Old lids - What do you do with them?

Skill Magill

Over the years, I've accumulated a few lids that cost over €500, but they're worn out now, just tired lookin, I suppose. It feels wrong just to fúck them in the bin, what do you do with yours?
I'm no gardener, but I was thinking of drilling holes in them and filling them with a seed/soil mix? And let the nature take its course. Nothin like a flowery helmet
Would it work?

Timfy

I gave half a dozen or so old lids to my local primary school... they were painted up and turned into space helmets for a school play!

Timfy

djflawless

If anyone has a few going cheap id be interested for a little project

Timfy

millingmachine

I give mine to a mate that works in the Order of Malta. They use them for training new people that may come across a bike accident.

Skill Magill

djflawless wrote: »

If anyone has a few going cheap id be interested for a little project

What project?

Skill Magill

millingmachine wrote: »

I give mine to a mate that works in the Order of Malta. They use them for training new people that may come across a bike accident.

Cheers man, I came across a bike accident about ten years ago, and bystanders were trying to get the confused lad (hit the lid off the ground) to take the lid off. I told them its imperative to leave it on until he got to the hospital.
I'd be more than happy to donate my unused lids to the Order of Malta.

Let me know where to send them before I make flower pots out of them:D

djflawless

Skill Magill wrote: »

What project?

a cd player with speakers in the sides.just a small little project for the man cave!
car cd player running to a hidden power source where the face of the radio peeks out the face of the helmet and 2 small car door speakers flushed on the sides

blu3r0ri0n

You can also donate to them to your local fire station as they use them for training.

Wonda-Boy

It will be a few years before I will have an old helmet fit for a birds nest!!!!

Skill Magill

^^
I know man, but the expensive lids that I don't use anymore,are still good lids, and in all probability I'll never use again,
I'd rather grow flowers out of them than let them collect dust. (or donate to the fire brigade etc)

millingmachine

Skill Magill wrote: »

Let me know where to send them before I make flower pots out of them:D

I'll PM you during the week Skill. Thanks.

jay48

We donated lids to the mci medical team a few years ago , they used them in their first on scene training . The fire brigade , order of Malta etc will use them for training , they won't go to waste .

SweetCaliber

I'm sure motorbike training centers and such would accept them also, for many different reasons.

Wonda-Boy

You could send them over to the Americans there seems to be a shortage of helmets over there....no one ever seems to be able to find them in stock!

Hotblack Desiato

SweetCaliber wrote: »

I'm sure motorbike training centers and such would accept them also, for many different reasons.

No way are they going to accept secondhand lids, for liability reasons. Imagine if some guy crashed and got a head injury, could they prove the lid wasn't already damaged when he put it on?

Skill Magill

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

No way are they going to accept secondhand lids, for liability reasons. Imagine if some guy crashed and got a head injury, could they prove the lid wasn't already damaged when he put it on?

They would though, for practice, i'd imagine?

Hotblack Desiato

Practicing helmet removal? Do they usually teach that in IBT - I doubt it - and they'd have lids already for riding the bikes. If they have old battered lids around the place there's the risk someone will use one for riding a bike by mistake.