…when I realized that I can just get in the shower with my hr strap on to wash it. 
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You can do the same with your helmet 
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My moment of enlightenment on that issue came last year…after 30+ years of riding. 
Worse, I have been doing it with my helmet for years, but it never occurred to me for the HR strap. Someone on the forum clued me into it.
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You wash your HR strap?!?
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I don’t worry about the neighbors looking over the fence when walking out to the pool in swim trunks and still rocking my HR strap and carrying my helmet…
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I tried that for a while it killed it quickly :-/
Bibs too. Though they get a proper wash as well. I usually just hop in the shower with everything still on to get a quick rinse, then hang dry the bibs, HR, and jersey. Then I’ll throw them in the hamper when they’re dry. Too many times I would throw sweat soaked bibs in the hamper and create the most vile smell known to man.
Also, the HR pod comes off before the shower. I just wear the strap. Shouldn’t kill the strap but I could see how the pod wouldn’t like it.
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I maybe had a dodgy strap it stopped liking it after a bit it became erratic and shortly stopped reading altogether.
My Garmin strap smells so bad my focus is always getting its moldy rubber stink off me in the shower. Washing it doesn’t help, I don’t bother anymore.
Invalid warranty if you don’t
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not to mention it’s a surefire way to get ringworm.
Nice. I go from the trainer straight to the pool in my bibs all the time in the summer!
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