exhaust filter masks

[redjedi]

Ride more gently, breathe in less.

Or ride faster and hold your breath the whole way




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[Mr Phoebus]

Or ride faster and hold your breath the whole way




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[jimboalee]

I've looked on the web but can't find a picture, but I'm sure I've seen the Respro on sale at Santa Pod for the kids to wear. They're A1 kit.

 

[neslon]

Thanks everyone, that's pretty overwhelmingly against.
I'll just have to spend the money on something to bling my fixie with instead ;-)

Save even more money by moving out of the Great Wen.

 

[HF2300]

The bottom line is that motorists trapped in their vehicles are exposed to much more airborne pollution than cyclists.

I'm not sure you can say that. Evidence seems to be that particulate exposure may well be about the same or possibly less for private motorists - some studies say higher, some lower. Exposure to noxious gases is higher in cars, it seems, but then respiratory effort is 2 -3 times higher in cyclists, so actual nasties taken deep into the lungs is probably about the same.

they don't trap the most dangerous ones which are too small.

They don't filter out a lot of the smaller, dodgy particles

They will catch most particulate matter down to m10. 10µm

Depends on the mask, surely?


I think the argument that they're sweaty as anything, stifling and that cycling's healthier anyway is a lot more convincing!

 

[Nick G]

Save even more money by moving out of the Great Wen.

Didn't someone once say, "if you're tired of London you're tired of life"?

 

[HF2300]

You need to also take into account length of exposure time, seeing as bikes aren't stuck in traffic and cars are.

Yeh, true enough, though even that depends on the style of cycling!

 

[neslon]

Didn't someone once say, "if you're tired of London you're tired of life"?

yes, but he didn't get around much.

 

[Nortones2]

The man who wrote "A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND " didn't get around much? A timeline: http://tinyurl.com/6ecesp

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

Didn't someone once say, "if you're tired of London you're tired of life"?

Didn't the suicide rate then jump overnight?
Or was that in the Hitchikers Guide?