helmet hair hassles

[riffer]

Short hair rules for solving helmet problems.

Which reminds me - it must be haircut time - Its starting to rub against the helmet when I adjust it.

And I wear glasses most of the time.

Contacts are a hassle when riding for me as I'm pretty photophobic - I have transition lenses which look like sunnies

So yeah - helmet, then glasses.

A mate of mine who has long hair has a kind of thin polyester tube type thing which he puts over his head and puts his ponytail in, twists it and then puts the helmet on...

[jimbo600]

I know this may not be a problem for those of you with more chrome than fuzz on top, but for people like me with a bit of hair, its a real pain in the butt to wear a helmet when your hair is wet/you need to tie it up somehow/you put something in it(gel, mousse, whatever).

I was wondering what you other haired helmet wearers do to keep your mop in control when you have a helmet to pull on and off all the time.
And also for helmetted people who wear glasses - similar annoyance - feel free to comment also.

I'm just content to look like a twat.

[Velox]

Dreads work - they're as mangled when take the helmet off as when you put it on!

[scumdog]

Helmet hair? is that when a few of your 'wires' get stuck across you 'eye' and cause you to pee three ways at once?

[Wonko]

Helmet hair sucks the big one. I tie it back in a pony tail, and then drop it down under poler flesse vest that has a high neck on it.(also stops draughts around neck) there is also something called a neck sock(?) that is a tube that sit's around your neck to stop draughts etc. Can put this over your hair to stop it flapping around. In summer when I didn't need the vest I tied the ponytail at the top, and again at the bottom before dropping it down the back of the jacket. it normally popped out, but at least it didn't dread.

LASIK rocks 4 years now and what an improvment it has made. I still wear sunnies under helmet, love to have the visor up in the summer heat, the smells are unbeliveable.

[inlinefour]

I know this may not be a problem for those of you with more chrome than fuzz on top, but for people like me with a bit of hair, its a real pain in the butt to wear a helmet when your hair is wet/you need to tie it up somehow/you put something in it(gel, mousse, whatever).

I was wondering what you other haired helmet wearers do to keep your mop in control when you have a helmet to pull on and off all the time.
And also for helmetted people who wear glasses - similar annoyance - feel free to comment also.

Got an Xpeed helmet from Energy Honda, AWESOME HELMET! Better than the higher spec higher cost helmets I've owned. The Arai can get stuffed and I see that Nolan makes only shite these days. Nice and snug and holds my glasses where I place them every time. As for the hair, common sense aye! Dry it off before hand, or come around & I'll get the clippers out 4 ya

[Sniper]

You get turned on by goats?



Paul N (runing away now, fast)

Heheheheh

[SPman]

.. love to have the visor up in the summer heat, the smells are unbeliveable.

particularly following a stock truck!

[Milky]

Dreads work - they're as mangled when take the helmet off as when you put it on!

I agree... The only problem is when you cut them off. I had to change to a smaller helmet when I lost mine as t'is a suprisingly large change in volume

[Blakamin]

Helmet hair? is that when a few of your 'wires' get stuck across you 'eye' and cause you to pee three ways at once?

... brilliant!!!!!!

[Velox]

I agree... The only problem is when you cut them off. I had to change to a smaller helmet when I lost mine as t'is a suprisingly large change in volume

Yeah - that's what I'm worried about. I'll have to coordinate getting a haircut and a new helmet at the same time!

[Frankie]

I never have my hair if I'm gonna ride, helmet hair to the max! I let my hair flap freely out the back of my helmet or sometimes I tie it up in piggy tails.
Sadly though no matter what I do I get helmet hair, so just don't ride to any hot dates

some guys mite like a biker chick more :eyepoke:

[Jess]

HONDA: As for the hair, common sense aye! Dry it off before hand, or come around & I'll get the clippers out 4 ya

alrighty then. have to keep it long-ish to get married in (other half doesnt like it short) and then wahoo - short hair again!!!!

youre not a hairdresser are you? if youre not you can still cut it, but the last time i let an uninitiated hairdresser attack my hair i had an axe waiting on my lap the whole time...

[crashe]

I usually have shoulder length hair.... and when I put the helmet on and off, my hair just so FLAT with no style... the real helmet look lol... so recently I went to a number 3 look. that helps a lot.... but I'm growing it back again....

Glasses - I dont wear ordinary glasses but I do wear sunnies when riding....
I have brought many expensive sunnies and I have broken so many of them..... I tend to break one arm of them off.... so I went to the $2 shop and this pair have lasted a year.... I kid you not... no matter what I do to them... they aint broken.
For night riding I went and brought a pair of safety glasses.... so that I can wear glasses without having the visor down.

Its a matter of remembering to put on the helmet then the glasses.
taking off the glasses then the helmet off.

I was wearing sunnies one day and a small tiny fragment of metal went into my eye..... 3 trips to the hospital over 3 weeks soon sorted that out....
The metal turned rusty, and they couldnt get it out.... so they got a drill ( a special type of drill) and drilled a hole into my eyeball.... Yep I was wide awake and saw it all happening... rode home with my eye patched over... that was a fun ride home with only eyesite out of one eye....lol

[vifferman]

I was wondering what you other haired helmet wearers do to keep your mop in control when you have a helmet to pull on and off all the time.
And also for helmetted people who wear glasses - similar annoyance - feel free to comment also.

Right - I don't got much hair, but I used to wear sunnies, which fit nicely under my old AGV (but not the X-Vent). Luckily, the X-Vent has a tinted mirror visor, so I don't need to wear sunnies.
However, my lovely wife wears glasses. Firstly, she borrowed a helmet from a woman she works with, who also wears glasses (and also has a tiny head). It was a BMW flip-front, so that fixed the glasses issue, although she still managed to knock 'em off a couple of times putting the helmet on / taking it off.
When we bought her a new helmet last weekend (and a VFR to go with it), we abandoned the idea of a flip-front, after trying on a few, and made sure that here glasses fit OK under a conventional fullface. The Shoei Raid was good for that.

As for the hair, she mentioned her new aquisitions to her hairdresser on Firday, and she cut her hair in a "helmet friendly" style, and also mentioned she should try a product called summat like "Super Big Hair", that will stop the dreaded 'helmet hair'. It was carried by Rodney Wayne salons, till they decided that because one of the Fab Five was endorsing/marketting it, it wasn't in keeping with the image they wanted to project, or somesuch nonsense.

HTH.