Modern Buddy

Yesterday I took a trip to the mall on my Stella. It was 75 degrees, and warm, so I wore my Go-go armored hoodie. When I got there, I had to schlep around that hoodie everywhere I went. Come summertime, this will definitely not be fun.

So, how do you safely store your gear while out and about?

I have a rear rack with a Prima basket, but I do not want to add a hard case.

Any ideas?

Some people get a wire lock, thread it through the sleeves of a jacket, through the chinbar of a fullface helmet, and lock them to the bike.

That could work! Thanks!

Most of the time if I go someplace where I can't keep the jacket on, and I don't have a place to stash it, I take my chances and just hang it on the grocery hook. I rarely park the scooter someplace where I'm particularly worried about something happening to it.

If the place I'm going isn't too far away, and I know I'm going to be there a while, I'll sometimes just wear a regular jacket that I can stuff into the helmet... a measured risk: better than nothing, for a short ride.

Cable lock. Luggage stores sell some pretty small ones.

How flexible is the armor? Can you stuff it in the glovebox?

If I'm not wearing my armor I drape it over the mirrors. I've never had anything bad happen to it there.

The cable lock sounds like a good idea. I could run it through a sleeve, then put the jacket in the basket, and lock it through the rear rack.

Well, I put it in the hard case. But if you don't want one of those, you can always just drape it across the seat. I see a lot of motorcycles with gear just laying on them when I'm out and about!

Heck, I was travelling across country on my Buddy and left it parked with my backpack bungied to the seat outside the store for an hour. Went back outside and found out I had left the keys in the ignition to boot! And that was in Dallas too. Sometimes people are just trustworthy.

pugbuddy wrote:Heck, I was travelling across country on my Buddy and left it parked with my backpack bungied to the seat outside the store for an hour. Went back outside and found out I had left the keys in the ignition to boot! And that was in Dallas too. Sometimes people are just trustworthy.

I've done that a few times over the years. I wouldn't go so far as to say that people are "trustworthy", but generally they aren't all that interested in ripping you off.

pugbuddy wrote:Well, I put it in the hard case. But if you don't want one of those, you can always just drape it across the seat. I see a lot of motorcycles with gear just laying on them when I'm out and about!

Heck, I was travelling across country on my Buddy and left it parked with my backpack bungied to the seat outside the store for an hour. Went back outside and found out I had left the keys in the ignition to boot! And that was in Dallas too. Sometimes people are just trustworthy.

Even so, I have a nearly $200 Corazzo jacket that I'm not about to test people's trustworthiness with.

This doesn't help on a Stella but on the Buddy I would often stuff the jacket under the seat and attach the helmet to the helmet hook.

I used to be able to use the handgrips like a coat hanger, with the back of the jacket covering the dash. Then I'd run a cable lock through the arms and down through the front wheel. But that jacket was a little large for me.

TVB wrote:

pugbuddy wrote:Heck, I was travelling across country on my Buddy and left it parked with my backpack bungied to the seat outside the store for an hour. Went back outside and found out I had left the keys in the ignition to boot! And that was in Dallas too. Sometimes people are just trustworthy.

I've done that a few times over the years. I wouldn't go so far as to say that people are "trustworthy", but generally they aren't all that interested in ripping you off.

Or oblivious.

Like other said...
Run this through the sleeves and secure both ends on the helmet hook.
http://www.amazon.com/Kryptonite-720018 ... cable+loop

Got a 6' braided wire cable with a padlock in the bicycle section at WalMart
last week for $2.59---yes, $2.50. It was the last one left. All the others
were $14.95 with combination locks. I will keep it in the saddle bags on my
170i. I have plenty of storage room on the other 2 in the stable.

Garage door cables are $7 pair. I believe the safety Spring cables are double ended. Available at home depot, hardware store etc. Also pet leads can be used as well. I used to chain down my mowing equipment with a 25' large breed dog tether. Cable is much more annoying to cut than chain. It can take a lot of fiddling around with bolt cutters just to get through the 1/8" garage door cables.

Mine is almost a half inch thick and the padlock that came with it is one of the
toughest I have seen. What lovenmysan is spot on advise.