Yesterday, just before riding off into the sunset to take my bike to South Bound Honda...Lakewood, WA....I found that UPS delivered a box to my front gate. With my hearing gone, I could not even hear the UPS truck pull up out in front, and I was working close by getting my bike ready to take in. I found the box, as I was trying to ride out thrugh the gate, so I had to stop everything...STOP EVERYTHING...and take the box into my motorcycle garage, and deal with it when I got back home. I knew what it was, so it could wait.

BTW, the helmet I wore to the dealership, was an antique Shoei Duotec that I have had for more than 20 years, and has been sitting on the shelves in my big shop, just collecting dust. After a brief wipe-down, clean the faceshield, etc, I wore it for the 45 mile ride to the dealership, and once there...I tossed it into their dumpster. It was still a good helmet by North Carolina standards...as Big Dawg would have used it for one of his dogs...as water bowl, but for me it was just in the way, and no longer a good helmet. Toss...goodbye...

The new helmet I got, from Arai, and I mean...directly from Arai...was sent to me for free...to replace my Arai that was so attractive to lightning.
This is a link to show what my new helmet looks like: http://www.araiamericas.com/#/helmet...id/black-frost

It is just how it looks in the picture...same Black Frost color...which is a flat black, with a slight satin sheen. It will be great for painting a scene of a lightning strike onto the sides of it.

I want to publicly THANK the folks at Arai for stepping up and doing this. Very Cool !