Awful headaches after wearing a helmet

[Angelfishsolo]

The figures that calculator produces are absolutely stupid! According to that, I should have drunk something like 13.5 litres of water on yesterday's forum ride and afterwards! I actually drank about 4 litres and most people would consider that quite a lot.

I'd be in grave danger of suffering from water intoxication if I drank that much in a day.

So glad I'm not the only one to think that!

 

[gb155]

On high intensity rides, think of your body as a machine. i.e. it won't just run on pertol or diesel, in needs oil/grease/maintenance to keep it going - so you need to mix up the fuel sources.

A great way of looking at it tbf mate

 

[vickster]

Can you borrow a few different helmets and see if you still get the headache?

Go to a bikeshop and buy the helmet that actually fits properly? Don't just buy online on spec I'd say (not read the whole thread, so may have been suggested)

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

do you only use your helmet on hard or long rides?

 

[gavintc]

Another 6 page helmet whine. If you don't like it, don't f**king wear it. Using some lame excuse that it gives you headaches is simply a 'get out' whine. I wear one, lots do not.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Another 6 page helmet whine. If you don't like it, don't f**king wear it. Using some lame excuse that it gives you headaches is simply a 'get out' whine. I wear one, lots do not.

Wow what a great help!

 

[Red Light]

After 2 serious accidents , I figured , with 2 kids, I needed To be less reckless ?

I was fully intent on hitting as high a speed as I could, regardless of the helmet

Hmmmm

 

[Alun]

A delicate matter, but urine should be "clear and copious" otherwise it's an indicator of dehydration, apparently!

 

[Angelfishsolo]

A delicate matter, but urine should be "clear and copious" otherwise it's an indicator of dehydration, apparently!

Yes. That is one of the best tests available.

 

[gb155]

It does seem it was dehydration TBF, that said, my helmet was VERY poorly fitted, lesson learnt

Now, as for what was in the bottles Foz, it was water, nothing added.

 

[gb155]

Hmmmm

Taken TOTALLY out of context there.

 

[gb155]

Wow what a great help!

Ignore the trolls and come and help polish my trophy's LOL

 

[Red Light]

Taken TOTALLY out of context there.

Is it? You were asked why you had decided to wear a helmet after all these years and said it was because you had decided to be less reckless. Quite how wearing a helmet makes you less reckless is not clear.

Independently I asked if you would have gone that fast without a helmet and you said you would have with or without the helmet.

So it seems that the helmet is not making you less reckless at all and there is definitely a clear contradiction between your two statements.

 

[Norm]

No more helmet comments in this thread, please. The issue has been identified.

 

[gb155]

So, what would you recommend as a drink peeps ?