Long Term Biker is Hay Fever Newbie
I’ve only recently taken up hay fever and I appreciate that as a newcomer I have a lot to learn. I’ve got the hang of most of the symptoms but it’s trying to enjoy them whilst riding a bike that’s defeating me.
During my 250 mile ride to the office and back yesterday, I struggled with something that the more experienced sufferer will have long known: the slightly open visor on my crash helmet acted as a ram air intake to force thousands of litres a second of pollen-laden air into my face.
Sneezing is a particular challenge in the narrow confines of a crash helmet. I had considered posting a pic of the inside of my visor after the ride but finally conceded that in the interests of common decency it was too much. Suffice it to say that it looked like I had shared it with an exploding alien and that the tiny amount of vision allowed me though the narrow slots of my pollen-swollen eyes was not enough to see through it.
In closing, I’d like to offer an apology to the bees of Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We appreciate your hard work and when you find your dinner has gone, please accept my sincere apologies. Every grain of pollen you were hoping to feast on is now caked around my streaming nose and eyes like mineral deposits round an Icelandic hot geyser. You wouldn’t want it now anyway.
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The need to sneeze seems to happen in direct proportion to the speed at which you are approaching a corner. The higher the speed, the tighter the corner, the more of camber it is, the greater the oncoming opposing traffic or some other natural hazard, the greater the need to sneeze.
Fact. Well observed.
You, Richard Hammond, have served as a crucial vessel, transporting anther dust to distant valleys where wanton pistils accept them with their earthly nectars.
Sneeze man. Sneeze.
You make it sound beautiful. And not just snotty.
Thanks.
Well, joining the ranks of hay fever is often taken up in middle age along with drooling, nodding off, & mummbling incogerently. All precursors to listening aids, reading glasses and yes yellowing teeth and eventually soaking them in a glass. The motorcycle defense against this process is excellant but nodding off and cleaning your teeth while riding is contraindicated😎
A practical solution. I cycle now and again, and have a similar problem. I'm fine walking, but cycling is a completely different ball game! I take one of these at bedtime. I get a good nights sleep, which counteracts any drowsiness, and I'm good to go the day after! Win win!
That's sound advice,Dr.Hodegen!🤔👩🏼⚕️👌🏼😘XX
Not sure about being a doctor lol. They work for me, so a brand similar, with the active ingredient, may work for Mr H 😉
Have you tried taping one of these to your helmet? Presumably you can also get a Womann filter so the wife can come along.
Man filter?? Does it work against two middle aged men, as well.
If it does, Hammond, that's what you need.