adventurelounger said:
My feeling is that if someone wants to stick their bean where my sweaty old head has been, knock yourself out.
I used to say that, too. Right up until my wife's helmet was stolen off her Tenere while we were eating lunch in lovely Damascus, VA. The bike was parked two doors down from the police station. Which at least made it very convenient to file a report. What was not convenient was the full day lost in the trip borrowing a helmet, riding 40 miles away to get a replacement, riding back to Damascus to return the borrowed helmet, then backtracking the to hotel we had left that morning so we could be in place to purchase another bluetooth communicator when the dealership opened the next morning. It kept us form reaching our destination to visit a friend and was effectively the end of the trip.
Why...because I was confident no one would want our sweaty used helmets.
Oh, I may still have been correct in that assessment. The next week the police lieutenant called and told me some guy turned in the helmet he found rolling around in the back of his pickup truck. A truck parked next to our bikes. So it was either a kid playing a prank and moving the helmet off the bike into the pickup, or I startled the thief when my spider senses were going off and I walk out to the bikes just to look around...but I failed to notice the missing helmet. Either way, I've never left a helmet unlocked since that day.
