Insects in my helmet!!

[smithyandco]

The situation is only made worse on cycle trails near water.... Every 10 meters "Prfffrwaaa.... bloody gob full of flys!"

 

[zizou]

bandana (there are cycling specific ones which are designed to be worn under a helmet) or a casquette

 

[byegad]

Ditch the helmet

+1

 

[oliglynn]

If not the helmet, they'll get stuck somewhere else instead. I did a sportive on Sunday, and had a fly go all the way into my earhole!!

It sat in there buzzing around while I shook my head to dislodge it and swore at it! People must have thought I had Tourettes!

 

[mog35]

The situation is only made worse on cycle trails near water.... Every 10 meters "Prfffrwaaa.... bloody gob full of flys!"

I found this out to my chagrin yesterday cycling along the coast to Reculver. The last three or four miles were along the sea wall and there were dozens of other cyclists swatting insects away and sweeping them off their clothes. It can be pretty bad along there but this was something else - they were all over me, in my beard, in my hair, one even got in my ear. Horrible

I didn't get any in my helmet though, mainly because I wasn't wearing one.

 

[suecsi]

I tried using a Buff, but then my glasses steam up - apparently there is a special way to breathe so this doesn't happen but buggered if I can manage it.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

After that I bought another helmet that has a mesh on the inside of the front vents but the top sides & back are all still open.

But .....if you are moving forwards, is anything LIKELY to get caught in the top, sides or (especially) back?? the laws of motion and all that??

Also you can get helmets that have a mesh all over your head - I have one, but not because I am scared of insects, it just came like that.

Incidentally, I LOVE insects, I find it interesting how something so small can be so perfectly and intricately formed.
If you have allergies, fair enough, but I do take a rather dim view of my fellow humans who, on sight of an insect, act like a bloody 3 year old.

 

[buddha]

Here's an odd one.
After riding home, I get ready to have a shower. And find about 10 dead midges and a lacewing stuck on my chest. And I was wearing a tight-necked base layer under a zipped up jersey. How did they manage to get under 2 layers?
edit:Though for the past 2 mornings I've been covered in cobwebs from those crazy 'parachuting' spiders!

 

[the_mikey]

I felt bad for all the bees that were bouncing off me last weekend, I didn't fancy their chances much...

Also, where flies are a problem, use a buff or ride very slowly....

 

[cyberknight]

You can get helmets with a mesh at the front to stop this happening if you want to wear a helemt or use a thin buff as a screen.

We just need a screen on the mouth to stop the flies ....ptuuuh !

 

[bigjim]

We just need a screen on the mouth to stop the flies ....ptuuuh

No, a screen to stop the pollution that you can actually breathe through. It seems to be worse now with the dry dusty roads.
The flys are ok, I need the protein.

 

[Night Train]

I got a fly up the left nostril today. Wasn't pleasent. I thought I managed to blow it out and then massaged my nose a bit to ease the discomfort.

When I got home I blew my nose and bits of dead fly came out!

 

[ianrauk]

You can get helmets with a mesh at the front to stop this happening if you want to wear a helemt or use a thin buff as a screen.

We just need a screen on the mouth to stop the flies ....ptuuuh !

When I got stung on the head I was wearing a buff under my helmet., Didn't stop the fekker wasp from drilling into my barnet.

 

[cyberknight]

get a really short hair cut so they do not get trapped in your hair , or as a mate at work calls it

"The mad pyshco axe murderer cut "

I just call him a fat b******d so we are all even

 

[tyred]

Getting them in the ear is not funny.