Traveling by Plane with a helmet

**euphonius** · 03-08-2011, 06:25 AM

by the way, pennstlong, how do you pronounce that? i'm guessing there's a link to Penn State?

thanks

**jape** · 03-08-2011, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by euphonius

Penn is in Beijing, and web is subject to severe filtering these days. i'm finding some of my mcm posts are very slow, though none has timed out yet. may be worse in beijing.
cheers

Hmmm. I have had a couple of posts I made not even show up lately. I'm not in China ...
And sometimes I get email reminders of a post more than once or hours late. That would be forum server. Let us know of such things and CC can look into it.

**CantDecide** · 03-08-2011, 07:31 AM

I had a duplicate post appear in the Tapatalk thread because of something like that. I got a warning about not posting more than once in 60 seconds, so I wanted the recommended amount of time and clicked 'post' and then it went through twice. I was at a cafe in Beijing, on VPN.

**jape** · 03-08-2011, 08:44 AM

That is probably an anti-bot setting to stop 'flooding' as it is called. I have removed a couple of spams today, just three or four rather than the usual three or four dozen we were getting sometimes a few weeks back - so they still get through but much better. Stopping spam and bots is a trade-off, a compromise that we have to accept. Some are humans joining, then using that access for spam and porn or cross-linking. But even though slow in China and sometimes problematic it is a gift given to us all by CC and very worth while.

Originally Posted by CantDecide

I had a duplicate post appear in the Tapatalk thread because of something like that. I got a warning about not posting more than once in 60 seconds, so I wanted the recommended amount of time and clicked 'post' and then it went through twice. I was at a cafe in Beijing, on VPN.

**pennstlong** · 03-09-2011, 06:27 AM

Originally Posted by euphonius

by the way, pennstlong, how do you pronounce that? i'm guessing there's a link to Penn State?

thanks

Right on, the name does relate to Penn State, which I attended many many moons ago.

**GRF_Hans** · 03-09-2011, 08:23 AM

I just brought mine over in the box and packed a lot of clothing around it. Did take up more space, but it's nice being a hockey player in that i have tons of huge bags lying around the house haha.

**CantDecide** · 03-09-2011, 10:23 AM

Thats funny, I never thought to pack my stuff in my hockey bag... probably because its full of hockey gear. :)

**euphonius** · 03-09-2011, 11:11 AM

I sometimes do the same thing. Stuff my helmet with gloves and other stuff, then wrap it inside my leather jacket, then jam the leather jacket in a big duffel. Then ram in others soft stuff all around. I've check this luggage that way several times, with no problems. At least everything has arrived in the same condition I sent it, and nothing visible is wrong with the helmet.

Still would be great to have one of those neoprene wetsuits like ChinaV showed us. Then pack THAT inside my jacket in my duffel....

cheers

**GRF_Hans** · 03-09-2011, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by CantDecide

Thats funny, I never thought to pack my stuff in my hockey bag... probably because its full of hockey gear. :)

I did notice my helmet had a distinct, heady odeur upon unpacking it though. haha

**CantDecide** · 03-09-2011, 02:27 PM

If its the smell you're after, you should just wear your hockey helmet around on your bike, I'm sure that would get some looks... I wonder if you could retrofit a hockey cage to an open face bike helmet...