Disappearing headbands

[sweetp]

I know this sounds really strange but I have had it happen to me twice now. I wear a headband under my helmet (to keep the hair out of my face) and really like the big tubes that you get from katmandu and fold into a head band.

Anyway I have two of them (and at $16 each on special they are not cheap) and lost them both! It seems that they come out from under my helmet when I am riding. I know it hasn't been when I have taken my helmet off cause I check all around me and my clothes.

Has this happened to anyone else? Can anyone tell me why this would happen? It isn't a problem with the thinner ones I wear, but I really liked the others as they made my helmet extra snug.

[Trudes]

That is weird J!!! I lose hairties out of my hair on the bike, but I guess they fall out in the wind, but out from inside your helmet is strange. Maybe your helmet is like my clothes drier and likes to eat small objects....

[homer]

lets see

long blonde hair , blue eyes
:soon:

Ask your helmet ,after all it was the last to see it

[Number One]

I know this sounds really strange but I have had it happen to me twice now. I wear a headband under my helmet (to keep the hair out of my face) and really like the big tubes that you get from katmandu and fold into a head band.

Crikey that is strange but hey thanks for the tip on where to get a good headband...cut my hair recently - can't F'n stand it (nother story) but had serious helmet hair today and a big tube headband would have helped :laugh:

[Hitcher]

If you've got enough room inside your helmet to wear a hat or headband, then your helmet doesn't fit you properly and you should procure one that does. Motorcycling should be more about doing things safely, rather than erupting from one's apparel and making some sort of Halle Berry statement at one's place of arrival.

This message proudly sponsored by "Hair by Shoei".

[Trudes]

Oh Hitcher, you're just jealous that your helmet can only just squeeze on your melon. (you know I luv ya thou eh):blink:

[Hitcher]

Oh Hitcher, you're just jealous that your helmet can only just squeeze on your melon.

All joking aside, if there is more room in a helmet than required to wear a silk (or similar) balaclava, then the helmet must be too big.

[vifferman]

If you've got enough room inside your helmet to wear a hat or headband, then your helmet doesn't fit you properly and you should procure one that does.
That's not actually true.
Helmets are usually manufactured in size intervals of 1cm (head circumference). However, head "things" probably add in the vicinity of only a fraction of that to the average head, so while if your gourd is Eggs Zachary the same size as the upper limits of your helmet (like my AGV XVent was), adding a 'head thing' (such as a silk condom for safe helmeting) may mean the helmet is now a few mm too small, there is still a certain margin of error available via the squishyiness of the foam liner of the helmet.
Except perhaps, if your heid is ExtraExtraExtraHugeMelon-sized, so the manufacturers have eschewed making a correspondingly large shell for the statistically few GargantuanHeidz in the population in favour of reducing the thickness and squishiness of the liner in a smaller-shelled crustacean. Er, helmet.

Or summat.
Or not.

[Trudes]

hahaha Vifferman,
yeah but no but yeah but no but

[spookytooth]

Yep i have had the same problem except it seems theres alot less hair on my head after every ride just seems to be vanishing

[RC1]

shave your head problem solved

[Grub]

SweetP, I have the same problem with my socks! Just the other day I .....

[Patch]

Why am I not surprised at some blokes (hijaking a chick's thread of all things) spouting their all knowing knowledge of ladies' head-bands.

[Nasty]

All joking aside, if there is more room in a helmet than required to wear a silk (or similar) balaclava, then the helmet must be too big.

But that shows how much you know about the hairbands .. which are about as thick as the silk balaclavas but tidier for those with curley mops that get outta control.

[scumdog]

Anyway I have two of them (and at $16 each on special they are not cheap) and lost them both! .

There's your problem - you WILL buy Khatmandu 'Normally-excessively-priced-but-back-to-normal-price-when-on-sale products!!:pinch:

[Number One]

All joking aside, if there is more room in a helmet than required to wear a silk (or similar) balaclava, then the helmet must be too big.

Too big OR you like me have just had a haircut where they thinned your hair out soo much that your helmet has more room in it...NOT LOOSE just not as FIRM as I like it!

[Sully60]

Too big OR you like me have just had a haircut where they thinned your hair out soo much that your helmet has more room in it...NOT LOOSE just not as FIRM as I like it!

Ha!
A reference to Hitcher that mentioned haircuts.

KB is a funny place!:rolleyes:

[Number One]

Ha!
A reference to Hitcher that mentioned haircuts.

KB is a funny place!:rolleyes:

Hee hee - did wonder if he is 'Folicly challenged' as I clicked submit post! :innocent:

[Disco Dan]

Hitchers right - if you can fit a headband as well as all your hair then you need to buy a smaller helmet. Your helmet needs to be a tight fit in order for it to work in an accident - if you shake your head from side to side really quick and you feel it move, then its too big.

In an accident you helmet needs to absorb the impact - but if there is a gap between your skull and the helmet, your head will hit the inside of the helmet as well as getting the impact from the ground/object whatever.




Headband issue - SIMPLE - get an old skivvy you no longer want and cut the arms off. Put it over your head and as it starts big and gets smaller, pull it down until it gets tight, the cut it off there.

Then you get two!!!

[Number One]

Headband issue - SIMPLE - get an old skivvy you no longer want and cut the arms off. Put it over your head and as it starts big and gets smaller, pull it down until it gets tight, the cut it off there.

Then you get two!!!

Firstly - yes dear....If you read her post she said it keeps her hair out of her eyes and makes her helmet EXTRA snug NOT I need to wear a headband cos my helmet doesn't fit me.


Secondly - So to get a hairband (or two) you should ruin a perfectly good article of clothing...all for the sake of a strip of cloth? Don't think so.

Thirdly - as previously stated you boys have no idea about girls hair accessories. These aren't the very 80's style hard raised headbands this is a tube of rather thin material that just holds your hair off your face.

BOYS BOYS BOYS - we don't need your help with our hair do's - you ain't the fabulous 5 or the guy from how to look good naked so go do yer own hair! :rolleyes:

[Disco Dan]

Firstly - yes dear....If you read her post she said it keeps her hair out of her eyes and makes her helmet EXTRA snug NOT I need to wear a headband cos my helmet doesn't fit me.


Secondly - So to get a hairband (or two) you should ruin a perfectly good article of clothing...all for the sake of a strip of cloth? Don't think so.

Thirdly - as previously stated you boys have no idea about girls hair accessories. These aren't the very 80's style hard raised headbands this is a tube of rather thin material that just holds your hair off your face.

BOYS BOYS BOYS - we don't need your help with our hair do's - you ain't the fabulous 5 or the guy from how to look good naked so go do yer own hair! :rolleyes:

errr yeah looks like you do need our help!! :rofl:

FYI I said OLD skivvy :niceone:

[Number One]

FYI I said OLD skivvy :niceone:

I would consider cutting if it was a ROOTED skivvy but an OLD one is still useful under yer riding jacket on a cold day! :cool:

[Sully60]

I would consider cutting if it was a ROOTED skivvy but an OLD one is still useful under yer riding jacket on a cold day! :cool:

:Oi: How are these skivvies being rooted, or more to the point who is rooting them?

Sheesh, right under my nose the whole time.

I thought I knew you......

[Number One]

:Oi: How are these skivvies being rooted, or more to the point who is rooting them?

Sheesh, right under my nose the whole time.

I thought I knew you......

Sorry babe...be sure to include you next time :bleh:

[Number One]

Firstly thanks for the bling but as for the backhanded comment of: Feel sorry for your partner... your one of those women that just CANT be pleased"

...

This related to my comment about not being prepared to cut up an old skivvy to make a hairband...I am not made of money and as a practical lady I wouldn't cut up perfectly fine clothing when I could still get use out of it OR donate it to the Sallies..which I regularly do.

AND btw - My HUSBAND pleases me regularly! But then he is pretty damn good at what he does!

Don't hate the player - hate the game!

[Sully60]

Oooo,
Thats sound like an interesting topic for some pillow talk.........

[sweetp]

Ok, this has all been very interesting but doesnt explain how a headband can escape from underneath a helmet. As I said my skinny little ones (a piece of leather) stays fine but the thick ones escape! It seems like a mystery to me that it can sneek out while I am riding along.

And for all of you concerned my helmet does fit properly, it was proffessionally fitted and one identical (same style, same size) did manage to save my noggin when I decided to slide down the motorway a while ago.

:)