How do I clean my smelly helmet?

[Spearfish]

Even worse when you put the bloody thing on and get a hair full of cats pee too

Its funny how the stink isn't immediate or even obvious where it coming from...off with the lid, check all around the jacket, shoes...nope...around the bike, nope..
no, no way, not in the helmet, feck I've got to ride home yet...LoL

[Banditbandit]

Lol, nah I just got a new one, its the old one that smells but the missus wore it when I took her out last weekend and wondered the best way to clean it.

Some good advice in the thread. Thanks guys.

Huh? Did it smell before, after or during her time with it?

What's wrong with opening the visor and letting the air through it?

[Banditbandit]

Try cleaning out the smell of vomit in a helmet.....it dont come out all that easy...from my own experience....

Bought a new helmet after that experience....oh that was over 20 years ago

I remember those days - can't do it in a full face (get drunk and throw up I mean ...) Can't get the bottle passed the chin piece ... unless you use a straw ...

[Ratti]

Really officer, I wasn't drinking, I just washed my jacket with Vodka.

I don't know when you last purchased a bottle of Vodka, at least the drinkable kind, but it's not a cheap cleaner. I'm pretty sure pure ethanol or methanol is considerably cheaper - one of which is the primary ingredient of Vodka.

Thats the thing Sweety, you dont need the good stuff to use as a cleaner. Cheapest bottle on the rack does just fine. I'm curious, where would I purchase ethanol? Tattooists use a pure alcohol to clean skin, I wonder if thats the stuff? its VERY expensive.And I know artists use the same alcohol to dissolve shellac and resin, again horribly expensive.
Nah, I'd stick with vodka. Would be funny to be stopped tho and have to explain to a Plod why one reeked.

[p.dath]

Thats the thing Sweety, you dont need the good stuff to use as a cleaner. Cheapest bottle on the rack does just fine. I'm curious, where would I purchase ethanol? Tattooists use a pure alcohol to clean skin, I wonder if thats the stuff? its VERY expensive.And I know artists use the same alcohol to dissolve shellac and resin, again horribly expensive.
Nah, I'd stick with vodka. Would be funny to be stopped tho and have to explain to a Plod why one reeked.

You should be able to purchase pure alcohol from a chemist. Any service station that sells racing fuel may offer it as well. I think it goes for around $2/l. Considerably cheaper than Vodka. I see a 10l drum up for sale for $20 at a popular online auction site.

[Jonathan]

You should be able to purchase pure alcohol from a chemist. Any service station that sells racing fuel may offer it as well. I think it goes for around $2/l. Considerably cheaper than Vodka. I see a 10l drum up for sale for $20 at a popular online auction site.

Pure ethanol at $2/L?! Wish I had known that during my student days - I could have actually been able to afford food!

[Jonathan]

You should be able to purchase pure alcohol from a chemist. Any service station that sells racing fuel may offer it as well. I think it goes for around $2/l. Considerably cheaper than Vodka. I see a 10l drum up for sale for $20 at a popular online auction site.

Pure ethanol at $2/L?! Wish I had known that during my student days - I could have actually been able to afford food!

[Ratti]

Hon, if you had drunk that stuff then you wouldnt be here to tell us about your adventures

[p.dath]

Hon, if you had drunk that stuff then you wouldnt be here to tell us about your adventures

Ratti is right. Around 5ml (one teaspoon) of pure ethanol can blind you. Somewhere between 20ml and 30ml you die.

[Jonathan]

My mates on the street say if you strain it through bread first you're sweet :P

Actually I think it is meths you are thinking about. Pure ethanol may have additives put in it to make it undrinkable but on it's own it is just normal drinking alcohol.

But yeah, Ratti is right. I am sure I have done plenty enough damage to my brain during my student years as it is.