Disappearing headbands

**sweetp** · 9th January 2008, 20:29

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** · 9th January 2008, 20:35

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** · 9th January 2008, 21:00

lets see

long blonde hair , blue eyes

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

**Number One** · 9th January 2008, 22:27

Originally Posted by 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.

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

**Hitcher** · 10th January 2008, 10:16

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** · 10th January 2008, 10:21

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

**Hitcher** · 10th January 2008, 10:26

Originally Posted by Mrs Kendog

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** · 10th January 2008, 10:34

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 10th January 2008, 10:39

hahaha Vifferman,
yeah but no but yeah but no but

**spookytooth** · 10th January 2008, 22:13

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** · 10th January 2008, 22:16

shave your head problem solved

**Grub** · 10th January 2008, 22:53

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

**Patch** · 11th January 2008, 04:27

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** · 11th January 2008, 07:18

Originally Posted by Hitcher

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.