How do you clean your helmet from bugs?

[p.dath]

Just out of curiosity...
To clean your helmet and visor from bugs without scratching it do you use some special cleaning products, windex type stuff, microfibre cloth, leather, spit and polish, just hot water..???

For the visor I use a small squirt of Pledge (furniture polish) and a soft cloth to polish it back off again.

[James Deuce]

God you guys are brutal with your helmets and visors. Leave a damp cloth on your helmet for 30 mins or more and the bugs just wipe off.

[Richard Mc F]

in the shower............wait ..................I am getting confused

[BigAl]

Geez guys, I just give mine to the missus. She's in charge of cleaning.

[Maha]

God you guys are brutal with your helmets and visors. Leave a damp cloth on your helmet for 30 mins or more and the bugs just wipe off.

Makes it tough to see when you're riding though....
Nothing like a bit of bug arse to let you know its been a long day.

[george formby]

Geez guys, I just give mine to the missus. She's in charge of cleaning.

+1 She waxes me boots too.





Admittedly, I did have to buy her a bike to get this kind of service.

+1 damp cloth left to soften the bugs, they then just rinse off. Pledge & my personal fav, Mr Sheene, are excellent. I always have a packet of wet wipes in case I get badly spoodged on a run too. they work a treat. No, actually it's a packet of baby botty wipes, bigger, softer & more sensitive. Can't comment on how effective they are for bottys.

[chasio]

+1 She waxes me boots too.





Admittedly, I did have to buy her a bike to get this kind of service.

+1 damp cloth left to soften the bugs, they then just rinse off. Pledge & my personal fav, Mr Sheene, are excellent. I always have a packet of wet wipes in case I get badly spoodged on a run too. they work a treat. No, actually it's a packet of baby botty wipes, bigger, softer & more sensitive. Can't comment on how effective they are for bottys.

I used wet wipes for a while. Eventually I concluded they had taken some kind of surface coating off the outside of the visor (the stock one on a Shoei Raid II). I don't recall what made me figure that, but I haven't used them since. I use a method similar to Maha and will add the damp rag trick to the trick bag; ta.

[george formby]

I used wet wipes for a while. Eventually I concluded they had taken some kind of surface coating off the outside of the visor (the stock one on a Shoei Raid II). I don't recall what made me figure that, but I haven't used them since. I use a method similar to Maha and will add the damp rag trick to the trick bag; ta.

I just use them once in a blue moon, when i go through a swarm of pus bums. Not had any issues thus far but yeah, I'm aware whatever it is on them may be detrimental to coatings or plastic.
Tried the cloth in a bag but I always forget to take it out me pannier so it ends up smelling of week worn under cracks.

[MystikEagle]

OMG!

Read this thread, went and brought some pledge.

It is AMAZING!!! Cleaned the bugs off so easy!

I used it on my windscreen too.

Whoever discovered this trick is a legend

[FJRider]

I just ride in the rain. All the bugs fall off ... Eventually ...

[James Deuce]

Don't use aerosols on your visor or polycarbonate helmets. Don't say you haven't been warned. Get the manual spray version of pledge, if you must. I wouldn't put anything but water on a helmet.

[Magnum Noel]

OMG!

Read this thread, went and brought some pledge.

It is AMAZING!!! Cleaned the bugs off so easy!

I used it on my windscreen too.

Whoever discovered this trick is a legend

I'm wondering if pledge is the new wonder spray. Maybe good for polishing paintwork ans sealing leather gear. Can someone try it and let us know.

[Ocean1]

Don't use aerosols on your visor or polycarbonate helmets. Don't say you haven't been warned. Get the manual spray version of pledge, if you must. I wouldn't put anything but water on a helmet.

Hydrocarbon propellants.

Honestly didn't occur to me, in theory it's a potential problem, I've been using it for years, though and never had issues.

[Laava]

Sausages, I use sausages. No... Wait, that is the bbq I am thinking of!



I use hot water out of the tap onto the microfiber kitchen cloth. By the time you have rung it out, it is the perfect temp to take the bugs right off. I do not clean with anything else and have had no probs. No matter what you use after a couple of years, or lets say 50,000km, you are may need a new visor as it will no longer be perfectly clear as it was new.

[G4L4XY]

I use the tissues at any gas stations I visit and the water from the brush things they use for car windscreens, dip the tissue in and swirl it all about hahah

Then 100m up the road it's dirty again ffs