and know no one had said it before... I suppose great minds think alike or something like that...

I happened to find it showering with the rest of the folks @ the Ritz at the Fair... so not too far off. =)