What bit of kit mings the most?

[Whosthedaddy]

For me it has to be my winter gloves, my hands stink like a sumo wrestlers crotch cloth.
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[Noxious89123]

My lid.

Never been cleaned, but i think thats the same as most people. Rest of my gear is kept clean.
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[gmanxiii]

ear plugs, then i change them for a fresh pair
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[ncrn]

My jacket smells vaguely of damp
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[benjami]

My jacket smelt like wet dog last week.

It's gone away now though i think, although I do get funny looks when i'm wearing it... I think I may be used to it, haha.

[D O G]

Gloves for me for sure - have to wash my hands about three times to get the smell out.

Nice.

[Ariel Badger]

I have a jumper that smells of stale prostitute.
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[tokarev]

Right, I have just sniffed all my gear (sounds quite strange), and none of my gear really smells too bad. So the piece that smells the "worst" out of the lot has to be my summer gloves. I can describe the aroma as smelling like leather, oil (engine) with a hint of woodiness.

Winter gloves - don't seem to smell at all
Helmet - smells quite nice actually...has never been washed in 3 years (actually, that sounds a little dodgy!)
Jacket - just smells like leather
Boots - don't smell too bad!

I guess I am just a clean, nice smelling mofo.

[Philious]

[rezzin]

Answer to most of you,give your kit a wash. Or hang it out on the line,or hang it in the airing cuboard. Heat kills bacteria etc,and fresh air,well you know..fresh? And give your lid a wipe down with some hot suddy water or something,or buy some fabreeze,etc. Or for you hardcore lot..STINK.

[ram_doom]

I wash my jacket and trousers like every couple of weeks as theyre used daily. Dont smell

When winter gloves with non removeable lining start to smell, I use foam shoe cleaner on them. Squirt a load in, and squeeze up and down the glove, then leave it dry. Doesnt take much foam!

Neck buffs and balaclava's get the most icky, because youre usually breathing against them, and they tend to get a bit moist so once or twice a week for those two!

Nothing else ever smells bad!
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[stinkwheel]

Nothing is quite as honking as a gore-tex jacket that's been screwed up in a ball at the bottom of a dry-bag for six months. You can even smell it as you're riding along.
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[Stelmer]

Just washed my gear.

However, upon removing the knee armor on my 2nd hand trousers, the lining was yellow

Doesn't smell and nor did the trousers before they visited the washing machine. Still disinfected the knee armor though.

Another thing, will the waterproofness be damaged by machine washing textiles on the handwash cycle?

[stinkwheel]

[TheDonUK]

Gloves definately, moreso in the summer.

Then buffs and balaclavas

[Tristan.]

My biking pants smell a bit after a year maybe I should get another pair.

My textile jacket smelt of badger wee for a few months, because I slept under a bridge in it, in a badgers wee.

[ram_doom]

[trevoriv]

[Stelmer]

[olionel]

[McGee]

None of my stuff.

The GSXR jacket is discoloured by road grime and I'm tired of washing it.

My winter gloves still actually smell nice. And my leather stuff still smells vaguely of leather

Love the smell of leather.
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[chris-red]

Boots and Leather bottoms, are my worse. All my shoes smell and my boots are pretty dam manky. My leather bottoms I have never washed in 2 years, I also spent a very hot day in france wearing them sweating like a (Insert some sort of paedofile/prositute etc. similie)
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[LeeR]

After yesterday I'd have to say my thermal under-shirt, I got to work and left it on all day with my regular shirt and two fleeces. It was rather cold in the converted farmer workers cottage I work in.

Thankfully it was something I could wash easily, nothing else kit-wise smells at all.
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[krebsy]

My old boots smell of cat piss.

The winter gloves (before a run through the washing machine) stank of really stale sweat as I used them in summer before getting some summer gloves.

Mainly though it all smells slightly of ammonia due to the waterproofing stuff I spray them down with periodically.

I remember asking my instructor, "How do you get rid of the stale sweat smell out of bike gear?"

"You just learn tto live with it..."

K.
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