locking 2 helmets

[kevxs]

anyone got a good way to lock 2 helmets to the bike? i can't easily get the second one locked on.

[BigDick]

Cheap and easy, you could even make one yourself.

It wouldn't be nothing to make something similar to clip on.

[CatatonicBug]

Cycle gear has this neat little tab thing that goes through the d-rings and you can lock the tabs to the bike. I just saw this on their site the other day, and have never used it myself.

[Crazcnuk]

Honda has a little extension cable, with loops at each end and a plastic cover, for this purpose.

It was ~$5 last time I bought one. It's a stock part for the 85-86 Shadow 1100, and several aother models.

[b.walker5]

Not trying to put you off or anything, but I now never leave my helmet with my bike. For two reasons, 1. I paid a little over 500 dollars for my new one, and 2. A few years back, while parked outside a country pub, on a nice sunny sunday afternoon, some clown emptied the contents of his bladder into my old one. Fortunately he was seen doing it by some friends, and was promptly escorted "out the back" for a "please explain" session. This was the last time a helmet has ever been locked on the bike and I'm not even sure the lock still works.

[CatatonicBug]

Yeah, that's the risk leaving anything out in the open like that. Unfortunately, wearing a full-face helmet means carrying a rather large, bulky thing around with you in the store, and it gets rather cumbersome in Walmart or Walgreens when you're trying to pay for something at the register while holding your helmet.

[hamjam]

I use a gun cable lock , also works on my padded helmet bag that I bungie to the tail rack then put the loop around one of the bars and then through the D ring

[tarzan]

I leave my helmet on the bike when I go in to stores usually.In the back of my mind I half expect to come out to no helmet.

[Crazcnuk]

"Not trying to put you off or anything, but I now never leave my helmet with my bike. For two reasons, 1. I paid a little over 500 dollars for my new one"

That's why I never pay more than $150 for a helmet (besides the fact that the expensive ones are no better in the tests), and, in 30+ years, I've never had one stolen, even though I usually just put it on the backrest, no lock, it just sits there.

[b.walker5]

It had pretty colours, so i just had to have it...

[xs1100rider]

cheap double helmet trick

i remember reading in a mag years ago that you could use a open end/box end wrench for this.because the open end is usually larger than the box end you could slide box end through the d rings and lock it in the lock and the open end would not slide through the d rings.

[oldyam80sg]

"Not trying to put you off or anything, but I now never leave my helmet with my bike. For two reasons, 1. I paid a little over 500 dollars for my new one"

That's why I never pay more than $150 for a helmet (besides the fact that the expensive ones are no better in the tests), and, in 30+ years, I've never had one stolen, even though I usually just put it on the backrest, no lock, it just sits there.

There actually is a difference in a cheap helmet-in 1983 i was hit from behind by a car and thrown off my bike into a parking lot.I tumbled into a ball and landed on my front.I was also wearing a $125.00 Grant helmet which split into 3 pieces.The helmet did its job but prefer the more expensive helmets because i don't think that would have happened with something a little bit more pricey!

[soccer4m]

I am Cheap and security minded

Hi, Use a long padlock,,,maybe five bucks, the ones shaped like a big U,,,,,I put helmets and it should fit through the brake rotor holes,,,,that way the bike and the helmets are Not going anywhere. When I return from shopping or whatever just click the U lock anywhere it fits on the bike for next time. I click it on the rear tube,,,,on another bike I just throw it in the backpack hanging on the sissybar. So,,,,,,go for the long skinny U padlock and you can lock your bike and as many helmets as you can fit on it...be safe and CHeap,,,,regards, Mike in S.Diego

[oldyam80sg]

Good idea Mike!

[tarzan]

U-lock is a good idea.Thanks
I have a half helmet I use sometimes and it has the usual d-ring.But I also have a Nolan modular ,which I use sometimes,that has a different latch type and you cant lock it to anything because it has nothing to hook it to.And the Nolan is well over $200 helmet.hmmm.
As far as helmets go ,Sometimes the chaeper one are more effective in motorcycle crashes.I just read a study last week that did impact tests on several different price range helmets.The end result was that almost all helmets made in today are well designed.Another interesting thing they found was that DOT helmets actually are better at absorbing motorcycle accident impacts than Snell .The snell rating actually makes a harder helmet though.So it depends on the type impact what is better.Anyway, I'll try and find the study.If I find it I will post a link.It is a long read but interesting.

Rick