Possession is nine-tenths

[unstuck]

They refuse to serve you down here in servos if you dont remove your helmet, all good if you have the right cash though, just chuck it at them and leave.

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They refuse to serve you down here in servos if you dont remove your helmet, all good if you have the right cash though, just chuck it at them and leave.

Here in Hamilton most petrol stations are OK with me leaving my helmet on, those that don't just lose a customer.

[caseye]

Greytown not that big Hitch, suggest an annual visit by a large contingent of KB or similar and a bit of a witch ( read thief ) hunt.
Helping out the local rozza and all, couldn't be a bad thing, unless of course they found where we buried em.
Getting so you can't trust anyone/place in God's own anymore.

[Quasi]

Bugger! thanks for this Brett. I always leave my helmet and glubs on my bike. And in the summer my jacket too. I am normally sitting within viewing distance, but now I may reconsider.

[Mom]

Far out! That sucks big time Hitcher. I have always been a bit scared of leaving my gear on my bike, so will carry it in rather than leave it. I don't have a back up position and would have to ride home bare headed and handed should something like that happen to me. I get earache in cold air, so can't imagine what a world of pain I might be in, riding bare headed.

Look no emoticons...

Like you say, opportunist theft, that will gain the little shits nothing, or a few bob if they are lucky enough to find a fat head to fit the hat

Ooops.

[Mom]

They refuse to serve you down here in servos if you dont remove your helmet, all good if you have the right cash though, just chuck it at them and leave.

We had a weekend away, weekend just gone. I could not take my right hand glove off, without taking my claw hand glove off. With my gloves on I can't take my helmet off. The effort involved in putting on, and taking off the claw side glove, was not worth the effort of taking anything else off if I did not need to. I have paid for gas, fully gloved up several times over the weekend. Had to get the people at the servo's to reset what I was doing a couple of times, gloved fingers don't make it easy to enter pin numbers and without my specs I can't read the buttons to clear transactions

Old age is so amusing sometimes

[Robbo]

They refuse to serve you down here in servos if you dont remove your helmet, all good if you have the right cash though, just chuck it at them and leave.

Just throw a Burka over top of your helmet and head and you can walk in anywhere.
Problem solved.

[Smifffy]

Any screen caps of the CCTV you could post up? I'd be happy to upload it to facebook with a blurb, and am sure it'd get well shared around.

[pritch]

Hitcher, sorry about the lid, and the inconvenience, but pleased you found a replacement as easy as you did. I leave my helmet on the bike, it hides the radar detector and the gloves cover the GPS if it's fitted. Generally I try to sit where I can watch but that isn't always possible.

Kathmandu sell a plastic covered wire with padlock, and I have several of these, have used them in the past to lock luggage to the bike. Easy enough to cut with a wire cutter, but I'm relying on the opportunist thief not carrying his tool kit. Should I encounter a light fingered bastard who already pinched a Leatherman I could be in trouble though.

[bluninja]

Had to get the people at the servo's to reset what I was doing a couple of times, gloved fingers don't make it easy to enter pin numbers and without my specs I can't read the buttons to clear transactions

Old age is so amusing sometimes

Quick tip from a much younger person ....use your ignition key to put your pin in when wearing your gloves. Of course tap and go cards are even better.

[baffa]

Yeah the staff get pissy with me when I do that ... even tho the bike is parked at the pump closest to the window ...
something about staff safety bla bla bla ... I told him I could not be fucked taking it off middle of winter @ 11pm ... you can see my bike & plate ... here is the fuel card ...

This is probably because you're a dodgy looking mofo =D

I always rock the helmet into petrol stations, but I make an effort to be as friendly as possible after hours, some of the attendants can look a little intimidated.

As for the bike, When I remember I have a cheap wharehouse bike chain I used to lock the helmet(s) on to the bike, works pretty well.

[Wingnut]

If possession is 9/10ths than your 1/10 don't mean Jack! Serious note... I hope karma gets up and starts biting these fuckers! Hard! I hate thieves... One got my XY Falcon... Since then I have had a significant hatred towards them. They are the scum of the world. If we started lopping hands off we might get somewhere against them some day.

At least it was at a 4 square.. You may have some luck getting the feds there. Asuming they stock donuts and the like... Nom nom!

[roogazza]

The offender in question didn't do a nit check

So no reg number yet ? Hope you get hold of it, and then them.

I'd be visiting.

[Road kill]

Quick tip from a much younger person ....use your ignition key to put your pin in when wearing your gloves. Of course tap and go cards are even better.

Quick tips from an older person

#1 If I don't take my helmet off as soon as I stop the bike I'm likely to fall over,,forget about walking in the fucken thing.

#2 Some folks fingers only bend so far,,,or bend to far,,,gloves come off.

#3 I have no hair and a full beard,,I can scare the curry munchers without wearing a helmet.

[G4L4XY]

Thats really sad to hear Hitch! As someone whose left their helmet and gloves inside of helmet a lot. I shall think twice next time, sure it was always in the back of my mind however the being stuck somewhere without a helmet is a real problem.
I don't see the point in cutting the strap to take the helmet but as said previously they musn't have a lot of brains! For me I shall begin to drag it with me everwhere I go.
Goodluck in finding another helmet for your humungous cranium!