It would seem that mice like to make nests out of nomex. I grabbed my gear bag out of one of the race cars the other day to bring it into the house. When I opened up the bag, I discovered that a mouse had removed the linings from inside my new shoes, and chewed a hole in the back of my fairly new suit. The hole is about the size of a baseball, but alot of the nomex is gone from between the layers. He did not touch my pair of old shoes, the underwear, socks, or the single layer suit I have. He went straight for the good stuff. I figure replacement costs around $600.00. Why couldn't he have just gone for the helmet? I want a new lighter one anyway. All this and it's too late for a Christmas request. My sister jokes that she still gets catalogs from Racer Wholesale after ordering me fireproof underware for christmas one year. All out war on the mice now. Traps and pans of antifreeze everywhere.