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Message started by 2011suzukis40 on 09/28/12 at 13:08:06

Title: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Post by 2011suzukis40 on 09/28/12 at 13:08:06

This is proboly a dumb question but if you get saddlebags can you still use your helmet lock? If not does anyone have any ideas for an alternative helmet lock?

thanks

Title: Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Post by Zeke342 on 09/28/12 at 13:26:01

What I did when I had saddlebags.. I removed the helmet lock and moved it to behind the back rest, and just screwed it in where the back padding is screwed in, have to put it at an angle, but it's been like that for a few months now and still holding :)

Also my helmet just slips over the top of the sissy bar.. so it's locked on and not dangling by the straps

Title: Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Post by prechermike on 09/28/12 at 13:29:01

The bags usually do block the lock on the bike. I have seen the lock moved to a couple of other places. I thought about moving it myself, maybe to the forward controls, maybe to the sissy bar, but any flat place will do. Others get gun locks, the cable type and lock their helment to the handlebars. I think there are weights in the bars that make it difficul to put the locks on the bar ends, though some have probably done that.

I usually just hang the helment on the handlebars. No one messes with a bad biker dude's stuff. Of course they do not know I am not a bad dude, they just have to guess.

Title: Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Post by arteacher on 09/28/12 at 13:44:26

DO NOT buy the Kewl Metal bar end lock- mine lasted a week.

Title: Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Post by verslagen1 on 09/28/12 at 14:17:25

lugguge lock, anywhere you please.

Title: Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Post by Paraquat on 09/28/12 at 14:43:47

This has been mentioned before but if you go to your local police department and tell them you want a hand gun lock they usually give you one. It was part of Operation Child Safe here at least.

http://www.satellitebeachpolice.org/siteimages/childsafe_kit.gif
http://www.satellitebeachpolice.org/siteimages/lockedgun.jpg
They make great helmet locks.

Side note: I did a google search for "operation child safe gun lock" so I could find a picture. Those images are taken from Satellite Beach Police Department which is where I grew up.

--Steve

Title: Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Post by arteacher on 09/29/12 at 05:07:11

I had the Suzuki windshield on the bike until I did the chopper kit and it wouldn't fit anymore. I made up a bracket that bolted into the windshield fork mount so that the lock sat below the mount. I could then lock the helmet up and have it sit on the signal light. Worked a charm. Now I have an aftermarket lock that I put on the sissy bar.
http://www.jpcycles.com/product/136-093

Title: Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 09/29/12 at 05:19:14

& there ya have the options, free lock or 60 bukks,, both do the job, one looks cool as heck,,

Title: Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Post by ALfromN.H. on 09/29/12 at 05:29:28

If someone needs my smelly old helmet that badly, they can have it. I live in a helmet optional state so if someone takes mine, I just ride home without it. Could be a problem if I was in a Helmet law state.

AL

Title: Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Post by Savage_Rob on 09/30/12 at 15:48:11

This one has gotten a lot of decent reviews lately. Don't have one myself so I cant say anything from personal experience though. This is the rubberized version with cable. They also sell it in just anodized and without the cable. Price seems to vary quite a bit at different outlets. Click on the image to go to the DK site.

http://https://www.denniskirk.com/dk/product_images/oe/600pix/oe328663.jpg (https://www.denniskirk.com/hjc/rubberized-helmetlok.p328663.prd/328663.sku)

Title: Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Post by ColoS40Girl on 09/30/12 at 15:59:43

I put a Kuryakyn Helmet lock/license plate on my bike I would post a picture but do not know how.

Title: Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 09/30/12 at 16:10:02

http://www.goldwingcountry.com/images/image_20018_300.jpg

Lika so?

Find the pic online, R click on it,
go down to
Copy image location, left click that
Then in the reply box, youll see options up at the top, click on the box above the Underscored U, then paste between the [img] things

Title: Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Post by ColoS40Girl on 09/30/12 at 19:44:36

3D2224233E3908380830222E65570 wrote:

Yes. That is it. And, thanks for the lesson!

Title: Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 09/30/12 at 21:46:04

Yawelcome