cleaning my helmet

[shouldbeinbed]

Go through a car wash on your bike. 3 jobs accomplished in one. Bike, body and helmet sparkly clean and blown dry.

*caution: following this advice may not be in your best interests

 

[Ticktockmy]

Remove the internal pads, wash the straps with normal soap, then pressure wash the helmet itself with your shower if you have one, otherwise just stick it in a bowl of soapy water, then rinse and hang up to dry.

 

[lee1980sim]

Washing machine on a low temp' with some towels to cushion it?

Just like shoes / trainers

 

[speccy1]

I give mine some tlc when it walks across the room by itself........................

 

[Hyslop]

Give you some idea how bad I am at cleaning my helmet.Itwas only when it finally occurred to me to do something about my sweaty helmet that i remembered that not only does it have removable pads(Catlike Whisper)but that I have two spare pairs of pads. Oh the shame! Mind you,all I ll do now is swap old for new and clean the straps,lazy,feckless individual that I am!

 

[jack smith]

I find mits and gloves get more smelly.

Same here i swear a hell of alot alot more than the average person and my helmet has never smelt but my gloves stink after a while

 

[slowmotion]

With my helmet it's not possible to extract the webbing straps to wash them separately. I get a big bucket of warm water and stick in a bar of Ariel Bio . Helmets float so I keep the helmet underwater by jamming a wooden spoon in one of the ventilation slots and bracing the other end of the spoon against the bucket handle. Having left it overnight, I rinse it under the shower before hanging it on the washing line. It works quite well.

 

[400bhp]

I wear a skull cap every day to soak up the sweat. Saved the bin lid washing.

+1

 

[400bhp]

I find mits and gloves get more smelly.

These things are frackin awesome. Too big for mitts but great for sticking in winter gloves & shoes.

 

[puffinbilly]

Same here i swear a hell of alot alot more than the average person and my helmet has never smelt but my gloves stink after a while

Your gloves smell because you swear a lot.
Might it be this

 

[jack smith]

Sweat swear i do both alot they both cause eahother hahaha

 

[Smurfy]

Calling @Fnaar

 

[Tojo]

Helmet Foam. There is a cleaner out there for it, by Muc Off I think.

And will be over priced as all the muck-off stuff is, just bloody wash you're cycle helmet in the shower with the same stuff you wash you're other helmet with....

 

[xzenonuk]

i mixed detol with water in a basin and submerged the whole helmet, it smelt of detol for ages but has yet to get smelly again

 

[Arrowfoot]

Leave it in the sun - including gloves and mitt etc. not only dries but smells a lot better.