Ok you know the feeling - you’re commuting on the bike and liquid starts streaming from your nose and you sniff, and you wipe it with your glove, all to no avail, then at last you get a red light so you stop, remove glove, get tissue from pocket, blow nose, then - horrors - the light changes back to green and you don’t have time to put the glove back on and you have to ride to the next red with a glove precariously balanced on the tank…All this is easily avoided by having a box of tissues secured to the tank in a waterproof case with sturdy lid with hinge/spring arrangement holding it all secure and providing easy access without the need for glove removal, and a pocket at the front to put the used tissues in. Blowing one’s nose would take ten seconds.
Does such a thing exist, preferably which can attach to a Baglux tank cover?
Will be using the tank bag today but not ideal as the Baglux Medea is bulky and gets in the way, and you still have to zip/unzip if its raining so takes time.
I’m after a quick, easy solution that doesn’t get in the way.
Does sound like a bit of over engineering is going into place - waterproof box with spring? Why not keep some tissues in your jacket pocket, with the zip open and there you have it… I’ve left my pocket (accidentally) open a number of times and nothing has ever flung out…
Thanks for the suggestion Serrisan, that’s what I’ve been doing but can’t do that with gloved hands.The idea came to me when I was at work last night. Then on my journey home I stopped next to a guy on a pristine '60s Royal Enfield 350 single, and when I complimented him on his bike he flipped up his visor to respond and he had two enormous streams of snot running down from his nose to his mouth :hehe:
I thought to myself - aha, now he could use one of those it wasn’t just me
I used them once when I had to do a freezing 100+ mile trip back to London with a streaming cold & they worked a treat, I used the soft foam bullet shaped ones - http://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorcycle_parts/content_prod/182 'cos they were what I had to hand, don’t think the harder denser EAR ones I usually use would be as comfortable.
Just nip down your local pound shop, buy a plastic box, a roll of gaffer tape ad a craft knife. Should take, oh, ten minutes when you’ve got that together.
Just think of it as the #1 prototype for the invention that will bring you fame and fortune.
Uhmmm sweat is moisture… Anyway here is a bit about nasal hair functions. I remember when my mum was in hospital and she had to breathe through her mouth, she would always complain of dried up throat
Well would you look at that, I’m never trimming again! I did wonder what the purpose of nose hairs was, I just thought it was for dust filtering etc…and of course the odd pleasure if finding a really long one and plucking it out when you think no-one is looking. Eye watering but strangely, deeply satisfying… :Whistling:
Would you be able to source the metal Baglux-style attachments (the ones with springs in them)? If not I will give them a ring and ask them to send me a set.
Assuming these are obtainable, perhaps we can have a chat about design and costs? It’s the lid I’m most concerned about, getting one that’s the right size and how to fit a spring on it.
Tank bag definitely no good for me, it keeps switching on my hazard lights! Very annoying.
it wasn’t just me
