5 Things to Treat Your Bike Helmets

By : Maxeka Lumuda

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Bike helmets are the most important equipment to cover your head from any collision. Beside that wearing bike helmets already become a rule in traffic or high road. But sometimes we are not comfortable to wear it because of some reasons. And the first reason is unpleasant odor. Now, in this article we are going to talk about some treatment for your bike helmets so that you wear it happily.

Whether you have an expensive bike helmets or the cheap one, you still have to treat it very well. The first simple step you should do is; prepare the equipment required. You can find the equipment everywhere, such as tissue, glass cleaning, shiny liquid and rag. Second, you can start by cleaning the bike helmets properly. The glass can be cleaned with glass cleaning and shiny liquid. However, you must do it carefully and slowly, straight down movement. If you do it hardly, you might scratch line into the helmet glass.

Third, clean the bike helmets especially the glass with from the dust and shard. Spray the glass with water. Then leave water reacts with the dust or dirt to drag on. After two minutes, dry it with soft rag. Then, after a few minutes, it can be cleaned using shiny liquid and soft rag. After that, prepare to clean the glass with tissue. Spray the cleaning glass to the glass helmet with the right dosage. Then dried with a tissue and the outside can be cleaned using the shiny liquid for the final cleaning step.

Fourth, it is time to clean the inside of the bike helmets. This part is the most important, this part is the source of unpleasant odor. The solution is spray some nice odor with special aromatic depends on your favorite aroma. It is similar with choose your favorite odor for your clothes. And possibly you can use it as the same odor for your bike helmets.

Finally, at least once a week or two weeks, wash the inside of the bike helmets by removing the soft part. Rinse that part into bucket with detergent or wash soap. But remember, do not rub or press this part of the bike helmets, because you can damage the foam inside.

Well, now your bike helmets are ready to be worn without any unpleasant smell and dirty performance. By cleaning the bike helmets regularly you can prevent the damage and scratch for a long time. For maintenance treatment, you can do the first until third steps. Do not wash the inside of the bike helmets too often. Recommended schedule is once a week or two weeks.

Those are five steps to treat your bike helmets, now you can do it directly to your bike helmets by yourself. Some people believe that bike helmets condition describe the owner’s personality. So, you must pay it attention seriously. Because I am sure you do not want to be sight as a lazy person, don’t you?  You are a smart biker, right ?! So, it is the time to show how shines your bike helmets are.

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