Originally Posted by
pkulak
You're going to have to get some serious hardware if you want to filter out CO and such from cars. A little mask or bandanna is not going to do it.
And so I did. EnviroSafetyProducts sells the full line of 3M Respirators. I got this model:
http://www.envirosafetyproducts.com/...-assembly.html I ride 8 miles along a major highway through 3 towns. Heavy trucks, diesel Pickups, legacy vehicles... nasty. Forty bucks well spent not to have my throat and chest burning after my ride. I feel like a total geek and some days I bareback it and I remember why I bought the mask in the first place. Its been about three months now. When better weather gets here I can take the farm roads north of town and not have to wear the mask.
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