Where to put a motorcycle helmet gear and gloves?

Wearing the helmet is a crucial thing before you ride any motorcycle. Helmets protect our heads and prevent our face and heads from any serious injuries leading death. Besides other gears like glasses, gloves, etc are also important to keep us safe from any threats possible to occur during the road. Preparing them before any travel is necessary, during the traveling, you should equip the safe place to put them in to avoid any drop or damage to them. These little tips below can help you protect your gears during the trip.

1. Back pack or functional bag

Helmet needs careful protection before during and after the travel in order to keep it in the best shape that ensure our safety and clear vision as riding a motorcycle. Before the trip, please check the straps to see if it is durable for physical forces, clean the visor with functional detergents, remove and repair any spare parts if necessary. Because you may travel in large groups, many riders have the same type of motorcycles, it is hard to distinguish among helmets; you can personalize your helmet by using stickers or writing your names, and address on it.

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During the travel, the helmet bags become essential to offer your helmet protection though they aren’t in use. Because a helmet is one of the most valuable and important item of race clothings that you own, it is necessary to be taken cared of. Those bags on the current market have a padded liner to protect from knocks that can chip or cause damages to the helmet. Most helmet bags are also designed with additional compartments to store spare parts like substitute visors, straps, fasteners, detergents as well as many other spares like visor tear offs.

When using some HANS devices which there may be helmet bags available for housing both the HANS device and the helmet, keep them both protected and secure. There are many kinds of helmet bags for you to choose. Bell is a famous brand of helmet bag which is durable from physical forces, study carry handles, tough zipper fasteners. The materials are made of leather and rubber which make you satisfied for a long trip ahead.

2. Helmet locks

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Protective gears could be equipped right on your motorcycle. Hard luggages will work best on this situation, because it helps keep the gears from being rained on, stolen, or vandalized. A good choice is the top case which is varied. A JC Whitney holds the pair of boots and helmets, or some of your tightly folded mesh jackets. A Givi top case can be bigger with three-case setup which can help store all your gears.

Further, there are a variety of ways to pin numerous pieces of gears to the motorcycle with cables and locks. You can secure your jackets by slipping a cables through the sleeve and lock the cables to the grab bar. In case you don’t have bags or any storages, however, you really need to think over when you leave any thing on the vehicle. It is also not difficult to cut the strap of the helmet, or to put gloves, masks inside your hood.

Carefulness is not redundant because big cities have full threats of thieves and vandalism. If you feel hanging off your headgear on the handlebars, you can equip a helmet lock. There are various types. You can use the EX250’s built-in helmet locks which are in the left-side, below the seat. The locks are controlled under n ignition key. This type is convenient but you should be aware that the heat generated from the body of the motorcycle can damage the helmet’s plastic. You can also create a lock by yourself with an L bracket; you bend it, one end hooks downwards. By install the bolts and place the D-ring on the hooks, you can have an ideal place to hang your helmet.