Don't Buy A Windjammer!

[fredtucker]

Hi all

Bought a Windjammer today. In case you don't know , it is a neoprene skirt that fits around the rim of your helmet ( Oh, Matron!!). It's a brilliant theory that falls down in practice. It's advertised as cutting down wind noise and probably does if only you could get your helmet on. I have very little hair on my 56cm head and with a thin cotton balaclava found it impossible to get my helmet on. I just managed it without the balaclava but almost ripped my ears off in the process. Getting your helmet off again is equally painful. Anyone with long hair or a beard would have even more difficulty probably. A waste of £12.

Fred

[Guest]

got a piccy?

I had something that sounds just like that, that was 25 years ago. Except you put it on the helmet, after you put the helmet on your head (velcro)...it was very good, and it had a bib bit which stopped the wind and rain going down ones neck. Excellent bit of kit, haven't seen anything like it since.

[cypher]

<!--quoteo(post=156117:date=Thu 25th Mar 2010, 05:18 AM:name=fredtucker)-->QUOTE(fredtucker @ Thu 25th Mar 2010, 05:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Hi all

Bought a Windjammer today. In case you don't know , it is a neoprene skirt that fits around the rim of your helmet ( Oh, Matron!!). It's a brilliant theory that falls down in practice. It's advertised as cutting down wind noise and probably does if only you could get your helmet on. I have very little hair on my 56cm head and with a thin cotton balaclava found it impossible to get my helmet on. I just managed it without the balaclava but almost ripped my ears off in the process. Getting your helmet off again is equally painful. Anyone with long hair or a beard would have even more difficulty probably. A waste of £12.

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I've had one a few months, and I initially said the same thing. It fairly ripped my ears off putting the helmet on, worse taking it off. So I got a pair of scissors and trimmed a little off the front and back (of the Windjammer, not my ears), and with my silk balaclava on and the right technique it's now not too bad. Even with my in-ear earphones in it's ok. Used it on a 5 day trip a few months back, and taking the helmet off/putting it on a few times a day was no hassle at all. I only use it on long trips as it's too much bother just riding around town, but it makes a HUGE difference to the wind noise inside my helmet. I won't ride long trips without it anymore....

[kmax]

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is it something like this ?

http://www.webbikeworld.com/r2/windjammer/...ind-blocker.htm

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<!--quoteo(post=156262:date=Thu 25th Mar 2010, 11:44 AM:name=kmax)-->QUOTE(kmax @ Thu 25th Mar 2010, 11:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->is it something like this ?

http://www.webbikeworld.com/r2/windjammer/...ind-blocker.htm

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Hmm - what about steaming up on the inside of the visor?

[cypher]

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Yes Kmax that's the one I have.

ET, I haven't had any problems with fogging, and I have been riding in the rain and in the mountains through cold weather, but I don't do any slow riding in cold wet weather. It does limit air flow into the helmet, so it probably would cause more fogging in cold, wet commuting, and it is significantly hotter in summer. The flip side of that is that with the windjammer on, silk balaclava and neck warmer, it was really warm even in cold wet weather.

It's not pretty either, but function rules form for me in this case.


PS My brother wanted to take my bike for a ride once, so he picked up my helmet and jammed it on his head. Me and a couple of mates were watching him struggle as he got his ears stuck in the windjammer - the look on his face when he ripped the helmet off was hilarious...