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2011suzukis40 Ex Member	saddlebags and helmet lock? 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
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Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Reply #1 - 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

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Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Reply #2 - 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.

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arteacher Serious Thumper Offline Ride as if your naked and invisable! Posts: 2581 London ontario Gender:	Re: saddlebags and helmet lock? Reply #3 - 09/28/12 at 13:44:26 DO NOT buy the Kewl Metal bar end lock- mine lasted a week.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: saddlebags and helmet lock? Reply #4 - 09/28/12 at 14:17:25 lugguge lock, anywhere you please.
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Reply #5 - 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.

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.

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Reply #6 - 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

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: saddlebags and helmet lock? Reply #7 - 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,,
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ALfromN.H. FSO Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Dragon Slayer Posts: 1421 Rochester, New Hampshire Gender:	Re: saddlebags and helmet lock? Reply #8 - 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
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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: saddlebags and helmet lock? Reply #9 - 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.
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ColoS40Girl Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 67	Re: saddlebags and helmet lock? Reply #10 - 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.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: saddlebags and helmet lock? Reply #11 - 09/30/12 at 16:10:02 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
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Re: saddlebags and helmet lock?
Reply #12 - 09/30/12 at 19:44:36

justin_o_guy2 wrote 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

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

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: saddlebags and helmet lock? Reply #13 - 09/30/12 at 21:46:04 Yawelcome
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