What?? No helmet lock?? How can it be?

[paulh]

How can a respectable bike be sold without a helmet lock?  There may be times when helmets are not used, but when it is time to use a helmet, I sure don't want to carry it around with me everywhere.  What do you all do with your helmets?

Paul

[mwdbruno]

Carry it with me   :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :nana:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[ACE]

Put an after market one on there. or take your seat off and snap it on over the buckle

[Turkina]

The GS has two sorta hook things beneath the seat about half way along the length, one on each side.  So, take the seat off, hook the helmets in by the d-ring, and put the seat back on.  Not that I'd want to leave a couple hundred dollar helmet hanging off my bike... if the bike tips, helmet is toast... people also like slashing the straps and stealing the helmets cause they are monkeys

[paulh]

Oh, they are under the seat.  Interesting.  Do people think that they seat-helmet-lock is a good design?

Paul

[yamahonkawazuki]

nope. not hard at all to bypass that cheesy lock :x  

[tkm433]

Just cary the helmet with you.  If you leave it on the bike a bird will shaZam! in it, or someone will try to f%$k with it or it will rain and now your helemt is wet inside or worse.

If you decide to leave your helmet on the bike you can lok by placing the helmet strap under the seat and attach it to one of the seat attachment points.

[Cal Price]

Top-box   or  use the underseat hook(s) and stick the leather in the top box, makes a lot of sense in summer.

[JLKasper]

Oh, they are under the seat.  Interesting.  Do people think that they seat-helmet-lock is a good design?

If somebody wants something badly enough, they'll figure out a way to beat it.  I'm not so sure that tying in the helmet lock with the seat latch is a good idea.  What happens when some rat-bastid breaks the lock to rip off a helmet; your seat no longer latches.  On the other hand, Suzuki's solution is light, simple, and holds the helmets high on the bike.  A better solution would be having one lock exposed, while keeping one underseat hook for the passenger

If I'm in a questionable area, I worry more about that rat-bastid taking a leak in my helmet more than it getting ripped off.

[ash999]

[scar_ace]

[CasiUSA]

Yeah, I carry my helmet around with me at school all the time. Girls love it. .....until they find out I ride a GS and not a 900RR or something cool

[sanityfree]

i just hang mine from my bike if i can't carry it, but i carry it a lot because i'm too lazy to take my bungee net off the seat to remove the seat. but i live in a place where that kind of thing doesn't happen very often, not to my knowledge. besides, if my helmet were to dissappear, i have a lot of friends to watch for it riding around town. then i just catch up and kick tail.

[scratch]

I'm a carry kind of guy. Should this become a poll?

[TheGoodGuy]

Yeah, I carry my helmet around with me at school all the time. Girls love it. .....until they find out I ride a GS and not a 900RR or something cool

I think for me they find the fact that i walk in with a helmet totally a turn on of sorts.. they dont care i ride a GS500.. most dont know what it is... but they seem to know the R6, the R1 and other squidly bikes.

I dont care.. i can still outride some of thier squidly bf's

[Sportbilly]

In fact the Suzuki lock makes a lot of sense, as mentioned above, it holds the helmet high, relatively horizontally so that most water doesn't soak into it, and you can actually ride the bike with a spare on the side.

My current Kwaka has a crappy little lock that punches holes in the chain guard if you forget to relatch it after removing the helmet, riding with a helmet on there is a definite no-no.  If it rains you get to tip the water out afterwards, AND on top of all that it's so darn fiddly, it's easier to carry it with you anyway.

God I miss my GS.

[Traveler]

A D lock through the mask/grab handle works for me, too. You can actually get 2 helmets hanging there, all covered by a large crappy Sears plastic bag quite easily with a dry run first.
Still take it with me in a 35 litre (large-medium) backpack if the area is at all questionable, though. Haven't figured out how to carry the bulky jacket, though.