Matt helmet maintenance

[Nutty]

I've been advised that baby wipes and/ or a wet cloth will get rid of bugs and crap, but has anyone here stuck a GoPro mount or intercom sticky mount to a matt helmet, and then had to remove it later? If so, any issues with ruining the finish of the matt?

 

[Ogmios]

Is it that 'rubbery' finish?
I have a lid that was given a 'distressed' look (i.e; badly painted over - it was a prop in a movie).
Took a green scourer to it and it came up like new, much to my suprise. Very durable finish.
So, if it could cope with that, and yours is the same... you might be lucky.

 

[Nutty]

Is it that 'rubbery' finish?
I have a lid that was given a 'distressed' look (i.e; badly painted over - it was a prop in a movie).
Took a green scourer to it and it came up like new, much to my suprise. Very durable finish.
So, if it could cope with that, and yours is the same... you might be lucky.

It's not rubbery. It's a new Schuberth lid, and I don't want to stick sticky pads to it, if they won't come off relatively easily without wrecking the finish.

 

[Beemerman59]

Come on Nutty, we all know you'll just buy another one when you chop in your year old GS for a new one..... why worry about the finish - it won't match the new colour anyway

 

[Ogmios]

It's not rubbery. . .

Sorry - yer fucked then.
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[Taff]

It's not rubbery. It's a new Schuberth lid, and I don't want to stick sticky pads to it, if they won't come off relatively easily without wrecking the finish.

I was talking to a man at a stall in Excel last year (not GoPro but similar) and he suggested sticking heavy duty gaffa tape on the helmet and then sticking the mount to the gaffa tape.

I think the logic being that it's easier to tidy up the residue from gaffa tape than the glue from the mount.

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Fix the GO Pro to the bike instead

I wouldn't want gaffa tape on my Helmet

 

[Nutty]

Fix the GO Pro to the bike instead

I wouldn't want gaffa tape on my Helmet

That's what I'll do. But it's the intercom that I'm attaching, and I'm not spending £350 on Schuberth's SRC system.

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

That's what I'll do. But it's the intercom that I'm attaching, and I'm not spending £350 on Schuberth's SRC system.

Is thia the result you're trying to achieve

 

[Norfolk Tiger]

Is thia the result you're trying to achieve

 

[Nutty]

Is thia the result you're trying to achieve

Brilliant. Where do you find em?

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Brilliant. Where do you find em?

I have a minion, who does it all

 

[Bendy toy]

All those cams sideways - gotta be lots of editing work.

 

[Neil W]

know someone with a matt lid, satin painted guzzi and a semi matt audi, only thing to clean them with according to him is glass cleaner, everything else buggers up the finish