Full-face motorcycle helmets

Postby Gemscot » Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:31 pm

Full-face motorcycle helmets make great "hoods", and if you paint one or both sides of the visor, blindfolds as well. None of us are motorcyclists - we recovered ours from our church charity shop. As it was battered, it was no good as a protective helmet so we painted it red and black. Some might say a safer alternative to gagging, as the wearer's voice is muffled but not gagged.

I don't know if this applies to the open design helmets, and ours being a small-fitting helmet will contribute to this, but they get very hot when worn for a while, particularly if the visor is down. Our mother is an A&E sister and on Tuesday this week (the hottest day of the year), the paramedics were called to a house where a 17 year old girl was on the verge of a heart attack because she had tied her younger brother to a deck chair in their conservatory as part of a game and put her helmet on him "for fun" with the visor (not painted) down and left him like that while she was studying. He obviously overheated and passed out because his head was wet through with sweat. Being a total dumbbell, she panicked and rang 999. Once the paramedics took the helmet off and got cooled him down he came round and is ok now. This has been refered to the Police and social services on the grounds of cruelty (albeit unintentional) and neglect.

We aren't using our helmet at the moment!

Gemma

Re: Full-face motorcycle helmets

Postby spandexm » Sat Jul 23, 2016 11:33 am

In A Sarah Foster-Tate video made in the late 1980's she removes her helmet and has a wide strip of tape over her lips. Believe it is B-30, but not sure who now sells it, no longer in the Harmony DVD catalog.

Re: Full-face motorcycle helmets

Postby Sophietie » Sat Jul 30, 2016 11:33 pm

In the story Paul relates about, the girl is clearly a dim-witted bimbo who hasn't got a 1 single brain cell between her ears, despite studying? Even though it may not have been intention, there clearly was abuse if not actual cruelty that could have resulted in a fatality? Using an old motorcycle helmet as a "gag, blindfold and hood" rolled into one is perfectly safe as long as its done responsibly - like any other aspect of bondage?

Re: Full-face motorcycle helmets

Postby Drummerboy » Sat Aug 06, 2016 11:54 pm

Depending on how good you are with arts and crafts, I feel like you could make a decent isolation helmet out of it. In the heating problem, if you can remove some of the padding just enough to keep the wearer somewhat comfortable and have the helmet fitting.

If you put ear plugs in, the added cushion can act to deafen the wearer, and as you mentioned the visor is pretty easy to paint, however in order to keep it cool you could alternatively either remove the visor and use a traditional blindfold or drill/cut vents in the plastic then cover it with dark cloth so it keeps out light but can still breath.

As for the gag, if you can attach some sort of plug that fits into the users mouth into the helmet (if its possible) OR just stuff the wearers mouth before hand.

I feel like they could have so many uses in bondage since a tightly cinched chin strap makes it almost impossible to remove if bound, and if you really want to get creative you can attach eye-bolts for anchoring to something.